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Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Post-traumatic stress disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder Fiction Post-traumatic stress disorder Juvenile fiction Psychological aspects Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Veterans Fiction Veterans Mental health État de stress post-traumatiqueRaja, Sheela
Summary: Your trauma doesn't need to define you. In The PTSD Survival Guide for Teens , trauma specialist Sheela Raja-along with her teen daughter Jaya Ashrafi-offers evidence-based skills to help you find strength, confidence, and resilience in the aftermath of trauma. If you've experienced trauma or suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the world can seem like a very frightening place....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 616.85 RajMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAILesage, Marla
Summary: ". . . explores the realities of PTSD from a kid's perspective. The book includes an author's note and kid-friendly mental health resources. As a military child, eleven-year-old Leah moves . . . a lot. But this summer she will be the one left behind when her best friend's family is reassigned. To make matters worse, her mother will be away for training, leaving Leah at home with her father,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LESSummary: A film that investigates new and controversial techniques and methods for treating PTSD but more than that, it is a look into the lives of veterans in America today. It is an authentic portrayal of veterans today in America and their bitter combat to overcome drug addiction, criminal issues, and their individual struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Through investigation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILScheeringa, Michael S.
Summary: A compassionate and accessible guide for parents whose children have experienced traumatic or life-threatening events written by one of the foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents feel and explains the impact of trauma, simplifies the science into layman’s terms, debunks the myths, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Central Recovery Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 SCHWilson, Carter
Summary: "How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist. His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, created by Alice's own father in a series of popular graphic novels. Over a decade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMorel, Olivier
Summary: A gripping graphic novel illustrates the challenges of Iraq War veterans as well as their inspiring triumphs. After the shock of 9/11, for hundreds of thousands of young Americans there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu Ghraib--the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. From the torment of these vets to their reflections, this book demonstrates the seemingly impossible return of those who aspire to get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 MOREchenique, Sara E.
Summary: A girl in Puerto Rico copes with the aftermath of a hurricane, including her family's temporary blue tarp roof and her brother's refusal to speak. Includes notes about the author's life in Puerto Rico and the yearly ritual of preparing for hurricanes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ECHMorris, David J.
Summary: "In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD. Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and '90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of thetwenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8521 MORDang Nghiem
Summary: Learn the accessible and deeply compassionate practices for healing trauma, known as the Five Strengths of applied Zen Buddhism. More than a philosophy, these body-based practices are backed by modern neuroscience research, and they can be applied by anyone suffering from trauma to begin experiencing relief. Mindfulness teacher Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, is an inspiration for anyone who has ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parallax Press 2021
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Summary: Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALColgan, Jenny
Summary: London nurse Lissie needs a change of scene. A rural Scotland paramedic trades places with her. Through email, they discover new feelings for their jobs and each other. What will happen when they meet?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURFriis, Agnete
Summary: Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained. After one particularly bad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRIOestreicher, Amy
Summary: Amy Oestreicher was college-bound with ambitious sights on Broadway, when the week before her senior prom, a blood clot caused her stomach to explode, and she nearly died in the emergency room. Waking from a coma months later, she was told she might never eat or drink again. After 28 operations and years without a drop of liquid or morsel of food, Amy's digestive system was miraculously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Singing Tree Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OESTREICHER, AMY OESPetrie, Nicholas
Summary: Fighting his post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane-- until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her young grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead daughter's husband and the sole suspect, fled to Iceland with his son for the protection of Erik's lawless family. For reasons both unknown and unofficial, it seems that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHISummary: "John Huston's stirring documentary about returning war veterans was suppressed by the United States government for over thirty years after it was produced. Every man has his breaking point, says narrator Walter Huston. These in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limits of human endurance. Filmed at two Long Island locations (Edgewood State Hospital and Pilgrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LETConnell, Laura K.
Summary: We are sometimes our own worst enemies, sabotaging our success and with it our chance for lasting happiness and opportunities for personal and professional fulfillment. It's Not Your Fault helps readers uncover the subconscious reasons they hold themselves back. These blind spots were often created in childhood as coping mechanisms in response to trauma. Rather than teaching tactics that ignore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications, Inc. 2023
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Summary: The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Team Pursuits 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8521 SEAMaxfield, Marcie
Summary: Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXTodd, Anna
Summary: When the trust they've placed in each other is traumatically broken, Karina and Kael, a soldier scarred by his time in Afghanistan, try to find a way back to each other, but soon Karina must decide whether loving someone she doesn't want to live without is worth risking everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frayed Pages 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TODHouse, Silas
Summary: In the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book's excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father's flashbacks to the Vietnam War and other family problems, as well as concern about his tough but troubled best friend, Edie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction HouSummary: After exacting revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs far deeper than New York's criminal underworld. Now known throughout the city as The Punisher, he must discover the truth about injustices that affect more than his family alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017