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Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
A well-written gloss of the current attitudes and practices in mental health. The stories of a number of young adults who have dealt with issues such as schizophrenia and intergenerational trauma make the book very accessible and the tone of the writing echoes this.

Thank you to Orca Books for the free review copy.
 
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fionaanne | 6 reseñas más. | Nov 11, 2021 |
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Canadian author Melanie Siebert provides vital reference material in easy-to-read style for young people. Her book is called Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health. On her Twitter account she promotes her book as follows: “Sending this out into the world with love in my heart for all the youth who are struggling, feeling overwhelmed or weird or broken. This book is for you.”

There's an abundance of topics relating to young people's mental health, and this book hits on a wide variety of them. Helpful suggestions are offered about severe depression that can sometimes lead to suicide. One of them directs the reader to an online resource that was created by suicide attempt survivor Dese'Rae Stage. Many stories of people who attempted to kill themselves can be found at www.livethroughthis.com.

That's only one of the many resources offered for readers who may need to explore facts, or who need help. At the back of the book more than 50 mental health references are listed that are accessible on the Internet.

Ms. Siebert looks at how mental illness was handled not all that long ago. At one time Bethlem Royal Hospital in London heartlessly treated mental problems as a curiosity, charging people just to gawk at patients. Times thankfully have changed, and by the 1950's and 1960's mentally ill people were starting to be moved out of institutionalized settings.

It should be obvious that we have a long way to go if we are to give mental illness the attention it truly deserves. A look at the transient encampments on the streets of our large cities is cause for remorse over how we view and treat, or don't treat, mental problems. Perhaps Seibert's book will instill in today's youth some fresh ideas about how things can further improve. The facts that are presented about mental illness are important ones for young readers to chew on. Perhaps some of her readers will be inspired to come up with new ideas related to solutions.
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JamesBanzer | 6 reseñas más. | Dec 8, 2020 |
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This is YA book on mental health that explains the history of mental services and gives examples of different diagnoses in terms that easily understandable. This book should be read by any young person, as well as their parents.
 
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kerryp | 6 reseñas más. | Jul 4, 2020 |
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I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I'm grateful for the publishers for the opportunity to read this. Also as a kind of disclaimer, I am a mentally ill person with a variety of diagnoses around trauma.

This was a fairly basic introduction, a little bit scattershot in how much it tried to cover, though the parts about Indigenous healing and culturally competent care were interesting. There were a couple gaps in this, the biggest one for me being around police and police work. Siebert talks about the rate of police violence against people with mental illness, but then goes in to talk about how police are being trained to be better and the good work they're doing. Given that most of the mentally ill people killed by police are BIPOC, it seems to me disingenuous and dangerous to represent police as anything other than incredibly dangerous, and I don't think putting in a single cop doing "good work" outweighs just how horrific interactions between police and folks with mental illness, especially racialized folks, are. Another gap for me was a lack of discussion around racialization and diagnosis; it seems significant to me that the Black people whose experiences she wrote about/talked to were diagnosed as schizoaffective, especially given the history of using the diagnosis of schizophrenia to incarcerate Black people and invalidate their experiences of racism.

There were still some good parts, though I think the most interesting parts of this book were literally sidelined; I deeply appreciated the inclusion of sections about harm reduction and mad pride, as I think those are things that it's very important for teenagers to learn about early on, as it could be life-saving; I think taking them more seriously, especially speaking to someone who identifies as mad or is a psychiatric survivor about involuntary hospitalization might have helped address some of the ambivalence that Siebert herself expressed in the book. Finally, I think an actual look inside at what hospitalization might look like could help demystify that process for teenagers, and might make them more likely to consider it as an option in a time when their agency is already so limited and giving up even more of it is often a terrifying process.

Overall it wasn't a bad book, and I think could be a useful starter to a larger conversation, but there were definitely parts that I had serious misgivings about and would adjust or supplement if using this book with actual teenagers.
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aijmiller | 6 reseñas más. | May 8, 2020 |

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