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Includes 29 newly written chapters from scholars and activists
around the world. First book to provide an overview of Critical
Autism Studies and explore the different kinds of knowledges and
their articulations, similarities and differences across cultural
contexts and key tensions within this sub-discipline. Of interest
to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, education, health, social care and
political science as well as members of the autistic community and
activists.
Captures the importance of belonging and the need for social
connectedness- a key driver for positive adjustment post-injury.
Highlights the issues around how people with brain injuries are
'managed' in a residential home environment that is predominantly
intended for elderly and frail individuals. Covers a decades-long
timespan of a survivor of brain injury. Provides much needed
support for patients and family members adjusting to life after
brain injury.
Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as
humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when
nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why
do we dream? Do dreams hold psychological meaning or are they
merely the reflection of random brain activity? What purpose do
dreams serve? When Brains Dream addresses these core questions
about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the
field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers,
it debunks common myths-that we only dream in REM sleep, for
example-while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both
the science and experience of dreaming. Antonio Zadra and Robert
Stickgold bring together state-of-the-art neuroscientific ideas and
findings to propose a new and innovative model of dream function
called NEXTUP-Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities. By
detailing this model's workings, they help readers understand key
features of several types of dreams, from prophetic dreams to
nightmares and lucid dreams. When Brains Dream reveals recent
discoveries about the sleeping brain, and the many ways in which
dreams are psychologically and neurologically meaningful
experiences; explores a host of dream-related disorders; and
explains how dreams can facilitate creativity and be a source of
personal insight. Making an eloquent and engaging case for why the
human brain needs to dream, When Brains Dream offers compelling
answers to age-old questions about the mysteries of sleep.
Anxiety Hacks for an Uncertain World is a highly accessible guide
to anxiety disorders. It helps anxiety sufferers regain control by
suggesting an array of useful tactics which when applied can be
life altering. Chapters explore key topics such as phobias, panic
disorders, social anxiety, general anxiety, pandemics, and more.
Additional resources are included in the appendix, such as support
groups, services, and helplines. Using light humor and examples
from their lived experiences the authors relate to readers and
offer useful suggestions to overcome anxiety and understand it.
This book will be essential for anyone suffering from anxiety and
phobias or professionals working with this population. It can be
used on its own or in conjunction with therapy.
Draft patterns and sew clothes that fit your unique body! In this
garment-making primer, sewing is an act of radical kindness and
self-care. Learning to sew for yourself enables you to make exactly
the kinds of clothes you want, and empowers you to solve the fit
issues that come with buying commercial clothing designed to fit
one 'ideal' body type. Sanae Ishida, author of the award-winning
Sewing Happiness, guides you through the process with her inspiring
personal story and gentle instruction in the simple art of
pattern-making and garment sewing. Create a complete capsule
wardrobe of tops, bottoms, dresses, tunics, and outerwear. Each of
the 15 projects (including variations) is designed to look good on
a wide variety of body types - they're fashionable yet timeless,
and let you move with ease. Every pattern is self-drafted (no
printed pattern sheets here - you will learn to draft and customize
basic shapes to your own body measurements for a comfortable fit).
Patternmaking has never been easier than in this intuitive, fully
illustrated book.Includes: Lookbook with photographs of the
projects on diverse models Primer on basic sewing, pattern drafting
(slopers and muslins), and fitting Step-by-step illustrated
instructions for all 15 projects and variations Heartwarming
personal essay on the author's journey to body positivity
We have arrived to a new normal - life after COVID-19. How do we
help those with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities and
those on the autism spectrum return to school or adult services? It
has been a long haul at home! Both the children and the adults are
used to the home environment and routines. Some students have been
out of their school/adult program since March. It is now time to go
back to the normal school/work routine, but what does that "normal"
mean? Schedules are different, structure is not the same and
learning has been interrupted, yet hopefully maintained. How do
parents prepare their child to transition back to school? How do we
get started? This workbook will give you strategies that you should
be putting in place prior to your child going back to school or to
their adult services placement. Each strategy will be explored in
depth with examples to follow so that you and your child will be
prepared for a successful first day when returning to school or
adult program.
In our frenzied culture, the possibility of living in balanced
rhythms of work and rest often feels elusive. This rings especially
true for pastors and leaders who carry the weight of nonstop
responsibility. Most know they need rest but might be surprised to
find within themselves a deep resistance to letting go and resting
in God one day a week, let alone for longer seasons of sabbatical.
The journey to a meaningful sabbath practice is slow and gradual,
and it is a journey we need to take in community. Sharing her own
story of practicing sabbath for the past twenty years, Ruth Haley
Barton offers hard-won wisdom regarding the rhythms of sabbath,
exploring both weekly sabbath keeping as well as extended periods
of sabbatical time. Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest grounds us
in God's intentions in giving us the gift of sabbath, providing
practical steps for embedding sabbath rhythms in churches and
organizations. Each chapter concludes with "What Your Soul Wants to
Say to God," an opportunity to reflect and engage God around your
own journey with the material. Sabbath is more than a practice-it
is a way of life ordered around God's invitation to regular rhythms
of work, rest, and replenishment that will sustain us for the long
haul of life in leadership. Includes a conversation guide for small
groups and communities.
This volume represents a compilation of critically reflexive
thinkers in adaptive physical activity (APA) who have willingly
embraced the uncomfortable issues of ableism, disableism, and
ethically questionable professional practices in the field. From an
unprecedented, frank, and introspective stance, the authors make
the comfortable and taken-for-granted, uncomfortable. International
researchers and educators bring reflexion to ableism in higher
education - including curriculum making, textbooks as artefacts of
the professional landscape in APA, and the models of disability
that unconsciously frame post-secondary instruction in APA.
From its beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, interest in the topic
of gender and migration has grown. Gender and Migration seeks to
introduce the most relevant sociological theories of gender
relations and migration that consider ongoing transnationalization
processes, at the beginning of the third millennium. These include
intersectionality, queer studies, social inequality theory and the
theory of transnational migration and citizenship; all of which are
brought together and illustrated by means of various empirical
examples. With its explicit focus on the gendered structures of
migration-sending and migration-receiving countries, Gender and
Migration builds on the most current conceptual tool of gender
studies-intersectionality-which calls for collective research on
gender with analysis of class, ethnicity/race, sexuality, age and
other axes of inequality in the context of transnational migration
and mobility. The book also includes descriptions of a number of
recommended films that illustrate transnational migrant
masculinities and femininities within and outside of Europe. A
refreshing attempt to bring in considerations of queer theory and
sexual identity in the area of gender migration studies, this
insightful volume will appeal to students and researchers
interested in fields such as sociology, social anthropology,
political science, intersectional studies and transnational
migration.
Adult autism assessment is a new and fast-growing clinical area,
for which professionals often feel ill-equipped. Autistic adults
are often misdiagnosed which has enormous implications for their
mental health. This accessible and comprehensive adult autism
assessment handbook covers the most up to date research and best
practice around adult autism assessment, centering the person's
internal experiences and sense-making in clinical assessment,
rather than subjective observation, thus providing the clinician
with a truly paradigm shifting Neuro-Affirmative approach to autism
assessment. Traditional clinical assessment tools are
comprehensively explored and unpacked to enable the clinician to
have full confidence in aligning traditional criteria to the
Autistic person's subjective experiences. Full of additional
resources like language guidelines and an exploration of the common
intersections between Autistic experience and the effects of
trauma, mental health and more, this book supplies a breadth of
knowledge on key areas that affect Autistic adults in everyday
life. The mixed team of neurotypical and neurodivergent authors
describe lived experience of Autistic adults, a how-to for
conducting Neuro-Affirmative assessments and post-assessment
support, alongside reflections from practice. This book also has a
directory of further resources including downloadable forms that
you can use to prepare for your own assessments and a downloadable
deep dive into Autistic perception. This guide will also support
professionals through every step of the assessment process.
Bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice that has seen her through life's ups and downs.
From her etiquette for bad news to the words of wisdom she would like to pass onto her son, How to Feel Better is full of warm, gentle guidance and comfort for when you need it most.
Previously published as A Manual for Heartache, this revised edition contains a new introduction from Cathy and an inspiring addendum of advice from other authors on what they do to feel better, whatever the world throws their way.
Best-selling author of several books about arthritis, Margaret
Hills here tells the amazing stories of people who have benefited
from her honey and cider vinegar cure. Advice about diet and stress
is also included, so that readers have very real and practical
tools to help them treat their arthritis. Crippled herself with
arthritis, Margaret Hills used her nurse's training and
determination to win back her health. Since then her 'acid-free'
approach has brought relief to thousands. Her daughter, Christine
Horner, who now runs the Margaret Hills Clinic, continues her work.
Topics include: Arthritis in children Arthritis in adults A
selection of case histories The stress factor: how it affects the
body and contributes to arthritis, and how it can be alleviated.
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Find the Helpers
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Fred Guttenberg; Contributions by Bradley Whitford
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How a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced Tragedy "Don't tell me
there's no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland."
Fred Guttenberg 2020 Nautilus Silver Winner 2021 Chanticleer
Hearten Awards First Place Winner Life changed forever on
Valentine's Day 2018 for Fred Guttenberg and his family. What
should have been a day of love turned into a nightmare. Seventeen
people died at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Fourteen-year-old Jaime Guttenberg was the second to last victim.
"Fred Guttenberg is a hero." Lawrence O'Donnell. That Jaime and so
many of her fellow students were struck down in cold blood
galvanized many to action, including Jaime's father Fred now a gun
safety activist dedicated to passing common sense gun safety
legislation. Fred was already struggling with deep personal loss.
Four months earlier his brother Michael died of 9/11 induced
pancreatic cancer. He had been exposed to too much dust and
chemicals at Ground Zero. Michael battled heroically for nearly
five years and then died at age fifty. Find the Helpers has a
special meaning to the Guttenberg's. It was a beloved family wisdom
learned from watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In the midst of
tragedy, "always look for the helpers. There will always be
helpers. Because if you look for the helpers, you'll know there's
hope." Fred Rogers, 1999 Healing from grief. Discover the story of
Fred Guttenberg's activist's journey since Jaime's death and how he
has been able to get through the worst of times thanks to the
kindness and compassion of others. Good things happen to good
people at the hands of other good people and the world is filled
with them. They include everyone from amazing gun violence
survivors Fred has met to former VP Joe Biden, who spent time
talking to him about finding mission and purpose in learning to
grieve. If you enjoyed Eyes to the Wind, Haben, or The Beauty in
Breaking, you'll love Find the Helpers!
Anxiety is a familiar word, one which seems hard to escape in
today's busy world. It affects more than 280 million people
worldwide from all walks of life, and can be a completely
debilitating and isolating mental illness. In this new book, Lynn
Crilly brings her warm, non-judgemental, family-friendly approach
to bear on a the rising tide of contemporary anxiety, exacerbated
by political and economic uncertainty, climate change, social media
and a world that is being transformed ever more rapidly. She looks
at how anxiety manifests, how it relates to other mental health
problems and what the many options are for treatment and restoring
well-being. As ever, she draws on a wide range of health
practitioners to explain therapeutic options - both mainstream and
alternative - and thereby provide a truly varied toolkit with
something for every individual to try. Throughout, case histories
support, confirm and illustrate the practical information, always
with the emphasis on hope for leading a fulfilled life
unconstrained by the effects of anxiety.
The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki
Glenn s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon,
saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn
t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound
survival journey: the aftermath. The survival experience changes
everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations,
and the old rules don t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more
in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all
cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on
gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences,
Laurence Gonzales fashions a compelling argument about fear,
courage, and the adaptability of the human spirit. Micki Glenn was
later moved to say: I don t regret that this happened to me. It]
has been . . . probably the single most positive experience I ve
ever had. "
The author of the dishy memoir "Straight Up and Dirty" returns to
share the story of her adolescence. Long before she was a glamorous
young divorcee and superstar blogging mistress, Stephanie Klein was
a seventh grader with a weight problem. At twelve years old, the
boys at school call her 'Moose', her only friends were the nerds
and misfits of the school, and her nighttime beauty routine
involved soothing 'chub rub' on her inner thighs. After several
unsuccessful attempts at dieting and many frustrating sessions with
Fran, a nutritionist known as the 'Fat Doctor' of Roslyn Heights,
Long Island, Stephanie's mother enrolled her for a summer at fat
camp. Determined to lose her stubborn weight and return thin and
popular for the school year, Stephanie embarked on a journey that
would teach her more than just how to shed pounds. A coming-of-age
story complete with before and after pictures and pages from
Klein's journal, the book will appeal to women of all ages and
anybody who has ever felt like the underdog. "Moose" is about what
we all go through: finding friends, learning about ourselves, and
realizing that who we are has remarkably little to do with our
waistline.
This is the basic text of the Narcotics Anonymous fellowship. Just
as with alcoholism, there is no 'cure' for narcotic addiction, but
recovery is possible through a program adapted from the ""Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions"" of Alcoholics Anonymous. This book,
written by addicts, for addicts, about addicts, sets forth the
spiritual principles of Narcotics Anonymous that hundreds of
thousands of addicts have used in recovery. Intended as a complete
textbook for every addict seeking recovery, ""Narcotics Anonymous""
describes the N.A. program and how it works. It includes the ""N.A.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions"", as well as many personal
stories of men and women who have found freedom from addiction
through Narcotics Anonymous.
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