Category: Mental Health Books

Book: 8 Keys to Stress Management

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Book Title:

8 Keys to Stress Management.

Author(s): Elizabeth Anne Scott.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First Edition (1st).

Publisher: W.W. Norton Company.

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

Synopsis:

According to many measures, people today are dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on our collective wellness.

The book outlines strategies to identifying stressors, offers techniques in reversing the response, and discusses the effects of stress.

Book: Self-Esteem for Dummies

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Book Title:

Self-Esteem for Dummies.

Author(s): S. Renee Smith and Vivian Harte.

Year: 2015.

Edition: Fourth (4th), Revised Edition.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Boost your self-esteem and truly believe that you are perfectly awesome Looking to get your hands on some more self-esteem? You’re not alone.

Thankfully, Self-Esteem For Dummies presents clear, innovative, and compassionate methods that help you identify the causes of low self-esteem as well the lowdown on the consequences.

Packed with trusted, hands-on advice to help you improve your overall self-worth, Self-Esteem For Dummies arms you with the proven tools and techniques for learning how to think and behave with more self-assurance at work, in social situations, and even in relationships.

Self-esteem is shaped by your thoughts, relationships, and experiences. When you were growing up, your successes, failures, and how you were treated by your family, teachers, coaches, religious authorities, and peers determined how you feel about yourself.

But you can shift your thinking and reclaim your self-worth with the help of Self-Esteem For Dummies.

  • Helps you understand the ranges of self-esteem and the benefits of promoting self-esteem.
  • Arms you with the tools to learn how to think and behave with more self-assurance.
  • Covers the importance of mental well-being, assertiveness, resilience, and more.
  • Shows you how to improve your self-image, increase personal power, and feel better about yourself.

If you are looking to boost your sense of self-worth, Self-Esteem For Dummies sets you on the path to a more confident, awesome you.

Book: The Science of Positivity

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Book Title:

The Science of Positivity: Stop Negative Thought Patterns by Changing Your Brain Chemistry.

Author(s): Loretta Graziano Breuning.

Year: 2016.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation.

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

Synopsis:

Sometimes it is easiest to look for the worst in every situation – our brains have evolved to scan for problems in order to help avoid them. But you can transcend this natural negativity – if you know how.

The Science of Positivity teaches you how cynical thought habits are formed, and how you can rewire yourself to go beyond them. Neurochemical expert Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD, empowers you to transcend negativity by creating new thought habits.

You will learn simple, practical actions you can take to shift your thinking to a way that causes your brain to reward optimism with the release of happy chemicals. You can even permanently replace cynical thought patterns with realistic and optimistic thoughts.

In just minutes a day for six weeks, you will build new pathways to see the world in new ways. Frustration is an inevitable part of life, but rather than using cynicism to manage frustration, you can rewire your brain to get beyond it.

Book: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being

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Book Title:

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being.

Author(s): Guy Fletcher (editor).

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Routledge.

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

Synopsis:

The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists, psychologists and economists. Yet little is actually known about well-being and it is an idea that is often poorly articulated.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being provides a comprehensive, outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject.

Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts:

  • Well-being in the history of philosophy.
  • Current theories of well-being, including hedonism and perfectionism.
  • Examples of well-being and its opposites, including friendship and virtue and pain and death.
  • Theoretical issues, such as well-being and value, harm, identity and well-being and children.
  • Well-being in moral and political philosophy.
  • Well-being and related subjects, including law, economics and medicine..

Essential reading for students and researchers in ethics and political philosophy, it is also an invaluable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology, politics and sociology.

Book: The Rough Guide to Psychology

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Book Title:

The Rough Guide to Psychology: An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind.

Author(s): Dr. Christian Jarrett.

Year: 2011.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Rough Guides.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The Rough Guide to Psychology looks at the question psychologists have been asking for over a hundred years – why are we the way we are? It starts with you, your mind and brain, broadening out to look at your friends and other relationships, then finally on to crowds, mobs and religion.

It explores the latest research relevant to crime, schooling, sport, politics, shopping and health, and what happens when the mind goes wrong, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and more unusual conditions.

The Rough Guide to Psychology includes fascinating information on real-life psychology, testing your memory, intelligence, personality and much more, with advice on everything from chat-up lines to developing your creativity.

The Rough Guide to Psychology is your ultimate guide to this fascinating subject.

Book: Psychology in Black and White

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Book Title:

Psychology in Black and White – The Project Of A Theory-Driven Science.

Author(s): Sergio Salvatore.

Year: 2015.

Edition: Reprint Edition.

Publisher: Information Age Publishing.

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

Synopsis:

This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies.

It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century.

Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught.

Book: Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life

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Book Title:

Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life.

Author(s): Ernst Schraube (editor) and Charlotte Hojholt (contributor).

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Routledge.

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

Synopsis:

Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life moves psychological theory and research practice out of the laboratory and into the everyday world. Drawing on recent developments across the social and human sciences, it examines how people live as active subjects within the contexts of their everyday lives, using this as an analytical basis for understanding the dilemmas and contradictions people face in contemporary society.

Early chapters gather the latest empirical research to explore the significance of context as a cross-disciplinary critical tool; they include a study of homeless Māori men reaffirming their cultural identity via gardening, and a look at how the dilemmas faced by children in difficult situations can provide insights into social conflict at school. Later chapters examine the interplay between everyday life around the world and contemporary global phenomena such as the rise of the debt economy, the hegemony of the labour market, and the increased reliance on digital technology in educational settings. The book concludes with a consideration of how social psychology can deepen our understanding of how we conduct our lives, and offer possibilities for collective work on the resolution of social conflict.

Book: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour

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Book Title:

Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour.

Author(s): Richard Gross.

Year: 2015.

Edition: Eighth (8th).

Publisher: Hodder Education, UK Edition.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Provides the essential foundation for psychology students, this is a revised and updated version of the most trusted introduction written by the bestselling psychology author Richard Gross.

Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour has helped over half a million students worldwide.

It is the essential introduction to psychology, covering all students need to know to understand and evaluate classic and contemporary topics.

  • Enables students to easily access psychological theories and research with colourful, user-friendly content and useful features including summaries, critical discussion and research updates.
  • Helps students to understand the research process with contributions from leading psychologists including Elizabeth Loftus, Alex Haslam and David Canter.
  • Ensures students are up to date with the latest issues and debates with this fully updated edition.

Book: Overcoming Anxiety

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Book Title:

Overcoming Anxiety: Reassuring ways to break free from stress and worry and lead a calmer life.

Author(s): Gill Hasson and Tania Rodrigues.

Year: 2016.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Audible Studios.

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

Synopsis:

Understand, overcome, and break free from worry and anxiety.

Best-selling personal development author Gill Hasson is back, and this time she is here to help with something that affects all people at some point in their lives: anxiety.

Worries and anxieties are familiar to us all. Worrying can be helpful when it prompts you to take action and solve a problem, but unrelenting doubts, fears, and negative possibilities can dominate your mind, affecting your ability to manage your everyday life and well-being, your sleep and appetite, your social life, and your ability to concentrate.

But it does not need to be like this; there are ways that you can manage this spiral of unhelpful thoughts and difficult feelings. Overcoming Anxiety explains how to manage anxiety and stop it from taking over; it teaches you the skills you need to lead a more peaceful, stress-free life.

Overcoming Anxiety:

  • Provides practical strategies and techniques to manage your anxiety.
  • Discusses how to break free from negative cycles and move forward in a positive way.
  • Contains real-life examples from anxiety sufferers.
  • Explores what it takes to handle immediate anxiety events and longer term, low-level background anxiety and worry.

Book: The Mind Workout

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Book Title:

The Mind Workout: Twenty Steps to Improve your Mental Health & Take Charge of Your Life.

Author(s): Mark Freeman.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Piatkus.

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

Synopsis:

It’s well known that if you want to keep your body fit, you must do some regular exercise. But when it comes to our mental health, few of us take the time to maintain and improve it. For some reason, we expect to be in great mental shape without doing any work. And when we realise we are struggling, we look for a quick and easy fix instead of developing the skills that will help us in the future.

Enter The Mind Workout – a home exercise programme for improving your mental health and fitness.

Developed as a result of Mark Freeman’s own recovery from mental illness, The Mind Workout combines mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It outlines twenty easy-to-follow steps you can take to free yourself from the ways of thinking and behaving that cause mental health challenges in your life – from cutting out the compulsions that cause uncertainty, anxiety and distress to relieving stress and distraction.

The Mind Workout is the key to making the switch from a frenetic, anxiety-driven life to one that is based on your core values. It will leave you feeling mentally stronger, fitter and better equipped to navigate the complexities of everyday life.