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  1. Break the Bipolar Cycle
  2. The Bipolar Handbook: Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers
  3. Henry’s Demons: A Father and Son’s Journey Out of Madness
  4. Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
  5. Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and Families
  6. Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bipolar but Were Too Freaked Out to Ask
  7. A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
  8. 50 Signs of Mental Illness
  9. 72 Hour Hold
  10. A Mood Apart: Depression, mania, and other afflictions of the self
  11. An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness
  12. Behavioral Family Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders
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  14. Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach.
  15. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
  16. Bipolar disorder demystified: Mastering the tightrope of manic depression
  17. Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD
  18. Coping with Anxiety and Panic Attacks
  19. Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families
  20. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
  21. Depression Fallout
  22. Divided Minds,Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
  23. Family Education in Mental Illness
  24. The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness: Recognizing Symptoms and Getting Treatment
  25. Grieving Mental Illness, a Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
  26. Handbook of Social Functioning in Schizophrenia
  27. Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness
  28. Helping Someone with a Mental Illness: A Compassionate Guide for Family, Friends and Caregivers
  29. Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers
  30. I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment
  31. Living and Working with Schizophrenia
  32. Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
  33. Manic Depressive Illness
  34. Multifamily Groups in the Treatment of Severe Psychiatric Disorders
  35. Multiple Family Psychoeducational Group Treatment Manual
  36. New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder
  37. Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the family
  38. Out of the Shadows Confronting America’s Mental Illness Crisis
  39. Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It
  40. Recovered, not cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia
  41. Schizophrenia and the Family: A Practitioner’s Guide to Psychoeducation and Management
  42. Schizophrenia Digest (Magazine)
  43. Schizophrenia: Straight Talk for Family and Friends
  44. Serious Mental Illness and the Family
  45. Surviving Schizophrenia: A manual for families, consumers, and providers (4th edition)
  46. The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
  47. The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide
  48. The Day the Voices Stopped
  49. The Family Care of Schizophrenia: A Problem-solving Approach to the Treatment of Mental Illness
  50. The Noonday Demon: An atlas of depression
  51. The Peace of Mind Prescription
  52. The Quiet Room
  53. Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
  54. We Heard the Angels of Madness: One Family’s Struggle with Manic Depression
  55. When Madness Comes Home: Help and Hope for the Families of the Mentally Ill
  56. When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: A Handbook For Family, Friends and Caregivers
  57. The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
  58. Hurry Down Sunshine
  59. Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family’s Schizophrenia
  60. A Fight to Be: A Psychologist’s Experience from Both Sides of the Locked Door
  61. Madness, A Bipolar Life
  62. The Invisible Plague: the Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
  63. The Scarred Soul
  64. A Balanced Life, 9 Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One
  65. Crazy in America, The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill

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The Family Institute for Education, Practice & Research is a resource to mental health providers to learn how to add family support services to assist with the recovery of individuals with mental illness. The Family Institute has the ability to tailor trainings for individuals on a one to one basis, programs within an agency, agency […]

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Consumer Centered Family Consultation (CCFC)

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Purpose: To integrate the consumer’s family and/or chosen supports into the recovery process of  the consumer.  Consumers are at the center of all decisions Who to invite; which topics to discuss and not to discuss Duration: 1-3 meetings with a consumer of mental health services, their family and/or chosen supports. Components: There are several distinct […]

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Family Support Group

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Purpose: A long-term maintenance group for consumers of mental health services and/or their supports to sustain the recovery efforts of consumers. Duration: Long term-open ended group with rolling enrollment. Components: Flexible agenda that follows Dr. William McFarlane’s model for Multifamily Groups including: socializing, go-around, and problem identification/solving and ending with socialization. Author Recent Posts Dr. […]

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