BREAKTHROUGH - Moving beyond YOUR mental-illness diagnosis to YOUR Highest-Functioning Outcome
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The goal of this book is two fold: to educate the family member and / or caregiver about their loved ones disease, and second, to equip the reader with identified strategies to assist them in helping their loved one navigate through their mental illness diagnosis successfully and to live a high-functioning life. The book begins by introducing the reader to mom, Savannah Rutledge, and her son, Adam P. Rutledge, who today is a practicing attorney living successfully with a bipolar diagnosis.Meet, Linda Denke, PhD, who dialogues and walks alongside her reader as together they navigate the mental-health system. As a nurse leader and national speaker, she recently presented at the 2014 American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the Magnet Recognition Program which credential nursing best practices and success strategies worldwide. Her contributions include mental health nursing education, training,coaching, mentoring, innovation, clinical excellence, and research aficionado.Dr. Denke takes us through an intensely personal and at times frightening and heartbreaking experience of a mother learning of her sons diagnosis with mental illness. We are then offered hope as she shares a very practical step-by-step approach which families can use to fully engage in the process of recovery withtheir loved one. This is a must read for those willing to share in both the challenges and the joys of a path to achieve a high functioning outcome.-Sherry Cusumano, MS, RN, LCDCExecutive Director of Community Education and Clinical DevelopmentPresident of NAMI DallasNAMI TX Board of Directors and Vice Chair of the Public Policy CommitteeLinda Denke, Ph.D., has written an excellent book from the perspective of a highly educated and intelligent health professional with the personal experience of having had serious mental illness in her immediate family. She puts forth well thought out strategies for families to assist them in dealing with these conditions. Her Found Appro
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