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Navigating a Mental Health Crisis | NAMI
NAMI's "Navigating a Mental Health Crisis" guide provides essential information for individuals and families during mental health crises. It offers practical steps, resources, and tips on how to respond, seek support, and connect with professionals. The guide emphasizes the importance of staying calm, knowing when to call emergency services, and understanding mental health conditions.

Choosing a Provider | Mental Health America
Learn how to find and choose the right mental health provider with Mental Health America’s helpful tips and guidance.
Find a Therapist | Psychology Today
Search Psychology Today’s comprehensive directory to find therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals tailored to your unique needs.
Finding Therapy | Mental Health America
Explore Mental Health America’s guide to understanding therapy types, finding providers, and accessing the right support for your journey.
FindTreatment.gov | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
FindTreatment.gov helps locate trusted, confidential substance use and mental health treatment facilities nationwide, tailored to your specific needs.
How to find a health professional? | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Learn how to find qualified mental health and substance use professionals with SAMHSA’s step-by-step guidance and resources.
Mental Health in College | National Alliance on Mental Illness
NAMI’s "Mental Health in College" page offers advice for young adults navigating mental health challenges in higher education. It covers topics like stress management, seeking support on campus, and understanding how mental health can impact academic and personal life. It emphasizes the importance of building a support system and accessing resources to thrive in a college environment.
Mental Health Information | National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) offers authoritative information about mental disorders, a range of related topics, and the latest mental health research.
Mental Well-Being: Resources for the Public | World Health Organization
Access the World Health Organization’s resources promoting mental well-being, including self-care tips, coping strategies, and support options worldwide.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Confidential support for those affected by domestic violence. Call, chat, or text the National Domestic Violence Hotline for help 24/7.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Free, confidential support available 24/7. Call or text 988 to connect with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for crisis help.
NutritionFacts.org
Explore evidence-based, science-backed insights on nutrition and health with NutritionFacts.org’s videos, articles, and research summaries.
Providing Support for Worker Mental Health | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Discover CDC resources for promoting workplace mental health, including strategies for support, reducing stigma, and fostering a healthy work environment.
Support Groups | National Alliance on Mental Illness
Find peer-led support groups for individuals affected by mental health conditions, offering connection, understanding, and shared experiences through NAMI.
Trans Lifeline
Trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ+ youth through a confidential hotline, digital platforms, and educational programs, promoting safety and acceptance.
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Cherokee Health Systems—Primary and Behavioral Care
Cherokee Health Systems offers behavioral and mental health services, including therapy, medication management, and support for individuals, families, and children.
Community Action Committee (CAC)
The Knoxville Knox County Community Action Committee (CAC) offers services including food resources, housing support, utility assistance, transportation, and early childhood education.
East Tennessee Behavioral Health
East Tennessee Behavioral Health offers a range of behavioral health services, including inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient programs for adolescents, adults, and seniors. Their programs address mental health and substance use concerns, with a focus on individualized care and aftercare planning. The facility is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and provides a supportive environment for healing.
Helen Ross McNabb
The Helen Ross McNabb Center provides a wide range of services, including mental health care, substance use treatment, social services, and victim support. They focus on compassionate, comprehensive care for individuals across all stages of life.
Knox County Health Department
The Knox County Health Department offers a variety of services, including immunizations, dental care, environmental health, disease prevention, and family health support. They focus on improving community health through education, screenings, and specialized programs.
Metro Drug Coalition (MDC)
Metro Drug Coalition (MDC) offers prevention, harm reduction, and recovery support programs to reduce substance misuse and promote community health in Knoxville.
Mobile Crisis Services
Tennessee's Mobile Crisis Services offer 24/7 mental health crisis intervention, including phone consultations, in-person assessments, stabilization, and referrals. Services are available for both adults and children.
NAMI Knoxville
NAMI Knoxville is a local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, dedicated to improving the lives of individuals affected by mental illness through support, education, and advocacy. They offer various programs and services, including support groups, educational classes, and community outreach efforts, to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and provide resources for those navigating mental health challenges.
Peninsula
Peninsula Behavioral Health, a division of Covenant Health, provides inpatient and outpatient mental health services for children, adolescents, and adults. With over 75 years of experience, their team offers specialized care to support individuals recovering from mental health disorders.
Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee
The Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee provides a range of services to survivors of sexual assault, including crisis intervention, advocacy, and counseling. They offer a 24/7 crisis hotline and forensic exams. Their mission is to provide immediate support and long-term healing for survivors.

The art & science of mindfulness : integrating mindfulness into the helping professions by Shauna L. Shapiro; Linda E. Carlson; Broderick A. Sawyer "This third edition offers a deeper understanding of the concept of mindfulness and explores its potential as a core clinical skill"-- Provided by publisher."Now in its third edition, The Art and Science of Mindfulness offers a deeper understanding of the concept of mindfulness and explores its potential as a core clinical skill and a way to increase the well-being of both clients and clinicians. Mindfulness helps us to see clearly so that we can make choices grounded in reality and respond to life with wisdom. However, seeing clearly is difficult because the lens through which we view the world is blurred by our parents, teachers, relationships, and society, and they influence our perceptions on conscious and subconscious levels. Practicing mindfulness helps us remove the filters, biases, and preconceived ideas that shape our perceptions and cloud our consciousness. At the deepest level, mindfulness is about freedom: freedom from reflexive patterns, freedom from reactivity, and, ultimately, freedom from suffering. This book navigates how mindful awareness is fundamental to the therapy process, and shows how mindful practice can help therapists and clients cultivate and connect with this deeper awareness. It also aims to present mindfulness as: an important dimension of clinical training with unique contributions toward fostering attention, empathy, presence, and awareness of our own biases and assumptions an empirically supported clinical intervention effective across a wide range of populations a means of fostering self-reflection and self-care for clinicians a way to expand the profession's focus on pathology to include positive growth and development New to this edition is a comprehensive overview of the evidence supporting the neurochemical basis of intention, attention, and attitude; a discussion of implicit bias and how it interferes with connecting mindfully with clients; a discussion of new mindfulness-based interventions and ways to apply mindfulness in therapy, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN: 9781433842733
Publication Date: 2024-08-01
Being Human Today: Art, Education and Mental Health in Conversation. by GERT BIESTA
ISBN: 9781789388855
Publication Date: 2024
Beneath the White Coat : doctors, their minds and mental health by Clare Gerada (Editor) This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognising the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work, the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work - shame, stigma, suffering and sacrifice - and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery. Despite the obvious challenges and stresses of the role, with the right support in place the vast majority of doctors can thrive in their jobs. In reading this book, policy makers, politicians, educators, hospital managers will be reminded of the ethical duty to ensure that doctors are cared for and have access to the time, people and spaces to remain psychological healthy, while doctors will learn to recognize and seek actively the help that they need, and to support and guide one another.
Call Number: DCOM Knox | RC451.4.P5 B46 2021
ISBN: 9781138499812
Publication Date: 2020-10-30
Breaking Points: youth mental health crises and how we all can help by Neely Laurenzo Myers "Unprecedented numbers of young people are in crisis today, and our health care systems are set up to fail them. Breaking Points explores the stories of a diverse group of American young adults experiencing psychiatric hospitalization for psychotic symptoms for the first time and documents how patients and their families make decisions about treatment after their release. Approximately half of young people refuse mental-health care after their initial hospitalization even though we know that better outcomes depend on early support for youth and families. In attempting to determine why this is the case, Neely Laurenzo Myers identifies what matters most to young people in crisis, passionately arguing that health care providers must attend not only to the medical and material dimensions of care but also to a patient's moral agency"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN: 9780520400610
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
Burnout for Dummies by Eva M. Selhub Your essential guide to beating burnout and finding fulfillment Chronic, unmanaged stress--at work, at home, or in other areas of life--can lead to burnout. Burnout For Dummies shows you the way toward understanding and overcoming this all-to-common condition of modern life. Many of us find ourselves living in a state of constant resignation, which sucks the joy out of life and can be detrimental to our physical health. The tips and exercises in this book can help you minimize stress, become more resilient and create a happier, healthier, and more satisfying life.  Mindfulness and resilience guru Dr. Eva Selhub offers a science-based plan that you can use to destress, build inner resources and coping skills, and start enjoying life (and work) again. Listen to guided meditations that you can do anytime, anywhere to help cultivate mindfulness and manage your stress Discover tips for reconnecting to the joy that you felt before burnout took over Overcome the heavy burden of burnout and learn how you can find a pace for your life that feeds, rather than depletes you Find true fulfillment in your work and obligations with proven techniques for loving yourself and your life Burnout For Dummies is the essential guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed, overworked, stressed out, run-down, and ready to make a change.
ISBN: 9781119894940
Publication Date: 2022-10-20
Chinese Nutrition Therapy by Joerg Kastner Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food - Hippocrates, ca. 460-ca. 370 BC For millennia, the Chinese have taught that a balanced and nutritious diet is an integral part of maintaining good health while healing a wide range of disorders. Here, in a new and third edition of the acclaimed Chinese Nutrition Therapy, the author further demystifies Chinese dietetics, one of the pillars of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Joerg Kastner's introduction to the principles of TCM and the "energetics" of foods emphasizes a holistic approach throughout, providing readers with tools for integrating the principles of Chinese dietetics into their daily lives. Included are a comprehensive classification of more than 300 readily available foods such as vegetables, grains, herbs and spices, fruits, meat and poultry, seafoods, dairy products, oils and fats, and nuts and seeds. Many clinical examples and treatment suggestions artfully combine Western medical conditions with Chinese diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. The explanation of causes of diseases, the different symptoms, and lists of recommended foods and foods to avoid are supplemented by advice on appropriate acupuncture treatments. The third edition has been expanded with chapters covering allergies, food sensitivities, dietary support in oncologic cases, fasting, "superfoods," and smoothies. Where appropriate, bridges have been constructed between the paradigms of TCM and those of contemporary scientific medicine. The section "Food Classification" has been developed further to include more detail and many more foods. Highlights Descriptions of Chinese dietetics in practice and discussions of dietary factors, such as seasonal adaptations and differing requirements for children and seniors Practical tips on how to adapt Chinese nutrition therapy to Western products and cooking methods Clinical examples covering the major organ systems A handy "A to Z" list of common foods and their healing characteristics User-friendly Chinese Nutrition Therapy is an essential reference for students and practitioners of TCM, likewise to be valued by nutritionists, dieticians, physicians, and anyone interested in living a long and healthy life.
ISBN: 9783132423770
Publication Date: 2021-07-29
A Conversation about Healthy Eating by Nicholas A. Lesica What constitutes a healthy diet? Media and advertisers would like us to think that the answer is complicated and controversial, but science tell us otherwise. Rather than present an ideology, A Conversation About Healthy Eating avoids the typical media noise, to presenting instead the science. This book allows for a comprehensive understanding and provides clear recommendations for how you can adapt both your environment and your lifestyle to make healthy eating possible.
ISBN: 9781911576778
Publication Date: 2018-04-15
Coping with Stress and Burnout As a Veterinarian by Nadine Hamilton The suicide rate for veterinarians is almost four times higher than the general population across the UK, Australia, US, New Zealand and Canada. The act of suicide is most usually at the end of a long road of distress. And it's that distress -- the everyday difficulties, anxieties, and emotional burden -- that a caring vet, nurse, technician or assistant can suffer, all too quietly. This book examines the unique factors that produce high rates of stress and burnout in the veterinary profession and the practical steps all vet workers can take to cope better. It features four main sections. The first two sections focus on knowledge of the shared experience of vet workers, providing an understanding and an acknowledgement of the uniqueness of veterinary work and the mental health issues that come with it. The next section provides information on psychological concepts around self-awareness and self-change through readings on mindfulness, positive psychology, acceptance and commitment therapy, and resiliency training. The final section includes specially selected self-help strategies based on the previous sections that form a 'toolkit' of practical tasks and tips on how to cope with everyday pressures and increase mental wellbeing. The book was developed out of a program that has been tested with statistically significant results showing reduced stress, depression and anxiety. It is appropriate for all types of vet workers, particularly those in small animal practice. It is a cost-effective, highly accessible way to empower vet workers to use psychological knowledge and skills for better work and home lives. It is an easy read and a vital weapon for any current industry or professional wellbeing and mental health program. The author, Dr Nadine Hamilton, is a psychologist who has worked with thousands of vet workers and consulted with vet industry associations, practice managers and owners for more than 15 years. In 2018 she founded Love Your Pet Love Your Vet, a not-for-profit charity raising awareness about the issues within the veterinary industry and reducing stigma in veterinary professionals seeking help.
ISBN: 9781925644197
Publication Date: 2019-02-25
Courageous Well-Being for Nurses by Donna A. Gaffney; Nicole C. Foster Provides nurses with the tools, practices, and strategies to enhance their well-being and protect against burnout. Exhausting schedules and a tumultuous work environment have left many nurses feeling burned out. The COVID-19 pandemic only compounded problems that have been plaguing nurses for decades. How can you take care of others when you don't have the time or energy to take care of yourself? In Courageous Well-Being for Nurses, Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse, psychotherapist, and educator Donna Gaffney and National Board-certified health and wellness coach Nicole Foster provide essential strategies and resources. Learn about the research underpinning the science of well-being and discover practices that can reduce stress, rejuvenate your capacity for caring, and improve the quality of your own life. Informed by inspirational stories and real-life guidance from nurses around the world, this book provides you with the steps to thrive personally and professionally. Gaffney and Foster research and describe * How to cope with stress, burnout, grief, and empathic distress * The power of self-compassion and mindfulness * Current findings on eating, sleeping, and exercising well * Science-based practices for alleviating stress through nature * The benefits of professional mental health support * The profoundly healing effects of advocacy and activism * How to use the arts and creativity as sources of respite and joy Hundreds of suggested resources, including recommended books, websites, podcasts, videos, and webinars, round out this essential guide. Courageous Well-Being for Nursesis the ultimate journey to well-being: one that is essential, inclusive, deep-rooted, individual, and above all, courageous.
ISBN: 9781421446691
Publication Date: 2023-09-05
Creative Approaches to Wellbeing by Karen Gray (Editor); Victoria Tischler (Editor) A compilation of case studies illustrating how arts, culture and other community assets were used by individuals and communities to cope and develop resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrating valuable lessons that might help us develop resilience in similar future crises. Threaded through all the contributions, readers will discover a focus on the experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, because of their lived experiences of structural inequalities, or due to mental or physical ill-health or age. These are difficult and complex topics, and there are vital lessons here for policy and for practice in the arts and for provision of health and care. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) licence.
ISBN: 9781526172600
Publication Date: 2024-05-28
Dances with sheep on repairing the human-nature condition in felt thinking and moving towards wellbeing by Anna Dako Felt thinking is a body-based way of working with movement in somatic experience of the ecologically inclusive sense of self. Dances with Sheep presents the multitude of personal journeys which bring the lived connections between Nature and the self to the fore and offers new insights into how to remedy multiple imbalances.
ISBN: 9781789386950
Publication Date: 2023
Disrupting White Mindfulness: race and racism in the wellbeing industry by Cathy-Mae Karelse Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as 'apolitical' forges institutions that fit comfortably into increasingly divided societies. The race-gender profile of these institutions reveals a White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff that is mirrored in its audiences. Mechanisms that recycle the industry's whiteness include corporatist pedagogies, edicts of authority, disengagement with difference and inappropriate uses of mindfulness that distance People of the Global Majority. A growing emergent movement focused on a justice-infused mindfulness and liberatory wellbeing decolonises mindfulness and de-centres whiteness. Its premise in indigenous, global South, queer knowledges leverages difference to produce multiple solutions focused on liberation. There is room for White Mindfulness to change.
ISBN: 9781526162052
Publication Date: 2023-05-23
The End of Burnout: why work drains us and how to build better lives by Jonathan Malesic Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing.   Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But in the absence of understanding what burnout means, the discourse often does little to help workers who suffer from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was a burned out worker who escaped by quitting his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work.   In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, and between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout ("Learn to say no!" "Practice mindfulness!") to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. Beyond looking at what drives burnout--unfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of values--this book spotlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a "total work" environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and acknowledge the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike.
ISBN: 9780520975347
Publication Date: 2022-01-04
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health by Gale Research Inc (Editor) Provides detailed information on mental disorders and conditions. Also features entries for prescription, alternative and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the various therapies used to treat mental disorders.
ISBN: 9781535877992
Publication Date: 2024-03-08
Global Mental Health : Latin America and Spanish-speaking populations by Javier I. Escobar (Editor) Global Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America, including work being done on understanding Alzheimer's, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and other psychoses. While supporting the initiative for building capacity of care in low income countries, the book warns about some of the potential risks related to the abuse of psychiatry, using examples from the past, focusing on early 20th century Spain.
ISBN: 9780813595948
Publication Date: 2020-01-17
A Guide to a Somatic Movement Practice by Nancy Topf; Hetty King (As told to) An introduction to embodied movement through the workof a dance education pioneer   In thisintroduction to the work of somatic dance education pioneer Nancy Topf (1942-1998),readers are ushered on a journey to explore the movement of the body through aclose awareness of anatomical form and function. Making available the full textof Topf's The Anatomy of Center forthe first time in print, this guide helps professionals, teachers, and studentsof all levels integrate embodied, somatic practices within contexts of dance,physical education and therapy, health, and mental well-being. Hetty King, a movement educator certified in theTopf Technique®, explains how the ideas in this work grew out of Topf'sinvolvement in developing Anatomical Release Technique--an important concept incontemporary dance--and the influence of earlier innovators Barbara Clark andMabel Elsworth Todd, founder of the approach to movement known as"ideokinesis." Featuring lessons written as a dialogue between teacher,student, and elements of the body, Topf's material is accompanied by twenty-oneactivities that allow readers to use the book as a self-guided manual. A Guide to a Somatic Movement Practiceis a widely applicable entry point into the tradition of experiential anatomyand its mindful centering of the living, breathing body.
ISBN: 9780813068671
Publication Date: 2022-07-12
How to Promote Wellbeing: practical steps for healthcare practitioners' mental health by Rachel K. Thomas How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing stress, coping with pressure in healthcare settings, recognising signs of impaired decision-making, and much more. Written specifically for busy healthcare practitioners, the book offers focused and succinct chapters on topics ranging from behaviours to improve resilience and mindfulness, to approaches for maintaining work-life balance when confronted with excessive workloads and organisational pressures. Throughout the text, evidence-based tools and techniques are provided to improve the practitioner's health and facilitate the delivery of high-quality care. Covering a wide range of clinical situations and important issues, this book: Examines global, organisational, and individual problem factors affecting mental health and wellbeing Discusses the impacts of chronic stress, burnout, technological and environmental factors, work-associated trauma, and sources of wellbeing strain Identifies factors that negatively affect patients' wellbeing in hospital, clinic, and outpatient settings Offers guidance for emergencies and available resources for those in personal crisis Includes a mental health and wellbeing toolkit, including assessments and strategies How to Promote Wellbeing is indispensable reading for doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, counsellors, and other clinicians and health professionals.
ISBN: 9781119614364
Publication Date: 2021-04-19
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom by Robert Eaton; Steven V. Hunsaker; Bonnie Moon How teachers can help combat higher education's mental health crisis. Mental health challenges on college campuses were a huge problem before COVID-19, and now they are even more pronounced. But while much has been written about higher education's mental health crisis, very little research focuses on the role played by those on campus whose influence on student well-being may well be greatest: teachers. Drawing from interviews with students and the scholarship of teaching and learning, this book helps correct the oversight, examining how faculty can--instead of adding to their own significant workloads or duplicating counselors' efforts--combat student stress through adjustments to the work they already do as teachers. Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom provides practical tips that reduce unnecessary discouragement. It demonstrates how small improvements in teaching can have great impacts in the lives of students with mental health challenges, while simultaneously boosting learning for all students.
ISBN: 9781952271809
Publication Date: 2023-04-01
LGBTQ mental health : international perspectives and experiences by Nadine Nakamura LGBTQ Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences expands our understanding of mental health by considering the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ communities in the Majority World. Increased globalization and migration has highlighted the need for mental health clinicians to better understand these communities' experiences and needs. This book provides an overview of LGBTQ mental health in non Western countries or regions that have heretofore received little attention in the psychology literature. Chapters focus on the cultural, social, legal, political, and psychological experiences of various LGBTQ subpopulations in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Russia, Mongolia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and sub Saharan Africa. Contributors summarize existing research on mental health outcomes for LGBTQ individuals in these countries or regions; offer key insights that challenge culturally specific conceptions of normative, LGBTQ mental health and behavior; and offer recommendations for further research and mental health practice with these populations.
ISBN: 9781433831638
Publication Date: 2020
Mad world : the politics of mental health by Micha Frazer-Carroll "Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment?These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns.Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination."--Provided by publisher.
ISBN: 9780745346748
Publication Date: 2023
A Meaningful Life at Work: the paradox of wellbeing by Safiah Omar; Norizah Mohd Mustamil; Raida Abu Bakar; Rosmawani Che Hashim; Sharmila Jayasingam A Meaningful Life at Workaddresses a range of contemporary issues that impact on an individual's experiences in the workplace, including those that may restrict opportunities for personal growth in a professional setting. Understanding an employee's values, their choices and the problems they face in the workplace may help organisations to better structure their human resource policies, compensation packages and working conditions.  The authors explore employee wellbeing from a Malaysian perspective as a developing country, but they also reflect on the broader Asian and wider global context. The key themes analysed in this book include work addiction, cyber bullying, sexual harassment in the workplace and the ethics of workplace behaviour. The book contributes to the theoretical discourse around organisation studies and employee wellbeing, while also seeking to integrate academic concepts with practice. In this way, it offers practical steps towards promoting positivity and happiness in the workplace.
ISBN: 9781787567672
Publication Date: 2018-07-09
Mental health and enhancement : substance use and its social implications by Stephan Schleim This book takes the reader from basic questions like What is health? and What is a psychiatric disorder?, into the midst of peoples present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of psychopharmacological drugs keeps increasing. Concurrently, media report the popularity of brain doping or study drugs on campuses as well as at the workplace. This open access book tests the hypothesis of whether mental health and enhancement can be seen as two sides of the same coin: that the demands on cognitive and emotional functioning have been increasing and psychoactive substances are used to meet these demands. Whether the increasing number of diagnoses means that really more people are suffering from psychological problems will be discussed just as whether the media accurately describe brain doping as a new and rising trend. An individual section describes non-pharmacological alternatives to maintain and increase ones mental well-being. To answer these and many more questions, the author critically reviews evidence from epidemiology, psychiatry, and psychology. That people with and without psychiatric diagnoses are often using the same substances for example, the stimulant drugs Adderall or Ritalin to cope with their problems is presented as evidence to look beyond the traditional distinction between disorder, health, and enhancement. Likewise, different meanings of drug in historical and present contexts illustrate that the way we think of mental health and (il)legitimate drug use reflects our own culture. The books focus on addiction/substance use disorders makes it also relevant to the ongoing discussion of drug policy. Stephan Schleim is Associate Professor of Theoretical Psychology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and author of different books on philosophy, psychology, and the neurosciences. He has also been acting chair in Neurophilosophy at the University of Munich, Germany. He has carried out several research projects on the theory and ethics of neuroscience. The focus of his investigations have been the conditions under which scientific knowledge is created and communicated to the public.
ISBN: 9783031326189
Publication Date: 2023
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Handbook for Schools by Clare Erasmus; Chris Edwards (Foreword by) This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health support for students. With a focus on providing staff with practical tools on a limited budget, the book helps schools make a real difference to student mental health. It sets out a roadmap for staff to create robust mental health support for students without requiring qualifications in psychology or counselling. It covers key areas including staff training, creating safe spaces for wellbeing and how to harness the support of parents and the local community. It also includes practical advice for addressing concerns such as stress, self-harm and body image. From small, everyday improvements that foster a culture of mental wellbeing to whole school campaigns, this book shows how to embed mental health at the heart of a school's philosophy.
ISBN: 9781785924811
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace by Gill Hasson; Donna Butler Provides guidance for both employers and staff on promoting positive mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill health in the workplace The importance of good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is a subject of increased public awareness and governmental attention. The Department of Health advises that one in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Although a number of recent developments and initiatives have raised the profile of this crucial issue, employers are experiencing challenges in promoting the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace contains expert guidance for improving mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill health. This comprehensive book addresses the range of issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing in work environments - providing all involved with informative and practical assistance. Authors Gill Hasson and Donna Butler examine changing workplace environment for improved wellbeing, shifting employer and employee attitudes on mental health, possible solutions to current and future challenges and more. Detailed, real-world case studies illustrate a variety of associated concerns from both employer and employee perspectives. This important guide: Explains why understanding mental health important and its impact on businesses and employees Discusses why and how to promote mental health in the workplace and the importance of having an effective 'wellbeing strategy' Provides guidance on managing staff experiencing mental ill health Addresses dealing with employee stress and anxiety Features resources for further support if experiencing mental health issues Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace is a valuable resource for those in the workplace wanting to look after their physical and mental wellbeing, and those looking for guidance in managing staff with mental health issues.
ISBN: 9780857088307
Publication Date: 2020-06-04
Mental Health in Later Life by Alisoun Milne Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a lifecourse approach to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later life. Well-respected author and scholar Alisoun Milne explores the influences of lifecourse experiences, structural inequalities, socio-political context, history, gender and age related factors and engages with new ways of thinking about preventing mental ill health and promoting mental health in later life. Drawing together material from a number of different fields, the book analyses the meaning and determinants of mental health among older populations and offers a critical review of the lifecourse, ageing and mental health discourse for students, professionals, policy makers and researchers.
ISBN: 9781447323396
Publication Date: 2020-02-19
Natural Health: your complete guide to natural remedies and mindful well-being by Marie D. Jones Embrace the natural power to feel great and live a healthier, happier life! Learn about hundreds of ways to enrich your life with this comprehensive guide to nature-based health and well-being. From herbs, oils and vitamins to yoga, healing remedies and belly laughs, the Natural Health: Your Complete Guide to Natural Remedies and Mindful Well-Being explores hundreds of ancient remedies, natural therapies and nature's medicine cabinet. It includes the most current knowledge, information, and science behind natural diets and lifestyle to build your health and wellness. Featuring an extensive overview of natural health therapies, treatments, medicinals and nature's gifts, this engaging and useful book includes ... More than 100 herbal, all-natural, and do-it-yourself recipes and home remedies to heal everything from acne to zapped energy Tips for making toxic-free home products Herbal and natural remedies that fight diabetes, cancer, depression, anxiety, heart disease, digestive disorders, immune disorders, and more Immune boosting herbs, diet, and remedies to improve overall health A detox section to improve your gut health and immune system and rid the body of toxic metals and chemicals Recipes for herbal teas, concoctions, decoctions, tinctures, baths, balms, treats for kids, and more Tools and methods for increasing brain power, memory, cognition, focus, and clarity An examination of meditation, movement and breath work An extensive A to Z herb list and the medicinal properties of each herb Guidance and tips to falling asleep faster and improving the quality of sleep Exercises for lowering stress and achieving greater positivity, well-being, and resilience And much more on natural health and well-being of the body, mind, and spirit! You want to a live longer, healthier life free of medical complications? Of course you do! You need not be beholden to products that are premade, prefabricated, processed, put together, produced, and promoted to you. Get back to basics with what the planet has to offer instead. Whether you want to stay fit, treat health issues or reduce stress, Natural Health: Your Complete Guide to Natural Remedies and Mindful Well-Being will help you find your natural balance to a holistic health of the body, mind, and spirit! With many photos, illustrations, and other graphics, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.
ISBN: 9781578597734
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
On Learning to Heal: or, what medicine doesn't know by Ed Cohen At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn's disease--a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility. In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn's to consider how Western medicine's turn from an "art of healing" toward a "science of medicine" deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies, medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing's role for all those whose lives are touched by illness.
ISBN: 9781478019329
Publication Date: 2023-01-03
Perspectives on Wellbeing by Sue Vella (Volume Editor); Ruth Falzon (Volume Editor); Andrew Azzopardi (Volume Editor) The study of wellbeing is not new. Over two millennia ago, the Ancient Greeks were already debating different conceptions of the good life, and how it may be fostered, albeit a debate for the privileged in ancient Greek society. More recently, the post-WWII concern with economic scarcity gave way - as prosperity rose in the later 20th century - to values such as personal growth and social inclusion. In parallel, research has increasingly turned its focus to wellbeing, going beyond traditional measures of income, wealth and employment. Greater attention is now paid to the subjective experience of wellbeing which, it is broadly agreed, has many dimensions such as life satisfaction, optimal functioning and a good quality of life. Perspectives on Wellbeing: A Reader brings together a number of chapters that examine wellbeing from different disciplinary perspectives. A number of the chapters take the angle of human flourishing, looking at the respective contributions of belonging, emotional resilience, spirituality, prosocial behaviour, literacy and leisure. Others look at wellbeing through a social relations lens, including family relations, youth, persons with disability and gender. Finally, a chapter on wellbeing and economics illustrates different approaches to measuring wellbeing and identifying its determinants. The book concludes with a chapter that argues for the enduring importance of the welfare state if the wellbeing of all is to be ensured. This book is likely to be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences as well as to a general readership. Contributors are: Angela Abela, Andrew Azzopardi, Paul Bartolo, Marie Briguglio, Amy Camilleri Zahra, Joanne Cassar, Marilyn Clark, Ruth Falzon, Vickie Gauci, Ingrid Grech Lanfranco, Natalie Kenely, Mary Anne Lauri, Marceline Naudi, Claudia Psaila, Clarissa Sammut Scerri, Sandra Scicluna Calleja, Barbara Stelmaszek, Sue Vella, and Val Williams.
ISBN: 9789004394155
Publication Date: 2019-03-07
Professional Well-Being: enhancing wellness among psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health clinicians by Grace Gengoux; Sanno E. Zack; Jennifer Derenne; Athena Robinson; Laura B. Dunn; Laura Weiss Roberts Although data exist to support the notion that physician self-care is correlated with patient care, the culture of medicine has traditionally valued the ideals of self-sacrifice and perfectionism--often to the detriment of clinicians themselves. Professional Well-Being: Enhancing Wellness Among Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Mental Health Clinicians, the result of a collaboration by several psychologists and psychiatrists in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, posits a new culture, one that is supportive of the health and well-being of health care professionals and the patients and populations they serve. The book's first section examines individual and systemic barriers to professional well-being, chronicling the unique challenges faced by health care providers at different stages of professional and personal development. Detailed case studies and vignettes illustrate effective methods for reducing burnout while also enhancing professional fulfillment. Thought-provoking discussion questions encourage readers to focus on implementation tactics applicable to their own health care practices. Part II discusses personal resilience and realistic strategies--from the mental and social to the physical--to improve well-being. Specific exercises encourage mental health professionals to engage in pragmatic action for improved personal and professional well-being. Throughout the book, a wealth of tables and figures illustrate important points. The inclusion of "positive practices" and recommended readings offers readers the opportunity to integrate what they have learned and to expand their study. Patients benefit when treated by clinicians who value and model self-care. Professional Well-Being outlines for mental health care providers, including psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health clinicians, and trainees, how to become such a professional.
ISBN: 9781615372294
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
Promoting Mind-Body Health in Schools by Cheryl Maykel (Editor); Melissa Bray (Editor) Many students today struggle with stress and anxiety caused by increasing academic, social, and extracurricular demands. This book provides school psychologists, counselors, teachers, and other school faculty with guidelines for improving students' mental and physical well‑being, which in turn leads to improved academic performance and happier, better-adjusted students.   Chapter authors review important considerations related to the benefits, limitations, and potential risks associated with implementing mind-body interventions in school settings. In addition to general guidelines, they review specific practices in depth--including yoga, mindfulness, physical activity, and hypnosis--presenting a three-tiered model for delivering services universally, with targeted groups, and with individuals. They also discuss how these and other interventions can be used to target specific issues such as eating disorders, chronic pain, sleep disorders, and trauma. Illustrative case studies demonstrate how to implement these interventions in realistic scenarios. Collaboration between mental health professionals, faculty, and parents is emphasized throughout the volume so that students' mind-body health is addressed both at school and at home.
ISBN: 9781433830549
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The Psychology of Meditation: research and practice by Michael A. West (Editor) In the past 20 years meditation has grown enormously in popularity across the world, practised both by the general public, as well as by an increasing number of psychologists within their daily clinical practice. Meditation is now used to treat a range of disorders, including, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, chronic pain, and addiction. In the past twenty years we have also learned much more about the underlying neural bases for meditation, and why it works. The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness and presents accounts of the cognitive and emotional processes elicited during meditation practice. Written by researchers and practitioners with considerable experience in meditation practice and from different religious or philosophical perspectives, he book examines the evidence for the effects of meditation on emotional and physical well-being in therapeutic contexts and in applied settings. The areas covered include addictions, pain management, psychotherapy, physical health, neuroscience, and the application of meditation in school and workplace settings. Uniquely, the contributors also present accounts of their own personal experience of meditation practice including their history of practice, phenomenology, and the impact it has had on their lives. Drawing on evidence from both research and practice, this is a valuable synthesis of the ways in which meditation can profoundly enrich human experience.
ISBN: 9780199688906
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Psychology of Yoga and Meditation by John Peck (Translator); Heather McCartney (Translator); Martin Liebscher (Editor); C. G. Jung Jung's lectures on the psychology of Eastern spirituality--now available for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to the psychology of alchemy. Here for the first time are Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of yoga and meditation, delivered between 1938 and 1940.In these lectures, Jung discusses the psychological technique of active imagination, seeking to find parallels with the meditative practices of different yogic and Buddhist traditions. He draws on three texts to introduce his audience to Eastern meditation: Patañjali's Yoga Sûtra, the Amitâyur-dhyâna-sûtra from Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, and the Shrî-chakra-sambhâra Tantra, a scripture related to tantric yoga. The lectures offer a unique opportunity to encounter Jung as he shares his ideas with the general public, providing a rare window on the application of his comparative method while also shedding light on his personal history and psychological development.Featuring an incisive introduction by Martin Liebscher as well as explanations of Jungian concepts and psychological terminology, Psychology of Yoga and Meditation provides invaluable insights into the evolution of Jung's thought and a vital key to understanding his later work.
ISBN: 9780691213774
Publication Date: 2021-03-09
Refugee Mental Health by Jamie D. Aten (Editor); Jenny Hwang (Editor) This book is an in-depth practical guide for mental health practitioners working across diverse theoretical orientations to provide mental health services tailored to the needs of refugees.  These needs are felt more keenly than ever as displaced populations continue to grow. Refugees often experience high rates of psychological distress, and appropriate mental health care services remain severely underdeveloped. Chapters in this edited volume outline research-supported psychological interventions that can be used in a culturally sensitive manner. They cover important topics like cultural humility, issues in screening and assessments, and specific ethical dilemmas when working with refugees. The book explores the ways in which Western interventions such as cognitive behavior therapy, group therapy, expressive therapy, and school-based programs have been adapted to serve resettled refugee populations. Strengths and limitations of these approaches as well as recommendations for incorporating more holistic frameworks in practice are discussed, providing mental health professionals with a better understanding of the psychological issues associated with the refugee experience and best practices for treatment. 
ISBN: 9781433833724
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Restless in Sleep Country by Paul Huebener Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be fixed by better habits and tracking gadgets, but the reality is more complicated. Sleep is a site of politics, culture, and power. In Restless in Sleep Country Paul Huebener pulls back the covers on cultural representations of sleep to show how they are entangled with issues of colonialism, homelessness, consumer culture, technology and privacy, the exploitation of labour, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though it almost entirely evades direct experience, sleep is the subject of a variety of potent narratives, each of which can serve to clarify and shape its role in our lives. In Canada, cultural visions of slumber circulate through such diverse forms as mattress commercials, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. By guiding us through this imaginative landscape, Huebener shows us how to develop a critical literacy of sleep. Lying down and closing our eyes is an act that carries surprisingly high stakes, going beyond individual sleep troubles. Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the idea of sleep as a crucial site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.
ISBN: 9780228020394
Publication Date: 2024-05-14
The Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work by Satinder K. Dhiman (Editor) Given the ever-growing interest in the benefits of mindfulness to organizations and the individuals who work in them, this Companion is a comprehensive primary reference work for mindfulness (including creativity and flow) in the workplace, including business, healthcare, and educational settings. Research shows that mindfulness boosts creativity through greater insight, receptivity, and balance, and increases energy and a sense of wellbeing. This Companion traces the genesis and growth of this burgeoning field, tracks its application to the workplace, and suggests trends and future directions. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in business, leadership, psychology, healthcare, education, and other related fields, The Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work is an extensive reference work which will be a vital resource to the fields of management and organizational studies, human resource management, psychology, spirituality, cultural anthropology, and sociology. Each chapter will present a listing of key topics, a case or situation that illustrates the application of the themes, workplace lessons, and reflection questions.
ISBN: 9780429521393
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies by Suzanne Newcombe (Editor); Karen O'Brien-Kop (Editor) The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Chapters 1, 4, 9, 12, and 27 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
ISBN: 9781351050739
Publication Date: 2020-10-28
School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing by Margaret K Merga Drawing on recent research, this book explores the connection between libraries, literacy, reading engagement and wellbeing, providing powerful advocacy support for school library professionals seeking to illustrate the role they play in supporting students' literacy learning and wellbeing.
ISBN: 9781783305872
Publication Date: 2022
Science over Stigma: education and advocacy for mental health by Daniel B. Morehead Recent surveys have found that the vast majority of the public believes that mental illness is real and treatable. And yet, fewer than half of people with diagnosable mental illnesses get treatment in any given year, and of those who do, only half adhere to it. What accounts for the disconnect? According to Daniel Morehead, M.D., unchecked critiques of psychiatry--that it is impossible to define mental illness, that the neurobiology of major mental illnesses is unknown, that patients are overdiagnosed and overmedicated--has led to a public perception that mental health treatment is profoundly flawed. In Science Over Stigma, Dr. Morehead argues that it is time for a full-throated defense of mental health treatment, and that it falls to everyone, from medical and mental health professionals to the general public, to advocate on its behalf. In accessible terms this book sets forth a definition of mental illness, candidly discussing what is known and what remains unknown, and then describes its prevalence, social and physical consequences, and a range of treatments. Each chapter includes advocacy tips that help readers translate the information they've learned into the means for constructive dialogue. By clearly laying out the science behind mental illness and its treatment and vividly illustrating how common it is--affecting patients, their friends and family, and mental health professionals themselves--this volume seeks to turn the recognition of psychiatric illness into practical behavior, destigmatizing both the illness itself and the search for treatment.
ISBN: 9781615373079
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
The Self-Care Handbook : a Practical Guide to Integrating Self-Care into Everyday Life to Improve Wellbeing by Gill Hasson Learn how to improve and maintain your health and wellbeing with a practical and achievable self-care guide Are you looking after yourself? For so for many of us, with so much to do and think about, self care - taking care of our mental, emotional and physical health and wellbeing - often falls by the wayside. The Self-Care Handbook equips you to make positive, helpful choices for incorporating self-care into your life. It explains how to take responsibility for your own wellbeing and provides ideas and practical advice on how you can better look after yourself. Bestselling author Gill Hasson shows you how to develop the mindset, routines and habits that can protect, maintain and improve your health and wellbeing. The Handbook presents straightforward approaches that can help you feel good about yourself, manage stress and anxiety, achieve a work-life balance, increase your physical health and much more. This book will help you: Encourage a positive, healthy relationship with yourself and strengthen your wellbeing Understand and implement the factors that can protect, maintain and improve your mental and physical health and wellbeing Manage overwhelm and simplify a busy life Know how best to relax, switch off and enjoy yourself Look after yourself when you're going through difficulties, setbacks or a crisis The Self-Care Handbook is an important resource for anyone wishing to integrate healthy behaviours and activities and look after their physical and mental wellbeing.
ISBN: 9780857088161
Publication Date: 2019-12-16
Social (in)Justice and Mental Health by Ruth S. Shim (Editor); Sarah Y. Vinson (Editor) Social justice entails equal access to liberties, rights, and opportunities, as well as care for the least advantaged members of society. The paradigm-shifting new book Social (In)Justice and Mental Health addresses the ways in which society's failure to deliver on that humane ideal harms people with mental illness. The editors, at the forefront of the effort to make psychiatry responsive to critiques of institutional racism, argue that in the United States, a perfect storm of unfair and unjust policies and practices, bolstered by deep-seated beliefs about the inferiority of some groups, has led to a small number of people having tremendous advantages, freedoms, and opportunities, while a growing number are denied those liberties and rights. Mental health clinicians bear a special responsibility to be aware of these structural inequities, to question their own biases, to intervene on behalf of patients and their families, and to advocate for mental health equity. To that end, the book provides a framework for thinking about why these inequities exist and persist and provides clinicians with a road map to address these inequalities as they relate to racism, the criminal justice system, and other systems and diagnoses. The book is hands-on, with topics mental health clinicians will find timely and relevant: * The role of social injustice and specific diagnoses and conditions, including substance use disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and child trauma, is covered. For example, research has shown that white psychiatrists are more likely to over diagnose schizophrenia in Black patients, and this diagnostic bias may partly account for Black men being involuntarily committed to mental institutions in higher numbers.* The authors advocate for research that prioritizes the needs of participants and communities, rather than the needs of institutions, and focuses on structural, not individual-level, differences.* Accompaniment, an important strategy for infusing social justice into clinical practice, is described and modeled. This process of radical empathy--of trying to minimize power dynamics in clinical relationships by listening, witnessing, and advocating with patients--is critically important in confronting mental health inequities. * The inadequacy of current medical and mental health education and training in countering the powerful forces of social injustice in mental health is discussed in detail. The authors emphasize that change requires adopting an active practice of self-study and self-reflection, and accordingly, a list of self-study resources, consisting of books, documentaries, podcasts, and TED talks, is provided to further the reader's knowledge and awareness. * Of further assistance are the chapter-ending "Questions for Self-Reflection," which challenge mental health clinicians to examine their own attitudes and preconceived ideas about race, poverty, disabilities, and privilege. Social (In)Justice and Mental Health addresses the context in which mental health care is delivered, strategies for raising consciousness in the mental health profession, and ways to improve treatment while redressing injustice. Clinicians owe it to themselves, their patients, and their profession to read--and heed--this important work.
ISBN: 9781615373383
Publication Date: 2020-12-09
Supporting Student Mental Health Essentials for Teachers by Michael Hass; Amy Ardell Supporting Student Mental Health is a guide to the basics of identifying and supporting students with mental health challenges. It's no secret that your responsibilities as a teacher go beyond academic achievement. You cover key socioemotional competencies in your classrooms, too. This book is full of accessible and appropriate strategies for responding to students' mental health needs, such as relationship-building, behavioral observation, questioning techniques, community resources, and more. The authors' public health, prevention science, and restorative practice perspectives will leave you ready to run a classroom that meets the needs of the whole child while ensuring your own well-being on the job.
ISBN: 9780367362843
Publication Date: 2020-05-12
Wellbeing by Mark Vernon The politics of wellbeing and the new science of happiness have shot up the agenda since Martin Seligman coined the phrase "positive psychology". After all, who does not want to live the good life? So ten years on, why is it that much of this otherwise welcome debate sounds like as much apple-pie - "work less", "earn enough", "keep fit", "find meaning", "enjoy freedoms"? The reason is not, ultimately, cynicism. Rather, it is because a central, tricky question is being glossed over: just what is wellbeing? Mark Vernon argues that positive psychology has overlooked and sidelined the ancient wisdom on wellbeing, notably from the Greek philosophers. Now is the time to pay it proper attention.Vernon shows, surprisingly, that wellbeing is not found in a focus on pleasure, or even the pursuit of happiness itself. Rather, it is a question of meaning and responding to the great challenge of our day: the search for transcendence. For at root, the life that is going well cultivates a way of life based upon love: it is that which draws you out of yourself - in friends, hopes and ultimately the contemplation of mystery - and orientates a life towards that which is good.
ISBN: 9781317488637
Publication Date: 2014-12-05
Wellbeing: a Complete Reference Guide, Set by Cary Cooper (Editor) "I would recommend this book for acquisition. Each volume has its own ISBN and there are volume indexes, rather than a master index, so specialist libraries could purchase individual volumes. The different volumes hang together well however, so I would recommend getting the set if possible. This set has arrived on the crest of a wave of academic and, to a lesser extent, public interest. Academic libraries catering for courses in psychology, health-related subjects, education, social policy or economics will all find useful material here." --Reference Reviews "This series could complement a variety of libraries, such as a home or personal library, office, or academic setting. Wellbeing is a global topic that influences each individual. This series is a valuable resource." --American Reference Books Annual The first multi-volume examination of all elements of wellbeing Explores wellbeing from multiple perspectives, including children and families; the workplace; the environment; aging and later life; economics; and policies of wellbeing Each volume brings together leaders of their respective fields in an edited volume of original articles 6 Volumes www.referencewellbeing.com
ISBN: 9781118538821
Publication Date: 2017
Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom by Adrian Bethune; Anthony Seldon (Foreword by) The bestselling guide for teaching wellbeing and positive mental health in primary schools, packed with practical ideas for every classroom.Evidence has shown that happy people (those who experience more positive emotions) perform better in school, enjoy healthier relationships, are generally more successful and even live longer! It is an ever-growing concern, therefore, that children's levels of happiness and wellbeing are decreasing, while their levels of stress, anxiety and depression are increasing. As a result, many schools and teachers are looking for accessible ways to address these mental health problems in young people. In this must-read book, experienced teacher and advisor on children's wellbeing, Adrian Bethune, takes the latest evidence and research from the science of happiness and positive psychology and brings them to life. Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom is packed full of tried-and-tested activities and techniques, including mindfulness, positive reflection, physical activity and acts of kindness. With a foreword by Sir Anthony Seldon, former Master of Wellington College, well known for introducing and advocating happiness and wellbeing in education, it is an essential guide for supporting emotional and mental wellbeing in the primary classroom.
ISBN: 9781472951564
Publication Date: 2018-09-06
Youth Mental Health by Alison R. Yung; Jack Cotter; Patrick D. McGorry This book highlights the field of youth mental health and why it is a specialty distinct from both child and adolescent and adult mental health. Youth Mental Health: Approaches to Emerging Mental Ill-Health in Young People examines issues such as mental health literacy, e-Health, family, psychological, vocational and pharmacological interventions. The authors also discuss issues that are particularly pertinent to young people, such as suicidality, substance abuse, gender identity and sexuality, attention deficit disorder and eating disorders. Taking a preventative focus, this book presents evidence for youth mental health as an important and growing field, makes the case for the reform of existing service structures to better serve this group and outlines the latest specialised approaches to treatment. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of leading thinkers in youth mental health, this book is instrumental for mental health professionals who wish to design new specialised mental health systems for young people.
ISBN: 9780367250614
Publication Date: 2020-12-30

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