Help yourself towards mental health
A comprehensive guide to how an individual can help themselves resolve a wide variety of ordinary, everyday life problems and improve their mental health.'This is an extensive collection of self-help material, which has been written to provide resources to complement self-exploration or profess...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Karnac
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798153906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copy Right
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Introduction
- A definition of "mental health
- Stepped care and self-help
- Basic information
- Self-help for stress
- Stress and modern life
- Fitting exercise into your life
- Different types of exercise
- Relaxation
- Meditation and mindfulness
- Symptoms of stress
- Other anti-stress exercises
- Stress and life events
- Self-help for depression
- Working with depression
- Foods for depression
- Somatic aspects of depression
- Different views of depression
- Emotional expression in depression
- Basic working principles for depression
- A bit about anti-depressant drugs
- Negative emotions
- Thoughts and moods in depression
- Thinking distortions in depression
- Common irrational belief systems
- How to change your negative thinking
- Your inner process
- Points to remember
- About anxiety
- Relaxation
- Social anxiety
- Panic attacks
- Working with panic attacks
- Phobias
- General anxiety disorder
- Introducing issues of self-esteem
- Improving self-esteem
- Becoming more assertive
- An overview of what works
- Self-awareness
- Legitimate needs
- Asserting yourself
- Responding to criticism
- Bereavement and grieving
- Having to care for others
- Information for carers and families
- Parents at home, parents at work
- Relationship issues
- Relationship difficulties
- Divorce and separation
- Anger management
- Sleep issues
- Problems at work
- Weight, body image, and eating issues
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis [ME], or fibromyalgia, or post-viral fatigue syndrome)
- Twelve-step programmes
- Trauma and post traumatic stress disorder
- Self-harm
- Money worries
- Ageing issues
- Travel
- Natural health
- The path to mental health
- The road to change
- Wider and different perspectives
- Sources of information
- REFERENCES.
