Loving someone with a mental illness or history of trauma : skills, hope, and strength for your journey / Michelle D. Sherman, PhD, ABPP and De Anne M. Sherman.
"A compassionate, interactive guide filled with practical skills and essential information for adults who love someone with a mental illness or history of trauma. Family members and friends of adults with a mental illness often navigate difficult journeys, filled with fear, heartache, frustration, helplessness, exhaustion, and guilt-feelings that may be intermingled with immense pride and hope. Suffering in silence can magnify confusion, isolation, and pain. Loving Someone with a Mental Illness or History of Trauma provides actionable strategies for these family members and friends who give so much but whose needs and sacrifices are often unappreciated. Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Sherman and her mother, DeAnne Sherman, an advocate and educator, the book provides research-based recommendations, practical skills, up-to-date resources, inspiration from families with lived experience, and interactive activities to encourage personal reflection. This accessible guide teaches readers: Tools to cope with difficult emotions -Strategies to empower loved ones, including how to navigate the mental health system -Communication and limit-setting skills -Approaches to supporting loved ones who have experienced trauma or have PTSD -Ways to manage common challenges, such as alcohol or drug misuse, and when a loved one declines professional help -Strategies to support children -Skills to build personal resilience and strengthen relationships. Grounded in science, empowering, and hopeful yet realistic, this book is an invaluable resource for family members, friends, and mental health professionals."-- Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781421450506
- ISBN: 142145050X
- Physical Description: xvii, 259 pages : charts, forms ; 26 cm
- Publisher: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Welcome -- Guide to using this book -- Snapshot of your story -- Reflecting on your experience. Your emotional journey ; Your coping tools ; Your support network ; Stigma and discrimination ; Naming losses and moving toward acceptance -- Supporting your loved one. Empowering your loved one in living their best life: working toward goals and connecting with other people ; Navigating the health care system -- Strengthening your relationship with your loved one. Strengthening your connection ; Communication ; Limit setting ; Intimate relationships ; Parenting with a partner who has a mental illness or has experienced trauma -- Managing common challenges. When your loved one doesn't acknowledge the illness or declines help ; Addictive behaviors including alcohol and drug use ; Possible impacts of trauma (including post-traumatic stress disorder) ; Mental health crises -- Wrap-up. Appendices. Appendix A : feeling words ; Appendix B : activities to lift your spirit ; Appendix C : self-assessment of overall well-being -- Appendix D : advocating to fight stigma and discrimination ; Appendix E : mental health professionals, services, and support groups ; Appendix F : family education programs and support groups.
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| Marion Library | 616.89 SHE (Text) | 37810435834485 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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