Healthy Ireland / Healthy Reading

Healthy Ireland / Healthy Reading

Healthy Ireland at Your Library and Meath Healthy Reading Scheme

Healthy Ireland,a Government-led initiative, is the national strategy to improve health and wellbeing, placing a focus on prevention, individual awareness and keeping people healthy for longer.

The Healthy Ireland at Your Library programme will provide a range of resources, services and support to users and communities throughout Meath.  

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Book Stock | Online Resources | Health Information Services | Programmes and Events

Book Stock

A comprehensive collection of books on health and wellbeing is available in all our branches. The topics covered are:

Healthy Eating | Mental Health | Alcohol | Tobacco | Physical Activity | Parenting | Books for Children and Young People | Positive Aging

Book List

Healthy Eating

The Plan by Aoife Hearne

Your middle years  by Paula Mee & Kate O’Brien

Feed your child well :  babies, toddlers & older children by Therese Dunne, Phyllis Farrell and Valerie Kelly

Healthy Living Handbook by Karl Henry

Healthy Eating to Reduce the Risk of Dementia by Margaret Rayman.

The Low-FODMAP Diet Cookbook: 150 simple and delicious recipes to relieve symptoms of IBS, Crohn’s disease, coeliac disease and other digestive disorders by Sue Shepherd

Mental Health

Coming through Depression by Tony Bates

An Introduction to Coping with Depression by Lee Brosan

An Introduction to Coping with Stress by Lee Brosan

The relaxation and stress reduction workbook by Martha Davis

Mind over mood: Change how you feel by changing the way you think by Dennis Greenberger

An introduction to coping with sleeping problems by Colm Espie

Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment-and Your Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Assert Yourself by Gael Lindenfield

Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing by Burch Vidyamala & Danny Penman

Becoming Your Real Self: A Practical Toolkit for Managing Life’s Challenge by Dr Eddie Murphy

The Life Well Lived: Therapeutic Paths to Recovery and Wellbeing by Prof Jim Lucey

Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook: A Practical Guide to Long-term Recovery by Dr Nicola Davis

Alcohol

Easy Way to Control Alcohol by Allen Carr

The Illustrated Easy Way to Stop Drinking by Allen Carr & Bev Aisbett

Get your loved one sober: alternatives to nagging, pleading and threatening by Robert Meyers

Overcoming Alcohol Misuse by Marcatonio Spada

Tobacco

Stop Smoking with Allen Carr [with audio disc]  by Allen Carr

Allen Carr’s easy way to stop smoking. : be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life. By Allen Carr

Most natural and effective ways to quit smoking: Easy-to-do steps to end the cigarette habit forever  by Allan Doe

Physical Activity

Pilgrim paths in Ireland: A guide  by John G. O’Dwyer

Up and running: your 8-week plan to go from 0-5k and beyond and discover the life-changing power of running!  by Julia Jones and Shauna Reid

Mindful Walking: Walk Your Way to Mental and Physical Well-Being by Hugh O’Donovan

Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way: A Walking Guide by Helen Fairbairn

Ireland’s Best Walks: A Walking Guide by Helen Fairbairn

Navigation in the Mountains: The Definitive Guide for Hill Walkers, Mountaineers & Leaders by Carlo Forte

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Walking for Fitness: make every step count by Nina Barough

The First 20 Minutes: surprising science reveals how we can exercise better, train smarter, live longer by Gretchen Reynolds

This Mum Runs by Jo Pavey

Pilates for Life: How to Improve Strength, Flexibility and Health Over 40 by Dr Lynne Robinson

Sorted: The Active Woman’s Guide to Health by Dr Juliet McGrattan

Parenting

The Incredible Years: A trouble-shooting guide for parents of children aged 2-8 years  by C. Webster-Stratton

Parenting is child’s play by David Coleman

Bully-proof kids: practical tools to help your child grow up confident, resilient and strong by Stella O’Malley

What every parent needs to know: the incredible effects of love, nuture and play on your child’s development by Margaret Sunderland

Parenting from the Inside out by Prof Daniel Siegal

Parenting Teenagers: a guide to solving problems, building relationships and creating harmony in the family by Dr John Sharry

Parenting When Separated by Dr John Sharry

Raising Emotionally Healthy Children by Paul Gilligan

Parents and Digital Technology by S. Haymand and J. Coleman

Children and Young People

 

Blame my Brain by Nicola Morgan

The Teenage Guide to Stress  by Nicola Morgan

Banish Your Self-Esteem: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Building Positive Self-esteem for Young People by Kate Collins-Donnelly

Go Ask Alice

The huge bag of worries  by Virginia Ironside

Positive Ageing

The Challenge of Retirement by Trish Murphy

Ageing and Caring: A Guide for Later Life by Des O’Neill

Ageing: A Very Short Introduction by Nacy Pachana

The Artist’s Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self by Julia Cameron

Sod it! Eat Well: Healthy Eating in your 60s, 70s and Beyond by Muir Gray

Sod Sitting, Get Moving! Get Active in your 60s, 70s and Beyond by Muir Gray

Retirement: The Psychology of reinvention  by Kenneth Shultz

Online Resources

New e-books, e-audiobooks and e-magazines are available to all our members in every library and online.  For more information on how you can avail of these services go to our Online Resources page.

Healthy Ireland eAudiobooks

Healthy Ireland eBooks on BorrowBox 

Health information services

Some of our staff has been trained to provide information guidance and direction to users with health and wellbeing queries and also to promote health awareness in the community. 

Programmes and events

Talks, discussions and workshops with a focus on physical health, mental health and health literacy will be taking place in our branches throughout the year.  Check our Library Events and Facebook pages for updates.

Healthy Ireland events

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Meath Healthy Reading Scheme

The Meath Healthy Reading Scheme is a collaborative venture between the Health Services Executive (HSE) www.hse.ie, Meath Psychology Service and Meath County Council Library Service. The aim of the project is to promote mental health and wellbeing through recommending and making available high quality self-help books.

The subject areas covered by these books are Addiction, Anger, Anorexia, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Binge-Eating & Bulimia, Child Abuse (Adult Survivors, Child Sexual Abuse (Adult Survivors), Dementia, Depression, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Mood Swings, Obsessions & Compulsions, Panic, Postnatal Depression, Post Traumatic Stress, Psychotherapy. Relationship Problems, Schizophrenia, Self Esteem, Sexual Problems, Social Anxiety, Stress, Worry

The Meath scheme involves GPs and other health professionals, such as public health nurses, psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists and community mental health nurses, recommending specific books to their clients from a child and family booklist and an adult booklist.

The health professional simply completes the brief book recommendation form which clients can then bring to their local library to borrow or reserve the book, free of charge. These books can be also be reserved on our online catalogue.

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