Mental Illness
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You're Not the Problem
The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, and offering strategies for how to heal. Many emotionally abusive behaviors from parent to child have become socially acceptable because of the way we repeat things our parents said and did, things passed down from generation to generation that persist today. You're Not the Problem enables us to recognize these behaviors and realize the profound impact they have had, and still have, and to see the patterns they form in our relationships with parents, partners and friends. It also shows us how to heal on a personal level but also on a societal level. The legacy and the damage caused by narcissistic and emotional abuse will carry on, perpetuated by trauma and repeating cycles, unless we learn to recognize and understand it, unless we as individuals and as a society learn how to challenge it and stop its vicious cycle of destruction—which is what this book sets out to do. This book will explain and illustrate: How to recognize emotional abuse in family relationships: its language and behaviors; The immediate and long term impact of these behaviors; Strategies for healing; How to avoid repeating these behaviors. Using client narratives and sample scripts, Villiers and McKenna offer a compassionate, sympathetic approach to looking at our familial patterns—and how we can break free from these toxic relationships and reclaim our lives.
$28.99
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Where to Start
A Survival Guide to Anxiety, Depression and Other Mental Health Challenges It can be extremely hard to figure out what’s going on in our own heads when we are suffering—when we feel alone and unworthy and can’t stop our self-critical inner voice. And it’s even more difficult to know where to go for answers. This book is a perfect first step. Here you’ll find clear, honest, reassuring information about all the most common mental illnesses and what you can do to find help and to practice self-care.
$17.99
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When Someone You Love Has A Mental Illness
An essential resource--featuring 50 proven Quick Reference guides--for the millions of parents, siblings, and friends of people with mental illness, as well as professionals in the field.
$17.00
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When Quietness Came
A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey with Schizophrenia When Quietness Came is the true story of a young woman studying neuroscience who, in her final undergraduate year, has a psychotic break, attempts suicide and ends up in hospital. Her struggles to get well and to pursue her PhD are described in this book. Her story is geared to people from a variety of backgrounds. As a neuroscientist, Erin reaches out to the medical community who need to hear this side of the patient. As a schizophrenic, she reaches out to others struggling with this disorder, hoping to draw alongside and offer empathy and hope.
$27.95
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When a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment
How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family's Well-Being Escape the “family trap,†help your loved one on the road to recovery, and take back your life. If you have a family member who suffers from mental illness, but refuses to seek treatment, you may feel like you’re caught in a trap. If you try making life easier for your loved one, you wind up perpetuating dependency and entitlement. If you push for treatment, you are met with resistance or outright animosity. And when you reach out to professionals for help, you are told that nothing can be done unless your family member is ready to change. So, how can you escape the “family trap?†Written by clinicians and introducing the innovative family well-being approach (FWBA), this essential guide provides validation and doable strategies for anyone who feels trapped by a family member or loved one suffering from mental illness. Using the skills in this book, you’ll learn how your responses to your loved one can worsen and even perpetuate the very problems you are trying to resolve. You’ll also discover ways to promote healthy behavior in recovery avoiders, but only after the whole family is emotionally and strategically prepared to follow through successfully. The family well-being approach outlined in this book is based on established principles of behavior change, family interaction research, and more than three decades of clinical experience. If you’re feeling caught in a trap with a loved one who won’t seek help—also known as a recovery avoider—this practical guide can help you find your way out, once and for all.
$29.95
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Uncle Jay Has A Booboo (Schizophrenia)
A Heartwarming Tale of Love, Kindness, Empathy, and Resilience This heartwarming story is about a little girl and her uncle Jay who has schizophrenia. Mental illness is an invisible disease and people who suffer from them are treated as pariahs. Even more concerning, kids with loved ones who suffer from mental illness are also affected emotionally, socially, and behaviorally. This book seeks to change that by teaching kids kindness, empathy, resilience, and love despite what their parents or other caregivers are going through. This book is a communication tool to help ease children’s confusion and help them create positive coping skills when dealing with loved ones who behave oddly.
$23.95
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Think You're Crazy? Think Again
A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis provides an effective step-by-step aid to understanding your problems, making positive changes and promoting recovery. Written by experts in the field, this book will help you to understand how your problems developed and what keeps them going, use the questionnaires and monitoring sheets to identify and track changes in the links between your experiences, how you make sense of these and how you feel and behave, learn how to change thoughts, feelings and behaviour for the better, practice skills between sessions using worksheets. Based on clinically proven techniques and filled with examples of how cognitive therapy can help people with distressing psychotic experiences, this book will be a valuable resource for people with psychosis.
$45.95
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The Psychosis Workbook
Understand What You're Going Through, Take an Active Role in Your Recovery, and Prevent Relapse Evidence-based tools for a fully customizable recovery plan—choose what works for you. Your recovery from psychosis is a unique experience that encompasses many different emotions, including fear and frustration, confusion and hope, anger, and acceptance. Everyone experiences psychosis differently, and that’s why The Psychosis Workbook offers customizable treatment strategies you can use individually or in combination with each other to overcome the challenges associated with psychosis and move forward on your recovery journey.
$52.95
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The 36-Hour Day
A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the early stages to late-stage disease. This edition highlights the significant advances in diagnostic testing, treatment, and research that have occurred in recent years. Offering useful takeaway messages and informed by the latest practices in dementia care, this new edition has been thoroughly updated.
$32.95
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Surviving Schizophrenia
A Family Manual Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia is back, now in its sixth edition. Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and also explores living with it from both the patient's and the family's point of view. This new, completely updated sixth edition includes the latest research findings on what causes the disease, as well as information about the newest drugs for treatment, and answers the questions most often asked by families, consumers, and providers.
$24.99
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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia, 2nd Edition
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this manual presents an empirically tested format and ready-made curricula for skills training groups in a range of settings. Part I takes therapists and counselors step by step through assessing clients' existing skills, teaching new skills, and managing common treatment challenges. Part II comprises over 60 skill sheets. Each sheet--essentially a complete lesson plan--explains the rationale for the skill at hand, breaks it down into smaller steps, suggests role-play scenarios, and highlights special considerations. Appendices include reproducible client handouts and assessment tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these materials for repeated use.
$84.95
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Social Rhythm Therapy Workbook for Bipolar Disorder
Stabilize Your Circadian Rhythms to Reduce Stress, Manage Moods, and Prevent Future Episodes In The Social Rhythm Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder, bipolar and mood disorder expert Holly Swartz offers a fresh approach to help you reset your body clock, overcome shifts in mood, and find relief from your bipolar symptoms. Drawn from proven-effective social rhythm therapy (SRT), this groundbreaking workbook is filled with tools and actionable skills for creating a consistent schedule for sleeping, eating, and interacting with others. You’ll also learn how to combat the effects of social media scrolling in the evening—the dreaded enemy of a well-regulated sleep schedule. Finally, you’ll discover how to anticipate and plan for potentially rhythm-disrupting events such as out-of-town guests, pandemic-related disruptions, or even a hospital stay.
$38.95
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Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
This interesting title provides an overview of Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders that are rare in children and young adults, including Schizoaffective Disorder, Delusional Disorder, and Brief Psychotic Disorder. Symptoms, causes, and treatment options are discussed. A chapter on caring for others discusses children dealing with parents who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
$11.95
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Schizophrenia
Cognitive Theory, Research, and Therapy This book is about the cognitive model of schizophrenia and its treatment. The volume integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological knowledge into a comprehensive conceptual framework. It examines the origins, development, and maintenance of key symptom areas: delusions, hallucinations, negative symptoms, and formal thought disorder. Treatment chapters then offer concrete guidance for addressing each type of symptom, complete with case examples and session outlines. Anyone who treats or studies serious mental illness will find a new level of understanding together with theoretically and empirically grounded clinical techniques.
$64.95
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Reversing the Spiral of Depression for Teens
Simple Actions to Improve Your Mood, Boost Motivation and Build the Life You Want Written by a clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent mental health, this engaging guide offers an array of prompts, quizzes, exercises, and other activities you can use to jumpstart your motivation and turn destructive thoughts and behaviors into positive outlooks and actions that lead to a more promising future. Combining new research in neuroscience with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and behavioral activation, the activities in this guide will help you understand and identify: What depression is, what causes it, and why is it so prevalent in teens? Why you? What specific conditions in your life, your brain, your body, and your experience are making you feel this way. Why managing stress is a much better coping strategy than trying to avoid it. Small, no-pressure steps you can take to start rebuilding motivation (and why doing stuff is better than not doing stuff) How to set, reach, and build on healthy, realistic goals that leverage your unique strengths
$32.95
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Picture A Girl (Parent with Depression)
Addie's mom is good at two things (three, if you count making French toast): surfing and telling stories.Addie and her brother, Billy, live with their mom in a shabby rental cabin in the tourist town of Cedarveil, BC, right off the beach. Their lives are a little different than some—they often visit the food bank, and they don't have a phone or TV. For entertainment, their mom tells them stories before bed...if she's in a good mood, or home at all. Sometimes Mama copes with her depression by drinking; sometimes, she just disappears.When Addie wakes up one Monday, she senses a stillness that tells her Mama's gone again. Addie knows it's up to her to take care of everything until her mom gets back. It's either not let on that anything's amiss or she and Billy will be separated from one another. Once again she makes it through until her mom's return a week later, knowing that she's strong enough to survive alone—but she's hoping this will be the last time.
$14.95
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Perfectly Imperfect Stories
This wonderful book highlights a diverse group of well-known role models who all live with mental health issues including anxiety, depression, PTSD, anorexia, and more. The authors help readers to understand that it’s okay not to always be okay. The biggest lesson is that everyone struggles. They've taken 28 icons, from pop stars to sporting heroes, and highlighted how they overcame or learned to cope with a range of mental health issues and went on to live inspiring lives.
$26.99
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Overcoming Distressing Voices
This accessible self-help manual takes those affected by distressing voices on a journey of recovery and healing, based on the latest psychological research. This fully revised and updated edition includes: Clear explanations of what distressing voices are and what causes them, Techniques to explore and re-evaluate the links between self-esteem, beliefs about voices and feelings, Practical steps to reduce the distress that hearing voices causes and consideration of the impact on friends and family, and advice for how they can help.
$17.99
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OCD in Children and Adolescents
The "OCD is Not the Boss of Me" Manual Ten flexible modules give clinicians tools for engaging kids and their parents and implementing successful exposure and response prevention activities, as well as other cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies. Each module includes vivid clinical vignettes, sample scripts, "tips and tricks" drawn from the authors' extensive experience, and numerous reproducible child and parent handouts and worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print additional copies of the reproducible materials, in color.
$61.95
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Mindful Way Through Depression
Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness The revolutionary book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers find relief from chronic unhappiness is now in a revised and updated second edition. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), a clinically proven approach. The expert authors explain why our usual attempts to "fix" sadness or "talk ourselves out of it" can actually worsen recurrent depression instead of relieving it. Through vivid stories and downloadable audio meditations encouragingly narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the book shows how to break the mental habits that lead to despair--and recover a sense of joy, aliveness, and possibility. Revised throughout to be even more reader friendly, the second edition features fresh insights on coping with the challenges of our ever-changing world; the latest scientific data; and four additional audio tracks.
$34.95
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Loving Someone With A Serious Mental Illness
Caring for Your Loved One and Yourself on the Journey to Mental Health Recovery Powerful and practical tools to help you support your loved one with serious mental illness, while also making room for your own needs. If you have a loved one-a spouse, adult child, or other family member-who has a mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression and is experiencing symptoms like psychosis, you need help right now. Authors Katherine Ponte and Izzy Goncalves have been there. They are there. During Katherine's ongoing eighteen-year recovery from severe bipolar disorder and depression, her husband Izzy has been her primary caregiver. Together through trial, trauma, and triumph, they have amassed an unmatched store of lived experiences, shared perspectives, and lessons learned. They now bravely share, for the first time, everything they have come to understand about the challenges they've faced and surmounted together. A vital resource for families combating mental illness, this book will help you: recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness; maintain and improve communication between you and your loved one; better understand your loved one's feelings and emotions; handle special situations, including de-escalating an emergency; discover different options for treatment; and make room for self-care.
$29.95
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Losing Our Minds
The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the scientific and clinical literature, Foulkes explains what is known about mental health problems-how they arise, why they so often appear during adolescence, the various tools we have to cope with them but also what remains unclear: distinguishing between normality and disorder is essential if we are to provide the appropriate help, but no clear line between the two exists in nature. Providing necessary clarity and nuance, Losing Our Minds argues that the widespread misunderstanding of this aspect of mental illness might be contributing to its apparent prevalence.
$38.95
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Living Well With Bipolar Disorder
What does it take to achieve a successful career, healthy habits, and fulfilling relationships--even with bipolar disorder (BD)? What common stressors do you need to look out for, and how can you cope with them? No one is better suited to provide people with BD with practical problem-solving help than leading expert David J. Miklowitz. From managing mood swings to dealing with anxiety, getting enough sleep, defusing family conflicts, and troubleshooting medications, this book offers keys to effective self-care. Short, clearly formatted chapters with downloadable practical tools help you tackle challenges as they arise and plan for trouble spots that lie ahead. With Dr. Miklowitz's empowering guidance, navigate your own unique path to living well.
$27.95
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Less Than Crazy (Bipolar)
Living Fully With Bipolar II Bipolar II is a form of bipolar disorder in which a person, when in a manic cycle, is crippled by anxiety, irritability, and highs just intense enough to be embarrassing. Instead of being the life of the party, someone with Bipolar II might be too nervous to go to the party at all. And, unlike the Bipolar I sufferer who may attempt suicide in a depressive cycle, the Bipolar II might be incapacitated by guilt over an imaginary crime. In Less than Crazy, health writer and Bipolar II sufferer Karla Dougherty shares her story, presenting the first patient-expert's guide to recognizing and living well with this condition. Covering both adults and children, this accessible, all-in-one resource includes information on diagnosis, conditions that may mimic Bipolar II, and treatments.
$23.95
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