Faces of Recovery continues the report on how millions of American soldiers have faced the ultimate dilemma: kill the enemy or risk being killed yourself. As documented in Eric Newhouse's earlier book, Faces of Combat, PTSD &amp; TBI, each choice traumatizes the brain. The trauma is cumulative: prolonged combat increases emotional and physical injury. This book also introduces a newly discovered complication, moral injury. It occurs when soldiers are ordered into a conflict they cannot morally justify, yet are forced to kill others to stay alive themselves. It happens when soldiers feel their chain of command has betrayed or abandoned them. It can also occur when a soldier has violated their own moral code, for example by killing civilians to avenge the death of friends, or when they fail to protect the buddies who have been watching their backs. Faces of Recovery looks at the personal steps each veteran must take to feel accepted again in society. These include forgiveness, making atonement, self-forgiveness, and physical exercise to help the brain reduce depression and anxiety.

Faces of Recovery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Newhouse, Eric

Mental Health

Issues Press

A lucid, practical, and profoundly simple book that answers the question: "What does it take to find and remain on the path to recovery?"

Things That Work: A No-Nonsense Guide to Recovery by One Who Knows (Idyll Arbor Personal Health Book)

Bocchieri, Barry

Addiction & Recovery

For everyone responsible for the well being of children, this book explains one of the hardest to detect threats to their safety. 
Female sex offenders have victimized an estimated two to three million people in the United States. As a society we find it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse. 
The result is that, each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are not protected, not believed, and not treated for the trauma associated with the abuse. Through her detailed analysis of the currently available literature and her own research, Dr. Hislop describes what is known about female sex offenders: identification of abusers, estimates of the number of abusers and victims, the methods of abuse, the types of trauma seen among their victims, and what is known about the developmental histories of female sex offenders. 
She also provides therapists with directions for treatment and prioritized treatment goals, including exploring the victimization and patterns of offending, the relationship between the offender’s own victimization and her offending, precursors to offending, and methods to stop offending.

Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know

Hislop PH.D., Julia

Psychology & Counseling

Conflict is normal; it can either cause division or growth. Situational Mediation will teach you the best ways to resolve personal and business conflicts. By reading this book you will learn how to use the best features of evaluative, collaborative, transformative, and humanistic mediation to work through issues quickly, inexpensively, and with the least possible stress. Using extensive examples and detailed commentary, Oliver Ross shows you the process he uses to reach agreements in a wide variety of mediations. He offers a sensible, real-life approach for resolving disputes and teaches you effective methods of conflict resolution that you can use to lead participants to settlement while fostering opportunities for growth and transformation. Book jacket.

Situational Mediation: Sensible Conflict Resolution

Self-Help

ROSS, OLIVER

Relationships

Field workers in the helping professions social work, home health care, emergency services are exposed to violent acts from the very people they are trying to help. Nearly one third of them will be assaulted sometime in their career. Yet few agencies train their staff to face such risks. Helping professionals work in many diverse communities, both urban and rural, with differing populations, cultures, and a wide range of levels of violence. The authors have tried to anticipate all possible scenarios, ranging from verbal threats and physical assault to attacks with firearms. An awareness of the potential for all levels of violence should become an integral part of the professional routine. If you are in the helping professions, The Safe Approach: Controlling Risk for Workers in the Helping Professions provides you with the tools you need to control the risk and keep yourself safe. This book teaches:* how to conduct ongoing risk evaluation* how attitude can increase or decrease risk* how to prepare for a client visit, in the office or in the field* ways to evaluate risk in the field* behavioral cues which may precede an assault* how to work with co-workers to reduce risk* disengaging should a subject become physically hostile* how to deal with stress after an assault.

The Safe Approach: Controlling Risk for Workers in the Helping Professions

Politics & Social Sciences

Douglas, Janet

Ennis, Charles

Social Sciences

Eric Newhouse, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper columns reprinted in this book, is a veteran newspaper reporter. As such, he's seen the flotsam and jetsam of human life: the divorces, lost jobs, battered wives, abused children, crime, drunken drivers, car wrecks, and medical bills. And, he's come to the conclusion that alcohol is behind much of it. Take away the alcohol and much of the human tragedy goes away. This book, Alcohol: Cradle to Grave, offers a compelling, day-in-the-life look at how the disease of alcoholism affects the state of Montana, as a microcosm of the national problem. Newhouse offers us a compelling and comprehensive understanding of the complexity, magnitude, and cost of alcohol abuse. It's an unflinching look at the largely unnoticed river of booze that is flooding our towns, our communities, and our daily lives - with suggestions on how to channel the flow.

Alcohol: Cradle to Grave

Business & Money

Economics

Video games are now firmly embedded in the cultural identity of America s teenagers. It is now estimated that 90 percent of our youth are playing video games. They are using handheld devices or full-fledged, Internet-based, multiplayer games. Most are nonchalant about them, enjoying them as part of the many things they do for pleasurable entertainment, integrating them into their lives without harmful effect. Others, however, have grown so dependent on these games that they are abandoning their lives to pursue this activity, which they seem to prefer above all others. Video Games &amp; Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control is for parents who are worried that their children may be spending too much time playing video games. Based on research and the author s clinical experience, the book explains what gaming addiction is, how much gaming is too much, and the effects gaming has on the body and brain. The authors give gaming advice on each stage of life; birth-2 years, ages 2-6, elementary school years, adolescence, and adult children still living at home. Where there is a problem, the authors provide parents with tools that will help them successfully set limits for their children.

Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control

Computers & Technology

Cash, Hilarie

McDaniel, Kim

Games & Strategy Guides

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse issues a call to help America s returning warriors in his latest book, Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist s Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans. His concern is that one-third to one-half of the 1.6 million men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can be expected to return home with one or all three emotional disorders post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD), traumatic brain injury(TBI), or major depression. But the Veterans Administration is already overloaded in treating soldiers from previous conflicts, primarily Vietnam vets who never received the help they needed and deserved. Faces of Combat shows how the suicide of a previously deployed National Guardsman galvanized Montana officials to become a model state in assessing the mental health of its soldiers, taking additional steps that should become the norm nationwide. Soldiers tell their heartbreaking stories, what happened to them in battle and what happened when they came home. They explain their uncontrollable rage, alcoholism, nightmares, flashbacks, divorce, joblessness and homelessness. They talk about the battlefield reactions to civilian provocations that are landing too many of them in jail. A female combat photographer, Jamie Bender, talks about the damage that resulted from taking pictures in a field littered with body parts and being ordered not to cry at the memorial services for four of her dead friends. Her photographs illustrate this book. Other female soldiers discuss the trauma of being raped by fellow American soldiers. Finally, Faces of Combat evaluates the VA s conventional treatment, which is generally inadequate even if available, and suggests some alternative treatments that appear to be working in private practice. It also provides lists of resources for vets across the country.

Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans

Reference

Lies In Silence advocates for improved diagnosis and treatment for bipolar and co-occurring disorders by describing the devastating toll the disorders took on three generations of the author's family. An insightful and compelling look that gives the reader an understanding of the depth of pain and suffering experienced by people who have these genetically transmitted diseases.

Lies in Silence: Lessons about Bipolar and Co-Occurring Disorders Learned Through Advocating for Appropriate Treatment for My Family

Hart, S J

Biographies & Memoirs

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