Eli the Bipolar Bear
Author: Sharon Bracken
Publisher: Child Heroes Publishing
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974656823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEli the polar bear learns to deal with his bipolar disorder.
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Bipolar; The Elements of Bipolar Disorder
Author: Jay Carter
Publisher: Jay Carter
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780937004135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn easy to read little book on Bipolar Disorder, Written in plain English for people with Bipolar Disorder, family members, and therapists. Feedback is that it is a very illuminating book and people have said (Bipolars and therapists) "I finally understand Bipolar Disorder."
Ensouling Our Schools
Author: Jennifer Katz
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Published: 2018-06-04
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1553797442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an educational milieu in which standards and accountability hold sway, schools can become places of stress, marginalization, and isolation instead of learning communities that nurture a sense of meaning and purpose. In Ensouling Our Schools, author Jennifer Katz weaves together methods of creating schools that engender mental, spiritual, and emotional health while developing intellectual thought and critical analysis. Kevin Lamoureux contributes his expertise regarding Indigenous approaches to mental and spiritual health that benefit all students and address the TRC Calls to Action.
Qualitative Research from Start to Finish, First Edition
Author: Robert K. Yin
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2011-09-26
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1606239783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively, practical text presents a fresh and comprehensive approach to doing qualitative research. The book offers a unique balance of theory and clear-cut choices for customizing every phase of a qualitative study. A scholarly mix of classic and contemporary studies from multiple disciplines provides compelling, field-based examples of the full range of qualitative approaches. Readers learn about adaptive ways of designing studies, collecting data, analyzing data, and reporting findings. Key aspects of the researcher's craft are addressed, such as fieldwork options, the five phases of data analysis (with and without using computer-based software), and how to incorporate the researcher's “declarative” and “reflective” selves into a final report. Ideal for graduate-level courses, the text includes:* Discussions of ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology, feminist research, and other approaches.* Instructions for creating a study bank to get a new study started.* End-of-chapter exercises and a semester-long, field-based project.* Quick study boxes, research vignettes, sample studies, and a glossary.* Previews for sections within chapters, and chapter recaps.* Discussion of the place of qualitative research among other social science methods, including mixed methods research.
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Author: Robert Whitaker
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-04-13
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307452433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news. In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Interwoven with Whitaker’s groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, other societies have begun to alter their use of psychiatric medications and are now reporting much improved outcomes . . . so why can’t such change happen here in the United States? Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public? Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up. Praise for Anatomy of an Epidemic “The timing of Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic, a comprehensive and highly readable history of psychiatry in the United States, couldn’t be better.”—Salon “Anatomy of an Epidemic offers some answers, charting controversial ground with mystery-novel pacing.”—TIME “Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an Epidemic should be required reading for anyone considering extended use of psychiatric medicine. Whitaker is at the height of his powers.” —Greg Critser, author of Generation Rx
It's Complicated
Author: Danah Boyd
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0300166311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
A Bear Among Sheep
Author: Jerrimiah Stonecastle
Publisher: Stonecastle Publications LLC.
Published: 2019-07-10
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1079605142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey made a big mistake putting an animal in a prison full of killers. All Master Gunnery Sergeant John "Bear" Walker wanted to do was to celebrate his returns from three tours overseas with his fellow marine and childhood best friend, Michael Green. But a jealous husband, a loose wife, and a group of skinheads made a quiet night at the Boars Head Tavern turn into a blood bath, where John might have won the battle, but would soon be in for the fight of his life.
Animal Madness
Author: Laurel Braitman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-06-10
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1451627009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds"--
Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom
Author: Elizabeth E. Root MSW, MS Ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-09-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0313381232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a warning that American children are receiving increased chemical treatment from psychiatrists and provides a primer on how to improve the emotional health of kids without drugs. "Maelstrom" is an apt metaphor for the inexorable deterioration many children experience inside the mental health system. Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological Labels and "Therapeutic" Drugs Hurt Children and Families challenges current treatment practices and addresses the critically important issue of excessive prescribing of psychiatric medications to children. This encyclopedic work reveals "inside the system" information, emphasizing the theoretical divide at the root of the controversy over diagnosis and treatment. It explains how the 1990s, "decade of the brain" replaced talk therapy with biochemical treatments, leading to the hegemony of the pharmaceutical industry—and subsequently the massive drugging of children. Author Elizabeth E. Root details common diagnoses and treatments, explaining up-to-date brain research, with some surprising interpretations, and noting dangerous national precedents to mental screening. Finally, she illuminates pathways toward solutions and healthier families, sharing nonpsychiatric explanations for the nation's increase of troubled children and the rationale and research supporting non-drug, alternative approaches to childhood distress.
In the Fellowship of His Suffering
Author: Elahe Hessamfar
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1630874671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Schizophrenia" is by many accounts the most devastating illness of our time. In this book, Elahe Hessamfar uses her personal encounter with her daughter's illness to bring the reader to experience the pain and anguish of those who suffer so intensely. She candidly discusses the gripping and dark realities her family has faced in the midst of this journey and exposes that the ride isn't easy, but it can be fruitful and purposeful, and it can be a journey of joy and peace if understood from the intended perspective. This is a fascinating and deeply theological portrayal of madness under the mighty hand of God. It challenges and awakens the reader to a heightened awareness about self, community, pain, brokenness, sin, grace, and redemption. This is the first truly biblically based, theological interpretation of madness in conversation with psychiatry and social sciences. Hessamfar passionately discusses the shortcomings of our current medical model of mental illness and directs the reader's attention to the mistreatment of those the medical community labels with "schizophrenia." She argues that not only is "schizophrenia" not pathological but it touches on the most fundamental fragilities of the human soul, and hence, it is a critical pastoral issue. Hessamfar offers tangible, inspiring, and life-changing solutions for those dealing with this most elusive and mysterious phenomenon--solutions that would bring hope and healing to the hopeless people chained in the abyss of madness.
