Mental Illness category: 868 books
by Miriam Akhtar
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Trauma occurs when extremely stressful events shatter your emotional and psychological well-being, overwhelming your ability to cope. Research by the charity PTSD UK has found that 1 in 2 people will experience trauma at some point in their life, and 20% of those will develop post-traumatic stress....
by William Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The biological model calls into question the genetic factor. The schizophrenia has demonstrated higher than average for first-degree relatives of a person who is affected. The social model implicates environmental factors, taking into account all the ways of life of the person, inserted into the network...
Reflective Meditations
Unraveling My Trauma, Healing My Trauma, and Letting Go-Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
You may come to a time when you realize that you do not really understand the trauma that has occurred in your life or how it has affected you. This book contains sixty short thoughts that can be used as daily reflective meditations to help you unravel your reactions to past and current trauma. Read...
The Sum of My Parts
A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
By the first day of kindergarten, Olga Trujillo had already survived years of abuse and violent rape at the hands of her tyrannical father. Over the next ten years, she would develop the ability to numb herself to the constant abuse by splitting into distinct mental “parts.” Dissociative identity...
by Blanche Belljar
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
I think there must be a special place in heaven for those who care for loved ones who have bipolar disorder. I know what a rollercoaster ride it can be since I've been there: four people in my immediate family, including myself, have it. This book is the sometimes funny/sometimes heartbreaking...
Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations
From theory to therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book draws on clinical research findings from the last three decades to offer a review of current psychological theories and therapeutic approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations, addressing key methodological issues that need to be considered in evaluating interventions.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Events that lead to traumatic brain injury are often also psychologically traumatic. Addressing a growing need among mental health practitioners, this authoritative book brings together experts in both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Chapters present empirically...
The Natural Brilliance of the Soul
A Soldier's Story of War and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
"Dr. Hatanaka's exhaustive research and analysis have resulted in a book that should be an essential tool for those professionals who are assisting our soldiers having difficulties adjusting to life after the stress of service in a war zone. Likewise, soldiers, their families, and their friends...
Traumatic Incident Reduction and Critical Incident Stress Management
A Synergistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
From the Foreword:
TIR offers an opportunity for the members of a CISM team to deal with any accumulated emotional baggage that their involvement in crisis-intervention has created. Training in TIR adds another tool to the toolkit of crisis-intervention techniques and enables peer-support to ad-dress...
Invisible Scars
Mental Trauma and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book will be of interest to scholars of military and medical history as well as those interested in the human consequences of war.
by William E. Krill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Gentling is a therapeutic approach to people who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as children and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result. Gentling has redefined PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying child-specific behavioral signs commonly seen,...
Hallucination-focused Integrative Therapy
A Specific Treatment that Hits Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Hallucination-focused Integrative Treatment (HIT) is a specific treatment for auditory verbal hallucinations which integrates techniques from CBT, systems therapy, psychoeducation, coping training, rehabilitation and medication. It emphasises active family involvement, crisis intervention when required...
Treatment of Complex Trauma
A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach for helping clients move through three clearly defined phases of posttraumatic recovery. Two detailed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
This invaluable practitioner guide and text shows how cognitive-behavioral interventions can help people weather situations of extreme stress and build needed skills for the future. Leading authorities describe effective, time-efficient approaches to managing different types of crises: those related...