The Power Of Procovery In Healing Mental Illness

Author : Kathleen Crowley
Publisher : Procovery Inst
ISBN 13 : 9780964334823
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Procovery in Healing Mental Illness written by Kathleen Crowley and published by Procovery Inst. This book was released on 2000 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if, instead of reaching backward to "recover" in the traditional sense, to a prior state of health, individuals with psychiatric diagnoses reached forward to procover, to focus on life instead of illness, to build new dreams and find new purpose? What if those who support and treat these individuals were able to easily create and support this change? In The Power of Procovery in Healing Mental Illness, Kathleen Crowley--author of the powerful first person account of healing, The Day Room, A Memoir of Madness and Mending--shows that a simple shift in focus can initiate a transformative cycle of healing. This book tells you how and why. It is complete with extensive procovery notes for consumers, family and staff. You don't have to start The Power of Procovery at the beginning; just start anywhere. You'll soon discover that procovery is within anyone's grasp. It's a path to healing built upon hope.

Author : Kathleen Crowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964334830
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starting a Procovery Circle written by Kathleen Crowley and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the The Power of Procovery in Healing Mental Illness: Just Start Anywhere

Author : Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439701
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Mind through the Power of Story written by Lewis Mehl-Madrona and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health • Provides a critique of conventional psychiatry and a look at what mental health care could be • Includes stories used in the author’s healing practice that draw from traditional cultures around the world Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all FDA-reported trials are considered instead of just the trials published in journals. Up to 80 percent of patients with bipolar depression remain symptomatic despite conventional treatment, and 10 to 20 percent of these patients commit suicide. In Healing the Mind through the Power of Story, Dr. Mehl-Madrona shows what mental health care could be. He explains that within a narrative psychiatry model of mental illness, people are not defective, requiring drugs to “fix” them. What needs “fixing” is the ineffective stories they have internalized and succumbed to about how they should live in the world. Drawing on traditional stories from cultures around the world, Dr. Mehl-Madrona helps his patients re-story their lives. He shows how this innovative approach is actually more compatible with what we are learning about the biology of the brain and genetics than the conventional model of psychiatry. Drawing on wisdom both ancient and new, he demonstrates the power and success of narrative psychiatry to bring forth change and lasting transformation.

Author : David Pilgrim
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446209687
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness written by David Pilgrim and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness is a landmark volume, which integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and personal and social functioning and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context. Unique features include: - a broad and inclusive view of the field, providing depth and breadth for the reader - a team of international, multi-disciplinary editors and contributors, and - discussion of the many of the unresolved debates in the field about constructs and causes. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate students, academics and researchers studying mental health in disciplines such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing and sociology.

Author : Todd Borstad Licsw
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Beyond the Physical written by Todd Borstad Licsw and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have talents, gifts, and purpose within our lives, but we struggle to understand what that is day-to-day. This book is for anyone wanting to move past mental health issues, improve general well-being, and reach the potential you have within you. I have been a mental health therapist for over fifteen years and am passionate about creativity, expression, and helping others. Healing beyond the physical will explore these ways to understand yourself: Become aware of how personal beliefs and thinking create your life. Identify negative patterns related to the past that harm you and your relationships. Develop positive patterns that are relevant in the moment. Transform negative emotional pain into positive growth. Recognize vulnerabilities as strengths. Establish mindful awareness to continue forward growth and thinking. Find focus, meaning, and purpose through personal energy. Develop intuitive thinking that is your authentic self. Understand your connection to yourself and others. "Healing beyond the physical" originated while working at a substance abuse treatment center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I created lecture content for clients who did not do well with traditional forms of substance abuse treatment based on non-duality spirituality. This book combines psychological principles with universal laws of energy to create the change you desire within your life.

Author : Retta Andresen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119975166
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychological Recovery written by Retta Andresen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery. • Places the process of recovery within the context of normal human growth and development • Compares and contrasts concepts of recovery from mental illness with the literature on grief, loss and trauma • Situates recovery within the growing field of positive psychology – focusing on the active, hopeful process • Describes a consumer-oriented, stage-based model of psychological recovery which is unique in its focus on intrapersonal processes

Author : James G. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190907924
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public and Community Psychiatry written by James G. Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicians who choose to serve in public-sector mental healthcare settings and physicians-in-training assigned to public-sector mental health clinics may not be fully prepared for the many roles of the public and community psychiatrist. Public and Community Psychiatry is a concise guide for the resident and early-career psychiatrist called upon to serve in the roles of public-sector clinician, team member, advocate, administrator, and academician. Each chapter includes a concise description of these various roles and responsibilities and offers engaging examples of the public psychiatrist at work, as well as case-based problems typical of those faced by the public psychiatrist. Each chapter also features works of art and literature, usually from the public domain, in order to incorporate the core strengths of medical humanities into the dialogue of public-sector mental healthcare. This book aims to provide a level of support to psychiatrists that fosters their desire, individually and collectively, to serve the poor and the marginalized with grit and determination, and to broadly consider their potential to improve not only their patients' well-being, but also these patients' incorporation into their respective communities.

Author : Marcia A. Murphy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666708895
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Meaning of Mental Integrity written by Marcia A. Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is mental integrity (the state of being complete, whole) achieved in light of serious mental illness? The author’s intent is that this work will be a source of insight and healing for many and that it will equip the church, conjoined with the medical/scientific field of psychiatry, to do a better job of enabling people living with mental illness to access the resources they need for becoming whole. The author shares some of her personal story of experience with serious mental illness, i.e., its genesis and her subsequent recovery process, which included involvement in a Christian community and her ministry work as an advocate for the mentally ill.

Author : Ford Lumban Gaol
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351978284
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science written by Ford Lumban Gaol and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science contains papers presented at the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2016 (ICIBSoS 2016), held 5-6 November 2016 in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The 24 papers cover every discipline in all fields of social science, discussing many current trends and issues 21st century society is facing, especially in Southeast Asia. The topics include literature, family culture studies, behavior studies, psychology and human development, religion and values, social issues such as urban poverty and juvenile crisis, driving behavior, well-being of women, career women, career performance, happiness, social adjustment, quality of life among patients, job stress and religious coping etc. The issues are discussed using scientific quantitative or qualitative methods from different academic viewpoints.

Author : Ronald J Diamond
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393704730
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatment Collaboration written by Ronald J Diamond and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide for three groups of people: the psychologists and social workers who send clients to psychiatrists; the psychiatrists who prescribe the drugs; and the clients who are often caught in the middle. A guiding principle is that collaboration, rather than coercion, is most likely to promote, achieve, and sustain recovery. Diamond and Scheifler discuss the often-competing agendas of these groups of people: "what does everyone want out of this relationship" and "how can we make these relationships easier and more beneficial for the client?" The book will also speak to each group of readers, explaining how they can participate more effectively in the process. For example, what questions should a therapist be asking of the psychiatrist; how is the best way to communicate? What is the best way to forge a strong relationship? What should the consumer do to make sure that she is getting the best treatment? Important topics addressed include: how to set goals with clients so that everyone is on the same page with the treatment regimen; how to manage inevitable conflicts that will arise; helping clients deal with medication side effects; working with clients to choose when medication is changed; how to focus on recovery as a goal and not just medication management.