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In close collaboration with UWT National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), Let's Talk About It: Mental Health and UWT is a library exhibit that provides informational resources for those living with mental illness and for those who are interested in learning more about mental health. We aim to gather and provide resources available from NAMI, UWT Veteran and Military Resource Center, UWT Disability Resources for Students and UWT Counseling and Psychological Services to let library users know that these resources are nearby and that they have access to them. Literature and pamphlets are displayed in the Snoqualmie and Tioga Library Building exhibit cases to spotlight those who have spoken up about their mental health and to provide further information about recovery and dealing with mental illness symptoms.
This research guide serves as a complementary piece to the display by featuring additional books and direct links to the mentioned information and services, as well as upcoming events from NAMI.
Featured Titles
Public Mental Health
Public Mental Health equips a new generation of public health students, researchers and practitioners with the most innovative social. biological, and behavioral science approaches to mental health challenges at the population level. Incorporating insights from multiple health and science disciplines, this new edition introduces novel concepts and methodologies for understanding the occurrence of mental disorders in populations worldwide.Reflecting the disciplinary diversity and expertise of an internationally-recognized roster of contributors, its nineteen chapters include coverage of such essential topics as:DT estimates of global prevalence based on new data from the Global Burden of Disease StudyDT the complex way in which genes, other biological factors, and life stresses increase riskDT mental health disparities among population subgroupsDT population-level mental health consequences of violence and natural disastersDT the logic and practice of prevention of mental and behavioral disordersWith a perspective that will resonate from the lab to the legislature floor, Public Mental Health offers a much-need core text for students, researchers, and practitioners.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019
Deconstructing Stigma in Mental Health
Stigma continues to play an integral role in the multifaceted issues facing mental health. While identifying a clear operational definition of stigma has been a challenge in the field, the issues related to stigma grossly affect not only the mental health population but society as a whole. Deconstructing Stigma in Mental Health provides emerging research on issues related to stigma as a whole including ignorance, prejudice, and discrimination. While highlighting issues such as stigma and its role in mental health and how stigma is perpetuated in society, this publication explores the historical context of stigma, current issues and resolutions through intersectional collaboration, and the deconstruction of mental health stigmas. This book is a valuable resource for mental health administrators and clinicians, researchers, educators, policy makers, and psychology professionals seeking information on current mental health stigma trends.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2018
Facts and Fictions in Mental Health
Written in a lively and entertaining style, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health examines common conceptions and misconceptions surrounding mental health and its treatment. Each chapter focuses on a misconception and is followed by a discussion of related findings from scientific research. A compilation of the authors' "Facts and Fictions" columns written for Scientific American Mind, with the addition of six new columns exclusive to this book Written in a lively and often entertaining style, accessible to both the undergraduate and the interested general reader Each chapter covers a different "fiction" and allows readers to gain a more balanced and accurate view of important topics in mental health The six new columns examine myths and misconceptions of considerable interest and relevance to undergraduates in abnormal psychology courses Introductory material and references are included throughout the book
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017
Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness: Theory and Interventions
Many mentally ill people are the victims of stigma, which leads to additional suffering and humiliation. Negative stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes against them are often reinforced by their media representation as unpredictable, violent and dangerous. Hence the importance of the study of stigma as an explanatory construct of much that transpires in the management of the mentally ill in our societies. This book describes the experience of stigmatization at the level of the individual, and seeks to measure stigma and discrimination from the following perspectives: Self imposed stigma due to shame, guilt and low self esteem; Socially imposed stigma due to social stereotyping and prejudice; and Structurally imposed stigma, caused by policies, practices, and laws that discriminate against the mentally ill. This book briefly describes programmes that aim to reduce such stigma then looks at ways to evaluate their effectiveness. It is the first book to focus on evaluation and research methodologies in stigma and mental health. It also: presents new interventions to reduce stigma describes the various international programmes which help reduce stigma discusses the use of the internet as an international tool to promote awareness of stigma in mental health Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness is essential reading for clinicians and researchers who wish to apply or develop stigma reduction programmes. It is also a valuable addition to the libraries of political analysts, policy makers, clinicians, researchers, and all those interested in how to approach and measure this distressing social phenomenon.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2008
Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice
Over the last century public health efforts, such as immunization, safer food practices, public health education and promotion, improved sanitation, and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The result has been a dramatic improvement in health and life expectancy. However, the impact that mental illnesses have on individuals and society as a whole has largely been overlooked by the discipline.This pioneering volume examines the evidence-base for incorporating mental health into the public health agenda by linking the available research on population mental health with public mental health policy and practice. Issues covered in the book include the influence of health and mental health policies on the care and well-being of individuals with mental illness, the interconnectedness of physical and mental disorders, the obstacles to adopting a public health orientation to mental health/mental illness, and the potential application of public health models of intervention.Setting out a unique and innovative model for integrated public mental health care, Population Mental Health identifies the tools and strategies of public health practice ¿ surveillance and screening, early identification, preventive interventions, health promotion and community action ¿ and their application to twenty-first century public mental health policy and practice.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012
Featured Titles
Music Therapy in Mental Health for Illness Management and Recovery
Many music therapists work in adult mental health settings after qualifying. For many, it will be a challenging and even daunting prospect. Yet until now, there has been no psychiatric music therapy text providing advice on illness management and recovery.This essential book fills the gap in the literature, providing the necessary breadth and depth to inform readers of the psychotherapeutic research base and show how music therapy can effectively and efficiently function within a clinical scenario. The book takes an illness management and recoveryapproach to music therapy specific to contemporary group-based practice. It is also valuable for administrators of music therapy, providing innovative theory-based approaches to psychiatric music therapy, developing and describing new ways to conceptualize psychiatric music therapy treatment,educating music therapists, stimulating research and employment, and influencing legislative policies.An important aim of the book is to stimulate both critical thought and lifelong learning concerning issues, ideas, and concepts related to mental illness and music therapy. Critical thinking and lifelong learning have been - and will likely continue to be - essential aspirations in higher education.Moreover, contemporary views concerning evidence-based practice rely heavily upon the clinician's ability to think critically, seek a breadth of contradicting and confirmatory evidence, implement meta-cognition to monitor thoughts throughout processes, and synthesize and evaluate knowledge to makeinformed clinical decisions relevant and applicable to idiosyncratic contextual parameters.For both students and clinicians in music therapy, this is an indispensable text to help them learn, develop, and hone their skills in music therapy
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2015
Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health examines the determinates of individual differences in children and young people, along with the origins of maladjustment and psychiatric disorders. It addresses the ways in which interventions and mental health services can be developed and shaped to address individual differences amongst children. Topics cover the influence of economic adversities and gender differences on child development and life course, as well as the range of risk and protective factors associated with the onset and persistence of problems, including sections on anxiety disorders in infants, bipolar disorder, and tics and Tourette's. Additional sections focus on the potential for individualizing treatments as illustrated by pharmacogenomics, with another highlighting ways in which services can be adapted for specific environments, such as the needs of refugee children and systems of service delivery that can be enhanced by the use of telemedicine.
Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 0128153105Publication Date: 2018
Exploring Immigrant and Sexual Minority Mental Health: Reconsidering Multiculturalism by
Exploring Immigrant and Sexual Minority Mental Health provides mental health practitioners with up-to-date theory, cutting-edge research, and therapeutic strategies to assist them in their work with multicultural clients. By focusing on the immigrant psyche, this volume hones in on appropriate counseling interventions and effective, culturally-specific psychotherapeutic practices by introducing the use of Diversity and Identity Formation Therapy (DIFT), a theoretical concept designed for immigrant and sexual minority identity formation. This work can be used in interdisciplinary settings and is applicable for those working in a number of mental health disciplines including counseling, social work, therapy, and more.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017
Psychological Recovery: Beyond Mental Illness
This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mentalillness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide aframework for clinical work and research in the field ofrecovery. ? Places the process of recovery within the context ofnormal human growth and development ? Compares and contrasts concepts of recovery frommental illness with the literature on grief, loss and trauma ? Situates recovery within the growing field of positivepsychology ? focusing on the active, hopeful process ? Describes a consumer-oriented, stage-based model ofpsychological recovery which is unique in its focus onintrapersonal processes
Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9780470711439Publication Date: 2011
Manual of Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Psychosocial Rehabilitation is a comprehensive ready-reference for mental health practitioners and students, providingpractical advice on the full range of interventions forpsychosocial rehabilitation. It contextualises the interventionsdescribed and provides pointers to enable the reader to explore thetheory and research. This manual recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illnessand its ramifications on daily life, and promotes a recovery modelof psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians toengage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The book isdivided into five key sections. Section 1 looks at assessment covering tools available in thepublic domain, instruments, scoring systems, norms and applicationsfor diagnosis and measurement of symptoms, cognitive functioning,impairment and recovery. Section 2 covers the full range of therapeutic interventions andoffers advice on training and supervision requirements andevaluation of process, impact and outcome. Section 3 provides manuals and programs for interventionseffectively provided as group activities. Section 4 explains how to design a full programme thatintegrates therapeutic interventions with group programmes as wellas services provided by other agencies. The final section looks at peer support and self help, providingmanuals and resources that support programmes and interventions notrequiring professional or practitioner direction.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012
From Melancholia to Prozac: a History of Depression
Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoanalysis or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? Here, Clark Lawlor argues that understanding the history of depression is important to understanding its present conflicted status and definition. While it is true that our modern understanding of the word 'depression' was formed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the condition was originally known as melancholia, and characterised by core symptoms of chronic causeless sadness and fear. Beginning in the Classical period, and moving on to the present, Lawlor shows both continuities and discontinuities in the understanding of what we now call depression, and in the way it has been represented in literature and art. Different cultures defined and constructed melancholy and depression in ways sometimes so different as to be almost unrecognisable. Even the present is still a dynamic history, in the sense that the 'new' form of depression, defined in the 1980s and treated by drugs like Prozac, is under attack by many theories that reject the biomedical model and demand a more humanistic idea of depression - one that perhaps returns us to a form of melancholy.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012
Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders : The Evidence for Stigma Change
Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016
Recovery's Edge: an Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency
In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental health clinic run, in part, by people who are themselves "in recovery" from mental illness. In this provocative narrative, Neely Myers sweeps us up in her own journey through three years of ethnographic research at this unusual site, providing a nuanced account of different approaches to mental health care. Recovery's Edge critically examines the high bar we set for people in recovery through intimate stories of people struggling to find meaningful work, satisfying relationships, and independent living. This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2015
Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law: Fighting for Social Justice
This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward and practical, it provides useful information on how to address disabilities so these people may enjoy full citizenship. It presents the key issues succinctly and illustrates these with legislative examples from around the world. This book documents the role that law can play, at all levels, in combating such discrimination and abuse.
Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012
