MENTAL HEALTH Mental Health Week is held nationally every October. It aims to promote social and emotional well being in the community. Your RFS Library has a number of books if you would like to read more on this topic. To borrow, just email the library or call Katie on 02 8741 5455. 1. The happiness trap : based on ACT : a revolutionary mindfulness-based programme for overcoming stress, anxiety and depression (2008) Using the six principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Russ Harris can help you to reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfillment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and create a richer and more meaningful life. 2. Healing your grief when disaster strikes : 100 practical ideas for coping after a tornado, hurrican, flood, earthquake, wildfire, or other natural disaster (2014) When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, its normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult thoughts and feelings. 3. My little book of hope : a Guide to understanding and overcoming depression, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem (2008) This book is a straightforward and reassuring guide to understanding and overcoming depression, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem. It demonstrates how to dispute those negative and self-defeating voices in your head and deal more rationally with these conditions. 4. How to manage the stress of traumatic incidents: a guide for police, ambulance, fire, rescue and emergency medical personnel (1995) Emergency personnel are constantly called upon to deal with the crises which occur in our communities and work-sites. In doing so these men and women face a range of highly stressful and traumatic incidents. This book provides both practical advice on dealing with the stress resulting from traumatic incidents. 5. Becoming stress resistant : Through the Project SMART Program (2003) The SMART (Stress Management and Relaxation) Project provides a way to help others develop the skills to become stress resistant through good diet, exercise, relaxation, and problem-solving skills. 6. Its ok not to be ok - during a challenging life experience (CD-ROM) (2007) This audiobook offers three sessions providing practical information to enable you to gain control over a challenging situation, then strategies to ease the situation and help to survive and thrive. 7. The human contribution : unsafe acts, accidents and heroic recoveries (2008) The purpose of this book is to explore the human contribution to both the reliability and resilience of complex well-defended systems. [The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries] 8. Games people play; the psychology of human relationships (1964) The bestselling 1964 book by psychiatrist Eric Berne. Since its publication it has sold more than five million copies. The book describes both functional and dysfunctional social interactions. Games People Play (1969). 9. Life tips (2007) Mark McKeon, an ex-Australian Football League player coaches motivation and self help to organisations globally. He presents - 100 tips to change your life, ...its about being you but better. 10. Work a little less, live a little more (2001) This hands-on book shows how to create time and do something positive with that time. 11. First things first every day; because where youre headed is more important than how fast youre going (1997) Stephen Covey has distilled the principles contained in his companion volume First things first into daily guidelines to rich relationships and the confidence that comes with knowing where youre headed and why. 12. Time on time out, flexible work solutions to keep your life in balance (1999) Flexible work practices are emerging to help both employer and employees. Part-time work, job sharing, extended leave, home offices and flexible hours can create workplaces that suit the needs of everyone. This book provides information, strategies and confidence to negotiate a work/life balance. And on order, coming soon... 13. MajGen John Cantwell’s book “Exit Wounds” (2012) where Cantwell tells his story of coming home in 2011 to be considered for the job of chief of the Australian Army. Instead, he ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Exit Wounds is the deeply human account of one mans tour of the War on Terror, the moving story of life on a modern battlefield: from the nightmare of cheating death in a field strewn with mines, to the utter despair of looking into the face of a dead soldier before sending his body home to his mother. Cantwell hid his post-traumatic stress disorder for decades, fearing it would affect his career. If you have a suggestion for a book that you believe will benefit your RFS library collection on mental health – please let me know! Katie Vandine | Senior Librarian | NSW RFS Library NSW RURAL FIRE SERVICE Headquarters 15 Carter Street Lidcombe NSW 2141 | Locked Bag 17 Granville NSW 2142 P 02 8741 5455 E [email protected]
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