Many Ways to Heal - Therapeutic Choices in Mental Health

This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families. By broadly drawing on salutary possibilities, it brings evidence of existing and emerging approaches to resolve mental distress.

List of contents

1. Ways people heal and the zigzag nature of recovery PART I: Recovering life and the myriad ways to heal 2. Learning from mistakes, a path to autonomy 3. Restoring Children’s Mental Health through Empathic Listening 4. Pride, Prejudice and Diagnosis 5. Somatic Practices: Body as a resource in the healing process 6. Can mental health professionals have alternative stories? PART II: A brush with the peer 7. Building pathways of return – stitching community rehabilitation, together 8. Healing with words 9. A palette that mixes voices and colours 10. “I feel like a person now”: Negotiating twin challenges of peer and parental figure in peer therapy Bibliography

About the author

Prateeksha Sharma is a peer psychotherapist, researcher, and musicologist working out of New Delhi. She is the founder of Bright Side Family Counseling Center, an organization committed to helping people recover from all setbacks. She wears research and teaching hats almost permanently, and her first monograph is titled Barriers to Recovery from Psychosis.

Summary

This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families. By broadly drawing on salutary possibilities, it brings evidence of existing and emerging approaches to resolve mental distress.

Product details

• Authors: Prateeksha Sharma, Prateeksha (Bright Side Family Counseling Sharma
• Assisted by: Prateeksha Sharma (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032824888
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282488-8
• No. of pages: 70
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Psychotherapy, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Mental Health;Abnormal Psychology;Counselling;Psychotherapy