Pebbles in the Pond

How does this book help people with mental illness understand how to take care of their illness? It's a twelve week training system that discusses how mentally ill people are diagnosed and everything about the diagnosis, including how the brain functions especially the chemicals related to the body's function, how alcohol and drugs (illegal and prescription) affect the brain, the various symptoms that show up with mental illness including hallucinations, delusion, psychosis, anxiety, depression, mania. The program then discusses mental health prescriptions and how they target the various symptoms, then teaches the individual about how to identify when their prescription isn't working effectively and what to do about it.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Directions in Ed., Training & Consult.

Editions

1

Pages

411

ISBN

9780966468106

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