Day-after-Day Coping for Individuals and Families - A Workbook Day after Coping with Mental Illness Workbook is first in the Self-help RE-integration Workbook Series. In it, I share some of my tips that helped me cope against impossible odds while struggling to help my son and daughter learn to manage their illnesses. The Workbook provides an overview of the things I did that helped me cope with my son's and daughter's mental illnesses and how practicing the Assignments helped them to cope and now they are moving on with their lives. Day-After-Day Workbook shares with you the different ways you can cope on a daily basis and how to find NEW ways to cope with the challenges of mental illness and move toward successful solutions to ease your struggles to cope as individuals, parents and caregivers. My story has inspired many who are undergoing severe stresses and hardships, a person who is caring for loved ones, or who may be losing hope in the face of unfathomable challenges; my children and I are living proof that there IS hope for effectively coping with mental illnesses. This first Workbook offers you positive, uplifting, exercises of a success story of a parent who is single-handedly caring for her mentally ill son and daughter who at times felt hopeless because they could not cope or find enough ways to cope but now have hope by put into practice all the assignments in this Workbook. I chose to develop this Workbook to encourage individuals, families and caregivers to never give up hope that you too can successfully cope with the stresses, depression, challenges and stigmas that are caused by mental illness. Day-After-Day Workbook provides evidence from a single mom that there is a better, brighter tomorrow as long as you keep your hope, not tire out, not give up, not give in and not give out. Other self-help Workbooks in the RE-integrationTM Series include: -Self-Improvement Workbook -Job Preparation Workbook -How to Keep Your Job Workbook -Trainers' Manual
About the Author: Ms. King's happiness about her ability to help her son and daughter to recover has encouraged her to share the "recovery techniques" she used. She self-published five books titled, "A Letter to Schizophrenia from a Mother," "When Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar Struck - How Woould You cope?," "Coping Skills for Mental wellness," "Coping with Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar and Stigmas," and a self-help Workbook on how to cope titled, "Day After Day Coping with Mental Illness - Support for Individuals and Families." These books tell how she rebuilt her children's lives by helping them with skills that are necessary for coping, managing daily in-home routines, adhering to medical reminders, as well as the increasing joy she felt after each hurdle that marked their movement beyond illness. The experiences gained as the mother of children who are successfully recovering from illnesses, as well as being their full time caregiver, instructor and re-trainer, has enabled her to accumulate many years of expertise. Additionally, her prior experience as a trainer in the private sector has added necessary, unique tools for writing these books. Alyse King also self-published three Self-Help Guides titled, "Reintegrating after Traumatic Life Experience for: "Self Improvement," "Job Preparation," and "How to Keep Your Job." She also wrote and self-published, "A Trainers' Manual for "Self-Improvement, Job Preparation, Job Retention." The Workbooks provide continuing education and training for returning to employment or becoming financially independent, using detailed Motivational Activities designed by I.A. Mohabier, MA to help trainees to visualize their futures. The Workbooks share the systematic techniques that Ms. King used in helping her children to develop personal skills and skills for hunting for a job, securing the job and holding the job. The Trainers' Manual provides guidance to all who wish to develop programs to help others to find work or achieve financial independence. Alyse also wrote "Death - Comfort and Hope - Reflections from Scriptures." She also wrote three additional non-fiction titled, "A 30-Day Online Romance, Based on a true story - Part 1," "Confessions from A 30-Day Online Romance, Based on a true story - Part 2, and "A Follow-Up of Confessions from A 30-Day Online Romance, Based on a true story. Part 3."