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August 2010 Catalogue www.mentalhealthshop.org

For books, factsheets and educational resources on severe mental illness. www.rethink.org

Rethink is the leading national mental health membership charity, works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life. We provide hope and empowerment through effective services and support to all those who need us, and campaign for change through greater awareness and understanding.

Introduction to Rethink and Join Us Now!

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Rethink's

Mental Health

Shop provides supported employment to people affected by mental illness.

It helps people sustain employment in our distribution warehouse as part of his recovery.

For further information on Rethink Phone 0845 456 0455 Email info@rethink.org

www.rethink.org Registered in England Number 1227970, Registered Charity Number 271028 Registered Office 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP Rethink is the operating name of National Schizophrenia Fellowship, a company limited by guarantee Š Rethink 2009

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Publications by Rethink About mental illness Tools for professionals Dual diagnosis tools and cannabis resources

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Information for members and service users

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Your Voice Get Involved

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Self-help and guides to mental illness

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Personal Experiences Including titles featured in Your Voice (our members magazine) 14

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Factsheets A-Z Pens, Badges and T shirts Order Form

Help Alastair help Rethink Get your personalised signed copy!

Alastair Campbell is supporting mental illness charity Rethink with his hit novel All

in the Mind.

Price: ÂŁ 14.99 plus ÂŁ2.50pp

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Rethink publications about mental illness

What is Severe Mental Illness?

RET0049 A new edition of the popular booklet, explaining different diagnoses.

Price per copy for more than one copy 2-20 copies: £1.50, 21-50 copies £1.30, 51-99 copies: £1.15, 100+ copies: 99p

You care, you count A carer's guide to getting support RET0371 Caring and Coping 3rd Edition: the guide for people caring for someone with mental illness £9.99 RET0374 Produced by Rethink‘s Advice & Information Service includes sections on recent changes to mental health law and welfare benefits, recent changes to community support and a brand new section on the criminal justice system.

£9.99

One in Four: Summer Edition £2.50 RET0457 The quarterly, aspirational lifestyle magazine for people with mental health difficulties and those who know and live with them.

Self management download only RET0063 Free download of the experiences and views of self-management of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Out of Area Treatments and Placements: a good practice guide RET0313 A booklet produced by Rethink and CSIP explaining out of area treatments.

Price per copy for more than one copy 2-20 copies: £1.50, 21-50 copies £1.30, 51-99 copies: £1.15, 100+ copies: 99p

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A Recovery Programme for Depression £4 RET0322 The booklet accompanying the recovery programme for

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depression, produced in conjunction between Rethink and the universities of York, Leeds and Manchester Moving Forward RET0258

A booklet about living life with mental illness for black and minority ethnic communities. Includes information on topics such as medication, alternative therapies, and physical health, as well as where to find more information.

Price per copy for more than one copy 2-20 copies: £1.50, 21-50 copies £1.30, 51-99 copies: £1.15, 100+ copies: 99p Direct Payments - New ways of getting your support RET0415 What are direct payments? Most people with severe mental illness getting community care services can opt to have a sum of money instead. Then they can buy the services which suit them best. This leaflet explains how you can benefit.

Combating Stigma £46.99 RET0356 A DVD resource using service users and their family members talking about their experiences to combat stigma.

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Combating Stigma Teachers edition £74.99 RET0358 Dealing With It RET0249

A booklet about living life with mental illness, covering topics such as medication, other treatments and physical health.

Includes details of where to find more information.

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NEW Only the Best RET0084

A guide for people taking antipsychotics or mood stabilisers providing details of all options available.

Price per copy for more than one copy 2-20 copies: £1.50, 21-50 copies £1.30, 51-99 copies:

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Rethink publications tools for professionals

100 ways to support recovery – a guide for mental health professionals £5 RET0382 This is a report authored by Dr Mike Slade which suggests ways in which mental health professionals can support recovery.

£5 Action Stations £5 RET0182 A report which identifies areas of good practice and barriers to service provision.

Do Helplines Help? £5 RET0186 Department of Health-commissioned report highlighting the impact of Rethink mental health crisis helplines on care pathways.

Future Perfect £5 RET0187 A vision for the 21st century mental health system is set out by people who use services.

Our Voice £5 A report into the Pakistani community‘s view of mental health and mental health services in Birmingham. Available in two languages, English and Urdu. English: RET0296 Urdu: RET0297 New! Rethink Politics: Supporting the political engagement of people with mental health problems Free Rethink Politics was a three year project funded by the Electoral Commission. This lay report provides an overview of the project as well as recommendations to local authorities, elected representatives, health trusts and commissioners on supporting engagement.

Briefing Paper RET0213 haring mental health information with carers: pointers to good practice for service providers

Dual diagnosis resources are on page 8 6

Make a Difference – how politics can work for you £4.99 RET0406 Do you want to make a difference but don‘t know where to start? Here are some practical tips and advice to enable you to have your say about mental health issues.

Lost and Found £5 RET0064

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Highlights those people will severe mental illness who have largely been forgotten by mainstream mental health services.

Mental Health in the Mainstream £9.99 RET0183 This report sets out why mental health should be a mainstream priority for policymakers Innovations for Anxiety £5 RET0240 Commissioned by the charity No Panic to explore the impact of its telephone recovery groups for people with anxiety difficulties following a three stage research design retrospective survey.

Breaking Prejudice Report £1.50 RET0377 Tackling mental health stigma is an important way to improve the lives of people with mental health problems. Campaigns must be multi-faceted, tackling public attitudes, the politics and practice of Government and public services and the empowerment of the community of a whole. This report discusses the campaigns tackling mental health stigma, particularly the Rethink campaigns in Norwich and Northern Ireland.

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What’s Reasonable? Mental Illness and Disability Law in your GP practice RET0330 for details see page 11

Breaking the silence £4.95 RET0414 Breaking the Silence looks at how physically disabled people, African Americans, women and the LGBT community have had their rights recognised through civil rights and suggests how people with mental illness 7

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Dual Diagnosis Toolkit now £6.49 RET0040 Workbook providing background information to Health Professionals on the issues surrounding dual diagnosis and offering a practical guide to delivering services.

Dual Diagnosis Network Poster now £1.50 RET0082 A poster and booklet for Health Professionals.

Dual Diagnosis Pack £10 RET0241 A copy of the Dual Diagnosis toolkit, the Dual Diagnosis Network Poster and 25 leaflets for service users and carers.

Dual Diagnosis leaflet RET0083 Written specifically for families and carers, this leaflet provides information on dual diagnosis, common substances and their effects and advice on how to support someone through treatment. 1 copy: free, 2-20 copies: 45p, 21-50 copies:42p, 51-99 copies: 40p, 100+ copies: 37p

Cannabis posters £2.80 RET0320 Pack of five posters featuring the sentence: People who use cannabis are 40% more likely to experience psychosis than people who do not . Ideal for promoting awareness in the community and with young people.

Talk about Cannabis RET0210 Leaflet for young people about cannabis produced by the Frank campaign.

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Rethink publications for members and service users

Real people real change FREE Annual Review 2008/09 and Annual Accounts 2008/09 FREE RET0389 The review of Rethink‘s achievements between April 2008March 2009.

Complaints booklet FREE RET0295 A leaflet for Rethink services and service users outlining the complaints procedure. It includes a complaints form and space for the service's contact details.

Cannabis resources Disjointed pack £2.99 RET0304 People who use cannabis are 40% more likely to get psychosis than people who do not use cannabis. Rethink have produced a postcard information pack for young people on the connection between cannabis and psychosis. There is also a teacher’s pack available for £59.99 RET0309 Educating Reefer £5 RET0307 A Rethink Campaigns report on cannabis research and the links to psychosis, recommending better education.

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£2.50!

Your Voice RET0455 The magazine for people affected by mental illness and their carers. Packed full of the latest updates in the field of mental health, personal stories, features by experts, how to campaign with us, advice and much, much more.

Previous Editions also available—Call 0845 456 0455 or visit www.mentalhealthshop.org for details Your Voice Box Set Spring RET0249 £10.00 Have you got an even of conference coming up. Here‘s an easy and cheap way to promote Rethink. For just £10 you can order a box of Your Voice Spring Edition For just £10 charge is to cover cost of delivery. Staff and member discounts do not apply. While stocks last 10

Rethink publications

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get involved

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Introduction to Rethink: reach out RET0238 An overview of all the vital work we do and all the ways you can get involved and support us (please give to your friends and get them involved with us too, or put them in local GP surgeries etc). free Join us now RET0188 Get your friends to join Rethink and enjoy the benefits – simply hand them one of these free leaflets or got to www.rethink.org/joinus Also available in a variety of languages to download from www.mentalhealthshop.org

You and the media £5 RET0205 A guide to the media interview process for people who want to be talk to the media about their experience of mental illness.

So You Want to Change the World £5 RET0209 A guide to campaigning locally for a better life for people with mental illness.

Rethink Remembers FREE RET0243 Leaflet about the Rethink Remembers funds, and the opportunity to set up a fund to celebrate the life of your loved one.

What‘s Reasonable? Mental Illness and Disability Law in your GP practice RET0330 For someone with a physical disability, a wheelchair ramp may be required at the practice, or for a patient whose hearing is impaired, a visual signal might be needed in the waiting room. What does a ‗reasonable adjustment‘ look like for someone with a mental health problem?

Price per copy for more than one copy 220 copies: 70p, 21-50 copies 65p, 51-99 copies: 60p, 100+ copies: 55p

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guides to mental health Your Guide to Schizophrenia RET0176 Ultimate tool to understanding schizophrenia, discovering invaluable advice, and empowering you to make informed choices and to regain control of your life.

£9.99 Bipolar Disorder: The Ultimate Guide RET0370 A new guide for people diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and their carers, using an easy to use question and answer format to cover many of the big issues which affect people with this diagnosis.

£12.99 The Fundamental facts £30 RET0328 Produced by the Mental Health Foundation, The Fundamental Facts is an 80 page digest of mental health statistics. It is a quick reference tool of thoroughly researched and fully referenced facts and figures.

NEW! Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future £13.50 RET0449 Written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves.

Developed through a major research project the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many users and experts. .

The Selfish Pig’s Guide to Caring £7.99 RET0301 This book provides an irreverent and down to earth guide for people

NEW! When Someone You Love is Bipolar £10.95 RET0450 In this wise, candid, and compassionate book written expressly for the spouse or partner, Dr. Cynthia Last shares her heartfelt insights as a highly regarded therapist/researcher and as someone affected 12

Overcoming Depression: a Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques £12.99 RET0411 Based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), this practical guide will help you to understand your depression and lift your mood.

Back to Life, Back to Normality £13.99 (RET0412) Written specifically with people affected by mental illness and their carers in mind. The book helps them understand and apply the basic concepts of cognitive therapy for psychosis.

Haynes Brain Manual £4.99 RET0222 A step-by-step guide for men to achieving and maintaining mental well-being.

Undoing Depression £14.99 RET0427 Undoing depression teaches you how to replace depressive patterns of though and behaviour with new, better skills. Anyone who has learnt to do depression can learn how to undo it.

Overcoming OCD – a self help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques £10.99 RET0430 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has been clinically proven to significantly reduce symptoms of OCD. Learn how to break free from the destructive cycle of obsessive behaviour and regain control of

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NEW! The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia £13.00 RET0451 Do people with schizophrenia ever get better? With the vast majority of those with the disorder dependent on their families for care, close relatives often grapple with that question.

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personal experiences including titles featured in Your Voice Martine Daniels The Fire in Your Eyes RET0393

―This a really good read for people wanting to understand the implications that bipolar disorder can bring about - it is a MUST read!!‖

story of Luci growing up after her mothers undiagnosed manic depression.

Exclusive copies are signed by the author £17.00 Padrika Tarrant Broken Things RET0392

Broken Things by Padrika Tarrant encompasses a world of fractured realities and magic. Here are voices lost inside themselves, where the world is not as it should be and nothing may be trusted. £12.99

―Anybody who has experienced hearing voices, will be able to relate and I think carers and professionals can also gain insight‖

Poppy Shakespeare £7.99 RET0268 A novel about life in a day hospital, adapted to be a channel 4 drama. ―Clare Allan's Orange shortlisted novel, takes a terrifying, wry and witty look at the current state of mental health care.‖

The World is Full of Laughter £5.99 RET0245 The gripping tale of a woman's fight to come to terms with abuse, family pressures, prejudice and severe mental ill health. .

Read the latest reviews in our members magazine Your Voice p7 14

One in a Hundred £14.99 RET0316 A book of artwork about the spiritual and creative potential of schizophrenia, and stems from first hand experience.

'0Inexplicably beautiful' The Guardian A Voice in the Distance £5.99 RET0347

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A novel by Tabitha Suzma. As reviewed in Your Voice Autumn 2008 Double Trouble £7.99 RET269 A personal account of Bipolar Disorder by Pauline Rhodes.

£7.99

Stop Paddling Start Sailing £6.99 RET0348 An account of his experience of bipolar, by Roger Smith and how ‗memetics‘ has helped him understand it. As reviewed in Your Voice Autumn 2008.

Despite Anything £5.99 RET0197 Short stories depicting, with quirky humour, characters on the edge of society, oddball scientists and ascetic figures searching for the purest expressions of beauty and truth.

£6.99

The Musical Paintbox £5.99 RET0246 The Musical Paintbox uses fiction as a tool to reveal how people with mental health issues

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really feel about life, their conditions, and the world around them

Don’t mind me RET0380 Don’t Mind Me is Judith Haire‘s vivid account of the terrors she experienced while in the throes of psychosis. ―Don‘t Mind Me‖ is an extraordinary story and shows how Judith battled through her

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devastating illness and emerged a stronger and more resilient woman.

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factsheets a-z Access to Health Records RET0175

Debt & Mental Illness- Part 3. Options for

Advance Statements RET0168

dealing with debts RET0398

Advocacy RET069

Debt & Mental Illness - Part 4 Going into

Antidepressants RET0054

hospital RET0403

Antipsychotics RET0071

Dept and Mental Illness Part 5 Taking out

Anxiety Disorders RET0075

credit when you are unwell RET0404

Appropriate Adult RET0171

Dealing With Unusual Thoughts and

Assertive Outreach RET0079

Behaviour RET0159

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Depression RET0101

(ADHD) RET0124

Detention under the Mental Health Act

Benefits Revisions and Appeals RET0453

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Benzodiazepines RET0093

Direct Payments RET0231

Bipolar Disorder Manic Depression RET0095

Disability Discrimination Act RET0122

Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) RET0234

Disability Living Allowance DLA RET0102

Care and Aftercare RET0120

Discharge from Detention under the Mental

Carer's Assessment RET0172

Health Act RET0161

Cause for Concern RET0173

Does Mental Illness Run in Families?

Challenging Closures RET0266

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Childhood Mental Illness RET0096

Driving and Mental Illness RET0103

Clinical Negligence RET0121

Dual Diagnosis RET0162

Clinical Trials RET0097

Early Intervention RET0104

Complaints RET0098

Eating Disorders RET0105

Complementary Therapies RET0099

Electroconvulsive Therapy ECT RET0230

Confidentiality RET0174

Employment and Support Allowance ESA

Coping with Hearing Voices RET0158

Factsheet RET0336

Crisis Resolution RET0100

Getting Help in a Crisis RET0139

Debt & Mental Illness- Part 1. How to deal with

Heat Exhaustion and Medication for Mental

debt factsheet RET0396

Illness RET0250

Dept & Mental Illness - part 2 RET0397

Housing Options for People with Mental Illness RET0167

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How to get Legal Advice and

Supported Housing 2 by region: South

Assistance RET0352

West RET0149

Incapacity Benefit RET0106

South East RET0150

Inquests RET0235

Scotland RET0151

Insurance RET0165

North West RET0152

Mental Capacity Act 2005 RET0280

North East RET0153

Mental Health Act 2007: Changes to the

Northern Ireland RET0154

Existing Law Factsheet RET0354

Midlands RET0155

Mood Stabilisers RET0107

London RET0156

Nearest Relative RET0261

East Anglia RET0157

Personal Capacity Assessment RET0303

Wales RET0148

Personality Disorders RET0108

Supporting people RET0146

Personality Disorders for Carers

Support for people bereaved by suicide

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Physical Causes of Mental Illness

Talking treatments and

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psychological therapies

Physical Health and Nutrition RET0254

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Planning for the Future: Wills and Trusts

The ‗new CPA‘ Factsheet

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RET0319

Respite Care RET0110

Work Capability Assessment RET0452

Rights to NHS Treatments RET0251

Work and mental illness: getting back to

Schizoaffective Disorder RET0111

work RET0237

Schizophrenia RET0113 Section 117 Care and aftercare RET0367 Second Opinions RET0123 Self Harm RET0116 Smoking RET0163 Spirituality and mental illness RET0232 Stress management RET0118 Studying and mental illness RET0119 Suicide prevention RET0126

Download for free!

The Rethink Advice and Information Service provides factsheets for people affected by mental illness. Order on 0845 456 0455 or download free from www.mentalhealthshop.org These are regularly updated, and can be downloaded and printed in single copies directly from Mental Health Shop. Alternatively they can be ordered for free, although charges do apply for multiple copies (see order form at rear)

Suicide? Read this first RET0127 Supported Housing part 1 RET0262

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pens, badges and t-shirts Balloons! £3.50 for 20 RET0020

free Rethink Refocus poster set RET0379 Set of three individual A3 posters (Shown Rethink Circle Stickers £2.50 for a pack of 48 RET0318

from top): Seven principles of good practice, The Rethink Plan 2008 - 2011 and Our beliefs. These new posters are printed on 100% recycled paper.

Sold in a set of three (one of each poster).

Rethink T-shirts £5.99 each Available in pink, blue and yellow. Sizes Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large. (Please specify when ordering)

Rethink Enamel Badge £1.99 RET0003

Rethink branded Cotton Bags £2.99 RET0333

Rethink Button Badges £4.99 for a pack of 20 RET0270

Rethink Notelets RET0286 A pack of 10 cards. Design by ‗Anne‘ who uses the Rethink Eastleigh Court service in Taunton. Blank inside so perfect as birthday, thank you or sympathy cards.

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Rethink Mug RET0323 Ceramic mug with a blue band featuring the Rethink logo and web address. Great promotional tool, ideal to have in every

Rethink branded sticky notes £4.50 RET0208

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office and

Rethink branded cardboard slip folders. Perfect for conferences and

Promotional Card £4.99 for 50 RET0292

formal events A4 £1.99 RET0267 A5 £1.25 RET0244

Rethink Pens! £3.99 for 10 RET0447 Pens (recycled) £14.99 for a pack of 50 RET0015

A2 Joining Poster £3.50 for 5 RET0112

Young People Posters £1.99 for pack of 6 RET0248 A set of 6 different A6-sized posters designed and featuring young Rethink service users.

Campaign Poster £3.50 for 5 RET0248 A set of 5 A2-sized campaign posters for £3.50. The poster addresses the stigma of mental illness.

rethink, revitalise, recover, rebuild, restore website postcard £2 for pack of 20 RET0221 mouse mat £1.50 each RET0195 Prejudice, ignorance fear postcard ‗together we can cure the 3 biggest mental health problems ‘ £2.50 for pack of 25 RET0043 19

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