Mental Health
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() Why Nature-based Therapy for Children, Youth, and Families?From: Nature-Based Therapy |
Classic and contemporary literature on nature has repeatedly described our connectedness to nature as a journey or expression of soul. If intentionally facilitated nature experiences might assist … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() Advocacy CentreFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Proposes that, while continuing to deliver essential services to men and women in states of emergency and providing assistance in finding and keeping housing, homeless shelters are well placed to … | 19 | $1.90 Add | ||
From ![]() Chapter Four: “I Breathe for Them”From: All Our Relations |
In this reading, Tanya Talaga discusses the epidemic of suicides among Indigenous youth in Canada. The reading includes personal recollections of the author, historical and political context and … | Tanya Talaga | 56 | 2018 | $6.72 Add |
From ![]() Essays 2From: Out Loud |
A selection of 14 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … | Ramona Dearing | 59 | 2010 | $5.90 Add |
From ![]() Making the Choice to Take Therapy OutsideFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
Inclement weather such as high winds and rainstorms can also provide avenues for experiences of self-care, thriving outdoors, and, metaphorically, in dealing with life challenges and formidable forces. | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() Agent of Social IntegrationFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Describes the history of Montreal’s Old Brewery Mission (an 125 year old shelter) and how it is working in concert with local psychiatric teams and housing agencies to create multiple and … | 19 | $1.90 Add | ||
From ![]() Chapter Five: We Are Not Going AnywhereFrom: All Our Relations |
In this reading, Tanya Talaga discusses the epidemic of suicides among Indigenous youth in Canada. The reading includes personal recollections of the author, historical and political context and … | Tanya Talaga | 43 | 2018 | $5.16 Add |
From ![]() Essays 3From: Out Loud |
A selection of 15 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … | Ramona Dearing | 59 | 2010 | $5.90 Add |
From ![]() Nature-based Play, Regulation, and Healthy NeurophysiologyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
This chapter provides a basic understanding of the mammalian nervous system and how consideration for different neural states (in both ourselves and our clients) can inform and enhance … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsQuake From: On Opium |
As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() Essays 4From: Out Loud |
A selection of 12 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … | Ramona Dearing | 54 | 2010 | $5.40 Add |
From ![]() Outdoor Risky Play in Nature-based TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
The meaningful integration of environmental conditions and activity choices creates the milieu. Comfort with changing weather conditions, spending time in a forest, and getting dirty, wet, or … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From ![]() Personal Best |
This interview features a woman who started sex work through camming, then moved on to stripping. She then began working in an adult massage parlour. She receives a lot of support from her … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Preventing Homelessness among People with Mental Illness |
Chapter 5 tackles mental illness as it relates to homelessness. Examining the complex ways in which individuals with mental illness fall into homelessness and barriers that nonlinear or rational … | Eric Latimer | 113 | 2024 | $11.30 Add |
From ![]() Sacrificing the SelfFrom: Game Misconduct |
Nathan Kalman-Lamb | 39 | 2018 | $3.90 Add | |
From ![]() The Social Emergency RoomFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Describes how the medical emergency model is being used to treat the social emergency a homeless person faces; triaging newly homeless people and helping them reconnect to housing and services in … | 12 | $1.20 Add |