2011 Book list
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING AND TRAINING CONSULTANCY
The THRIVE Approach to Wellness
"I wanted to let you know, at a difficult time personally and professionally, I found it uplifting, positive, clear, simple, not patronising, encouraging me in the way that I work, inclusive, varied, funny and very real.
I have passed on details to the coordinator for mental health promotion, to the rest of my team and to some folk involved in recovery stories down here. Thank you both for all the hard work putting it together and for the inspiration!
All the very best with the project
Frances, Community Psychiatric Nurse, C.M.H.T. Cornwall
Overcoming Sadness & Depression -
The THRIVE Approach
The manual and workbook look at the range of alternatives that people can adopt in working through depression, stress and anxiety. By having a range of “tools†and coping strategies that can be employed, it is possible to overcome the disabling effects of depression and become empowered towards living a life where the depression does not prevent or hinder living that life to the full.
Our work is based on personal experience and the experiences of others who have taken power and control over their depression. It is not easy, there are no quick fixes, indeed it requires a lot of hard work, soul-searching and commitment to change one’s outlook, but the rewards are well worth it. Learning to live well, enjoying pleasures life brings and reaping the benefits of putting effort into life is an art which once learned can never be unlearnt!
THRIVE WELLNESS
THRIVE ASSESSMENT & PLANNING
OVERCOMING SADNESS
The Art of Thriving
Recovery Approaches to mental health are in danger of being dismissed as fanciful, ignored or perhaps even worse assimilated into mainstream medical practice. History is in the process of being rewritten as Recovery is claimed by those experts on the outside looking in – psychiatrists, psychologists and academics rather than being accredited to the survivor activists of our time. User led groups are a misnomer as they are often managed by workers with little or no direct experience of mental health illness, services or hospitalization.
Service Users are often utilized in a tokenistic way which aids this assimilation into medical dogma by serving their master rather than their peers, leaving the bigger issues of coercive practice and abuses of human rights for those in distress undisclosed.
“The art of thriving†explores how these attitudes prevent and hinder growth for the individual in distress, and examines what is required to move beyond recovery to a place quite independent of psychiatry and maintenance – that place of emancipation, which leads to thriving.
Understanding & Making Sense of Voices
This workbook is for voice hearers and the people they select to support them who are open minded to alternative ways of working with people who are distressed by their voices. It offers a range of strategies to enable the person to cope with the often overwhelming fear which can accompany voice hearing. It will help them to develop an understanding of the experience, to gain control over the potentially toxic nature of negative voices, and to unfold the meaning, metaphor and purpose of the voices.
Our view is that voices are not a sign of mental illness but rather a complex messenger that has meaning to the person’s life. Often, though not always, voices are a reminder of past events, hence the message may be to deal with and take ownership over the legacy of these life events.
THE ART OF THRIVING
STORIES OF HOPE
UNDERSTANDING VOICES
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