A must-have for survivors of trauma, their loved ones, and the professionals who support them. This unique book uses easy to understand language to demystify trauma and explain how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can affect the mind and body. It also offers effective proven strategies to reduce distress and enhance coping.
Treating PTSD presents a comprehensive, compassion-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach that provides therapists with the evidence-based information they need to understand trauma’s effects on the mind and body as well as the phases of healing. Chapters offer discussion, practical tools, and interventions that therapists can use with clients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to reduce feelings of distress and increase their sense of safety. Readers are introduced to the metaphor of "the valley of the shadow of death" to explain the experience of PTSD; they’re also shown how to identify the work they’ll need to do as therapists to accompany clients on their healing journey. Two new compassion-focused CBT interventions for trauma processing are also introduced.
In everyone's life, we all endure the highs and the lows. It's up to us how we respond to the sudden seasons of failed marriages, loss of loved ones, a job, and finances. Simple Pleasures was inspired during one of those sudden seasons.
The actress and singer explores her life and career, examining "the real flesh-and-blood Shirley Jones, not just the movie star or Mrs. Partridge"--Dust jacket flap.
Where are we? Kady asked, as they turned to look at the entire room. They saw the kitchen had a wood-burning stove, no sink faucet, and no refrigerator.” ''I don't know, Allie said, “but look out this window, across the yard and the garden. Isn't that the cotton patch where Nanna said she had to cross the narrow dirt road to help pick cotton?” The sisters, Allie, Kady, Lindey, and their cousin, Taylor, have been transported into their great grandmother's world when she is five and then again when she is seven. During their second visit,Taylor's little brother, Lance, shows up, surprising everyone, except Minnie, who has expected him and is so pleased he has come with them. This fictional story is based on contemporary children, who are real, and the historical, real-life happenings of the Tucker family in the 1920's told by Jewel Tucker Phillips.
Filled with examples, case studies, and practical advice, this well-written and engaging book guides readers through each of the ten steps to career independence. Learn how to understand today's changing work environment, create a vision, define your livelihood, and develop a financial strategy.
Women Who Lead Featuring School Principals explore the leadership journeys of 12 women principals from across the United States. The principals represent all levels of schooling, primary, elementary, middle/jr.high, and high school. They share their journeys from California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, DC.This collaboration project serves as a guide for aspiring and novice school principals of all levels. The principal experience included in this anthology range is from one year to over ten years. Several authors served in a variety of roles in public education prior to serving as principal. One author went from teacher to the principalship, not serving as an assistant principal, a common position that leads to the principalship. There is not just one pathway...There are many.Contributing Authors: Dr. Shirley P. Auguste, Shelley Anderson, D. JaMese M. Black, Kirsten Clark, Tiawana Giles, Natasha McDonald, Lydia Ryan, Dr. Amy Miller, Amena Moiz, Charlene Saenz-Quarles, and Danielle Wallac
The short stories captured on these pages are snippets of a well-lived life. I gathered information like a thief through the years and then one lovely and sunny day, I put pen to paper, filled my mouth with ink and spat it all on paper. What fun I had with these, my precious little stories. I have a Blue Million more to write.
Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences. Mock reveals a unique maroon culture, forged from an eclectic mixture of religious beliefs and social practices. At its core is an amalgam of African-derived traditions kept alive by women. The author interweaves documentary research with extensive interviews she conducted with leading Black Seminole women to uncover their remarkable history. She tells how these women nourished their families and held fast to their Afro-Seminole language — even as they fled slavery, endured relocation, and eventually sought new lives in new lands. Of key importance were the "warrior women" — keepers of dreams and visions that bring to life age-old African customs. Featuring more than thirty illustrations and maps, including historic photographs never before published, Dreaming with the Ancestors combines scholarly analysis with human interest to open a new window on both African American and American Indian history and culture.
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