
Dyslexia and Mental Health
Helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope
- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Of Related Interest
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Michael Ryan
- Foreword by Pennie Aston
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 What is Dyslexia?
- Chapter 2 A Dyslexic Life
- Chapter 3 Difference, Disclosure, Stigma and Labelling
- Chapter 4 Accepting a Dyslexic Identity
- Chapter 5 Self-Belief
- Chapter 6 Stress and Anxiety
- Chapter 7 Dyslexic Coping Profiles
- Chapter 8 Defence Mechanisms and Coping Strategies
- Chapter 9 Pre-Defence Mechanism: Avoidance
- Chapter 10 Emotional Defences
- Chapter 11 Behavioural Defences
- Chapter 12 Vulnerability to Depression
- Chapter 13 Learned Helplessness to Optimism
- Chapter 14 Discussion and Conclusion
- Appendix Dyslexia and Depression: The Hidden Sorrow
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
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