Library Services and the Student Counselling and Mental Health Service have worked collaboratively to bring students and staff the following selection of self-help resources. This includes a large selection of books recommended by Reading Well, Books on Prescription, a scheme supported by research and endorsed by health professionals. Titles address common issues and mental health conditions and are designed to help you understand and manage your mental health and wellbeing. Resources are intended to be used either as stand-alone self-help or to compliment counselling or mental health support.
If you have any personal or academic matters that are causing you distress or a diagnosed mental health condition, contact the Student Counselling & Mental Health Service for emotional and practical support.
If you are a member of staff the Staff Counselling Service can be accessed through the Occupational Health Service.
You can also find some of these titles, and more books on wellbeing, in City Library's OverDrive collection. Titles are available in e-book or audio-book format.
Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Your toolkit to modify mood, overcome obstructions and improve your life
Quiet the mind: an illustrated guide on how to meditate
Mindful compassion: how the science of compassion can help you understand your emotions, live in the present, and connect deeply with others
The compassionate mind workbook
The compassionate mind approach to building self-confidence
The compassionate mind approach to recovering from trauma
The compassionate mind approach to managing your anger: using compassion focused therapy
The compassionate mind approach to difficult emotions
Stress control: A mind, body, life approach to boosting your well-being
The essential guide to life after bereavement: beyond tomorrow
The sleep book: how to sleep well every night
Overcoming social anxiety and shyness
An Introduction to coping with grief
Overcoming anger and irritability
Grief works: stories of life, death and surviving
Overcoming low self-esteem
The Sheldon short guide to phobias and panic
Overcoming depression
Break free from OCD
Manage your mood: how to use behavioral activation techniques to overcome depression
The CBT Handbook: A comprehensive guide to using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to overcome depression, anxiety and anger
Overcoming anxiety
Mind over mood: change how you feel by changing the way you think
Overcoming panic
Overcoming health anxiety
Getting better bite by bite: a survival kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders
The compassionate mind approach to postnatal depression
Overcoming mood swings
Overcoming binge eating: the proven program to learn why you binge and how you can stop
Defeating depression: How to use the people in your life to open the door to recovery
I had a black dog: his name was depression
The recovery letters: addressed to people experiencing depression
A mindfulness guide for the frazzled
A manual for heartache: how to feel better
The boy with the topknot: a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton
Reasons to stay alive
We're all mad here: the no-nonsense guide to living with social anxiety
Living with a black dog
How to feel better: practical ways to recover well from illness and injury
Self-management of long term health conditions: a handbook for people with chronic disease
Overcoming chronic fatigue
Fighting fatigue: a practical guide to managing the symptoms of CFS/ME
Overcoming chronic pain
Pain is really strange
Manage your pain: practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain
An introduction to coping with insomnia and sleep problems
The sleep book: how to sleep well every night
Coping with the psychological effects of illness
Mindfulness for health: a practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing
Go your Crohn way: a gutsy guide to living with Crohn's disease
Exercise your way to health: arthritis : exercise plans to improve your life
Diabetes for dummies
Irritable bowel syndrome: navigating your way to recovery
Arthritis: a practical guide to getting on with your life
The selfish pig's guide to caring: how to cope with the emotional and practical aspects of caring for someone
The carer's handbook: essential information and support for all those in a caring role