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BBC Headroom

Headroom is a project from the BBC in partnership with libraries to provide books covering many aspects of mental health and wellbeing.

This list tells you which of those books you can borrow from Idea Stores. Click on the topics below to see your area of interest or just have a browse through.

 

Addiction and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

Alcohol 

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 

Alzheimer's and Dementia 

Anger 

Anxiety and Stress

Bereavement 

Bipolar disorder 

Body Dysmorphic Disorder 

Borderline Personality Disorder 

Breakdown 

Carers 

Children 

Depression 

Eating Disorders 

Parents and Teachers 

Post-Natal Depression 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 

Schizophrenia 

Self-Esteem 

Self-Harm 

Sleep 

Smoking 

Suicide 

 

Topic 

Title   

Author 

Addiction and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

Overcoming Your Addictions

Windy Dryden 

 

The Angry Heart

Joseph Santoro 

 

The OCD Workbook

Bruce Hyman 

 

Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

David Veale 

 

Overcoming Compulsive Gambling

Alex Blaszczynski

 

 

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Alcohol 

Alcoholism

Donald Goodwin

 

Easy Way to Control Alcohol

Allen Carr

 

 

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADHD

Mark Selikowitz

 

Understanding ADHD: A Parent's Guide to ADHD in Children

Christopher Green

 

 

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Alzheimer's and Dementia

Alzheimer's and Other Dementias

Harry Cayton

 

Living with Alzheimer's Disease

Tom Smith

 

And Still the Music Plays

Graham Stokes

 

Keeper: Living with Nancy

Andrea Gillies

 

Have the Men Had Enough?

Margaret Forster

 

Losing Clive to Younger Onset Dementia

Helen Beaumont

 

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean

 

Remind Me Who I Am, Again

Linda Grant

 

Still Alice

Lisa Genova

 

 

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Anger

The Anger Control Workbook

Matthew McKay

 

Beating Anger: The Eight Point Plan for Coping with Rage

Mike Fisher

 

Overcoming Anger and Irritability

William Davies

 

Overcoming Anger: When Anger Helps and When it Hurts

Windy Dryden

 

Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility and Violence

Aaron Beck

 

 

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Anxiety and Stress

Overcoming Anxiety

Helen Kennerley

 

The Feeling Good Handbook

David Burns

 

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

Susan Jeffers

 

How To Stop Worrying

Frank Tallis

 

How To Deal with Stress

Stephen Palmer

 

 

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Bereavement

Broken Soup

Jenny Valentine

 

How to Talk to a Widower

Jonathan Tropper

 

Life After Loss

Bob Deits

 

Living with Loss

Liz McNeill Taylor

 

Michael Rosen's Sad Book

Michael Rosen

 

On Grief and Grieving

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

"You'll Get Over It": The Rage of Bereavement

Virginia Ironside

 

 

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Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Sarah Owen

 

Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Memoir of Love and Madness

Michael Greenberg

 

The Naked Bird Watcher

Suzy Johnstone

 

The Father I Had

Martin Townsend

 

An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison

 

 

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

The Butterfly Girl

Racheal Baughan

 

The Feeling Good Handbook

David Burns

 

 

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Borderline Personality  Disorder

The Angry Heart

Joseph Santoro 

 

 

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Breakdown

Sectioned: A Life Interrupted

John O'Donoghue

 

 

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Carers

Living with Mental Illness

Elizabeth Kuipers

 

When Someone You Love Has Depression

Barbara Baker

 

Mental Illness

Rosalind Ramsay

 

The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring

Hugh Marriott

 

 

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Children

A Perfect Ten

Chris Higgins

 

The Illustrated Mum

Jacqueline Wilson

 

I'm Worried

Brian Moses

 

Willy and the Wobbly House: A Story for Children who are Anxious or Obsessional

Margot Sunderland

 

My Friend Daniel Doesn't Talk

Sharon Longo

 

From Where I Stand

Tabitha Suzuma

 

 

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Depression

The Mindful Way through Depression

Mark Williams

 

Beating Stress, Anxiety and Depression

Jane Plant

 

Healing without Freud or Prozac

David Servan-Schreiber 

 

Depression: The Way out of your Prison

Dorothy Rowe

 

The Devil Within

Stephanie Merritt 

 

Coming Back to Me

Marcus Trescothick 

 

I Had a Black Dog

Matthew Johnstone 

 

Living with a Black Dog

Matthew Johnstone  

 

Shoot the Damn Dog

Sally Brampton 

 

Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression

Gwyneth Lewis 

 

 

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Eating Disorders 

Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): A Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders

Ulrike Schmidt 

 

Overcoming Binge Eating 

Christopher Fairburn 

 

Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa

Christopher Freeman 

 

Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers

Janet Treasure 

 

Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method

Janet Treasure 

 

Eating Disorders: A Parent's Guide

Rachel Bryant-Waugh 

 

Diet of Despair: A Book about Eating Disorders for Young People and their Families

Anna Paterson 

 

 

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Parents and Teachers 

The Secret of Happy Children

Steve Biddulph

 

Coping with an Anxious or Depressed Child

Samantha Cartwright-Hatton

 

 

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Post-Natal Depression

Eyes without Sparkle: A Journey through Postnatal Illness

Elaine Hanzak

 

Feelings after Birth

Heather Welford

 

Surviving Post-Natal Depression

Cara Aiken

 

 

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Reduce and Overcome the Symptoms of PTSD

Belleruth Naparstek

 

Overcoming Traumatic Stress

Claudia Herbert

 

 

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Schizophrenia

The Centre Cannot Hold

Elyn Saks

 

The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

Sathnam Sanghera

 

 

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Self-Esteem

Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness

Gillian Butler

 

 

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Self-harm

Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-injury and Self-harm and Heal the Emotional Wounds

Jan Sutton

 

The Self-harm Helpbook

Lois Arnold

 

By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents

Keith Hawton

 

Scarred: One Girl's Triumph over Shocking Abuse and Self-harm

Sophie Andrews

 

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Meera Syal

 

 

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Sleep

Learn to Sleep Well

Chris Idzikowski

 

No More Sleepless Nights

Peter Hauri

 

Overcoming Insomnia and Sleep Problems

Colin Espie

 

 

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Smoking

Overcoming your Smoking Habit

David Marks

 

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of your Life

Allen Carr

 

 

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Suicide

Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide

Christopher Lukas

 

 

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Saturday, February 4, 2012


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