On Our Own Together
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Author | : Sally Clay |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Community mental health services |
ISBN | : 9780826514660 |
An intimate insiders' examination of various consumerrun services for mental health clients.
Author | : Paul Johnson |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : |
By combining illustrations and texts, children engage in a kind of communication that transcends the sum of its parts-their pictures and words interact to convey a new level of meaning.
Author | : Sally Clay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
On Our Own, Together describes the inner workings of eight successful peer-run services for mental health consumers, including drop-in centers, educational programs, and peer support/mentoring programs. Written by people who developed such programs, it reveals these services as a valuable resource within the mental health system and a precious necessity for many consumers. The book clusters the COSPs into three key types: drop-in centers, which provide varied services for their members, including meals, housing assistance, and stigma-free environments; educational programs, which train mental health consumers in recovery skills for themselves and for other consumers; and services based on peer support and mentoring. Despite their differences, the book shows, the programs share many essential characteristics. Most significantly, they demonstrate the benefits of allowing mental health consumers to operate and govern their own organizations. Also important is their emphasis on equality, mutuality, empowerment, recovery, belonging, and hope in administering services. Such core values, the book suggests, distinguish peer-run programs from the professional services that have long dominated the mental health system. In contrast to the dry, clinical reports that make up much of the current literature, this book is written "from the inside out" and, for the most part, by the people who developed the programs and who live them every day. It reveals peer-run programs as valuable resources within the mental health system and, indeed, a precious necessity for many consumers.
Author | : Judi Chamberlin |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
This is a book about psychiatry and alternatives to it, written from a patient's point of view. For too long, mental patients have been faceless, voiceless people. We have been thought of, at worst, as subhuman monsters, or, at best, as pathetic cripples, who might be able to hold down menial jobs and eke out meagre existences, given constant professional support. Not only have others thought of us in this stereotyped way, we have believed it of ourselves. It is only in this decade, with the emergence and growth of the mental patients' liberation movement, that we ex-patients have begun to shake off this distorted image and to see ourselves for what we are- a diverse group of people, with strengths and weaknesses, abilities and needs, and ideas of our own. Our ideas about our "care" and "treatment" at the hands of psychiatry, about the nature of "mental illness," and about new and better ways to deal with (and truly to help) people undergoing emotional crises differ drastically from those of mental health professionals.
Author | : Dennis Schatz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Bugs |
ISBN | : 9780836242423 |
Learn all about insects as you stamp together 8 real bugs.
Author | : Margaret E. Morris |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2018-12-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262039133 |
Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways—uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered “likes” on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other “off-label” adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices.
Author | : Betty Nnadi |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1471075710 |
Your own guide is waiting to meet you and steer you along the best path in life. He or she will make sure you're never alone again, andalways have a wise friend with you on your journey to serve mankind.By learning to listen to your own guide, intuition or inner voice, you'll unlock the secrets of the universe as they exist for you.With the help of this book, you'll be able to hear guidance whenever you want to. You need only ask and help will be there. You will indeed unlockthe meaning of life and the secrets of joy, happiness and contentment.
Author | : Arlie Russell Hochschild |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1620973987 |
The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
Author | : Vanessa Calimag Lin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-02-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781952070020 |
The author truly captures the reader with the details of her heartbreak at the end of her marriage while expecting her first child. Vanessa shares a raw and honest exploration of her heart as she traverses the most difficult time of her life. She shares with love, grace, and strength what being a mom is all about, and using her intuition and trust in a higher power, she is able to propel herself into a place of true healing and magic. She shares her struggles and her perseverance to give her unborn child her love, and taps into universal truths that we can all learn from. Through the turmoil, she rises like a phoenix from the ashes, recreating the vision of her life, and in the process, finds her true soul mate to build her family with. A beautiful ending to a difficult beginning!
Author | : Vivek H. Murthy, M.D. |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 006291331X |
The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his groundbreaking book, the 19th surgeon general of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root cause and contributor to many of the epidemics sweeping the world today from alcohol and drug addiction to violence to depression and anxiety. Loneliness, he argues, is affecting not only our health, but also how our children experience school, how we perform in the workplace, and the sense of division and polarization in our society. But, at the center of our loneliness is our innate desire to connect. We have evolved to participate in community, to forge lasting bonds with others, to help one another, and to share life experiences. We are, simply, better together. The lessons in Together have immediate relevance and application. These four key strategies will help us not only to weather this crisis, but also to heal our social world far into the future. Spend time each day with those you love. Devote at least 15 minutes each day to connecting with those you most care about. Focus on each other. Forget about multitasking and give the other person the gift of your full attention, making eye contact, if possible, and genuinely listening. Embrace solitude. The first step toward building stronger connections with others is to build a stronger connection with oneself. Meditation, prayer, art, music, and time spent outdoors can all be sources of solitary comfort and joy. Help and be helped. Service is a form of human connection that reminds us of our value and purpose in life. Checking on a neighbor, seeking advice, even just offering a smile to a stranger six feet away, all can make us stronger. During Murthy’s tenure as Surgeon General and during the research for Together, he found that there were few issues that elicited as much enthusiastic interest from both very conservative and very liberal members of Congress, from young and old people, or from urban and rural residents alike. Loneliness was something so many people have known themselves or have seen in the people around them. In the book, Murthy also shares his own deeply personal experiences with the subject--from struggling with loneliness in school, to the devastating loss of his uncle who succumbed to his own loneliness, as well as the important example of community and connection that his parents modeled. Simply, it’s a universal condition that affects all of us directly or through the people we love—now more than ever.