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What Is... And Other Big Questions
What is Mental Health? Where does it come from? And Other Big Questions
Exploring and explaining the range of mental health, from wellbeing through to mental health problems, in a non-stigmatising, accessible and accurate way.
Mental health gets talked about a lot, but what is it? And where does it come from?
This book explains what mental health is, considering how it relates to lots of different experiences, from how we manage really big feelings, to how we get on with each other, how we make choices and how we handle stressful situations. The book thoughtfully examines the things that can help us look after our mental health and the things that might make it feel worse. It has suggestions for the support on offer if we feel we're struggling.
It includes specially-written contributions from Chamique Holdsclaw, US gold medallist basketballer, academics Dr Suzi Gage and Professor Marianne Van Den Bree, poet Fisky, artists Christine Rai and Liz Atkin, mental health advocate Chineye Njoku and Dr Alan Cooklin, psychiatrist and founder of the charity Our Time which helps children whose parents experience mental health problems.
Aimed at young people aged 10 and upwards.
Part of the groundbreaking and important 'And Other Big Questions' series, which offers balanced and considered views on the big issues we face in the world we live in today.
Other titles in the series
What is Gender? How does it define us?
What is Feminism? Why do we need it?
What is Consent? Why is it important?
What is Masculinity? Why does it matter?
Mental health gets talked about a lot, but what is it? And where does it come from?
This book explains what mental health is, considering how it relates to lots of different experiences, from how we manage really big feelings, to how we get on with each other, how we make choices and how we handle stressful situations. The book thoughtfully examines the things that can help us look after our mental health and the things that might make it feel worse. It has suggestions for the support on offer if we feel we're struggling.
It includes specially-written contributions from Chamique Holdsclaw, US gold medallist basketballer, academics Dr Suzi Gage and Professor Marianne Van Den Bree, poet Fisky, artists Christine Rai and Liz Atkin, mental health advocate Chineye Njoku and Dr Alan Cooklin, psychiatrist and founder of the charity Our Time which helps children whose parents experience mental health problems.
Aimed at young people aged 10 and upwards.
Part of the groundbreaking and important 'And Other Big Questions' series, which offers balanced and considered views on the big issues we face in the world we live in today.
Other titles in the series
What is Gender? How does it define us?
What is Feminism? Why do we need it?
What is Consent? Why is it important?
What is Masculinity? Why does it matter?
- GenresParenting
48 pages, Paperback
Published January 13, 2022
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About the author
Lucy Maddox
2 books5 followersDR LUCY MADDOX is a consultant clinical psychologist, lecturer and writer who loves to share psychology ideas.
She has worked clinically in a variety of NHS and third sector settings and academically in a variety of universities. She is currently a clinical academic fellow at the University of Bath, researching compassion in mental healthcare.
Lucy has written three books, and for various publications including the Guardian, Science, Prospect, The Psychologist and the Times. She published Blueprint: How Our Childhood Makes Us Who We Are, in March 2018, then a book for children aged 10+ called What is Mental Health? and most recently has written A Year To Change Your Mind, to share ideas from the therapy room.
Find Lucy on Twitter @lucy_maddox and on Instagram @drlucymaddox.
Lucy's website is https://www.lucymaddox.co.uk/ and she also has a blog and newsletter you can sign up to on the website.
She has worked clinically in a variety of NHS and third sector settings and academically in a variety of universities. She is currently a clinical academic fellow at the University of Bath, researching compassion in mental healthcare.
Lucy has written three books, and for various publications including the Guardian, Science, Prospect, The Psychologist and the Times. She published Blueprint: How Our Childhood Makes Us Who We Are, in March 2018, then a book for children aged 10+ called What is Mental Health? and most recently has written A Year To Change Your Mind, to share ideas from the therapy room.
Find Lucy on Twitter @lucy_maddox and on Instagram @drlucymaddox.
Lucy's website is https://www.lucymaddox.co.uk/ and she also has a blog and newsletter you can sign up to on the website.
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