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This wide-ranging book takes a person-centred approach to
supporting the person and their families/carers to live with
dementia and challenge the stigma attached to the condition.
Divided into four parts, it starts with the voices of people with
dementia themselves, as they describe their own experience and how
they are living with the disease. It moves on to look at how the
range of caring and support professions can help people living with
dementia and their families plan and prepare for and cope better
with their deteriorating condition. It then turns to practical
aspects of living with dementia - dementia in the workplace,
communication, safety and the role of technology and design in
prolonging independence - and day-to-day considerations, such as
managing insomnia and eating well. It ends with an inspiring
section on the many imaginative ways people with dementia can be
helped to discover and continue to enjoy cultural and creative
activities that celebrate their lives and promote their abilities.
Over the last 30 years, the prevalence of eating disorders has
increased to become a widespread problem across the UK and
worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive guide written by people
with eating disorders, their families and leading researchers,
clinicians and therapists, all aiming to improve understanding of
practical ways of helping people with eating disorders to live and
thrive in their communities. The handbook covers the important
topics of understanding eating difficulties in our society's
context, including the role of social media and the fashion
industry, and how health care professionals and voluntary
organisations currently support those with an eating disorder. It
explores the value of exercise, nutrition and sleep, and considers
support from parents and schools for children, as well as making
reasonable accommodations for young people and adults in higher
education and the workplace. Particular therapies for stabilisation
and recovery are detailed, and a final section sets out examples of
creative and arts-based approaches.
Hearing voices, seeing visions and similar out-of-the-ordinary
experiences have long intrigued and mystified humankind. The
dominant scientific and medical understandings of these phenomena
tend to problematise them. This ground-breaking book builds on the
work of the Hearing Voices Movement and of the researchers Marius
Romme and Sandra Escher in challenging this perception. The book is
a collection of chapters by voice hearers, mental health
professionals and researchers describing a myriad of therapeutic
and creative approaches and strategies that people find helpful in
relating to voices when they find them distressing. It is based on
insights, understandings and knowledge derived from the first-hand
experience of voice hearers and from mental health practice and
research that show that the person’s relationship with the voices
and what the voices say are key to understanding and living with
them; that voices are not in themselves a problem and can even be
helpful; that there is a strong connection between voices and
unwanted emotions; that life-long medication is not the inevitable
and only treatment and, most importantly perhaps, that voice
hearers can live well with their voices (even if it is sometimes
hard work). The book is presented in three parts: Part one,
‘Hearing our voices’, includes voice hearers’ perspectives as
to what has helped them to recover from breakdown so that they are
able to live full lives, including Hearing Voices Groups and peer
support. Part two, ‘Emerging social and therapeutic approaches to
working with voices’, explores different mainstream non-medical
and psychotherapeutic approaches that help voice hearers to make
sense of and live well with their voices. Part three, ‘Creative
approaches to working with voices’, describes using creative
arts, such as dance, drama and poetry, to help voice hearers relate
to their voices in positive ways.
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