Publications on Mental Health Topics

How to Talk to Your Kids about Your Divorce: Healthy, Effective Communication Techniques for Your Changing Family, by Samantha Rodman, 2015.

Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims, by John P. Wilson, 2015.

Beyond the Blues: Prenatal and Postpartum Depression, by Bennett, Shoshana, 2015.

Talking with your Children about Traumatic Events, by Riverside Trauma Center, 2015.

“Here are some tips for talking with your children when they have witnessed or heard about traumatic events. ”

Tips for Schools: Dealing with Students and Suicide Loss, by Terri A. Erbacher, Jonathan B. Singer & Scott Poland, 2015.

“How adults respond when a loved one dies has a major effect on how students react.   ”

Adult ADHD: The Complete Guide to Living with, Understanding, Improving, and Managing ADHD or ADD as an Adult!, by Ben Hardy, 2015.

(Video) Understanding Learning Disabilities: How difficult can this be?, by Richard Lavoie, 2015.

I would, but my DAMN MIND won't let me: a teen girl's guide to understanding and controlling her thoughts and feelings, by Jacqui Letran, 2015.

Building Resilience to Trauma: The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models, by Elaine Miller-Karas, 2015.

The Color Thief: A Family's Story of Depression, by Andrews Fusek Peters and Polly Peters, 2015.

It Helps to Have Friends, by American Cancer Society, 2015.

Understanding Girls with ADHD, Updated and Revised: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do, by Kathleen Nadeau, 2015.

Practicing Self-Care After Traumatic Events, by Riverside Community Care Trauma Center, 2015.

“Exposure to traumatic events can have a major impact on our emotions, behaviors, cognitive functioning, and physical well-being. To speed our recovery, we need to remember self-care is important and find ways to take care of ourselves on a daily basis. ”

Left Across the Border: A Story of Teen Depression, by Patrice Foster, 2015.

Myths and Facts About Self-Injury, by Kirstin Fawcett, U.S. News , Dec 26 2014.

“Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is “the direct, deliberate damage of one’s body without the intention of suicide, and for purposes that aren’t socially sanctioned,” such as tattoos or piercings, says Peggy Andover, a professor of psychology at Fordham University and president of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury. There's not one underlying reason why people engage in NSSI. But psychologists generally agree it serves as a method of emotional regulation: People use it to cope with sadness, distress, anxiety, anger and other intense feelings or, on the flipside, emotional numbness. ”