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A large body of research has established a causal relationship
between experiences of racial discrimination and adverse effects on
mental and physical health. In Measuring the Effects of Racism,
Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse offer a manual for mental
health professionals on how to understand, assess, and treat the
effects of racism as a psychological injury. Carter and Pieterse
provide guidance on how to recognize the psychological effects of
racism and racial discrimination. They propose an approach to
understanding racism that connects particular experiences and
incidents with a person's individual psychological and emotional
response. They detail how to evaluate the specific effects of
race-based encounters that produce psychological distress and
possibly impairment or trauma. Carter and Pieterse outline
therapeutic interventions for use with individuals and groups who
have experienced racial trauma, and they draw attention to the
importance of racial awareness for practitioners. The book features
a racial-trauma assessment toolkit, including a race-based
traumatic-stress symptoms scale and interview schedule. Useful for
both scholars and practitioners, including social workers,
educators, and counselors, Measuring the Effects of Racism offers a
new framework of race-based traumatic stress that helps legitimize
psychological reactions to experiences of racism.
Multidisciplinary authors provide a holistic overview Details the
key principles and models of cancer-related distress Guides through
assessment and treatment Illustrated with case studies Printable
tools for clinical use Psychosocial oncology is a health psychology
specialty that focuses on the psychological, behavioral, emotional,
and social challenges faced by patients with cancer and their loved
ones. Cancer can cause significant distress, and psychosocial
interventions are known to be effective for helping patients and
families navigate the many issues that can arise at any stage of
the cancer continuum. This volume provides psychologists,
physicians, social workers, and other health care providers with
practical and evidence-based guidance on the delivery of
psychological interventions to patients with cancer. The
multidisciplinary team of authors succinctly present the key
principles, history, and theoretical models of cancer-related
distress. They then move on to explore clinical assessment and
interventions in cancer care, in particular psychological and
psychiatric treatments, multidisciplinary care management, and
complementary supportive interventions. Case vignettes give the
reader insight into diagnostic processes and effective treatment
planning. Practitioners will find the printable handout and
screening tool for clients invaluable in their daily work.
The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter—and how a young acquaintance mangled a quotation from Virgil through fears that his girlfriend might be pregnant—it brings together a treasure trove of muddled memories, inadvertent actions, and verbal tangles. Amusing, moving, and deeply revealing of the repressed, hypocritical Viennese society of his day, Freud's dazzling interpretations provide the perfect introduction to psychoanalytic thinking in action.
An expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to
focus specifically on the theoretical and clinical issues
associated with trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates
the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It
presents key developments in the conceptualization of trauma and
covers a wide range of clinical treatments. Trauma features
coverage of emerging therapeutic modalities and clinical themes,
focusing on the experiences of historically disenfranchised,
marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups. Clinical chapters
discuss populations and themes including cultural and historical
trauma among Native Americans, the impact of bullying on children
and adolescents, the use of art therapy with traumatically bereaved
children, historical and present-day trauma experiences of
incarcerated African American women, and the effects of trauma
treatment on the therapist. Other chapters examine trauma-related
interventions derived from diverse theoretical frameworks, such as
cognitive-behavioral theory, attachment theory, mindfulness theory,
and psychoanalytic theory.
"A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a
mental illness...Earley has used his considerable skills to
meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly
broken."-Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former
Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about
the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in
the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he
learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This
is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at
bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer
confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of
treatment, in the "revolving doors" between hospital and jail. With
mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients
are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the
horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that
experience-and into that of a father and award-winning journalist
trying to fight for a better way.
A revealing memoir about living with Asperger's syndrome that is by
turns laugh-out-loud funny and achingly sad. It is only when he is
diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, at the age of 55, that Tom
Cutler's life starts to make sense - his accidental rudeness, his
strange obsessions (including road signs and Sherlock Holmes), his
unusual way of dressing, and his trouble in company. In this moving
memoir, Tom explores his eccentric behaviour from boyhood to
manhood, examines the role of autism in his family, and
investigates the scientific explanations for his condition.
Eloquent, witty, and insightful, Keep Clear ultimately shows why
the day Tom received his diagnosis turned out to be the happiest
day of his life.
Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When
Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused to accept
the conventional wisdom that autism was largely permanent, instead
launching a relentless investigation into the very latest dietary,
immunological, and metabolic research available. "I certainly had
no reason to believe at that time that autism was treatable," she
writes, "but somehow I decided, in my classically pigheaded way,
that it would be." This spirited audacity gave her not only
courage,and ultimately success,in the face of such a devastating
diagnosis, but also a self-aware and darkly funny perspective on
her own faults and struggles over the next six years.With equal
parts defiance, tenacity, and wry humour, No Map to This Country
details one family's journey through the modern autism epidemic,
and the lengths to which a mother will go to heal her family.
Neither a medical manual nor a heartwarming tale of growth,
Noonan's ground-breaking yet profoundly relatable memoir seamlessly
combines cutting-edge research with a gripping and unapologetic
account of her family's fight for recovery.
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains
that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told
through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has
made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her
childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work
became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill,
the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best
friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes
very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to
Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to
tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her
best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work. Visceral,
intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's
descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants,
seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven
every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the
complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come
from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of
discovering who you are.
I'm So Glad You're Here is the story of a family disrupted by
ramifications of a father's mental illness. The memoir opens with a
riveting account of Gay, age eighteen, witnessing her father being
bound in a straitjacket and carried out of the house on a
stretcher. The trauma she experiences escalates when, after her
father has had electroshock treatments at a state mental hospital,
her parents leave her in a college dorm room and move from
Massachusetts to Florida without her. She feels abandoned. Both her
parents have gone missing. Decades later, when Gay and her three
much-older siblings show up for their father's funeral, she
witnesses her sundered family's inability to gather together.
Eventually, she is diagnosed with PTSD of abandonment and treated
with EMDR therapy-and finally begins to heal. Poignant and
powerful, I'm So Glad You're Here is Gay's exploration of the idea
that while the wounds we carry from growing up in fractured
families stay with us, they do not have to control us-a reflective
journey that will inspire readers to think about their own
relational lives.
Nearly one million people take their own lives each year world-wide
- however, contrary to popular belief, suicide can be prevented.
While suicide is commonly thought to be an understandable reaction
to severe stress, it is actually an abnormal reaction to regular
situations. Something more than unbearable stress is needed to
explain suicide, and neuroscience shows what this is, how it is
caused and how it can be treated. Professor Kees van Heeringen
describes findings from neuroscientific research on suicide, using
various approaches from population genetics to brain imaging.
Compelling evidence is reviewed that shows how and why genetic
characteristics or early traumatic experiences may lead to a
specific predisposition that makes people vulnerable to triggering
life events. Neuroscientific studies are yielding results that
provide insight into how the risk of suicide may develop;
ultimately demonstrating how suicide can be prevented.
I Am Me is a courageous story offered as a gift of hope,
inspiration, and love to anyone whose life is affected by an autism
spectrum diagnosis-a candid and moving personal narrative about
raising a child with the devastating diagnosis. One out of 68
children today are diagnosed with autism. One of those happens to
be Marlene Ringler's son. Yesterday's autistic child is today's
autistic adult. As mothers, women worry about just what will happen
to their child when they are no longer around to provide guidance
and support. Who will look after him? Who will care? Who will love
my son? Marlene Ringler directly addresses those very human
questions as she pays special attention to research findings and
current investigations into the spectrum disorder. Her journey
provides a firsthand look at the highs and lows of raising a son
with this diagnosis, leading towards a greater understanding of how
recognition of an autistic diagnosis can be viewed as part of our
human condition. I Am Me is a straightforward, honest, and touching
story of how a family copes when one member is on the spectrum. It
is a journey told through the prism of a mother who offers hope,
belief, and conviction that the life of a child with autism can and
should be fulfilling and rewarding.
Nearly one million people take their own lives each year world-wide
- however, contrary to popular belief, suicide can be prevented.
While suicide is commonly thought to be an understandable reaction
to severe stress, it is actually an abnormal reaction to regular
situations. Something more than unbearable stress is needed to
explain suicide, and neuroscience shows what this is, how it is
caused and how it can be treated. Professor Kees van Heeringen
describes findings from neuroscientific research on suicide, using
various approaches from population genetics to brain imaging.
Compelling evidence is reviewed that shows how and why genetic
characteristics or early traumatic experiences may lead to a
specific predisposition that makes people vulnerable to triggering
life events. Neuroscientific studies are yielding results that
provide insight into how the risk of suicide may develop;
ultimately demonstrating how suicide can be prevented.
When readers first meet Ben, he is a sweet, intelligent, seemingly
well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years, though,
and Ben's life has spun out of control. Ben is swept along by an
illness over which he has no control one that results in runaway
episodes, periods of homelessness, seven psychotic breaks, seven
hospitalizations, and finally a diagnosis and treatment plan that
begins to work. Schizophrenia strikes an estimated one in a hundred
people worldwide by some estimates, and yet understanding of the
illness is lacking. Through Ben's experiences, and those of his
mother and sister, who supported Ben through every stage of his
illness and treatment, readers gain a better understanding of
schizophrenia, as well as mental illness in general, and the way it
affects individuals and families. Here, Kaye encourages families to
stay together and find strength while accepting the reality of a
loved one's illness; she illustrates, through her experiences as
Ben's mother, the delicate balance between letting go and staying
involved. She honors the courage of anyone who suffers with mental
illness and is trying to improve his life and participate in his
own recovery. Ben Behind His Voices also reminds professionals in
the psychiatric field that every patient who comes through their
doors has a life, one that he has lost through no fault of his own.
It shows what goes right when professionals treat the family as
part of the recovery process and help them find support, education,
and acceptance. And it reminds readers that those who suffer from
mental illness, and their families, deserve respect, concern, and
dignity."
"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the
human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so
often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait,
too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in
which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people
lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny's careful
historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions
give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be
lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us." --Oliver Sacks
"Fascinating...The haunting thing about the suitcase owners is that
it's so easy to identify with them." --Newsweek When Willard State
Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New
York State's largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a
forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients
was discovered. Using the possessions found in these suitcases
along with institutional records and doctors' notes from patient
sessions, Darby Penney, a leading advocate of patients' rights, and
Peter Stastny, a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker, were able
to reconstruct the lives of ten patients who resided at Willard
during the first half of the twentieth century. The Lives They Left
Behind tells their story. In addition to these human portraits, the
book contains over 100 photographs as well as valuable historical
background on how this state-funded institution operated. As it
restores the humanity of the individuals it so poignantly evokes,
The Lives They Left Behind reveals the vast historical inadequacies
of a psychiatric system that has yet to heal itself.
This great book offers an up-to-date overview of how gender and
sexuality affect mental health. It will help women to self-identify
and self-manage the symptoms of mental ill health. The book covers
a wide range of specific mental health disorders - many of which
are more common in women - and includes real-life case studies, the
latest treatments and where to find further help and support. It's
written in an easy-to-read format to give an invaluable guide for
women.
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