Dyslexia and Mental Health
eBook - ePub

Dyslexia and Mental Health

Helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dyslexia and Mental Health

Helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope

About this book

Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to withdraw and to adopt negative coping strategies, particularly if they lack adequate support, identification and intervention. This can have lasting impact on their emotional health.

Neil Alexander-Passe is an experienced researcher and a special needs teacher in secondary mainstream education. He also has dyslexia. Neil uses his personal and professional experience to shed light on the complexities surrounding dyslexia and examines psychological theories such as ego-defence mechanisms and learned helplessness that reveal how people deal with its emotional impact. He offers guidelines and advice, illustrated with real life examples, about how to help people with dyslexia avoid harmful coping strategies and learn to deal with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem in more effective and psychologically positive ways.

This book will help educational and clinical psychologists, teachers, mental health specialists, counsellors and therapists understand the emotional complexities of dyslexia.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Of Related Interest
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword by Michael Ryan
  9. Foreword by Pennie Aston
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1 What is Dyslexia?
  12. Chapter 2 A Dyslexic Life
  13. Chapter 3 Difference, Disclosure, Stigma and Labelling
  14. Chapter 4 Accepting a Dyslexic Identity
  15. Chapter 5 Self-Belief
  16. Chapter 6 Stress and Anxiety
  17. Chapter 7 Dyslexic Coping Profiles
  18. Chapter 8 Defence Mechanisms and Coping Strategies
  19. Chapter 9 Pre-Defence Mechanism: Avoidance
  20. Chapter 10 Emotional Defences
  21. Chapter 11 Behavioural Defences
  22. Chapter 12 Vulnerability to Depression
  23. Chapter 13 Learned Helplessness to Optimism
  24. Chapter 14 Discussion and Conclusion
  25. Appendix Dyslexia and Depression: The Hidden Sorrow
  26. References
  27. Subject Index
  28. Author Index
  29. Also available