Library Catalogue



Bipolar Disorders: A Guide to Helping Children & Adolescents
Mitzi Waltz
Until recently, bipolar disorders were almost never diagnosed in children and rarely recognized in adolescents, even though between 20 and 40 percent of the two million or more adults diagnosed with ...
Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Cowling, Vicki ed.
Community workers are often faced with the complex issues that surround parental mental illness and the impact that this can have upon children. This ground-breaking book is based on research carried ...
Children of parents with mental illness 2
Cowling, Vicki ed.
This book contains both personal narratives and chapters written by clinicians and practitioners. Issues covered include the genetics of mental illness; talking with children to allay anxiety and give age-appropriate information; ...
From Surviving to Thriving: Promoting Mental Health in Young People
Fuller, Andrew R
Adolescents in todays society face a world of problems. Covering serious adolescent issues from bullying to self-harm, drug use and teen pregnancy, this book provides valuable advice on difficult situations for ...
Getting up from feeling down: young people and depression
Liell, Vanessa
Provides information about depression for young people, their families, friends and carers.
Handle with care: A workbook about mental illness for 8-12 year olds
Kaszanski, Lani; Ferrari, Guilette
Helicopter man
Fensham, Elizabeth.
A homeless Australian boy sticks by his schizophrenic father as their fragile world disintegrates in this moving story of courage and devotion. Pete and his father have been on the run ...
Just care for us: Supporting Young Carers

This DVD highlights the experience of five young carers who talk about how their caring responsibilities affected their: Ø Schooling and education Ø Health and wellbeing Ø Leisure and fun Ø ...
Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
Hope Edelman
Revisiting the profoundly important subject of mother loss, Letters From Motherless Daughters is a compilation of real letters written by women in response to the ground-breaking New York Times bestseller Motherless ...
Life: a survival kit - sometimes it's hard to keep life in balance.

A collection of information pamphlets when your own, or someone else's life is out of balance. Topis covered include: Depression: How to cope with it Sleep Moodswings and mental health What ...
Mad House: Growing up in the Shadows of Mentally Ill Siblings
Simon, Clea
In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House we have an account of the devastating effects of ...
My Parents' Keeper: Adult Children of the Emotionally Disturbed
Eva M. Brown
This book is written for and about the many people who grew up with a parent with severe emotional problems. The book is organized in such a way that the initial ...
My Sister, Then and Now
Virginia L. Kroll
Ten-year-old Rachael describes how her twenty-year-old sister's schizophrenia has affected the family and expresses her own feelings of sadness and anger.
Parenting a Bipolar Child:What to do and why
Gianni L. Faedda
PATS (Paying Attention to Self) Package

A package of 7 resources: * a cassette - Paying Attention to Self *a booklet - The other side of the story: stories from parents *a booklet - The way it ...
Power and Compassion: Working with Difficult Adolescents and Abused Parents
Jerome A. Price
When teenagers get out of control, understanding and negotiation often only make things worse. In this solid, no-nonsense guide to working with difficult adolescents and their families, Jerome A. Price makes ...
Robby Rose and Monkey
Siow, John; Louis, Andrea
Robby Rose and Monkey is a delightful, whimsical story about post-natal depression woven around the life of Monkey, Robby's toy friend. Through Monkey, and with gentle humour, the story explores Robby's ...
Robby Rose and Monkey
Siow, John; Louis, Andrea
Robby Rose and Monkey is a delightful, whimsical story about post-natal depression woven around the life of Monkey, Robby's toy friend. Through Monkey, and with gentle humour, the story explores Robby's ...
Sad Days, Glad Days: A Story About Depression
Dewitt Hamilton
A simple, low-key story to help explain depression to children. Amanda Martha wants a cat, but her mother is often too sick to take care of a pet. She doesn't have ...
SIC: issues facing young carers -
Cantole, J
SIC is a resource - a booklet and a CD - about the issues facing young carers in families where someone has a mental illness. These young people's caring responsibilities affect ...
So Young, So Sad, So Listen
Philip Graham; Carol Hughes
This text examines the nature and treatment of childhood depression. It explains the causes and dangers of depression in children and young people and gives positive advice about treatment and outlook. ...
Survival Strategies For Parenting Children With Bipolar Disorder (Higher Education Policy)
George T. Lynn; George T Lynn
Up until five years ago, the professional community did not think that Bipolar Disorder occurred in children. Children with symptoms of Bipolar Disorder were diagnosed as 'severe ADHD', 'depressed' or 'Oppositional ...
Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
Kimberlee Roth; Freda B. Friedman
Although relatively common, Borderline Personality Disorder, or BPD, is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it. Symptoms of this tragic problem include ...
The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder
Demitri Papolos; Janice Papolos
From the authors of the classic text Overcoming Depression, here is the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder--manic depression--was once thought to be rare in children. Now researchers are ...
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Judith L. Rapoport
Synopsis All of these people are suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an emotionally crippling disease that afflicts up to six million Americans. Sufferers are powerless to stop petty thoughts and pointless ...
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Judith L. Rapoport
Synopsis All of these people are suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an emotionally crippling disease that afflicts up to six million Americans. Sufferers are powerless to stop petty thoughts and pointless ...
The mentally ill child grows up: transitions to the world of work
Bertram J Black
Part of the reluctance of professionals to become or to remain involved in their charges' transitions to adulthood is related to the enormous complexity of the systems designed to assist the ...
The SANE guide for families: Caring for someone affected by mental illness
SANE Australia
The SANE guide for families: Caring for someone affected by mental illness
SANE Australia
The Skipping Stone: The Rippling Effect of Mental Illness in the Family
Mona Wasow
Reporting on experiences within the immediate and extended families with severe mental illness, The Skipping Stone: Ripple Effects of Mental Illness on the Family is the first book that includes information ...
The Skipping Stone: The Rippling Effect of Mental Illness in the Family
Mona Wasow
Reporting on experiences within the immediate and extended families with severe mental illness, The Skipping Stone: Ripple Effects of Mental Illness on the Family is the first book that includes information ...
Treating Depression in Children and Adolescents
Johnny L. Matson
Mental health problems of the population in general and of children, in particular, have received increasing attention in recent years. The devastating impact that emotional distress has had on the young ...
Treating Depression in Children and Adolescents
Johnny L. Matson
Mental health problems of the population in general and of children, in particular, have received increasing attention in recent years. The devastating impact that emotional distress has had on the young ...
Understanding and helping suicidal children
Appleby, Margaret
When Madness Comes Home
Secunda, Victoria
Addresses the problems that family members suffer when they live with a close relative who suffers from some form of identifiable psychiatric disorder: stigma, fear, shame, guilt, denial, alienation. Based upon ...
Why Are You So Sad?: A Child's Book about Parental Depression
Beth Andrews
This is a book for children with a parent who is depressed. The book defines depression, outlines the most common symptoms, describes how the parent feels and how depression can affect ...
Wish upon a Star: A Story for Children With a Parent Who Is Mentally Ill
Pamela L. Laskin; Addie Alexander Moskowitz
A little girl tries to adjust to her mother's mental illness. Aimed at ages 5-7.
Wishing Wellness: A Workbook for Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Lisa Anne Clarke
This workbook is for children who have a parent with severe, incapacitating disorders like psychosis, suicidal depression, extreme anxiety or those undergoing the most intensive forms of treatment (e.g., psychiatric hospitalization ...
Young people talk on mental illness in the family

Young people talk on mental illness in the family

Young people talk on mental illness in the family