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The Gift of Fulfillment
By Michael Dinneen. 2013
Wouldn't it be great if there were Twelve Steps for people who were not addicts or alcoholics, who just wanted…
a simple way to live a better life? Michael Dinneen provides a clear set of emotional tools for anyone committed to living a radically improved life based on spiritual principles and easy-to-follow directions.Michael Dinneen, LCSW, CACIII, is program manager for the University of Colorado's Hospital Center for Rehabilitation, Addiction, and Dependency (CeDAR). He is in long-term recovery.College Drinking and Drug Use
By David L. Rabiner, Helene Raskin White. 2012
Substance use among college students can result in serious academic and safety problems and have long-term negative repercussions. This state-of-the-art…
volume draws on the latest research on students' alcohol and drug use to provide useful suggestions for how to address this critical issue on college campuses. Leading researchers from multiple disciplines examine the prevalence and nature of substance use by students; biological and neuropsychological considerations; psychological and social aspects; prevention; and policy. Exemplary programs are presented including brief interventions, comprehensive prevention programs, and recovery support programs enhancing the utility of the book for campus-based clinicians and administratorsCinderland
By Amy Jo Burns. 2014
A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quietAmy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town…
humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents' generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn't quite a ghost town--only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man's reputation. As for the remaining girls--well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was one of them. But such a lie has its own consequences. Against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. This is the story of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth--a town that believed being a good girl meant being a quiet one--and the long road Burns took toward forgiving her ten-year-old self. Cinderland is an elegy to that young girl's innocence, as well as a praise song to the curative powers of breaking a long silence. From the Hardcover edition.My Darkest Hour
By Harold L. Turley. 2010
In this groundbreaking memoir, My Darkest Hour: The Day I Realized I Was Abusive, Harold L. Turley II goes beyond…
identifying emotional, economical, and domestic abuse/domestic violence to prescribing a course of action for both the victim and abuser.Coupling stories of how Turley was abused and inflicted abuse upon others, My Darkest Hour offers readers the tools needed to recognize a problem in a relationship and how to transform it. His testimony assures one that such a transformation is possible--given the desire to want to change.Turley also gives advice on how to avoid abusive situations and different ways to channel one's anger. Combining practical applications and Biblical scriptures with his trademark support and assurance, Turley demonstrates how to empower oneself, release abusive behavior, and change life for the better.I'll Quit Tomorrow
By Vernon E. Johnson. 1980
This bestselling recovery classic has helped untold thousands of alcoholics onto the road to recovery. Written by the founder of…
the Johnson Institute in Minneapolis, one of the country's most successful training programs for treatment providers, I'll Quit Tomorrow present the concepts and methods that have brought new hope to alcoholics and their families, friends, and employers. Abstinence is not the only objective of Johnson's breakthrough methods -- his therapy aims at restoring the ego strength of the victim to assure permanent recovery. Johnson outlines a dynamic plan of intervention and treatment that will block the progress of alcoholism and lead to a richer, more productive life.Sexual Harassment
By Jane Lalonde, Tracy O'Shea. 1998
At last a practical and thorough sourcebook for anyone faced with the ordeal of sexual harassment.Until two years ago, we…
were two ordinary working women with career goals and bright futures...Then suddenly everything changed. We encountered a situation we never thought would happen to us--we became victims of sexual harassment.While sexual harassment is increasingly in the headlines, it remains a confusing, isolating ordeal for the individuals whose lives it affects. In addition to the feelings of powerlessness, anger, and fear it often instills, a woman (or man) who is being sexually harassed is faced with a maze of professional, legal, and personal decisions. This book, written by two women who conducted intensive research in order to find their way through the maze, offers a lifeline of information and a safety net of support. With a balanced point of view and generous checklists, examples, and personal narratives, the book covers:Legal and practical definitions of what sexual harassment is--and not Whether and how to file a formal complaintWhether to hire a lawyer and what to expect from the legal processWhat retaliation is and how to fight itHow to deal with the emotional stress, invasion of privacy, and career changes that often result from being sexually harassedThis indispensable book sheds light on a difficult and little-understood problem.Craft of Life Course Research
By Janet Giele, Glen Elder. 2009
This book brings together prominent investigators to provide a comprehensive guide to doing life course research, including an 'inside view'…
of how they designed and carried out influential longitudinal studies. Using vivid examples, the contributors trace the connections between early and later experience and reveal how researchers and graduate students can discover these links in their own research. Well-organized chapters describe the best and newest ways to Use surveys, life records, ethnography, and data archives to collect different types of data over years or even decades. Apply innovative statistical methods to measure dynamic processes that result in improvement, decline, or reversibility in economic fortune, stress, health, and criminality. Explore the micro- and macro-level explanatory factors that shape individual trajectories, including genetic and environmental interactions, personal life history, interpersonal ties, and sociocultural institutions.Motivational Interviewing in Social Work Practice
By Melinda Hohman. 2012
Motivational interviewing (MI) offers powerful tools for helping social work clients draw on their strengths to make desired changes in…
their lives. This reader-friendly book introduces practitioners and students to MI and demonstrates how to integrate this evidence-based method into direct practice. Melinda Hohman and her associates describe innovative applications for diverse clients and practice areas, including substance abuse treatment, mental health, child welfare, community organizing, and others. Extensive sample dialogues illustrate MI skills in action with individuals and groups. The book also presents best practices for MI training, teaching, and agency-wide integration.This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U S In…
2013 1 520 children died from maltreatment This book defines child maltreatment fatalities CMFs and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U S over the last several decades It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child parent the parent-child relationship and household risk factors The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs the child welfare profession child death review teams safe haven laws criminal justice responses public education and new federal efforts in the U S to reduce CMFs in the U S The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers practitioners and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U SWalking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery
By Holly Austin Smith. 2014
Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. Younger and younger girls are…
engaging in adult sexual attitudes and practices, and the pressure to conform means thousands have little self-worth and are vulnerable to exploitation. At the same time, thanks to social media, texting, and chatting services, predators are able to ferret out their victims more easily than ever before. In Walking Prey, advocate and former victim Holly Austin Smith shows how middle class suburban communities are fast becoming the new epicenter of sex trafficking in America. Smith speaks from experience: Without consistent positive guidance or engagement, Holly was ripe for exploitation at age fourteen. A chance encounter with an older man led her to run away from home, and she soon found herself on the streets of Atlantic City. Her experience led her, two decades later, to become one of the foremost advocates for trafficking victims. Smith argues that these young women should be treated as victims by law enforcement, but that too often the criminal justice system lacks the resources and training to prevent the vicious cycle of prostitution. This is a clarion call to take a sharp look at one of the most striking human rights abuses, and one that is going on in our own backyard.Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution -- An Adviser's Guide for Funding Boomers' Best Years
By Walter Updegrave, Katz, Harold Evensky, Deena B.. 2006
Clients nearing retirement have some significant challenges to face. And so do their advisers. They can expect to live far…
longer after they retire. And the problems they expect their advisers to solve are far more complex. The traditional sources of retirement income may be shriveling, but boomers don't intend to downsize their plans. Instead, they're redefining what it means to be retired--as well as what they require of financial advisers. Planners who aren't prepared will be left behind. Those who are will step up to some lucrative and challenging work. To help get the work done, Harold Evensky and Deena Katz--both veteran problem solvers--have tapped the talents of a range of experts whose breakthrough thinking offers solutions to even the thorniest issues in retirement-income planning: Sustainable withdrawals Longevity risk Eliminating luck as a factor in planning Immediate annuities, reverse mortgages, and viatical and life settlements Strategies for increasing retirement cash flow In Retirement Income Redesigned, the most-respected names in the industry discuss these issues and a range of others.This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a…
critical review and discussion Once the reader understands the origins and nature of adjustment to aging a second innovation encompasses the development of a proposed empirical model of adjustment to aging and the analysis of its components and correlates Measures to assess adjustment to aging policies programs and interventions comprising adjustment to aging and its components and correlates will also be addressed Another innovation includes the multidimensional experience of adjustment to aging from the cultural perspective Lastly it addresses areas of future development related to this construct Future policies and interventions in older populations need to integrate and debate the role of adjustment to aging and ultimately consider a variety of different strategies each with a different set of costs and benefits Health and social professionals will be at the vanguard of policy making and community and institutional interventions Hence resources and tools to adequately prepare these individuals for the future years will be vital It is the author s hope that this resource can be valuable for professionals and students working within the field of aging as they develop research and intervention policies encompassing adjustment to aging in the coming yearsMental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these…
disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with pitifully small contributions to scaling up cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies. Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume. This evidence-base can help policy makers in resource-constrained settings as they prioritize programs and interventions to address these disorders.What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities
By Thomas R. Cole, Sally Gadow. 1986
In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of…
an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline--gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law--and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard.Lord Fear
By Lucas Mann. 2015
Lucas Mann was only thirteen years old when his brother Josh--charismatic and ambitious, funny and sadistic, violent and vulnerable--died of…
a heroin overdose. Although his brief life is ultimately unknowable, Josh is both a presence and an absence in the author's life that will not remain unclaimed. As Josh's story is told in kaleidoscopic shards of memories assembled from interviews with his friends and family, as well as from the raw material of his journals, a revealing, startling portrait unfolds. At the same time, Mann pulls back to examine his own complicated feelings and motives for recovering memories of his brother's life, searching for a balance between the tension of inevitability and the what ifs that beg to be asked. Through his investigation, Mann also comes to redefine his own place in a family whose narrative is bisected by the tragic loss. Unstinting in its honesty, captivating in its form, and profound in its conclusions, Lord Fear more than confirms the promise of Mann's earlier book, Class A; with it, he is poised to enter the ranks of the best young writers of his generation.From the Hardcover edition.Power, Powerlessness and Addiction
By Jim Orford. 2013
Addiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have…
been neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme that brings together different areas of research from the field including the disempowering nature of addiction; effects on family, community and the workplace; epidemiological and ethnographic work; studies of the legal and illegal supply, and theories of treatment and change. Examples of alcohol, drug and gambling addiction are used to discuss the evidence that addiction is most disempowering where social resources to resist it are weakest; the ways in which the dominant discourses about addictive behaviour encourage the attributing of responsibility for addiction to individuals and divert attention from the powerful who benefit from addiction; and the ways in which the voices of those whose interests are least well served by addiction are silenced.Neoliberalising Old Age
By John Macnicol. 2015
Governments are encouraging later-life working and state pension ages are being raised. There is also a growing debate on intergenerational…
equity and on ageism/age discrimination. John Macnicol, one of Europe's leading academic analysts of old age and ageing, examines the effect of neoliberalism on the recent ageing and social policy agenda in the UK and the USA. He argues that the demographic and economic impulses behind recent policy changes are in fact less important than the effect of neoliberalism as an ideology, which has caused certain key problems to be defined in a particular way. The book outlines past theories of old age and examines pensions reform, the debate on life expectancy gains, the causes of retirement, the idea of intergenerational equity, the current debate on ageism/age discrimination and the likely human consequences of raising state pension ages.A life after alcoholism doesn't need to be weighed down by the lingering consequences of addiction. The latest research indicates…
that with the right nutrition, you can reverse the physical toll alcoholism has taken on your body and manage your path out of addiction. Renée Hoffinger, MHSE, RD, has developed a landmark new plan that empowers you to undo the damage your addiction inflicted--through the natural power of food.Twelve weeks of meal plans will ease you into newfound empowerment as you shed your dependence for good; mend damage to your body; and maintain balance for a long, healthy life. You will learn:Which foods help repair liver and other organ damageWhat to eat to rid your body of toxinsHow to manage a diet and extend that control to your cravingsWhen to turn to food--and when to seek outside helpThis book combines reassuring guidance with appetizing, nutritionally dense meals that put you on a clear path to a bright, addiction-free future.A Couple's Guide to Sexual Addiction: A Step-by-Step Plan to Rebuild Trust and Restore Intimacy
By Paldrom Collins. 2011
Like other psychiatric disorders, sexual addiction is a condition that affects peoples' relationships with others as much as it affects…
their own mental state. Individuals suffering from sexual addiction typically pursue sex through any means possible and often engage in risky forms of sexual activity such as exhibitionism, promiscuous sex with multiple partners, online sex, etc. It's easy to see how a couple's relationship may be challenged by the manifestations and reality of a disorder like this one.A Couple's Guide to Sexual Addiction discusses common relationship issues within the context of sexual addiction and provides the reader with exercises, information, and advice on the following topics:TrustCommunicationHealthy sexuality & sexual behaviorsFamily By understanding the reality of sexual addiction and what it means for a relationship, couples will be able to better relate to each other and plan for a successful future.Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems
By Barbara J. Nelson. 1984
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare…
issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.