Dyslexia and Mental Health: Helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope

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.