Library Catalogue



Depression Explained: How you can help when someone you love is depressed
Smith, Gwendoline
Gwendoline Smith is a registered Clinical Psychologist, with twenty years of clinical practice. She is the author of two books, is a columnist and a regular guest on a talkback radio ...
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia
Wagner, Pamela Spiro; Carolyn Spiro
Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to ...
Families of the Mentally Ill: Coping and Adaptation
Agnes B. Hatfield; Harriet Lefley
With current trends toward family care of individuals with major mental illness, it is now generally accepted that families need a firm knowledge base and a wide range of skills in ...
Families, Carers and Professionals:Building Constructive Conversations
Smith, Grainne
Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (Family Caregiver Applications series)
Harriet P. Lefley
With the trend of deinstitutionalization, family members are finding themselves increasingly in the position of primary caregivers to mentally ill adults - a role for which they are often untrained and ...
Family Education in Mental Illness
Agnes B. Hatfield
With current trends toward family care of individuals with major mental illness, it is now generally accepted that families need a firm knowledge base and a wide range of skills in ...
Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
Virginia Lafond
A self-help manual for anyone who has endured the effects of mental illness, whether as a sufferer, friend, family member or caregiver. It offers detailed guidelines to help readers come to ...
Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
Virginia Lafond
Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
Virginia Lafond
A self-help manual for anyone who has endured the effects of mental illness, whether as a sufferer, friend, family member or caregiver. It offers detailed guidelines to help readers come to ...
Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
Virginia Lafond
A self-help manual for anyone who has endured the effects of mental illness, whether as a sufferer, friend, family member or caregiver. It offers detailed guidelines to help readers come to ...
Hidden Victims:Hidden Healers -An eight stage healing process for family and friends of the mentally ill
Tallard Johnson, Julie
Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers is an excellent resource book for family and friends of people who are living with some form of mental or emotional disorder. Written in a no-nonsense, accessible ...
Hidden Victims:Hidden Healers-An eight stage healing process for family and friends of the mentally ill
Tallard Johnson, Julie
Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers is an excellent resource book for family and friends of people who are living with some form of mental or emotional disorder. Written in a no-nonsense, accessible ...
How to cope with mental illness in your family
Diane T. Marsh; Rex M. Dickens
How to Cope with Mental Illness in Your Family explores the nature of illnesses such as schizophrenia, major depression, and manic depression, while providing the tools to overcome the devastating effects ...
If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder: An essential resource for parents
Evans, Dwight
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 ...
Living with Mental Illness (Human Horizons)
Liz Kuipers; Paul Bebbington
A practical book that has established itself as an essential guide for relatives and friends of people with a mental health problem. Written by a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, it ...
Living with Mental Illness (Human Horizons)
Liz Kuipers; Paul Bebbington
A practical book that has established itself as an essential guide for relatives and friends of people with a mental health problem. Written by a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, it ...
Melanie
Giles, Fiona; Melanie Woss
Melanie Woss committed suicide in 1989 at the age of 17. She was one of 380 young people in Australia, aged between 15 and 24, who took their own lives in ...
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 Sisters Keeper: Learning to Cope With a Sibling's Mental Illness
Margaret Moorman
Margaret Moorman tells the story of her struggle to deal with the legacy of her older sister's devastating schizophrenia. Candid, moving, and ultimately healing, My Sister's Keeper offers hope to anyone ...
Parenting a Bipolar Child:What to do and why
Gianni L. Faedda
Relative Stranger: A sister's story
Loudon. Mary
Scarred Soul: Understanding and ending self-inflicted violence
Alderman, Tracy
Self-inflicted violence. Written for the victims of this addiction--and for mental health professionals--The Scarred Soul explores the reasons behind this behavior and shows how to overcome the psychological traps that lead ...
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 ...
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers (4th Edition)
E. Fuller Torrey
Since its first publication nearly twenty years ago, 'Surviving Schizophrenia' has become the standard reference book on the disease, helping thousands of patients, families, and mental health professionals to better deal ...
Taking care of yourself and your family: a resource book for good mental health
Ashfield, John
This book is also available for download at http://www.mnrhs.sa.gov.au/TakingCareofYourFamilyBook.pdf From the foreward: It is wonderful to see someone with the initiative, determination, skill and knowledge to put together this relevant and ...
Tell Me I'm Here
Anne Deveson
Anne Deveson's account of her son's struggle to live with mental illness. At the age of 17 Jonathan changed from a charming, confident teenager to a fearful and frightening young man. ...
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 ...
The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living With Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Randi Kreger; James Paul Shirley
Randi Kreger draws on extensive new research to provide advice for successfully navigating life with someone who has borderline personality disorder. Step-by-step suggestions--many from users of the author's comprehensive website-- help ...
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families
Gunderson, John G.; Hoffman, Perry
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their ...
Understanding Depression
Maria Prendergast
What Goes Up: Surviving the Manic Episode of a Loved One
Judy Eron
For those with loved ones who suffer from manic-depression.
What To Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed
Mitch Golant; Susan K. Golant
This book is directed toward the caregiver or 'strengthened ally' of any of the more than seventeen million Americans who suffer from this common but often misunderstood affliction. Woven throughout are ...
When Someone You Know Is Depressed
Rosen, Laura Epstein; Amador, Xavier Francisco
Although numerous books have been written for those suffering from depression, until now none of them has addressed the 'secondary' victims of this debilitating disease: the loved ones of the depressed. ...
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: A Handbook for Family, Friends and Caregivers
Rebecca Woolis