Psychology
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Children and Complex Trauma
A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery by Chuck Geddes
If you’re a foster or adoptive parent, family caregiver, social worker, or professional supporting children who have experienced trauma, you may have felt confused and overwhelmed at some point. It may seem like typical parenting and strategies just ...
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The Pearl and the Hut
Soul Wisdom for Growing up and Living Between Divorced Parents by Yiana Belkalopolos
The Pearl and the Hut, Volume I, is a comprehensive therapeutic resource for adult children of divorce and for caregivers helping young children who are experiencing parental divorce. Yiana Belkalopolos addresses the trauma many children experience ...
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The Compassionate Supervisor
by Tracy Miles
Right now more than ever before, in the aftermath of COVID health care workers need support. The Compassionate Supervisor advocates for a different type of leadership for front line workers, particularly those working in mental health. The book ...
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Forever on Fire
A Love Letter to Never Fitting in by Angela Taylor
What does it mean to be wired differently? To be what experts describe as “neurodiverse”? Forever on Fire: A Love Letter to Never Fitting In explores these complex and sometimes confounding questions. Author Angela Taylor’s humanizing account of ...
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The Power of Connection
How to process emotion in turbulent times. by Bea Mackay
In life, there are many things we cannot control, leaving us feeling powerless and defeated. However, what you can control is how you deal with your emotions. In The Power of Connection, psychologist Dr. Bea Mackay explores mental health by teaching ...
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The Art of Urban People With Adopted and Rescued Dogs Methodology
Rescued Dogs: The Misunderstood Breed by Billie Groom
“The Art of UPWARD Methodology: Rescued Dogs, The Misunderstood Breed” is a thought provoking journey into the world of dog rescue, rehabilitation, and canine behavior. The companion animal world has experienced enormous changes over the last three ...
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In the Shadow of Angels
Intimate Stories from a Hospice Counsellor by Susan Breiddal
“You people are angels!” This is how many respond to those who work in palliative care. How hospice care professionals manage the emotional tension of being surrounded by sick, dying, and grief-stricken people is unfathomable. Over her 20 years of ...
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OCDad
Learning to Be a Parent With a Mental Health Disorder by Jason Adams
“In many ways, this book is the resource I wish I had had.” How do you make time for therapy while raising kids? How do you tell the difference between healthy parental instincts and OCD symptoms? How does OCD affect parenting, and what can be ...
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Immigrants' Journeys
Africans Making Canada Home by Chifuka M Chundu
Imagine walking one-thousand kilometres to cross the border from war-torn South Sudan into Ethiopia, eventually seeking asylum in Canada. Or moving from Ghana to Quebec as a child, not speaking English or French, and being one of the few Black ...
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Emerging from the Shadows
Racialized Students’ Mental Health by Rodrick J. Lal
Emerging from the Shadows aims to enlighten academics, researchers, university students, and the general public about the development of mental health services in a university environment—with a special focus on racialized students. Based on ...
