Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully

How to Help the Comprehend, Cope and Connect Way

Isabel Clarke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000429565
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to figures.

‘abuser-abused’ reciprocal role 23

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 21–2, 96

ACT see Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

addiction 31, 43, 45, 150, 161–2

affiliation 22

altered states 25, 59–60

altruism 45

anger 38, 43, 46–9, 92–4, 102–3, 106–8; positive potential of 48–9; use for 106–8

anorexia 24, 150

Araci, D. 153, 155

architecture of ICS 27–9

arousal 15, 27, 29, 51–2, 95, 99–100; management of 95, 99–100

aspects of self 54–5, 125–31; building new relationship with past 129–30; elusive self revisited 125–6; revisiting ‘good’ person 130–1; self-identification 125, 131; working with 126–9

assumption busting 5–6, 27; revisiting 27

attachment 13–14, 23, 30

auditory hallucinations 15

austerity 153, 161

avoidance 118, 120

balancing act of relating 121

Barnard, P. J. 6, 60, 65

basics of coping skills 95–101

Bateman, A. W. 13, 119

Beck, A. T. 20

Behaviour Therapy 6, 20

behavioural analysis 87

being human 3–10; challenging current orthodoxy 3, 9–10; essential features of ICS 6–8; felt sense 8–9; how we know the world 5–6; rethinking being human 3–5; role of mindfulness 9; understanding our case studies 9

Bentall, R. 14

beyond consensual reality 58–66; character of transliminal experience 61–5; experience beyond the self 60–1; ‘norm...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• SECTION I: Foundations
• SECTION II: Opportunity, emotions and the elusive self
• SECTION III: How to help: Comprehend and Cope
• SECTION IV: Forging new relationships: Connect
• SECTION V: Wrapping up and wider horizons
• References
• Index