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NAMIGO LIBRARY
General Mental Health
**Members: To borrow from the library, please visit the NAMIGO Office:
1800 Mercy Drive, Ste. 300, Orlando, FL 32808
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Author: Christine Adamec
Title: How to Live With a Mentally Ill Person
Copyright Date: 1996
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A caregiver's handbook of day-to-day strategies.
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| Authors: Deborah J. Allness, M.S.S.W. and William H. Knoedler, M.D.
Title: A Manual for ACT Start-Up: Based on the PACT Model of Community Treatment for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A manual outlining NAMI's Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model in behavioral health managed care for persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Based on the PACT Model.
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Authors: Deborah J. Allness, M.S.S.W. and William H. Knoedler, M.D.
Title: The PACT Model of Community-Based Treatment for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses
Copyright Date: 1998
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A manual outlining NAMI's Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model in behavioral health managed care for persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
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| Author: Rosalynn Carter, with Susan K. Golant
Title: Helping Someone With Mental Illness (Available in Hardcover & Paperback Editions)
Copyright Date: 1998
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: The former First Lady offers a compassionate, step-by-step guide on what to do after diagnosis, seeking the best treatment, evaluating health care providers, and managing the emotional and psychological issues in caregiving loved ones with mental illness.
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Authors: Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Title: How Can I Help?
Copyright Date: 1985
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Stories and reflections on service.
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Author: Executive Office of the Governor, State of Florida - Office of Drug Control
Title: Florida Suicide Prevention Strategy 2005-2010
Copyright Date: 2005
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: An outline of Florida's plan to decrease and prevent the incidence of suicide in the state.
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Authors: Marc D. Feldman, M.D. and Jacqueline M., with Roxanne Smith
Title: Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us
Copyright Date: 1998
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: Using the metaphor of the "lie of the mind," a disorder in which a person's thinking becomes unintentionally distorted, the authors approach mental illness from the perspective that these disorders are merely extreme variations of universally shared thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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Author: Dianne Hales and Robert E. Hales, M.D.
Title: Caring for the Mind: The Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health
Copyright Date: 1995
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A mental health reference guide containing signs and symptioms of mental illness, diagnosis and treatment, case histories, information on psychiatric medications, and self-help strategies.
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Author: Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., with Spencer Smith
Title: Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life
Copyright Date: 2005
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A book about acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and what it means to be mentally healthy.
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Authors: Jack and Jo Ann Hinckley, with Elizabeth Sherrill
Title: Breaking Points
Copyright Date: 1985
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: The parents of attempted presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. offer insight into their son's mental illness and advice to other families.
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Author: Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Psychology (Second Edition)
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A pared down guide to the field of psychology.
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Author: Virginia Lafond
Title: Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and their Caregivers
Copyright Date: 1994
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A self-help book for people living with mental illness.
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Author: Abraham A. Low, M.D.
Title: Mental Health Through Will-Training (Third Edition)
Copyright Date: 1997
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: Self-help techniques to prevent relapses and chronic conditions in people living with mental illness developed by the late Abraham Low, M.D., founder of Recovery, Inc.
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Author: Jay Neugeboren
Title: Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
Copyright Date: 1999
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A comprehensive survey of our mental health care system's shortcomings and of new, effective, proven approaches -- psychiatric, psychological, psychopharmacological, psychosocial, programmatic -- that make real differences in the lives of millions of Americans living with severe mental illness.
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Author: Lorna A. Rhodes
Title: Emptying Beds
Copyright Date: 1991
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: The University of Washington Associate Professor of Anthropology provides stark observations on the work of an inner city emergency psychiatric unit during a two-year immersion.
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| Author: Barry Shainbaum
Title: Hope & Heroes: Portraits of Integrity & Inspiration
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Photographs of real people achieving the extraordinary at home, in our communities, and on the national or world stage.
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Author: Linda Noble Topf, M.A., with Hal Zina Bennett, Ph.D.
Title: You Are Not Your Illness
Copyright Date: 1995
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A step-by-step guide offering support, skills, and encouragement to those who want to embrace the challenge of living successfully with illness.
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Authors: H. Rutherford Turnbull III, LL.B., LL.M.; Ann P. Turnbull, Ed.D.; G.J. Bronicki, M.A.; Jean Ann Summers, Ph.D.; and Constance Roeder-Gordon, B.A.
Title: Disability and the Family: A Guide to Decisions for Adulthood
Copyright Date: 1989
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Practical advice for families of adults with disabilities; guidelines and strategies for simplifying the future planning process.
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Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Title: National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
Copyright Date: 2001
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: A national plan for reducing and preventing suicide across the United States.
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Author: Angela D. Vickers, J.D.
Title: Brain Bondage
Copyright Date: 2006
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: This book discusses the roles of key professions -- health, legal, education, media, faith -- in determining the plight of people with mental illness.
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Author: Phyllis Vine
Title: Families in Pain
Copyright Date: 1982
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Family members of people living with mental illness offer advice on caregiving and navigating the mental health care system.
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Author: Otto F. Wahl
Title: Telling is Risky Business
Copyright Date: 1999
Status: AVAILABLE
Description: Consumers' stories of mental illness, public stigma, and recovery.
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Author: Irving G. Walmann
Title: Mental Illness: Can It Be Cured? Prevented? (Revised Third Edition)
Copyright Date: 2003
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A guide to understanding mental illness.
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Author: Rebecca Woolis, M.F.C.C.
Title: When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
Copyright Date: 1992
Status: CHECKED OUT
Description: A handbook for family, friends, and caregivers.
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**Members: To borrow from the library, please visit the NAMIGO Office:
1800 Mercy Drive, Ste. 300, Orlando, FL 32808
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