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Hi all! Long-time lurker, first-time poster here.
I’m a clinical psych postdoc, mostly doing OCD/PTSD/anxiety treatment, but that’s really here nor there for this post. In my free time (which I actually have now!), I do a lot of work for a books-to-prisoners org, and I was wondering if I could crowdsource some resources.
We get a lot of letters from incarcerated people looking for psych resources. Usually, the requests are pretty general: “mental health,” “self-help,” “psychology,” and so on. Once in a while, we get a request for the DSM, and once in a blue moon, we get a request for a specific concern, like PTSD or bipolar disorder. For context: our library is about 90% donated, and we’re an all-volunteer org, top-to-bottom. My fellow volunteers have let me vet most of the psych/mental health books that come in, and they’re also mostly willing to hear me when I go, no that’s pseudoscience; throw it out.
We have bookshop and thriftbooks wishlists, and I’ve cultivated a short wishlist of mental health books and resources – mostly a lot of ACT, mindfulness/MBSR, stuff like Feeling Good, etc. We get some donated psychology 101 textbooks, and I’m on the hunt for these at every little free library I see. But I was wondering if you all had other suggestions for evidence-based books or resources that would be accessible and applicable to people who are incarcerated.
Thanks so much!
I’m a clinical psych postdoc, mostly doing OCD/PTSD/anxiety treatment, but that’s really here nor there for this post. In my free time (which I actually have now!), I do a lot of work for a books-to-prisoners org, and I was wondering if I could crowdsource some resources.
We get a lot of letters from incarcerated people looking for psych resources. Usually, the requests are pretty general: “mental health,” “self-help,” “psychology,” and so on. Once in a while, we get a request for the DSM, and once in a blue moon, we get a request for a specific concern, like PTSD or bipolar disorder. For context: our library is about 90% donated, and we’re an all-volunteer org, top-to-bottom. My fellow volunteers have let me vet most of the psych/mental health books that come in, and they’re also mostly willing to hear me when I go, no that’s pseudoscience; throw it out.
We have bookshop and thriftbooks wishlists, and I’ve cultivated a short wishlist of mental health books and resources – mostly a lot of ACT, mindfulness/MBSR, stuff like Feeling Good, etc. We get some donated psychology 101 textbooks, and I’m on the hunt for these at every little free library I see. But I was wondering if you all had other suggestions for evidence-based books or resources that would be accessible and applicable to people who are incarcerated.
Thanks so much!
