For Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we are sharing books to educate and raise awareness about mental health and the various factors that may affect it, and to provide tools and resources for student wellness. Find our full collection of titles here.
Books for Mental Health Awareness Month
By Coll Rowe | April 11 2024 | Psychology
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
978-0-593-65503-0
From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
$30.00 US
Mar 26, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Penguin Press
- Education > Educational Psychology > Introduction to Educational Psychology
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Adolescent Development
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Child Development
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Introduction to Family Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
- Psychology > Developmental Psychology > Adolescent Development
- Psychology > Social and Applied Psychology > Applied Social Psychology
- Psychology > Social and Applied Psychology > Social Psychology
- Sociology > Social Problems > Social Problems
- Student Success and Career Development > Career Development > Personal and Professional Development
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Mental Health
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Public Health
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Stress Management
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How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
978-0-593-59631-9
“An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros’s advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers eager to reclaim their time and energy.” —Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better
$28.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
The Dial Press
- Management > Organizational Behavior > Organizational Behavior
- Psychology > Social and Applied Psychology > Industrial / Organizational Psychology
- Student Success and Career Development > Career Development > Personal and Professional Development
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Mental Health
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A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
978-0-593-46692-6
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and philosophy professor, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.”
$19.00 US
Mar 26, 2024
Paperback
464 Pages
Vintage
- Philosophy > Ethics > Specialized Courses
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Adult Psychopathology
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Introduction to Clinical Psychology
- Psychology > Developmental Psychology > Motivation and Emotion
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Mental Health
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Six Daily Choices for Health, Well-Being, and Longevity
978-0-262-54765-9
How kindness—and other prosocial behaviors toward others—can help us live longer and healthier lives.
$24.95 US
Mar 19, 2024
Paperback
264 Pages
The MIT Press
- Student Success and Career Development > Career Development > Personal and Professional Development
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
- Biology > Non-Majors Biology > Human Biology
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Mental Health
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Personal Health
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Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
978-0-593-54285-9
Licensed psychotherapist Britt Frank, LSCSW shares her therapeutic framework that enables individuals to move from feeling stuck to flexible, curious, and enlivened.
$18.00 US
Jul 11, 2023
Paperback
272 Pages
TarcherPerigee
- Business > Decision Sciences > Management Science
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Trauma Counseling
- Psychology > Social and Applied Psychology > Behavior Modification
- Psychology > Social and Applied Psychology > Positive Psychology
- Student Success and Career Development > Career Development > Career Development
- Student Success and Career Development > Career Development > Personal and Professional Development
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > Freshman Orientation / Student Success
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Stress Management
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A Memoir
978-0-8129-8499-6
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
$20.00 US
Jan 05, 2021
Paperback
384 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Psychology
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy
- Healthcare Professions > Medical Sciences: Clinical > Psychiatry
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Sketches of Schizophrenia
978-0-525-43432-0
Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where she grew up, Marin Sardy weaves an extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent account of the shapeless thief—the schizophrenia—that kept her mother immersed in a world of private delusion and later also manifested in her brother, ultimately claiming his life.
$17.00 US
Apr 28, 2020
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage
- English > Comparative Literature > Psychology and Literature
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Psychology
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology > Abnormal and Clinical Psychology > Adult Psychopathology
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Mental Health
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Jerome Wakefield and His Critics
978-0-262-04564-3
Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as "harmful dysfunction," with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.
$110.00 US
Feb 16, 2021
Hardcover
640 Pages
The MIT Press
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