Living with Mental Disorder

<p>This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers. Systematically reviewing the qualitative research conducted on living with a mental disorder this text coalesces a large body of knowledge and centers on those disorders that have sufficient qualitative research to synthesize including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder autism intellectual disabilities mood disorders schizophrenia and dementia. </p><p>Supported by numerous quotes the text explores the perspective of those suffering with a mental disorder and their caregivers discovering their experience of burden their understanding of and the meaning they give to their disorder the strengths and coping they have used to manage as well as their interactions with the formal treatment system and the use of medication. </p><p>This book will be of immense value to students practitioners and academics that support study and treat people in mental distress and their families.</p>