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05/21/2025
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Mental Health Awareness Month - eBooks
05/15/2025
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Counseling, LGBT Studies, Psychology, Student Success
E-book titled Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health (2019) - synopsis: In Nature Rx, Donald A. Rakow and Gregory T. Eells summarize the value of nature prescription programs designed to encourage college students to spend time in nature and to develop a greater appreciation for the natural world. Because these programs are relatively new, there are many lessons for practitioners to learn; but clinical studies demonstrate that students who regularly spend time in nature have reduced stress and anxiety levels and improved mood and outlook. In addition to the latest research, the authors present a step-by-step formula for constructing, sustaining, and evaluating Nature Rx programs, and they profile four such programs at American colleges.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
E-book titled Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Employers and Employees (2020) - synopsis: The importance of good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is a subject of increased public awareness and governmental attention. The Department of Health advises that one in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Although a number of recent developments and initiatives have raised the profile of this crucial issue, employers are experiencing challenges in promoting the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace contains expert guidance for improving mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill health.
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