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NAMI on Campus Readings

Self Help-Specific Disorders

The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook
Glenn Schiraldi

Provides information on coping mechanisms, emotional triggers, the mental defenses that protect us from further harm, and addresses how the healing process can begin through a variety of medical and non-medical treatment methods.

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood
Edward Hallowell & John Ratey

This book is a valuable resource that offers a life-span perspective on attention disorders and emphasizes the effect such disorders can have on relationships, education, and careers. The book reviews the diagnosis of attention disorders, co-occurring disorders, and treatment strategies.

Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks
R. Wilson

This book provides a thorough introduction to Panic Disorder, and then offers an empirically supported, cognitive-behaviorally based, self-help program for addressing panic attacks.

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (3rd Ed.)
E. Bourne

The latest edition of this well-known book rounds out its practical, step-by-step offerings of mostly cognitive-behavioral strategies to address anxiety and phobias by including relevant information about medications and herbal supplements.

The Hidden Face of Shyness: Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety
Franklin Schneier & Lawrence Welkowitz

This book offers a good introduction to the varieties and origins of social anxiety, along with a practical self-help program for addressing the problem.

Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Rev. Ed.)
Edna Foa & Reid Wilson

Psychologist Edna Foa is a leading researcher in the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This authoritative book offers a clear introduction to the disorder and its origins, and provides research supported, cognitive-behaviorally based, strategies for addressing the disorder.

The Body Image Workbook: An 8-step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
Thomas F. Cash

An internationally recognized authority on body image shows readers how to combat destructive and unhealthy attitudes towards their physical appearance. The eight-step program developed by Thomas Cash shows readers how to evaluate a negative body image, change self-defeating "private body talk", and create a more pleasurable, affirming relationship with the body. The book includes many illustrations, charts and tables.

The Scarred Soul: Understanding and Ending Self-Inflicted Violence
Tracy Alderman

Explores the reasons behind this behavior and shows how to overcome the psychological traps that lead to self-destructive acts.

Self-esteem and Depression: Relative to College Students
Norm Cohen

Self Help-General

Self-Esteem
Matthew McKay

Offers a step by step program for building self-esteem. This self-help book teaches the reader how to talk back to that critical negative voice and handle mistakes and criticism

The Self-Esteem Companion
Matthew McKay

This book contains a series of fifty simple exercises the reader can use in order to challenge their inner critic and celebrate their self worth.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Martin Seligman

Martin Seligman, a leading psychologist, describes his groundbreaking research and how developing "learned optimism" can improve many facets of one's life.

Personal Accounts

Fear is no Longer my Reality
Jamie Blyth

This star of ABC's Bachelorette describes his battle with social anxiety and panic disorder, and his subsequent triumph over them. This inspiring story is encouraging to anyone who personally deals with mental illness or knows someone who does.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison

This professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine gives a dual perspective on bipolar disorder. She has experienced the highs and lows of the disorder first hand, and in this account she gives a detailed, accurate description from both her professional and personal outlooks.

Sixty Days to Sanity                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Peter D. Barnes

The author has lived successfully with Bipolar Disorder for more than twenty years without relapse. A person suffering from mental illness who tackles life with such vigor gives a valuable perspective to patients and family members who are trying to understand how to cope with Bipolar Disorder.

Topics in Mental Health

College of the Overwhelmed
Richard D. Kadison

This book discusses the extraordinary increase of incidence of mental illness on college campuses and what we can do about it.

Supported Education for People with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Practical Manual
Jolyn Wells-Moran & Deanne Gilmur

Unequal Rights: Discrimination against People with Mental Disorders and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Susan Stefan

Discusses the role discrimination plays in mental illness, both on the personal level and in the legal system

 

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