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Mental Health Awareness Month - eBooks

05/15/2025

Zachary Brown

Counseling, LGBT Studies, Psychology, Student Success

E-book titled Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health: Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality (2020) - synopsis: The Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health is a down-to-earth, informative, and affirming manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities. The writers have drawn on both the scientific literature and their own clinical experience to create a volume that is informative, practical, and easy to read. An extensive collection of resources is included, helping the reader to locate more information on reliable websites and from other authoritative sources. Written in a conversational style that will appeal to patients and families, as well as clinicians, the Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health explores the psychological and cultural context for each gender or sexual identity in a comprehensive, realistic, and affirming way.

Mental Health Awareness Month - eBooks

05/13/2025

Zachary Brown

Counseling, Education, History, Psychology, Student Success

E-book titled The Struggle You Can't See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education (2024) - synopsis: The author discusses findings from literature on the experiences of students with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, psychiatric disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and disabling chronic physical illnesses. The inclusion of students with chronic illnesses is particularly timely, given the rising prevalence of long COVID symptoms and other lasting health impacts among university-aged individuals. Moreover Ash Lierman, who has extensive experience of serving students marginalized students, gives voice to this community, thus providing both a synthesis of existing research, and highlighting the needs and challenges of the students themselves. The Struggle You Can't See serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand and support this underserved population, offering insights for transformational change in higher education.

E-book titled Making Mental Health: A Critical History (2024) - synopsis: Drawing on scholarship across several areas of historical inquiry as well as historical and contemporary clinical literature, the book uses a thematic approach to highlight decisive moments that demonstrate the stakes of this engagement in Anglo-American contexts. By tracing the (unfinished) history of institutions, the search for cures for psychiatric distress, the growing interest of the nation-state in mental health, the history of attempts to globalize psychiatry, the controversies over the politics of diagnostic categories that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of theorizing about the relationship between the psyche and the market, the book offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of mental health into a commonplace concern.

Mental Health Awareness Month - eBooks

05/11/2025

Zachary Brown

Counseling, Law and Legislation, Psychology

E-book titled Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Lawyer Resilience and Healing (2023) - synopsis: Trauma-Informed Law discusses the many intersections of trauma and law where it is often denied, ignored, covered up, or avoided. The book is intended for lawyers, law students, legal educators, and judges, as well as decision-makers, administrators, staff, and anyone impacted by the court. It is a collection of cases and situations with practice implications for other cases impacted by trauma, whether those cases and situations involve race, class, gender, different physical or mental abilities (or disability), sexual orientation or other diverse factors including the impact of developmental health issues, addiction, substance abuse, poverty, access to opportunities, community safety or belonging and more.

E-book titled The Anxious Thoughts Workbook: Skills To Overcome the Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts That Drive Anxiety, Obsessions, and Depression (2018) - synopsis: Based in cutting-edge neuroscience and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this important workbook will help you regain control from unwanted thoughts and get back to the things that matter. In The Anxious Thoughts Workbook, renowned psychologist David A. Clark presents a targeted, transdiagnostic approach to help you move past unwanted mental intrusions. You’ll learn how to change the destructive patterns responsible for the persistence of anxious and depressive thinking and strip these upsetting thoughts of their meaning—a process Clark refers to as “detoxing.” Finally, you’ll learn to manage the feelings of shame that can accompany these thoughts.

Mental Health Awareness Month - eBooks

05/09/2025

Zachary Brown

Counseling, History, Social Work

E-book titled DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible (2021) - synopsis: The DSM’s nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the diagnoses that patients receive, students are taught, researchers study, insurers reimburse, and drug companies promote. Although the manual is portrayed as an authoritative corpus of psychiatric knowledge, it is a product of intense political conflicts, dissension, and factionalism. In this book, Allan V. Horwitz examines how the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), known colloquially as “psychiatry’s bible,” has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United States since its original publication in 1952.

E-book titled Technological Addictions (2021) - synopsis: Technological Addictions is a wakeup call alerting the medical community—and society at large—to the addictive potential of technology and to technological addictions as legitimate psychiatric conditions worthy of medical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. The 10 chapters in this book address the different kinds of technological addiction, as well as how they manifest and impact particular populations. Core to this discussion is the fine line between addictive and nonpathological use.

Mental Health Awareness Month - eBooks

05/07/2025

Zachary Brown

Counseling, Psychology, Social Work

Mental Health Awareness Month

E-book titled Breaking Points: Youth Mental Health Crises and How We All Can Help (2024) - synopsis: Unprecedented numbers of young people are in crisis today, and our health care systems are set up to fail them. Breaking Points explores the stories of a diverse group of American young adults experiencing psychiatric hospitalization for psychotic symptoms for the first time and documents how patients and their families make decisions about treatment after their release.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/11/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, History, Media Arts, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

E-book titled Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement (2021) - synopsis: Dada magazines made the Dada art movement what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This first volume entirely devoted to Dada periodicals retells the story of Dada by demonstrating the centrality of these graphically inventive, provocative periodicals. The book includes magazines from well-known Dada cities like New York and Paris as well as Zagreb and Bucharest, and reveals that Dada continued to inspire art journals into the 1920s.

E-book titled Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media (2024) - synopsis: Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan’s media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before—including the cinepoem, the tape recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music video poem, the online sign language poem, and the augmented reality poem.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/09/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, English, History, Media Arts

E-book titled The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats (1994) - synopsis: The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire. The anthology is arranged in two sections. Part One contains poets’ writings on the nature, qualities and purpose of poetry, and Part Two is a chronological collection of poets’ writings on their peers, with an individual entry for each poet.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/07/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, Counseling, English, Media Arts

E-book titled The Arts Therapies: A Revolution in Healthcare (2020) - synopsis: The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. This fully updated new edition of The Arts Therapies provides, in one volume, a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking in different parts of the world. Each chapter draws on a variety of perspectives and accounts to develop understandings of the relations between theory, research, and practice, offering perspectives on areas such as the client-therapist-art form relationship or on outcomes and efficacy to help articulate and understand what the arts therapies can offer specific client groups.

E-book titled Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (2016) - synopsis: There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers—Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point from which to survey the ongoing struggle of living in a highly fragmented world.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/05/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Ethnic Studies, History, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

E-Book titled Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts (2015) - synopsis: Designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What’s Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work—much of which has never been seen before.

E-Book titled ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets (2017) - synopsis: Containing the work of more than 40 poets—equally divided between men and women—who self-identify as Afro-Latino, ¡Manteca! is the first poetry anthology to highlight writings by Latinos of African descent. The themes covered are as diverse as the authors themselves. Many pieces rail against a system that institutionalizes poverty and racism. Others remember parents and grandparents who immigrated to the United States in search of a better life. Anthony Morales’ grandmother, like so many others, was “hardwired to hold on to hope.” There are love poems to family and lovers. And music—salsa, merengue, jazz—permeates this collection.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/03/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, English, History, Media Arts

E-Book titled Design by IKEA: A Cultural History (2014) - synopsis: Sara Kristoffersson’s compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Drawing on original research in the IKEA company archive and interviews with IKEA personnel, Design by IKEA traces IKEA’s symbolic connection to Sweden, through its design output and its promotional materials, to examine how the company both promoted and profited from the concept of Scandinavian Design.

E-Book titled Doom Scroll: Poems (2023) - synopsis: Doom Scroll explores an anxious domesticity. These prose poems hedge toward moments of levity—a Joy Division song, a meal at Denny’s—as a pandemic lockdown, busted politics, and other existential dreads loom in the margins.

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