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NAMIGO LIBRARY
General Mental Health
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Author: Christine Adamec
Title: How to Live With a Mentally Ill Person
Copyright Date: 1996
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A caregiver’s handbook of day-to-day strategies.
Authors: Deborah J. Allness, M.S.S.W. and William H. Knoedler, M.D.
Title: A Manual for ACT Start-Up: Based on the PACT Model of Community Treatment for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A manual outlining NAMI’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model in behavioral health managed care for persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Based on the PACT Model.
Authors: Deborah J. Allness, M.S.S.W. and William H. Knoedler, M.D.
Title: The PACT Model of Community-Based Treatment for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses
Copyright Date: 1998
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A manual outlining NAMI’s Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model in behavioral health managed care for persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
Author: Rosalynn Carter, with Susan K. Golant
Title: Helping Someone With Mental Illness (Available in Hardcover & Paperback Editions)
Copyright Date: 1998
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: The former First Lady offers a compassionate, step-by-step guide on what to do after diagnosis, seeking the best treatment, evaluating health care providers, and managing the emotional and psychological issues in caregiving loved ones with mental illness.
Authors: Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Title: How Can I Help?
Copyright Date: 1985
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Stories and reflections on service.
Author: Executive Office of the Governor, State of Florida – Office of Drug Control
Title: Florida Suicide Prevention Strategy 2005-2010
Copyright Date: 2005
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: An outline of Florida’s plan to decrease and prevent the incidence of suicide in the state.
Authors: Marc D. Feldman, M.D. and Jacqueline M., with Roxanne Smith
Title: Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us
Copyright Date: 1998
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: Using the metaphor of the “lie of the mind,” a disorder in which a person’s thinking becomes unintentionally distorted, the authors approach mental illness from the perspective that these disorders are merely extreme variations of universally shared thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Author: Dianne Hales and Robert E. Hales, M.D.
Title: Caring for the Mind: The Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health
Copyright Date: 1995
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A mental health reference guide containing signs and symptioms of mental illness, diagnosis and treatment, case histories, information on psychiatric medications, and self-help strategies.
Author: Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., with Spencer Smith
Title: Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life
Copyright Date: 2005
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A book about acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and what it means to be mentally healthy.
Authors: Jack and Jo Ann Hinckley, with Elizabeth Sherrill
Title: Breaking Points
Copyright Date: 1985
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: The parents of attempted presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. offer insight into their son’s mental illness and advice to other families.
Author: Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
Title: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Psychology (Second Edition)
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A pared down guide to the field of psychology.
Author: Virginia Lafond
Title: Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and their Caregivers
Copyright Date: 1994
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A self-help book for people living with mental illness.
Author: Abraham A. Low, M.D.
Title: Mental Health Through Will-Training (Third Edition)
Copyright Date: 1997
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: Self-help techniques to prevent relapses and chronic conditions in people living with mental illness developed by the late Abraham Low, M.D., founder of Recovery, Inc.
Author: Jay Neugeboren
Title: Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
Copyright Date: 1999
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A comprehensive survey of our mental health care system’s shortcomings and of new, effective, proven approaches — psychiatric, psychological, psychopharmacological, psychosocial, programmatic — that make real differences in the lives of millions of Americans living with severe mental illness.
Author: Lorna A. Rhodes
Title: Emptying Beds
Copyright Date: 1991
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: The University of Washington Associate Professor of Anthropology provides stark observations on the work of an inner city emergency psychiatric unit during a two-year immersion.
Author: Barry Shainbaum
Title: Hope & Heroes: Portraits of Integrity & Inspiration
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Photographs of real people achieving the extraordinary at home, in our communities, and on the national or world stage.
Author: Linda Noble Topf, M.A., with Hal Zina Bennett, Ph.D.
Title: You Are Not Your Illness
Copyright Date: 1995
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A step-by-step guide offering support, skills, and encouragement to those who want to embrace the challenge of living successfully with illness.
Authors: H. Rutherford Turnbull III, LL.B., LL.M.; Ann P. Turnbull, Ed.D.; G.J. Bronicki, M.A.; Jean Ann Summers, Ph.D.; and Constance Roeder-Gordon, B.A.
Title: Disability and the Family: A Guide to Decisions for Adulthood
Copyright Date: 1989
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Practical advice for families of adults with disabilities; guidelines and strategies for simplifying the future planning process.
Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Title: National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
Copyright Date: 2001
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A national plan for reducing and preventing suicide across the United States.
Author: Angela D. Vickers, J.D.
Title: Brain Bondage
Copyright Date: 2006
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: This book discusses the roles of key professions — health, legal, education, media, faith — in determining the plight of people with mental illness.
Author: Phyllis Vine
Title: Families in Pain
Copyright Date: 1982
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Family members of people living with mental illness offer advice on caregiving and navigating the mental health care system.
Author: Otto F. Wahl
Title: Telling is Risky Business
Copyright Date: 1999
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Consumers’ stories of mental illness, public stigma, and recovery.
Author: Irving G. Walmann
Title: Mental Illness: Can It Be Cured? Prevented? (Revised Third Edition)
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A guide to understanding mental illness.
Author: Rebecca Woolis, M.F.C.C.
Title: When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
Copyright Date: 1992
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A handbook for family, friends, and caregivers.