Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully introduces the Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) approach, developed and evaluated within mental health services, to a wider audience who need to understand mental health issues, whether for themselves or to support others.
The book deconstructs and normalizes mental breakdown, starting from the individual’s inner experience, leading to practical ways of helping people out of distress and impaired functioning, towards the realization of their whole potential. It is based on an understanding of connections in the brain founded in cognitive science, which explains how human functioning can easily go astray. CCC provides a compelling rationale for putting mindfulness at the heart of the solution, along with other ways of coping with emotions and changing behaviour. The approach is brought to life through three illustrative case histories, giving a representative and realistic insight into both the experience of the individual and the workings of the system.
Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully will help mental health professionals and those in related fields identify more accurately what people in their organization or under their care are going through.
Author(s): Isabel Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 190
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
SECTION I: Foundations
1. Being human and why it is difficult – a rethink
2. Why the conventional wisdom about mental health needs challenging
3. Turning therapy inside out
4. Falling between the cracks: Self, relationship, spirituality and mental health
5. Trauma and mental breakdown
SECTION II: Opportunity, emotions and the elusive self
6. Emotion as problem, emotion as solution
7. The elusive self: Compassion and potential
8. Beyond consensual reality
9. Reconfiguring mental health
SECTION III: How to help: Comprehend and Cope
10. Meeting someone from the inside and getting the mind in gear
11. Comprehend: Introducing the spiky diagram
12. Coping skills: The basics
13. Harnessing motivation and a new role for emotions: From problem to solution
SECTION IV: Forging new relationships: Connect
14. Healing the relationship with the self
15. Relationships with other people: Unravelling the tangles
16. Aspects of self and putting the past in the past
17. Beyond the self, beyond the consensus
SECTION V: Wrapping up and wider horizons
18. The end is the beginning: Therapy as toolkit
19. CCC in the wider world
20. Conclusion and further implications
References
Index
