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Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature
Par Leslie W. Lewis. 2007
Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many…
tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of "breaking silence" in response to sexual violence. This fascinating study also suggests that masculine bias problematically ignores female experience in order to equate slavery with social death. In calling attention to the sexual behavior of slave masters in African American literature, Lewis highlights its importance to slavery’s legacy and offers a new understanding of the origins of self-consciousness within African American experience.We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us
Par Whitney K. Pipkin. 2024
Death teaches us how to live.When Whitney K. Pipkin&’s mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she wasn&’t ready. How could…
she be? She searched for resources that could help her walk through this heavy yet sacred time in her life. But she struggled to find the guidance she longed for in a season of anticipatory grief.We Shall All Be Changed is a companion for those experiencing the lonely season of suffering and death. In this book, Whitney reaches across the pages to hold the hand of the caregiver. Walking through death with a loved one can be incredibly isolating and unsettling. This book reminds us that we can experience God&’s very presence in life&’s dark and deep valleys. As Whitney draws from her own experience, she sheds light and hope. She shows that we are not alone. And she reveals the mysterious way that God ministers to and transforms us through death and suffering.Beautifully honest and theologically rich, Whitney invites us to consider death so that we might understand life and how to live it.Rather than wanting to run from discussions of death—as I did for so long—I now want to press into them, to wring from one of the hardest trials life has to offer every drop of sanctification and glory. I see now that having a front seat to my mom&’s final days has forever changed the ones I have left to live. —Whitney PipkinA book for those who are caring for the sick and dying . . . for those who will care for parents, family, or friends in their last days . . . and for those who have already walked this journey. This book is for us.Finding Your Self at the Heartbreak Hotel: Moving Beyond Betrayal
Par Alice Haddon, Ruth Field. 2024
You can’t seem to get over the breakup. You feel stuck in cycles of rumination and pain. This revelatory guide…
provides brand-new therapeutic tools to revolutionize the way we overcome loss, as well as seek and welcome love, within and outside of ourselves."For the heartbroken, a solid first step toward healing.” —Publishers WeeklyAlice Haddon, psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life.In these warm, welcoming pages, you will meet women of different cultural backgrounds and ages who successfully picked themselves back up to become more confident than ever through the work that Alice and Ruth are doing at the Heartbreak Hotel--a therapy retreat providing intensive care to the heartbroken.Bursting with compassion, humor, sass, and courage, this book will take you into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat. It will teach you how to:face your deepest hurt without shame or judgmentask for help and lean on the collectivebe kind and forgiving to yourselfturn your heartbreak into an abundance of love and pride.Providing you with a clear pathway to recovery, Alice and Ruth draw on their wealth of professional and personal experience to help you Finding Your Self at The Heartbreak Hotel.Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
Par E. Summerson Carr. 2011
Gaming the language of addiction treatmentScripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It…
is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs?To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments, individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script."As a clinical ethnography, Scripting Addiction examines how decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic transactions—and by extension administrative routines and institutional dynamics—at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings."Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Par Natasha Dow Schüll. 2012
An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gamblingRecent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social…
forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible—even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems—all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two.Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schüll's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion.This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use disorders that our…
current addiction treatment rejects, abandons, and leaves behind. Harm reduction is an approach to helping people who engage in high-risk activities to develop the skills and strategies to keep them and their communities safe. This can include the provision of sterile equipment, low-threshold and low-barrier care, and the acceptance of non-abstinence goals in treatment. In this novel guide, Dr. Vakharia discusses the shortcomings of the dominant “Just Say No” drug prevention messages and abstinence-only treatment approaches, introduces harm reduction strategies and technologies borne from people who use drugs themselves, and suggests various policy options available as alternatives to the current policies that criminalize drugs, drug-using equipment, and the settings in which people use drugs. The final chapter calls on the reader to destigmatize drug use and support efforts to reform our drug policies. By highlighting the large gap in our current approach to substance use – the harm reduction gap – this book is the first step for those interested in learning more about the limitations of our current approach to drug use and how to support local efforts to ensure people who use drugs and their communities can stay safe.Adult Personality Development: Volume 1: Theories and Concepts
Par Lawrence S. Wrightsman. 1994
Why do we, as adults, have the personality characteristics we do? No one explanation is accepted by all; however, in…
this greatly expanded version of his earlier book, Personality Development in Adulthood, Wrightsman helps us understand and organize the three broad theoretical approaches to explain psychological changes during the period from adolescence to the onset of late adulthood. Each of these approaches--early formation theories, stage theories, and the dialectical approach--are described and contrasted in order to help us more easily compare our experiences with those of others. Case histories, relevant current events, and boxed inserts are used throughout the book to illustrate important concepts in a thought-provoking, lively manner. Written in a compelling, non-technical style, the book is accessible to students and interested readers from all disciplines, especially psychology, clinical and developmental psychology, aging, family studies, sociology, gender studies and nursing.Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL
Par Bryony Gordon. 2024
Bryony Gordon presents the long-anticipated follow up to her phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller, Mad Girl.Ten years on from…
first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effects it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in? What has she learned, and why have her views on mental health changed so radically? After coming out the other side of the biggest trauma of our living memory - a global pandemic - existing in a state of perma-crisis has now become our new normal.From burnout and binge eating, to living with fluctuating hormones and the endless battle to stay sober, Bryony begins to question whether she got mental illness wrong in the first place. Is it simply a chemical imbalance, or rather a normal response from your brain telling you that something isn't right? Mad Woman explores the most difficult of all the lesson she's learned over the last decade - that our notion of what makes a happy life is the very thing that's making us so sad.(P)2024 Headline Publishing Group LtdHealthy Ageing after COVID-19: Research and Policy Perspectives from Asia (ISSN)
Par Wang-Kin Chiu and Vincent T. S. Law. 2024
Written by researchers and experienced health professionals from Hong Kong, China, Chiu and Law identify and examine important issues of…
healthy ageing after COVID-19 from research and policy perspectives in the Asian contexts.This book opens with discussions of healthy ageing from personal, social, economic, and political perspectives. These discussions make reference to the key characteristics of a community health model. It aims to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on aged care in an international perspective, citing the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong as a case report. Comprehensive analysis on the influence of COVID-19 infection on Hong Kong and the implemented anti-pandemic policy measures, as well as recommendations of post-pandemic policies to promote healthy ageing, are provided. This monograph also reviews the worldwide impacts on aged care during and after the pandemic, as well as the experience of aged care services in Hong Kong and other Asia-Pacific regions. The responding changes in policies and strategies for healthy ageing in selected countries are also reviewed. This monograph ends with a highlight on the design and development of a community model for healthy ageing, providing insights to the achievement of sustainable healthy ageing with reference to the sustainable development goal (SDG) 3.A valuable resource to governments, politicians, academics, and practitioners, it is intended for formulating future directions of relevant research, and the design and implementation of interventions for the promotion of healthy ageing in the post-pandemic era.Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders Piece by Piece: A Practical Guide for Parents
Par James Lock, Aileen Whyte, Brittany Matheson, Nandini Datta. 2024
The book illustrates how parents who are participating in family-based treatment (FBT) for their child's eating disorder (ED) may enhance…
their chances of achieving optimal outcomes for their child by more successfully navigating the challenges that often impede progress in treatment and recovery.The stance of the book is transdiagnostic, so that the information provided spans all ED diagnoses including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and atypical ED presentations as well as conditions that fall outside current diagnostic criteria. This book aims to help parents identify how they can make the most out of FBT therapy no matter which ED symptoms their child experiences. Case vignettes across the diagnostic and clinical spectrum are used liberally throughout the book, not only to illustrate examples of some of the specific challenges families face, but to help parents normalize the emotions they may feel around their experience of trying to help their child and around their experience of participating in the FBT intervention itself. A respectful and supportive tone makes this resource accessible and jargon-free for parents, and provides useful information and approaches for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and allied health practitioners who deliver FBT to young people and families.¡Estrés, aléjate de mí!
Par Pílula Digital. 2024
Todo el mundo se enfrenta a algún tipo de estrés en la vida, y no siempre es fácil ENCONTRAR alivio.…
Las obligaciones familiares y profesionales, los OBJETIVOS personales, los PROBLEMAS FINANCIEROS... la lista parece interminable. Pero aquí está la BUENA NOTICIA: hay maneras SENCILLAS de manejar de forma EFICAZ tus niveles de estrés para que no lleguen al punto de hacerte perder la cabeza. Por supuesto, no es posible evitar el estrés por completo. Pero HAY maneras de aprender a IDENTIFICAR los desencadenantes del estrés, CONTROLAR sus niveles. LIDIAR con el estrés y la ansiedad. En este E-BOOK, veremos algunas de las MUCHAS MANERAS en que puedes MEJORAR tu calidad de vida APRENDIENDO a manejar adecuadamente tus niveles de estrés. Lo mejor de todo es que todos los MÉTODOS presentados en este E-BOOK están basados en métodos y productos 100% naturales. ¿Estás listo para APRENDER FINALMENTE cómo manejar de manera rápida y eficaz tus niveles de estrés y VIVIR la vida que mereces? ¡Feliz lectura!How to start on YouTube: Practical tips to make your YouTube channel grow continuously.
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
Creating a YouTube CHANNEL can be a good ALTERNATIVE for anyone who wants to MAKE MONEY on the Internet. Full…
of resources, the platform has space for content CREATORS who produce videos on VARIOUS subjects. To create a channel, you just need a GOOGLE ACCOUNT, a good camera, video editing software, and CREATIVITY to think about content. The page creation process is simple, but MAINTENANCE requires DEVELOPING strategies so that the channel achieves SUCCESS and begins to monetize. In this E-BOOK you will learn the FIRST STEPS to CREATING a YouTube channel from scratch. Good reading!How to silence your mind and find peace
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
A major source of STRESS and psychosomatic illnesses stems from the mental TURBILLION we subject ourselves to on a DAILY…
basis. The head never stops PROCESSING INTRUSIVE thoughts, which are not always positive. Most of them are THOUGHTS of fear and worry. But how do we STOP this process that seems so AUTOMATIC and autonomous? To SOLVE it, many turn to medication. An effective measure in the short term, BUT with NEGATIVE consequences over time. As a result, alternative ways have been sought. In this short book you will learn SIMPLE TECHNIQUES, which are within the reach of ANYONE to do -- and which when PRACTICED correctly; will give you the POWER to EMPTY your mind; and thus ACHIEVE the much desired PEACE.Cómo superar una entrevista de trabajo: Guía completa para superar una entrevista de trabajo
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
Al leer el libro "Cómo superar una entrevista de trabajo", aprenderás, entre otras cosas, lecciones de valor incalculable que, si…
las pone en práctica en tu profesión, aumentarán casi un 100% tus posibilidades de tener éxito en una entrevista de trabajo. Parece una broma, ¡pero no lo es! Lo que ocurre es que la mayoría de las personas que buscan trabajo ni siquiera se dan cuenta de lo que ocurre en una entrevista de trabajo. Como resultado, apenas se preparan y pronto descubren después de la entrevista que han sido rechazados, y lo que es peor; van de nuevo por segunda, tercera o incluso cuarta vez. ¿Triste realidad? Sí, pero es la verdad. Sin embargo, no tiene por qué ser así para ti. Si utilizas las estrategias adecuadas y prestas toda tu atención a los consejos de oro descritos en las instrucciones paso a paso de este libro, puedes estar seguro de que pronto tendrás el trabajo de tus sueños.Cómo encontrar pareja rápidamente
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
Hay algunas ACTITUDES que te alejan de la persona con la que QUIERES salir. Es IMPORTANTE ser CONSCIENTE de ciertos…
puntos, de lo contrario la posibilidad que tienes de CONQUISTAR a la persona que te gusta se irá por el desagüe. Tanto si estás SALIENDO CON ALGUIEN como si no, tus actitudes REVELAN mucho sobre tu COMPORTAMIENTO y también MUESTRAN quién eres. Por lo tanto, NECESITAS estar atento si REALMENTE quieres MANTENER al amor de tu vida a tu lado, o incluso encontrar a alguien QUE TE QUIERA. ¡Feliz lectura!Pinterest simplificado
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
PINTEREST es una de las diversas formas existentes de TRABAJAR con internet. Pero, como pocas personas saben cómo ganar dinero…
en PINTEREST, actualizaron la herramienta en 2021 y TORNARON el proceso SIMPLE y TRANSPARENTE. De esa forma, la ENORME comunidad de CREADORES DE CONTENIDO que tiene allí, LOGRA saber de una forma fácil cómo MONETIZAR su trabajo. Por lo tanto, si usted QUIERE saber cómo GANAR DINERO en PINTEREST para tener un INGRESO EXTRA o transformarlo en su NUEVO TRABAJO, consulte en este libro las formas de MONETIZAR en la plataforma! ¡Buena lectura!How to terminate bad feelings
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
Every human being possesses a big diversity of sentiments and emotions. Some deeply bother us, others please us. Each of…
our emotions contains a specific purpose and we need to learn how to deal with them in a healthy way. It's impossible to get rid of emotions. Anyhow, they are necessary and life linger to be a little boring or even dangerous if they didn’t exist. Besides that, suppressing them excessively can cause trouble. Therefore, this eBook is aimed to help you to do a good emotional regulation.How to do well in a job interview: Complete guide to do well in a job interview
Par Pílula Digital. 2024
'How to do well in a job interview' provides valuable lessons that may increase your chances of passing a job…
interview by almost 100%. It looks like a joke, but it is not! Most people who are looking for a job are not even aware of what happens in a job interview. Ill-prepared they fail the first interview. Sometimes on the second, third, and fourth... Sad reality? Yes. But it's the truth! However, you don’t need to go this way, do you? With the right strategies and the golden tips described in the step-by-step instructions of this book, you can be sure that soon, the job of your dreams will be a reality.Cómo descubrir su propósito de vida
Par Pílula Digital. 2023
¿Por qué es tan IMPORTANTE identificar su PROPÓSITO de vida? Bueno, tener un propósito de VIDA, -- entre otras cosas…
-- promueve en nosotros el sentimiento de PERTENENCIA. Usted sabe que es allí donde debería ESTAR y sabe que usted está haciendo algo que tiene SENTIDO con lo que usted piensa y con quien usted es. En las páginas de este pequeño libro, usted aprenderá 5 pasos SIMPLES que le ayudarán a DESCUBRIR cuál es realmente el PROPÓSITO de su vida en este mundo.Cómo acertar en la alimentación de su mascota
Par Pílula Digital. 2024
Una alimentación de CALIDAD influye directamente en la SALUD y la LONGEVIDAD de su mascota, y cuanto MEJOR sea, más…
ENERGÍA y DISPOSICIÓN tendrá ella en el día a día, además de estar MUY BIEN CUIDADA, tanto por dentro como por fuera.