Closing Thoughts: The Power of Narrative
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
This chapter presents a commentary from the editor on the key issues found in these contributions and in providing my own personal perspective on the value of disclosure of mental ...
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Memories of Parental Decompensation
Theodore P. Beauchaine
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 8 describes the contributor’s his childhood, in which he, his twin sister, and their older brother coped with their mother’s descent into chronic schizophrenia. ...
Weeping Mother
Jarralynne Agee
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 9 explores the depression of the contributor’s mother, the poverty in which the family found itself for many years, and the impact of these early experiences on the contributor’s ...
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My Story Is One of Loss
Laura B. Mason
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 1 describes the disintegration of the contributor’s family in the wake of the forms of mental illness displayed, in turn, by each of her three older sisters. ...
In My Voice: Speaking Out About Mental Health and Stigma
Jeffrey Liew
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 5 explores the struggles of the contributor’s family as immigrants, compounded by his mother’s increasingly severe depression, and the stigma they encountered in their neighbourhood. ...
Research Directions and Priorities
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change
Chapter 8 features suggestions and strategies for further research on the stigmatization of mental illness. It aims to present material that is of use not only to the public at large but ...
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Stigma
Patrick E. Jamieson and Daniel Romer
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
Stigma occurs when a person or group is negatively stereotyped and is treated as socially unacceptable. The stigma surrounding mental disorders poses significant barriers to identification, ...
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Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
The book covers a topic that is often overlooked in the literature: How people with serious mental illnesses (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression) come to recognize and ...
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The Process of Acceptance of Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
In this chapter, findings related to the process of acceptance of mental illness are presented using excerpts from research interviews with individuals with serious mental illness. ...
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Acceptance and the Recovery Paradigm in Mental Health Care
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Chapter 2 offers an overview of the recovery movement in the provision of mental health care for serious mental illness. Within the recovery movement in mental illness treatment, recovery ...
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Forensic Mental Health Concepts
Debra A. Pinals and Douglas Mossman
in Evaluation for Civil Commitment
Chapter 2 discusses the forensic mental health concepts relevant to civil commitment. These include substantial mental disorder, risk or danger (along with practical aspects of the forensic ...
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He Just Can’t Help It: My Struggle With My Father’s Struggle With Bipolar Disorder
Esme A. Londahl-Shaller
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 12 documents the life of the contributor’s father, which includes history of psychiatric treatments and hospitalizations, an unorthodox style, a propensity for “too much” in the way ...
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The Legacy of Loss: Depression As a Family Affair
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 14 presents a multigenerational account of the contributor’s family, featuring her mother’s descent into severe, agitated depression and her father’s drinking and poor coping. In ...
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Performing Human
Janet Lucas
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 13 explores the dilemmas experienced by victims of severe abuse in “closed” family systems, and provides a portrayal of the kinds of violence and neglect the contributor experienced ...
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Introduction
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
This chapter presents an introduction to this title as a whole. It discusses the approach that the title takes, and highlights the core themes that the individual narrative chapters ...
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Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Stephen P. Hinshaw (ed.)
In this title, mental health professionals and scientists, ranging from newly trained individuals to seasoned clinicians and researchers, tell their own and their families’ stories of ...
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Reverberations
Peter E. Nathan
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 11 explores the death of the contributor’s mother from suicide when the contributor was 1 year old. It discusses depression that had permeated his mother’s life, as well as a ...
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Finding My Mind
Ruth C. White
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 2 explores the confusion, denial, and terror accompanying the realization that the contributor’s life’s predominant style—brilliance, lightning-quick turnaround of ideas and ...
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A Field Agent in Our Midst
Tara S. Peris
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 3 recounts the deterioration of the contributor’s mother from the time that the contributor was young until her early teen years, at which time her mother departed suddenly for ...
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Laura’s Story: Making Sense of and Deriving Meaning From Her Life With Mental Illness
Elizabeth B. Owens
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 4 discusses the experiences and eventual death of the contributor’s sister from years of substance and alcohol abuse, eating disorder, and depression. ...
