Post-traumatic stress disorder -- aka PTSD or simply "trauma" -- is a growing problem, with adults and children today affected by threats of terror; combat in the Middle East; and social, economic, and personal crises. It is a hidden disease affecting ten percent of the population -- many whether they know it or not. This book explains how PTSD arises, how to recognize its effects, and how to stabilize and recover from it, focusing on three areas: how to cope, how to help children and other loved ones, and how to recover happiness. Based on 18 years of field experience and practice, the author provides specific suggestions for handling trauma reactions like anger, anxiety, and withdrawal; discusses how to work through long-term effects; and includes numerous case examples and guidelines for self-help. Accessible and timely, his book speaks to healthcare professionals, military families, and anyone seeking coping strategies in the current world climate.

Today's teachers are faced with unprecedented challenges ranging from suicides to school violence, shootings, and terrorism. Classroom Crisis The Teacher's Guide explores children's reactions to emergencies and gives steps for stabilizing the classroom. The book describes how to manage individual student and also group behavior during emergencies, how to recognize and deal with post-traumatic behavior, and more. Also includes detailed instructions on how to calm students who are panicked, enraged, or hysterical, and how to activate students who are in shock.

A creative, child-friendly program designed for use with elementary school children, filled with original exercises to foster healing, self-understanding, and optimal growth

A Child's Workbook About Violence in the Home

A creative, child-friendly program designed for use with elementary school children, filled with original exercises to foster healing, self-understanding, and optimal growth

A Child's Workbook About Recovering from Abuse

A creative, child-friendly program designed for use with elementary school children, filled with original exercises to foster healing, self-understanding, and optimal growth

A Child's Workbook About Loss and Grieving

This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child. The nationwide movement toward School Crisis Response Teams, the DSM-IVs new category for post-traumatic stress, and the use of EMDR for treatment are covered.

Scotch had worked for the Air Force for most of his adult life, but nothing in his training prepared him for what would happen over the course of a double-shift during the Christmas holidays... not so far away, in Earth's distant future. He was to meet the rarely-glimpsed subject of fables & legends... a mysterious stranger known as stealthpilot1 - who would prove to appear in shape & form... uncannily similar to Scotch. The two of them, working together, were to shape the course of humankind. Date 48 offers a unique perspective to the question, "How many hours in a day?" At the same time it sheds new light on the subject, the book also introduces you to stealthpilot1 - someone you may or may not already be familiar with... or have met before.

Working as a disc jockey in the strip-clubs of Memphis, Tennessee for most of the 1990's had its ups and downs for Kendall Johnson. Always feeling like an outsider, he became a victim of his own devices - leading him down the dark paths of drug abuse and self-loathing. The only thing that would save him was perhaps related to his perpetual optimism and believing in a way out when there wasn't one. Kendall Johnson was destined for greatness from the very beginning. Finding himself the new kid in various towns throughout Mississippi, growing up was something that seemed couldn't happen soon enough. But he did grow up, and after studying Broadcasting and failing at every conventional job he attempted to work, on the fateful night when he found himself all dressed up and nowhere to go but home, he finally found his wings - through a chance meeting with an overworked strip-club DJ that ultimately led to his getting his own gig as a DJ in the seedy strip-clubs of the 1990's club scene in Memphis, Tennessee. Married to a prostitute once, a drug addict for most of his twelve years in the clubs, Prince Bashful takes the reader through the perils of Kendall's life as a local fixture of the Memphis nightlife, and follows him through all the ups and downs of working one of the most notoriously testosterone-ridden occupations in existence. You'll see him at his best and worst. You'll either love him or abhor him. But the one thing you won't do is deny that Prince Bashful is a riveting read complete with a surprise ending that sets up the next books by Kendall Johnson and will leave you both scratching your head and begging for more.

In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? In this text, Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his readers' sense of vision to dramatise the ambiguity of American citizenship in scenes of tense encounter with Europeans. By reviving the eighteenth-century debates over beauty, sublimity, and the picturesque, James weaves into his narratives the national politics of emancipation, immigration, and Indian Removal. For James, visual experience is crucial to the American communal identity, a position that challenged prominent anthropologists as they defined concepts of race and culture in ways that continue to shape how we see the world today. To demonstrate the cultural stereotypes that James reworked, the book includes twenty illustrations from periodicals of the nineteenth century. This study reaches startling conclusions not just about James, but about the way America defined itself through the arts in the nineteenth century.

In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? In this 2007 text, Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his readers' sense of vision to dramatise the ambiguity of American citizenship in scenes of tense encounter with Europeans. By reviving the eighteenth-century debates over beauty, sublimity, and the picturesque, James weaves into his narratives the national politics of emancipation, immigration, and Indian Removal. For James, visual experience is crucial to the American communal identity, a position that challenged prominent anthropologists as they defined concepts of race and culture in ways that continue to shape how we see the world today. To demonstrate the cultural stereotypes that James reworked, the book includes twenty illustrations from periodicals of the nineteenth century. This study reaches startling conclusions not just about James, but about the way America defined itself through the arts in the nineteenth century.