Reading Well launches new Mental Health Booklist featuring Routledge and Guilford Press

Taylor & Francis Group is delighted to announce that three titles, one from Routledge and two from Guilford Press, will appear on the new Reading Well Adult Mental Health Booklist. Getting Better Bite by Bite (Second Edition), Mind Over Mood (Second Edition) and Overcoming Binge Eating (Second Edition) are all included on the booklist that launched on the 5th June.

Reading Well is a book subscription scheme aimed at helping you understand and manage your health and well-being using self-help reading. It has recently been recognized by the Royal Society of Public Health as a finalist for the 2017 Public Mental Health and Wellbeing Award along with being supported by a range of charities, public health organizations and societies.

The booklist supporting common mental health conditions has reached over 778,00 people across the UK since its launch in 2013, proving an invaluable resource for the public to be able to access.

Debbie Hicks, Creative Director of The Reading Agency, says: “We are delighted to be launching the new strand of this life changing programme, which uses the proven power of reading to help people manage their mental health and wellbeing. 1 in 4 of us will face a mental health issue at some point in our lives; this scheme, quality assured by medical professionals and people with lived experience, provides a much needed, trusted source of information.”

Neil MacInnes, President of the Society of Chief Librarians, adds: “Since its launch in 2013, Reading Well has reached hundreds of thousands of library users and helped to demonstrate how much libraries contribute to health and wellbeing at a local and national level. We are immensely proud to work with The Reading Agency to deliver this new strand of the programme, which has been widely endorsed by health professionals, as part of our Universal Health Offer in libraries.”

Joanne Forshaw, Publisher, Routledge adds ‘Routledge is very proud to be part of the Reading Well scheme, and delighted that Getting Better Bite by Bite has been chosen for inclusion on the Adult Mental Health booklist. This is a great book that has helped thousands, written by two experts in the field.’

Full details of the books are included below:

Getting Better Bite by Bite:  A Survival Kit For Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders, Second Edition by Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure, June Alexander

Mind over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing The Way You Think, Second Edition by Dennis Greenberger, Christine A. Padesky

Overcoming Binge Eating: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop, Second Edition by Christopher G. Fairburn