Schizophrenia: A Strengths Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: A Strengths Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia

Author: Francis (Lcsw) Robert

Publisher: Urano World

Published: 2024-01-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781953027283

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Author Robert Francis has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for longer than a quarter century. Over the many years, Robert has been intimately familiar with the commonly tempered expectations and diminished hopes for those living with schizophrenia to live a full and abundant life, similar to others. In his now third book on living with schizophrenia, Robert was driven to literary action, to flip the schizophrenia narrative from one of abundant deficits to one of abundant strengths. In Schizophrenia: A Strength's Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia, Robert details personal strengths and life lessons learned from living with schizophrenia for many years. The narrative shows a positive spin on the schizophrenia diagnosis as well as on its prognosis. Robert precludes such positive reflectivity as a simple or wishful pie-in-the-sky naïveté, and instead neatly details such positives as resoundingly rational, insightful, and genuine. Robert truly believes in recovery from schizophrenia, which includes a robust and fulfilling life, similar to everyone else, and the absence of the requisite "grim perspective". Across all literary domains, the strengths of living with schizophrenia are barely addressed, that is, until now. Join Robert as he spins a most positive perspective to living with schizophrenia.

Strength Based Perspective in Working with Clients with Mental Illness
Strength Based Perspective in Working with Clients with Mental Illness

Author: Kam-Shing Yip

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9781600218798

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This book offers to serve as a guide for professionals in understanding and applying a strength based perspectives for Chinese clients with mental illness and to discuss the Chinese articulation of concepts and practice of these perspective within Chinese culture. Ever since the emergence of a medical model in the explanation of mental illness, the disease model or deficit/problem orientation became the dominant paradigm in perceiving, treating and rehabilitating persons with mental illness. The terms 'mentally ill' and 'mental patient' serve as labels for both professionals, family caregivers and members of community to describe the burden, the needs of care and treatment for persons with mental illness. These labels also justify the establishment and implementation of mental health services. Under the influences of the disease model, persons with mental illness are regarded as subjects for academic research, patients for treatment, clients for intervention, and objects for stigmatisation and labelling.

Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health
Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health

Author: Mike Slade

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1316839567

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This book brings together two bodies of knowledge - wellbeing and recovery. Wellbeing and 'positive' approaches are increasingly influencing many areas of society. Recovery in mental illness has a growing empirical evidence base. For the first time, overlaps and cross-fertilisation opportunities between the two bodies of knowledge are identified. International experts present innovations taking place within the mental health system, which include wellbeing-informed new therapies, e-health approaches and peer-led recovery communities. State-of-the-art applications of wellbeing to the wider community are also described, across education, employment, parenting and city planning. This book will be of interest to anyone connected with the mental health system, especially people using and working in services, and clinical and administrators leaders, and those interested in using research from the mental health system in the wider community.

Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

Author: Dwight L. Evans M.D.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-07-14

Total Pages: 859

ISBN-13: 0198038712

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Following on the heels of the widely acclaimed A Guide to Treatments That Work (OUP, 2002) by Nathan and Gorman, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders brings together a distinguished group of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists to provide a groundbreaking, evidence-based survey of treatments and preventions for adolescents with mental health disorders. The book, the very first to disseminate the findings of the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, addresses the current state of our knowledge about various mental health disorders in the teenage years, a developmental period when behavior and the brain are still "plastic." Here, six commissions established by the Sunnylands Trust and APPC pool their expertise on adolescent anxiety, schizophrenia, substance use disorders, depression and bipolar disorders, eating disorders, and suicide in sections that thoroughly define each disorder, outline and assess available treatments, discuss prevention strategies, and suggest a research agenda based on what we know and don't yet know about these various conditions. As a meaningful counterpoint to its primary focus on mental illness, the volume also incorporates the latest research from a seventh commission-on positive youth development--which addresses how we can fully prepare young people to be happy and successful throughout their lives. Concluding chapters discuss other critical issues of particular relevance: the stigma of mental illness, the role of primary-care doctors and school-based mental health professionals in the detection and treatment of adolescent mental health problems, and the research, policy, and practice context for the delivery of evidence-based treatments. Integrating the work of eminent scholars in both psychology and psychiatry, this work will be an essential volume for academics and practicing clinicians and will serve as a wake-up call to mental health professionals and policy makers alike about the state of our nation's response to the needs of adolescents with mental disorders. The Association of American Publishers' 2005 Award Winner for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing--Clinical Medicine

Cognitive-behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness
Cognitive-behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness

Author: Jesse H. Wright

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1585623210

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This practical and insightful guide distills into one volume CBT techniques for individual therapy and video demonstrations on DVD that illustrate how these techniques can be used to tackle a wide range of severe clinical problems.

The Sublime Object of Psychiatry
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry

Author: Angela Woods

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0199583951

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Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested diagnostic categories. The Sublime object of Psychiatry studies representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry, psychoanalysis, critical psychology, antipsychiatry, and postmodern philosophy.

Transforming Social Work
Transforming Social Work

Author: Stanley Witkin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1137346434

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Humankind seems to be heading along a precarious path. If we are to redirect and bring about truly transformative change, we must develop new understandings of the complex issues facing our global society. In this important new text, renowned scholar Stanley Witkin explores how this might be approached within social work. Using social constructionist-informed critical analyses, Witkin proposes new conceptualisations of significant social work issues and suggests innovative possibilities for transformative change. Providing a highly accessible discussion of complex theories and their application to practice, this ground-breaking text presents a transformative framework for the future of social work.

On Conquering Schizophrenia
On Conquering Schizophrenia

Author: Robert Francis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1532069898

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On Conquering Schizophrenia addresses the topic of schizophrenia like never written. Author Robert Francis offers a revelatory and breakthrough paradigm regarding the relegation and defeat of schizophrenia hither yet present in the topical annals. In his conceptualization, Francis offers both a theoretical clarity along with the necessary pragmatics. And along the way, in a seemingly effortless stream of topic and word, Francis also broaches the topics of metaphysics, philosophy, theology, literary form, and humor while all the while crafting a long overdue methodology to conquering schizophrenia. As the reader peruses the pages, Francis’s personal touch and affinity for his audience will quickly be experienced and felt. This is not only a book on conquering schizophrenia but also on the greater life experience, including overcoming all typical generalized afflictions. This truly is a book with no precedent!