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Dyslexia and mental health : helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope

Alexander-Passe, NeilAston, Pennie(Foreword by)Ryan, Michael(Foreword by)
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Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life.

Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to withdraw and to adopt negative coping strategies, particularly if they lack adequate support, identification and intervention.

This can have lasting impact on their emotional health. Neil Alexander-Passe is an experienced researcher and a special needs teacher in secondary mainstream education.

He also has dyslexia. Neil uses his personal and professional experience to shed light on the complexities surrounding dyslexia and examines psychological theories such as ego-defence mechanisms and learned helplessness that reveal how people deal with its emotional impact.

He offers guidelines and advice, illustrated with real life examples, about how to help people with dyslexia avoid harmful coping strategies and learn to deal with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem in more effective and psychologically positive ways. This book will help educational and clinical psychologists, teachers, mental health specialists, counsellors and therapists understand the emotional complexities of dyslexia.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
1849055823 / 9781849055826
Paperback / softback
21/08/2015
United Kingdom
English
264 pages
24 cm