Coping Strategies to Promote Mental Health by Theresa Straathof This manual offers care providers a unique combination of evidence-based methods for adult learning and coping strategy development when training clients individually or in groups. Coping strategies help clients to engage and thrive in meaningful self-care, as well as productive and leisure occupations.

Digital Innovations for Mental Health Support by Julie Prescott (Editor) Given the migration to more technologically driven services and resources in today's world, as well as the range of digital innovations and research that have taken shape throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to consider the role that such advancements have played in supporting mental health initiatives. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health service providers utilized technology and online environments more than ever before to care for people's mental health and emotional needs, which has forced us to raise questions like how COVID-19 has impacted mental health support and services and how technology has helped people with their mental health through this ongoing crisis, along with outlooks for the future.

Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care by Nosheen Akhtar; Cheryl Forchuk; Katherine McKay; Sandra Fisman; Abraham Rudnick This handbook uses practical examples across clinical care, research, education, and healthcare administration to illustrate how to implement person-centered approaches for clients with serious mental health challenges. Looking at the different service points that this growing population of clients encounter enables service providers to see how to implement holistic person-centered care in an effective manner. Each chapter follows a concrete case example exploring different techniques, tools, and resources that can be used by service users and service providers.

Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Student wellbeing is foundational to academic success. One recent survey of postsecondary educators found that nearly 80 percent believed emotional wellbeing is a very or extremely important factor in student success.

Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes : A Conversation with Elyn Saks by Howard Burton During this wide-ranging conversation Elyn Saks candidly shares her personal experiences with schizophrenia and discusses the intersection of law, mental health and ethics: the legal and ethical implications surrounding mental health. Further topics include psychotropic medication and the law, criminalization and mental illness, and an exploration of which countries are more progressive with respect to important mental health policies, laws and procedures.

The Millennial Mental Health Toolbox by Goali Saedi Bocci From TMI to FOMO, there is no doubt that millennials have a language of their own. A generation as diverse as this demands a therapeutic toolbox that sheds light on the intricacies and complexities in working with and treating this unique population.

Pocket Guide for Understanding LGBTQ Mental Health by Petros Levounis (Editor); Eric Yarbrough (Editor) The Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health is a down-to-earth, informative, and affirming manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities. In recent years, people have begun to grapple with these issues in a healthier, more public way, and mental health practitioners must be prepared to meet their patients with the knowledge, understanding, and grasp of the context in which patients live their lives.

Satire, Comedy and Mental Health by Dieter Declercq Satire, Comedy and Mental Healthexamines how satire helps to sustain good mental health in a troubled socio-political world. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue that combines approaches from the analytic philosophy of art, medical and health humanities, media studies, and psychology, the book demonstrates how satire enables us to negotiate a healthy balance between care for others and care of self.

Strange Journey by Paul Roberts Bentley This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar social science.

Survey of College Counseling and Mental Health Services During the Pandemic by Inc. Primary Research Group "This 91-page study presents data from 20 North American colleges and universities about their mental health services. The benchmarking study helps its readers to answer questions such as: what are overall budgets for college mental health services and are they rising or falling? What has been the impact of the pandemic on college mental health services? Has their overall staffing increased or decreased over the past year and if so by how much? What new positions have been added or eliminated?How effective are triage techniques in dealing with students seeking help? What are the most commonly perceived mental health problems? How much has the pandemic impacted bipolar disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, and sexual abuse, and general depression and anxiety in the student population? What online techniques and services are colleges deploying to deliver mental health services to students studying from home?"--

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker; Na'im Akbar (Foreword by) An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis--and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. We can't deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and the effects of racism. This book is an exploration of Black mental health in today's world, the forces that have undermined mental health progress for African Americans, and what needs to happen for African Americans to heal psychological distress, find community, and undo years of stigma and marginalization in order to access effective mental health care.