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Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature - Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters (Paperback)
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Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature - Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters (Paperback)
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This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century
young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers,
librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively
address the needs of students combating mental illness. Mental
Illness in Young Adult Literature: Exploring Real Struggles through
Fictional Characters highlights American young adult literature
published since the year 2000 that features characters grappling
with mental illness. Chapters focus on mental disorders identified
by the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-5), including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder,
schizophrenia, ADHD, and OCD. Each chapter begins with a
description of a mental illness that includes its prevalence,
demographic trends, symptoms, related disorders, and treatment
options before examining a selection of young adult texts in depth.
Analysis of the texts explores how a mental illness manifests for a
particular character, how that character perceives him- or herself
and is perceived by others, and what treatment or support he or she
receives. The connections between mental illness and race,
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and identity are examined, and
relevant research from education, psychology, and adolescent health
is thoroughly integrated. Each chapter also provides a list of
additional readings. An appendix offers strategies for integrating
young adult literature into health curricula and other programs.
Offers extensive analysis of contemporary young adult fiction
featuring youth with mental illness to help school and youth
services librarians make informed collection development and
readers' advisory decisions Examines the symptoms and warning signs
of mental illness in adolescents in addition to how various
disorders are diagnosed and treated Offers strategies for teachers
and librarians to integrate quality texts into middle and high
school curricula and into community initiatives aimed at
confronting the stigma associated with mental illness Follows a
standardized chapter format that makes it easy for readers to learn
about the books and the mental illnesses they highlight Provides an
extended list of resources at the end of each chapter that includes
additional young adult fiction and nonfiction as well as adult
fiction texts
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