Full Description
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.
The unique volume brings several practices and testimonies together that can support people's healing and recovery, focusing on the following key interventions:
Different ways of looking at emotional suffering beyond psy-knowledge, which many doctors, social workers, disability scholars, legal or policy experts and psy-professionals advocate for
The role of expressive arts employed by both professionals and peers
Efficacy of peer engagement of a professional nature in India, the newest globally emerging phenomenon, often heralded as the future of mental health worldwide
Deftly interwoven with patient and peer narratives in jargon-free language, this one-of-a-kind book brings practices and choices that can facilitate healing and ways out of permanent psychiatric patient-hood. This volume may be of interest to psychiatric and other helping professionals, therapists, researchers, current patients, caregivers, service providers, social workers, non-profits, students of psychology, social work and disability studies, as well as legal and policy experts.
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
