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. 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. |Many Ways to Heal Therapeutic Choices in Mental Health