Mental Health Interventions in Everyday Life

Beyond Psychotherapy to Reduce Symptoms of Mental Disorders and Improve Wellbeing
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-777365-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 150 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Around the world, people are facing high and rising levels of mental health problems. There exist effective treatments, but they largely are not reaching people in need. In Mental Health Interventions in Everyday Life, renowned Alan E. Kazdin examines how the integration of a set of everyday solutions can help people deal with depression, anxiety, loneliness, social isolation, and stress.

Kazdin digs deep into the scientific evidence number and everyday to illuminate their ability to directly reduce the symptoms of mental disorders and other conditions that impair functioning. These everyday interventions range from physical activities like exercise, contact with nature, and diet, to social activities like volunteering, hobbies, and contact with pets. Mental Health Interventions in Everyday Life proposes integrating physical, mental, spiritual and social practices into the daily lives of individuals facing mental health problems can help move mental health practice outside of the clinical context, while serving a wide array of people who are currently underserved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kazdin, Alan E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Abbreviations and Terminology

- About the Author

- PART I. Background: Mental Health Problems and their Treatment

- Chapter 1 Introduction

- Chapter 2 The Mental Health Crisis

- Chapter 3 How Come So Few People Receive Treatment

- Chapter 4 Effective Treatments are Available, Sort of

- PART II. Reducing the Treatment Gap With Interventions from Everyday Life

- Chapter 5 Selection of Interventions from Everyday Life

- Chapter 6 Physical Activity and Exercise and Diet and Nutrition

- Chapter 7 Mind-Body Interventions

- Chapter 8: Spirituality and Religion

- Chapter 9 Contact With Nature, Pets, and Other Nonhuman Animals

- Chapter 10 Social Contact and Support, Volunteering, and Hobbies and Leisure Activities

- Chapter 11 Digital and Technological Means of Delivering Interventions

- PART III. Integration: Key Challenges, Contexts, and Next Steps

- Ch 12 Challenges, Contexts, and Constraints

- Ch 13 Expanding Conceptual and Intervention Options

- Ch 14 Recommendations and Next Steps

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan E. Kazdin is Sterling Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry (emeritus) at Yale University. His work focuses on world mental health and the treatment of mental disorders. His 850+ publications include 51 books, with a focus on parenting, research methodology, and evidence-based treatments. His work on parenting has been featured on NPR, PBS, BBC, and CNN, and he has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC News, 20/20, and Dr. Phil. In 2008 he was president of the American Psychological Association.