商品簡介
Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals who are experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid. These judgmental, inaccurate interpretations and accusatory attitudes can cause iatrogenic trauma, a significant obstacle to recovery.Healing the Distress of Psychosis focuses on practice-based and evidence-informed interventions to effectively understand and communicate with people who are experiencing psychotic symptoms. The text debunks myths about understanding people who experience psychosis and common interventions, and thoughtfully describes: (a) the experience of psychosis, as well as the unique intervention method of fostering the therapeutic relationship; and (b) the psychotic thought process from neurological, linguistic, and existential-psychological perspectives. Effective clinical skills to accurately listen, understand, and communicate with a person experiencing symptoms of psychosis are also offered. Mental health professionals, individuals with lived psychotic experiences, and their family members and loved ones will find this book to be a strong and accurate voice that validates the past and present disappointments in mainstream public mental health treatment, while delivering hope in creating a secure and thriving self determined life.
作者簡介
Shannon Dunn Mayeda, PhD, MSW, CRADC, is Associate Clinical Teaching Professor of Social Work
in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. Dr. Mayeda
has committed her entire professional life to emphasizing a person-centered philosophy in working with individuals and their families who live with culturally diverse experiences of mental illness. She has taken her Listening with Psychotic Ears philosophy across the globe, including rural and metropolitan areas such as Beijing, England, Chicago, Los Angeles, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
