Gift to King's University College Library from The London Grief Resource Centre, 2006.
"For gay men, the demands of the AIDS epidemic are enormous and unrelenting. Regardless of HIV status, all are called on to maintain vigilant safety with sex, to face down a cultural stigma greater even than homophobia, and to somehow find a way to go forward in a world heavy wi…
Das Zusammenleben mit psychisch kranken Eltern erhöht das Risiko, dass die Entwicklung der Kinder einen ungünstigen Verlauf nimmt. Die Kinder stellen daher eine besondere psychiatrische Risikogruppe dar. Der Leitfaden beschreibt die Schwerpunkte und Besonderheiten des diagnostis…
"Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume navigates themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the …
Lessons on aging from three nations
'Remaking a World' completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. This third volume explores the ways communities 'cope' with - endure, work through, break apart under, transcend - traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the…
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graph…
"Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us ex…
Introduction -- The clues: finding hope amid despair -- The Phoenix effect: from oppression and vulnerability to strength and resilience -- Unearthing the shared roots of violence and vulnerability -- The quest: Phoenix zones - principles in action -- Liberty: refuge for asylum …
What's wrong with being a "people pleaser?" Plenty! "A fascinating book ... If you struggle with where, when, and how to draw the line between your own desires and the demands of others, buy this book!"ƯƯKay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls…
The Disease to Please gives clear, positive, practical, and easily do-able steps toward recovery from a malady that sounds harmless, but can actually have serious and destructive consequences. You will embark on a 21-day Action Plan for Curing the Disease to Please. In the step-…
After a traumatic experience, survivors often experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual responses that leave them feeling unbalanced and threatened. Building Resilience to Trauma explains these common responses from a biological perspectiv…
