Winner - Psychology & Mental Health 2019 Best Book Awards
Dr. Jenny Simon, a professional insider, will empower you to understand what those letters mean behind a therapist’s name, how much therapy costs and why different practitioners charge different prices, what a diagnosis means, how using medication to treat a problem differs from talk therapy, and what the common types of treatment are.
Here, you will find the resources, insight, and clear guidance to empower you to feel confident about your choices.
In Do I Need a Therapist?you will learn:
How to find the right therapist
Practical suggestions that are simple, clear, and easy to follow
The pros and cons about using health insurance
Tips on what types of treatment would work best for you and your situation
Finalist - Psychology & Mental Health 2019 Best Book Awards
How does a woman go from being a normal Midwestern mom to sitting across the table from a bounty hunter?
That's what Kathleen English Cadmus wondered as she took one more surreal step in her quest to find and save her teenage daughter, Laura.
The beautiful baby Kathleen had adopted from Korea was on the run again, fueled by another manic episode brought on by her bipolar disorder.
Having already lost her son Shawn to a tragic accident, Kathleen couldn't bear the thought that she had failed to protect another one of her children.
Intertwined: A Mother's Memoir is a raw but loving tribute to the pain and beauty of motherhood—the story of a mother, a daughter, a son, two marriages, and the way all of those lives are at once distinct yet inseparable.
Intertwined illustrates the way the people we love become part of us—become us—and show us who we truly are.
Finalist - Psychology & Mental Health 2019 Best Book Awards
No matter how hard we try, many of us struggle to make love work with our partners. The problem, as clinical psychologist Dr. Ron Frederick explains, is that our brains are running on outdated software. Without us knowing it, our early relationship programming causes us to fear being more emotionally present and authentic with our partners—precisely what’s needed to build loving connections. But we don’t have to remain prisoners to our past.
Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and attachment theory, Loving Like You Mean It shares a proven four-step approach to use emotional mindfulness to break free from old habits, befriend your emotional experience, and develop new ways of relating. The capacity for deep, loving connections is inside all of us, waiting to come out. By practicing the science behind loving like you mean it, your relationships can be fuller and richer than you ever imagined.
Finalist - Psychology & Mental Health 2019 Best Book Awards
The true life stories of four people recovering from addiction, intermingled with their search for a higher power, helped along the way by a lovable dog named Rosie. Addiction does not discriminate, evidenced in the characters who battle addiction in this touching story, veterans, child abuse victims, and domestic abuse sufferers. As a registered nurse working in the field of addiction treatment, I find R.H. Pfeiffer s work to be authentic and true-to-life, heart-wrenching yet hopeful and optimistic. I highly recommend Trail of the Warrior for anyonelooking for an insightful, heart-warming, compelling book to read; one that will touch the lives of many. An amazing book! Noble Clinic, LLC
Finalist - Psychology & Mental Health 2019 Best Book Awards
Treating ADHD/ADD in Children and Adolescents: Solutions for Parents and Clinicians was written for parents, clinicians, and teachers to learn a deeper understanding of ADHD and implement specific, clear, and effective ways to successfully evaluate and treat ADHD problems at home and school. Readers will learn not only research-based and traditional approaches for treating ADHD, but also proven newer and alternative methods. This book provides the tools for readers to feel more informed and competent in addressing the many challenges that children and adolescents with ADHD experience. Whether new or previously exposed to ADHD, readers should find the information to be very useful and effective in transforming ADHD.
Finalist - Psychology & Mental Health 2019 Best Book Awards
Around the world, a swelling tide of people are discovering an astonishing, life-altering truth. This book tells their extraordinary stories:
an anxious PhD student builds his confidence by changing his workout
back exercises help one woman negotiate a fix to a botched home repair
a Microsoft executive grows credibility by shifting her stance
an executive team leads their company to a 30% increase in valuation by dancing together
In this timely and engaging book, Amanda Blake synthesizes research from over two dozen scientific fields to reveal how you, too, can come to embody vital qualities such as these:
align your daily activities with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose
become more relaxed, confident, and at ease in high-pressure situations
shatter limitations that have been immune to “the power of positive thinking”
"Brain XP: Living with Mental Illness, A young Teenager's Perspective" is the personal, unashamed, and brave story of Christine Frey. In her own teenage writing style, Christine describes her struggle with early onset psychosis. The terrible symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions, began when Christine was twelve years old. In her personal account of life lived with anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, Christine ensures that the reader will fully grasp the true meaning of mental illness and its impact on the emerging sense of self of a teenager or young adult. In writing this book at age 16, Christine demonstrates a strong passion for advocating on behalf of others who have experienced similar brain disorders. She turns her own experience of struggling to understand herself into an example for others to learn from. Through her Brain XP Project, Christine embraces the challenge to educate and lead others to understanding and confronting the brain disorder called "mental illness". Rather than hide, isolate, and feel embarrassed, she tackles stigma head on. "Brain XP" will resonate with young people and is a must read for parents, family members, and friends who are worried about the mental well-being of the teen or young adult in their lives.
The Nam Within, by Leonard Reese, is a narrative non-fiction memoir that speaks to veterans from all wars and others who deal with PTSD, depression, and the feeling that they may be "going crazy," and their families and friends, so that they can see that survival is possible and that they are not alone, despite the battle scars that keep rising to the surface long after the physical combat ceases.
"I did the best that I could to tell my story with all of the truth that I have within me. Almost fifty years have passed since my thirteen-month tour of duty in Vietnam from 1969-1970. I still see some of those images as clearly as if they were happenings within a blink-of-an-eye past. While others, partially confused and shaking like a pile of pick-up-sticks awaiting the next attempt at success or tragedy, arrive within the shadows of the night, blurred and weighted by the evening's dew.
Seven-year-old little girls love their daddy. Kathy was no exception, so when her daddy started paying “special” attention to her, she felt “special” in turn. Her daddy loved her… what could be better than that?
Few betrayals run as deep as the betrayal of being sexually abused throughout your childhood by the man you should have been able to trust with your life. For Kathy, the betrayal ran deeper because when she finally found the courage to start speaking out about what her abuser did to her, her family responded by labeling her a liar and a troublemaker.
Kathy didn’t stop speaking out though. In fact, she spoke out more, eventually becoming a powerful voice in the nine year campaign to get both the criminal and civil statute of limitations extended for child sex abuse crimes changed in Massachusetts. On June 26, 2014, the day the civil bill was signed into law, Kathy was finally able to file suit against her abuser.
Trauma Therapeutic Workbook is an empathic, non-gender specific, therapeutic workbook. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and associated symptoms, are becoming more and more talked about and experienced by so many.It is full of safe and gentle exercises to take one’s time, it provides many reflective personal journal note pages for readers to write down their feelings, to ponder over, past present and future. It allows for making one's own journal notes along the way to move forward. This means that the workbook can be used within any therapeutic setting, whether with a professional or on one’s own. Journaling is well known for allowing the safe release of emotional pain, expression and writing down thoughts and feelings.This therapeutic workbook, at over one hundred pages, is sufficient without overwhelming the reader with unnecessary jargon or psychobabble. It is a first step, an encouraging and empowering platform, enabling those affected, the time, solitude, space and choice of whether or not to find the courage to seek further therapeutic assistance. Restoring and calming from the inside out. It includes self-help printable paper exercises, information about why we react in certain ways, evidenced based treatments as well as beautiful unique adult colouring pages, combined with powerful vibrant illustrations throughout.
As if track practice, yearbook meetings, and tumultuous friendships weren't enough, sisters Hannah and Noreen are catapulted into a disorienting new reality when their dad returns home from his medical mission in Syria a haunted and broken man.
All of a sudden, their once tight knit family is falling to pieces. Little do they know, things will become a lot more crazy and unpredictable as each of them fights a different battle.
No life is without trials, tribulations or struggles. How we perceive each of these enables how we will respond. No Gold at the End of the Rainbow is a story of true love, God's love, family, murder, domestic violence, mental illness, introduction to cocaine, homosexuality; and those who chose not to look for gold at the end of the rainbow.
The aphorism that madness and creative genius are opposing sides of the same coin predates contemporary psychiatry and has existed since the time of the great Stagirite Aristotle. Schizophrenia is one mental disorder intimately linked with creative thinking and achievement. There is no shortage of eminent scientists, thinkers, writers, artists, composers, and political activists tentatively theorized to have precariously balanced the great divide between the demons of schizophrenia and the muses of creative illumination, including Rene Descartes, Emanuel Swedenborg, John Forbes Nash, Leonardo da Vinci, and Joan of Arc, to name but a few. However, is that association veracious in an empirical sense? If it is, how exactly are schizophrenia and creative illumination related? Using new empirical findings, this book sheds new light upon the age-old assumption and goes further still in explaining how creative potential with world-fashioning powers can be channelled in individuals with this diagnosis. Mental health practitioners will find this book both intriguing and useful.
#MeTime is a gentle and empathic therapeutic workbook. It is full of safe and gentle exercises to take one's time, it provides many reflective personal journal note pages for readers to ponder over, past present and future. It allows for making one's own journal notes along the way to move forward. This means that the workbook can be used within any therapeutic setting whether with a professional or on one's own. Journaling is well known for allowing the safe release of emotional pain, expression and writing down thoughts and feelings. In today's often, sick and twisted culture, where rape and sexual violation of adults and children has become the norm in many avenues of the media, where #metoo and other such horror filled threads, take over social media on a daily basis, we hear, we see and we watch the worst heart breaking stories unfold, however, the most important people can be so easily missed; those who have been so profoundly affected, those who never disclose to the police or to anyone.
What happens when someone you love begins to experience mental illness? Ramona's book provides guidance to readers by alphabetizing challenges encountered by individuals supporting a loved one with mental illness. What affects the ill person becomes disruptive to the whole family. Through heart-felt vignettes, the reader gets insight on what to expect in his/her journey as a caregiver. The book accomplishes three things: 1) provides necessary tools for a caregiver, 2) lets caregivers know their situations are not unique; they are not alone. 3) de-stigmatizes mental illness and substance abuse while promoting acceptance. The Englislh and Spanish text allows for broader distribution of this important resource book.
