Mental Health Books – Page 19 – Mental Health Matters

Book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

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Book Title:

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.

Author(s): David D. Burns.

Year: 1998.

Edition: First (1st), New Edition.

Publisher: Avon Books.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other ′black holes′ of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D. Burns, M.D. outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.

Now, in this updated edition, Dr Burns adds an all-new Consumer′s Guide To Antidepressant Drugs, as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression.

Book: Nutrition and Mental Health: A Handbook

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Book Title:

Nutrition and Mental Health: A Handbook: An Essential Guide to the Relationship Between Diet and Mental Health.

Author(s): Michael Crawford, Oscar Umahro Cadogan, Alexandra J. Richardson, and Martina Watts.

Year: 2008.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd.

Type(s): Hardcover and Paperback.

Synopsis:

The role of nutrition is fundamental to human health and well-being.

It is, however, often overlooked when treating people with mental health problems.

Book: An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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Book Title:

An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Author(s): Maddie Burton, Erica Pavord, and Briony Williams.

Year: 2014.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: SAGE Publications.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is. To help prepare you, the authors have produced a clear introduction to child and adolescent mental health that takes you step-by-step on a journey through the subject. Beginning with the foundations, the book explores the common mental health concepts and influences that you can expect to encounter examining topics like the difference between emotional and mental health issues and how mental health problems develop.

Book: Never Let Go: How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness

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Book Title:

Never Let Go: How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness.

Author(s): Suzanne Alderson.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Vermilion.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

How to help your child with mental illness through partnering, not parenting.

Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery. Her method of ‘partnering, not parenting’ has now helped thousands of other parents through her charity, Parenting Mental Health.

Combining Suzanne’s honest personal experience with expert input from psychologists, this book provides parents with the methods and knowledge they need to support, shield and strengthen their child as they progress towards recovery. Chapters include a background to the mental health epidemic, why a new method of parenting is crucial, how to change your thinking about mental health and practical advice on solutions to daily problems including accepting the new normal, dealing with others, and looking after yourself as well as your child.

Book: Understanding Mental Illness 6th edition: Mental Health Awareness For Self Teaching

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Book Title:

Understanding Mental Illness 6th edition: Mental Health Awareness For Self Teaching.

Author(s): Marianne Richards.

Year: 2015.

Edition: Sixth (6th).

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Understanding Mental Illness is the 6th edition of this professionally acclaimed book. This is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide aimed at volunteers, patients, carers, new professionals and students of mental health, as well as the keen general reader.

The book contains a wealth of information, including a history of mental illness from primitive times to the 20th century, with the often-bizarre treatments meted out in earlier times.

There is a selection of case histories on common disorders, together with ‘pen portraits’ illustrating ‘a day in the life of’ medical and non-medical therapists. Illustrated throughout with a glossary, suggested reading and index. The keen student is sure to find topics of interest for further study in this fascinating field.

Book: Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The craft of caring

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Book Title:

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring.

Author(s): Mary Chambers.

Year: 2017.

Edition: Third (3rd).

Publisher: Routledge.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This new edition of a bestselling, evidence-based textbook provides a comprehensive overview of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Keeping service users and their recovery at the centre of care, the holistic approach will help nurses to gain the tools and understanding required to work in this complex area.

Extensively updated for this new edition, the text looks at:

Aspects of mental health nursing: covering topics such as ethics, developing therapeutic relationships and supervision.
The foundations of mental health nursing: discussing diagnosis, assessment and risk.
Caring for those experiencing mental health distress: looking at wide range of troubles including anxiety, bipolar disorder, eating disorders and issues around sexuality and gender.
Care planning and approaches to therapeutic practice: exploring ideas, pathways and treatments such as recovery, CBT, psychodynamic therapies and psychopharmacology.
Services and support for those with mental health distress: covering topics such as collaborative work, involvement of service users and their families and carers, and a range of different mental healthcare settings.
Mental health nursing in the twenty-first century: highlighting emerging and future trends including the political landscape, physical health and health promotion, and technological advances.

This accessible and comprehensive textbook integrates service user perspectives throughout and includes student-friendly features such as learning outcomes, key points summaries, reflection points and further reading sections. It is an essential resource for all mental health nursing students, as well as an invaluable reference for practising nurses.

Book: Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications (Nursing)

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Book Title:

Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications (Nursing).

Author(s): Herbert Mwebe.

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Critical Publishing Ltd.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This jargon-free guide is suitable for all trainee and registered health professionals who require knowledge and understanding of drugs used in the treatment of mental health conditions for prescribing or administering purposes. A life-saving pocketbook that you can easily carry anywhere you go!

Introductory material provides a background on psychotropic drugs, the aetiology of mental illness, some of the commonly used drugs in practice and brief notes on common non-pharmacological interventional options. It also examines biochemical and neurodevelopmental theories and the link to the pathophysiology of mental illness as well as clinical decision making.

The central chapters of the book provide comprehensive coverage of all the major medications used in mental health. Each focuses on a specific class of drug, detailing the most commonly used medicines, including side effects, average doses, contra-indications and clinical management interventions that may be required. At the end of each chapter a series of review questions enable readers to review their learning, and theory is clearly related to practice throughout.

Book: Life Is a Four-Letter Word

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Book Title:

Life Is a Four-Letter Word: A Mental Health Survival Guide for Professionals.

Author(s): Andy Salkeld.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Do you ever feel you’re a fraud and about to be found out?
Do you feel an expectation to keep going and to be strong?
Do you ever think what it would be like to just… ‘STOP’?

You are not alone. Mental ill health impacts one in four people every year, and professionals in high-pressure jobs are especially vulnerable.

Life is a Four-Letter Word is a mental health survival guide for professionals, from a high-flying Big 4 accountant who has struggled with depression, anxiety, stress and suicidal thoughts and learned a lot along the way.

Andy now advocates positive action around mental health, working closely with business leaders across the UK to help them build mentally healthy cultures. He is a renowned speaker and writer on mental health, entrepreneurship and finance.

Book: Working Effectively with ‘Personality Disorder’

Published on 12/02/2020 by Andrew MarshallLeave a comment

Book Title:

Working Effectively with ‘Personality Disorder’: Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Clinical and Organisational Practice.

Author(s): Jo Ramsden, Sharon Prince, and Julia Blazdell (Editors).

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Luminate.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The history of personality disorder services is problematic to say the least. The very concept is under heavy fire, services are often expensive and ineffective, and many service users report feeling that they have been deceived, stigmatised or excluded. Yet while there are inevitably serious (and often destructive) relational challenges involved in the work, creative networks of learning do exist – professionals who are striving to provide progressive, compassionate services for and with this client group.

Working Effectively with Personality Disorder shares this knowledge, articulating an alternative way of working that acknowledges the contemporary debate around diagnosis, reveals flawed assumptions underlying current approaches, and argues for services that work more positively, more holistically and with a wider and more socially focused agenda.