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When a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment : How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family's Well-Being by Melanie VanDyke, Gary Mitchell and C. Alec Pollard (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Harbinger Publications

ISBN-101648483135

ISBN-139781648483134

eBay Product ID (ePID)23061621687

Product Key Features

Number of Pages168 Pages

Publication NameWhen a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment : How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family's Well-Being

LanguageEnglish

SubjectCodependency, Psychopathology / General, Internal Medicine, Dysfunctional Families

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Self-Help, Psychology, Medical

AuthorMelanie Vandyke, Gary Mitchell, C. Alec Pollard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-391586

Reviews"If you've pleaded, nagged, and threatened your loved one to seek help for their mental health condition but they never do, then When a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment is the book for you. It's filled with thoughtful and effective strategies to decrease family distress, encourage your loved one to seek help, and, more importantly, to help you live fully even when your loved one will not." --Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, ABPP , codirector of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, and coauthor of Digging Out, "Recovery avoiders do NOT want to stay disabled. But they disappoint, inconvenience, and control their families in self-defeating ways. This is a sophisticated, compassionate, realistic look at how to improve the whole family's well-being. The authors describe gradually shifting from resentful accommodation and critical minimizing to incentivizing small, positive steps and refraining from unrealistic demands for change. Reducing the negative impact on the family ultimately opens the door to recovery." --Sally Winston , founder and executive director of ASDI, and coauthor (with Martin Seif) of Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thought s, Needing to Know for Sure ,and Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety, "This timely book draws on the authors' decades of experience working with families of people facing the most challenging behavioral health problems. It offers practical, step-by-step guidance on making changes that can help families be less controlled by their loved one's problems--and live healthier lives. Vignettes bring the strategies to life. I enthusiastically recommend this volume as a self-help resource, as well as to practicing therapists." --Debra A. Hope, PhD , Aaron Douglas Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and lead author of Managing Social Anxiety, "Pollard et al. have produced a family resource that explains the sufferer's issues without judgmental labels like resistance, controlling, etc. They replace such terminology with thoughtfully descriptive labels (e.g., recovery-avoidant behavior) and, more importantly, provide the reader with understandable reasons for why these behaviors occur. Understanding isn't a treatment program, but it is the foundation for any program that will be successful." --Jonathan B. Grayson, PhD , licensed psychologist; director of the Grayson LA Treatment Center for Anxiety and OCD; and author of Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder , as well as over 400 articles and presentations, "This book is a true contribution to guide the many significant others impacted by a family member's mental health struggles in a practical and constructive way. Families are often the unintended casualty of recovery avoidance, and are typically left feeling helpless and hopeless. Pollard and his skilled interdisciplinary team provide a step-by-step plan to empower significant others to choose behaviors that promote family well-being without blame or judgement. Congratulations!" --Barbara Van Noppen, PhD, LCSW , clinical professor in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240430

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal362.2085

SynopsisEscape the "family trap," help your loved one on the road to recovery, and take back your life. If you have a family member who suffers from mental illness, but refuses to seek treatment, you may feel like you're caught in a trap. If you try making life easier for your loved one, you wind up perpetuating dependency and entitlement. If you push for treatment, you are met with resistance or outright animosity. And when you reach out to professionals for help, you are told that nothing can be done unless your family member is ready to change. So, how can you escape the "family trap?" Written by clinicians and introducing the innovative family well-being approach (FWBA), this essential guide provides validation and doable strategies for anyone who feels trapped by a family member or loved one suffering from mental illness. Using the skills in this book, you'll learn how your responses to your loved one can worsen and even perpetuate the very problems you are trying to resolve. You'll also discover ways to promote healthy behavior in recovery avoiders, but only after the whole family is emotionally and strategically prepared to follow through successfully. The family well-being approach outlined in this book is based on established principles of behavior change, family interaction research, and more than three decades of clinical experience. If you're feeling caught in a trap with a loved one who won't seek help--also known as a recovery avoider --this practical guide can help you find your way out, once and for all., When someone resists mental health treatment, the whole family suffers. Written by clinicians and introducing the innovative family well-being approach (FWBA), this essential guide provides validation and doable strategies for anyone who feels trapped by a family member or loved one suffering from mental illness. Using the practical skills outlined in this book, readers will learn how to help their loved one while improving their own emotional well-being., If you have a family member or loved one who suffers from mental illness-but refuses treatment-you may feel helpless, trapped, or emotionally drained. When you encourage them to seek treatment, they may become angry, defensive, or shut down altogether. And even if your loved one does agree to seek therapy, they may not follow through. So, how can you help the "recovery avoider" in your life, while still making room for your own needs? Grounded in the innovative family well-being approach (FWBA), this book is a road map for anyone who feels trapped by a family member or loved one suffering from mental illness. You'll learn how to communicate with your loved one in healthy and productive ways, find strategies for promoting recovery, and discover powerful practices to restore your own well-being-and the well-being of your family as a whole.

LC Classification NumberRC455.4.F3P6 2024