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This volume is the first book in the field of traumatic stress studies to systematically examine the unique role of countertransference processes in psychotherapy outcome. Emphasizing the need for carefully deliberated action, this volume offers vital new insights into the victim-healer relationship and presents detailed techniques to promote awareness of affective reactions for anyone working with sufferers of PTSD and its comorbid conditions such as anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
How do poets engage issues of race? This timely collection of essays brings together the voices of living poets and scholars, including Garrett Hongo and Major Jackson, to discuss the constraints and possibilities of racial discourse in poetic language, offering new insights on this perennially vexed issue.
A narrative of Minnie Miles: Jack and Cylia Faye Miles had only one child, Minnie. Nellie was her best friend in the whole world. They enjoyed growing up in the rural of Mississippi. They were inseparable. Jack and Cylia Faye were too busy drinking and juking to care for their only child. Nellie's parents practically raised Minnie until one day she had to leave for Detroit to live with her grandmother permanently. Even after Minnie's parents death she seemed to have no love for them because she felt she really never knew them. They were strangers to her. At her parents burial she didn't even say good bye. (Insert from Minnie Miles) The summer after myself and Minnie's junior year of high school early one evening the police knocked at our door saying there had been a fatal accident out on route three, said the lady a Mrs. Cylia Faye Miles had been rushed to Menard Hospital in critical condition but the gentleman a Mr. Jack Miles was pronounced dead at the scene and someone needed to contact next of kin to identify the body of Mr. Miles and that Mrs. Miles family needed to be contacted.
Forever After presents the untold stories of what happened in New York City schools on September 11, 2001. These moving, first-hand accounts reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and administrators who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center and around the City. The inspiring stories in this beautiful collection bring into clear focus the enormous responsibility that teachers and administrators face every day and the crucial role they play in helping students make sense of the world, especially after terrifying and incomprehensible events like 9/11. Maxine Greene and Michelle Fine, eminent educators, also offer their views on what...
This book takes a comprehensive look at the seriousness and impact of suicide on individuals, communities, and the greater society. Beginning with a look at different types of suicide throughout history, this book launches into discussions on the culture of suicide, reasons people take their own lives, and how to cope with a suicide. The author devotes entire chapters to depression and suicidal warning signs, and relays options for young people seeking help. Replete with scenarios, the author puts a human face on a generally taboo subject and gives hope to both the depressed teen who is considering taking his or her own life and those who have lost a loved one through suicide.
"It will be particularly interesting to graduate and undergraduate students of clinical psychology, counseling, social work, women's studies, and education. This volume will prove useful for in-service training programs for counselors, social workers, nurses, and psychologists as well."--BOOK JACKET.
The author "relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer."--Cover.
What if Jesus did not come to die for our sins? What if, instead, Jesus's life and death was intended to provide a way out of our shame? While traditional Christian teachings about the atonement emphasize sin as guilt and transgression against God's will and commandments, Frank Woggon points out that clinical spiritual care reveals that the human condition is predominantly marked by shame rather than guilt. In The Empathic God, Woggon examines myopic readings of the Jesus event that, in turn, have embedded distortions into traditional paradigms of the atonement. In contrast, Woggon mines narratives of the human condition to engage in a critical examination of the Jesus story. As a clinician ...