We are working to explore and better understand our mental health and how to work to be a community that supports people in their challenges with mental health. To aid in this, we have complied a list of resources found below:
If you missed hearing Cara Taylor speak about Mental Health, you can listen to her presentation here:
The resources are broken down in five categories:
1. understanding mental health
2. apps for improving mental health
3. faith based resources
4. additional web resources
Apps For Improving Your Mental Health: Apps can be downloaded on the App Store (Mac and iOS devices) and on Google Play (Android and PC devices)
MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
Mindfulness and meditation made simple.
Designed by clinical psychologists, CalmKeeper helps you build skills to manage moments of stress and uncertainty. This app helps you manage panic attacks as they happen.
This app uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy methods for coping with depression, anxiety, anger and stress.
thinkFull helps you manage your stress to enrich your life.
Booster Buddy is a free app to help young people improve their mental health
Faith Based Resources:
http://mentalhealthgracealliance.org/
Providing tools to empower the church to build innovative and simple mental health support.
The Hope for Mental Health Ministry extends the radical friendship of Jesus by providing transforming love, support and hope through the local church.
www.mentalhealthministries.net
Mental Health Ministries was started by a United Methodist Minister who lives with depression and had a vision of producing high quality resources to reduce the stigma of mental illness in our faith communities.
Mind and Soul Foundation aims to educate, through sharing the best of Christian theology and scientific advances; equip, helping people meet with God and recover from emotional distress; and encourage, engaging with the local church and mental health services.
http://www.mentalhealthaccesspack.org/
A reliable, Christian-based resource which presents the facts on key mental health issues–all in one place. The site also points you to other trusted organizations, including Christian charities working in this field.
Book Suggestions:
The Boy in the Moon, Ian Brown
Psychosis and Spirituality, Isabel Clarke
Connecting, Larry Crabb
Living Outside Mental Illness, Larry Davidson
The Church Leader’s Counselling Resource Book, Cynthia Franklin and Rowena Fong
Darkness is my Only Companion, Kathryn Greene-McCreight
An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward, Mark Lukach
Mothers, Daughter and Body Image, Hillary McBride
Be Held, Sue Nickel
The Inner Voice of Love, Henri J.M. Nouwen
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, Christina Pohl
Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, Craig Rennebohm
Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission, Amy Simpson
Resurrecting the Person, John Swinton
Spirituality and Mental Health Care: Rediscovering a Forgotten Dimension, John Swinton
I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This: A Christian Approach to Coping with Anxiety and Depression, Chris Williams, Paul Richards and Ingrid Whitton
How Do I Help a Hurting Friend? Rod J.K. Wilson