Sentenced To Life Mental Illness Tragedy And Transformation

Author : Joan Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1625860269

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Sentenced to Life: Mental Illness, Tragedy, and Transformation by Joan Becker Pdf

Travel with one heartbroken family as they struggle to find help for their son, face unspeakable tragedy, receive unexpected forgiveness, and deal with the aftermath of a child whose mental health issues ended in calamity . . . and transformation. Discover the confidence that buoys author Joan Becker and her family as they push for reform in the broken mental health system before more lives are ruined. Their story offers hope, help, and heart-felt compassion. "Joan Becker has a generous spirit and kind heart that come forward in this book. By sharing her family's experience she'll help other families struggling with mental illness feel less alone. That's a tremendous accomplishment when the illness causes feelings of isolation and hopelessness for parents who are desperate to help their suffering child. The mental health system can and should be better, and this book inspires all of us to do everything we can to make it so." U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

Author : Joan Becker
Publisher : Credo House Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 162586065X

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SENTENCED TO LIFE - LP by Joan Becker Pdf

Travel with one heartbroken family as they struggle to find help for their son, face unspeakable tragedy, receive unexpected forgiveness, and deal with the aftermath of a child whose mental health issues ended in calamity . . . and transformation. Discover the confidence that buoys author Joan Becker and her family as they push for reform in the broken mental health system before more lives are ruined. Their story offers hope, help, and heart-felt compassion. "Joan Becker has a generous spirit and kind heart that come forward in this book. By sharing her family's experience she'll help other families struggling with mental illness feel less alone. That's a tremendous accomplishment when the illness causes feelings of isolation and hopelessness for parents who are desperate to help their suffering child. The mental health system can and should be better, and this book inspires all of us to do everything we can to make it so." U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

Author : Timothy Fay
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609388874

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The Wapsipinicon Almanac by Timothy Fay Pdf

"The Wapsipinicon Almanac was published by Route 3 Press in Anamosa, Iowa for more than 25 years. It was handmade on antique letterpress equipment by Timothy Fay and featured stories, reviews, essays, and poems. The first issue, published in 1988, sold out, and the publication subsequently became a staple of the Iowa literary scene. Each subsequent issue was a carefully curated collection of critical essays, short stories, book reviews, Iowa history, news blurbs, poetry, beautiful artwork, and charming black and white advertisements of the mom-and-pop businesses who supported the Almanac and serve their communities in every aspect from the arts to agriculture. Fay crafted each issue with a sharp but also lighthearted focus on Midwestern concerns-culled from a variety of perspectives. Now, Midwesterners will be able to peruse the best of the Wapsi in one volume-both text and images-along with an introduction from Tim Fay that will acquaint them with his rare, artisanal process and this valuable repository of Iowa voices and history"--

Author : Roy Moodley,Eunjung Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351995535

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The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Culture and Mental Health by Roy Moodley,Eunjung Lee Pdf

This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health – historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness practices. The text demonstrates how socio-cultural identities including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and age intersect with clinical work in a range of settings. Case vignettes and recommendations for best practice help ground each in a clinical focus, guiding practitioners and educators to actively increase their understanding of non-Western and indigenous healing techniques, as well as their awareness of contemporary mental health theories as a product of Western culture with a particular historical and cultural perspective. The international contributors also discuss ways in which global mental health practices transcend racial, cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and political boundaries. The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Culture and Mental Health is an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals alike as it addresses the complexity of mental health issues from a critical, global perspective.

Author : Kui-Hee Song
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761868248

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Multicultural and International Approaches in Social Work Practice by Kui-Hee Song Pdf

Building upon the author’s integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally–linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families. This book also demonstrates how a mutual development model of intercultural organizational-institutional collaborative partnership can be relevant when providing an International Experience for Human Services Abroad Course. Author Kui-Hee Song uses in-depth case studies in the culturally linguistic and diverse context of human services fields and in the cross-nationally interactive context of host country human services organizations and home university academic administrations. Kui-Hee Song examines the clinical change process of a Korean immigrant family that is working with Child Protective Services, seeking to resolve physical child abuse problems and generate new meanings in parent-child relationships through therapeutic conversational dialogue. As the new to this edition, a case of Ming's story is especially, the cultural differences between the Chinese immigrant client family and American medical setting where practitioner’s personal beliefs were challenged. Kui-Hee Song critically examines specific steps to take in establishing intercultural service learning field placements for an experiential learning education abroad course. Song explores the significant leadership roles and responsibilities of host country human services organizations and home university administrators involved with making a new international human services experience abroad program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Specially, Song provides a profound understanding of the empowerment process of a Korean family: a conversational partnership in dialogue that invites the clients to speak their loud-hitherto unheard-voices and enhance a personal perception of competency for action and hope. Song also gives a thoughtful comprehension of a mutual empowerment process of cross-national collaborative partners: differential responsibilities but mutually shared power, vision, and goals in working relationship that allows for each collaborator to stand together in unity of transactional and transformational leadership behaviors and strengthens the sustainability of the effective international human services experience abroad program.

Author : Jonathan M. Metzl
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780807085936

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The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. Metzl Pdf

A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia—for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s—and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the two covers.

Author : Sandra Yuen MacKay
Publisher : Bridgeross Communications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780981003795

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My Schizophrenic Life by Sandra Yuen MacKay Pdf

Early in her life, Sandra started to exhibit the symptons of paranoid schizophrenia which came as a surprise to her unsuspecting family. Her book chronicles her struggles, hospitalisations, encounters with professionals, return to school, eventual marriage and success as an artist, writer, and advocate.

Author : Richard Benjamin,Joan Haliburn,Serena King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429649509

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Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia by Richard Benjamin,Joan Haliburn,Serena King Pdf

Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia is a unique and innovative contribution to the healthcare literature that outlines the trauma-informed approaches necessary to provide a more compassionate model of care for those who suffer with mental illness. The impact of abuse and trauma is frequently overlooked in this population, to the detriment of both individual and society. This work highlights the importance of recognising such a history and responding humanely. The book explores the trauma-informed perspective across four sections. The first outlines theory, constructs and effects of abuse and trauma. The second section addresses the effects of abuse and trauma on specific populations. The third section outlines a diverse range of individual treatment approaches. The final section takes a broader perspective, examining the importance of culture and training as well as the organisation and delivery of services. Written in an accessible style by a diverse group of national and international experts, Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia is an invaluable resource for mental health clinicians, the community managed and primary health sectors, policy makers and researchers, and will be a helpful reference for people who have experienced trauma and those who care for them.

Author : Jessica Holmes
Publisher : Page Two
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780995266544

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Depression the Comedy by Jessica Holmes Pdf

Comedian Jessica Holmes shares her life with depression.

Author : Luke Cruickshank
Publisher : Luke Cruickshank
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781777163112

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I'm With Crazy by Luke Cruickshank Pdf

Mental illness is the default state of every human being on the planet. The truth is that we’re all crazy. If you don’t believe me, then try telling that to the voices in your head. We all know this is true. Every one of us lives out our lives with an entire collection of voices in our heads, and this is completely normal. Some voices are helpful, some are empowering, and some are even kind to others. But then there are the other voices. The tyrannical ones who torment and exploit us. The ones who tell us that we’re stupid, that nobody likes us, that we’re unworthy of love, and who constantly remind us that we’re on the verge of being exposed as the incompetent imposter that we truly are. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why, as a society, do we condemn bullying, yet accept the spiteful, belittling, critical bullies that live in our heads? Why won’t these voices go away, and who put them there in the first place? Whether we recognize it or not, we’re all innately predisposed to mental illness. This conversation will help us understand the biological, psychological, and cultural vulnerabilities that push us toward mental illness. It’s only once we understand these issues that we can learn how to take the actions necessary to enhance our mental health. It’s time to face our inner critics. It’s time to stop posturing and playing the character that we’re expected to be. It’s time to show up to the world as our true authentic selves. Together, we’ll learn how to embrace our inner crazy, how to make friends with the voices in our heads, and how to redefine the culture of mental health.

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pdf

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Author : Thomas S. Szasz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780062104748

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The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz Pdf

“The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York Times The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays. Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.

Author : María del Mar Molero Jurado,Nicola Magnavita,María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832518830

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Adaption to change and coping strategies: New resources for mental health by María del Mar Molero Jurado,Nicola Magnavita,María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes Pdf

Author : Mariam Naseem
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438993546

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Not Without My Son by Mariam Naseem Pdf

Not Without My Son is the memoir of Iranian-born Dr. Mariam Naseem, a Jewish woman who must flee for her safety from the new theocracy of Iran. Together with her infant son and the husband who was chosen for her, she arrives in the United States to face unexpected challenges. The greatest obstacle of all, though, is the sudden change in her son, whose studies at a prestigious Ivy League school are cut short by illness. When it seems that no one can or will offer a helping hand, Naseem discovers that her own inner strength will help her get by.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UIUC:30112080037846

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The Human Face of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Canada, 2006 by Anonim Pdf

The human suffering associated with mental illness is something that more than one in five Canadians face at some point in their life.