Through his harrowing personal story, Rick Van Warner exposes the common causes of opioid addiction, effective and ineffective ways it has been treated, and how families can walk alongside loved ones who are dealing with the realities...
Mental Health Resources
Titles that offer information and assistance on Mental Health. These resources include nonfiction and fiction titles that explore what it is like to live with Mental Health issues and provide advice, tips and insights on how to cope when dealing with your own Mental Health.
- Auteur:Van Warner, RickSommaire:
- Auteur:Martini, ClemSommaire:
For 100 years, Wood's Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood’s Homes serves communities...
- Auteur:Kosik, Kenneth S.Sommaire:
Did you know that getting on the treadmill can help keep your brain sharp? Or that repeatedly staying up to catch the late show could increase the likelihood of being struck down by dementia? The dozens of choices you make over the...
- Auteur:Marcus, AubreySommaire:
Human optimization thought leader Aubrey Marcus's personal and professional mission rests on a single question: How can we get the most out of our body and mind on a daily basis? Marcus answers that question in this empowering handbook...
- Auteur:Chan, Arlene, Humphries, SusanSommaire:
Paddles Up! provides an in-depth look at dragon boating from its beginnings in ancient China to the modern-day prominence of Canadian teams on the international scene, as told in the words of top coaches of men's and women's teams,...
- Auteur:Boisvert, CélineSommaire:
L'adolescence... un mot qui fait frémir d'inquiétude bien des parents ! Bien que la majorité des parents et des jeunes traversent cette étape sans grande difficulté il demeure qu'être parent d'un adolescent suscite des émotions souvent...
- Auteur:Marston, DonnaSommaire:
Small informative book about a Mother's journey of what she learned and how she healed through the years of her son's drug addiction and recovery.
- Auteur:Newman, Carey, Hudson, KirstieSommaire:
Picking Up the Pieces tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a living work of art conceived and created by Indigenous artist Carey Newman. It includes hundreds of items collected from residential schools across Canada,...
- Auteur:Maris, Ronald William, Healy, DavidSommaire:
It is estimated that 45 to 50 percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly, the treatment for these disorders is management with one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by...
- Auteur:McVey, Gail L., Levine, Michael P., Piran, Niva, Ferguson, H. BruceSommaire:
This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. The ten...
- Auteur:Boyko, C.P.Sommaire:
Psychologists are people we love to hate. At best, they're compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they're...
- Auteur:Cherblanc, Jacques, Maltais, DanielleSommaire:
Le deuil est un processus complexe. Il évolue avec le temps et il influence autant qu'il est influencé par différents facteurs liés au type de pertes encourues, aux sentiments éprouvés face à celles-ci, au contexte social ou individuel...
- Auteur:CollectifSommaire:
« Du jour au lendemain, sans préavis, sans préparation et sans expertise, nous nous sommes retrouvés à devoir travailler sur le comptoir de la cuisine, de la table à dîner ou assis sur le sofa du salon. Une seconde nous étions en train...
- Auteur:Courcy, Isabelle, Weis-Heitner, Lindsay, Forgeot d'Arc, Baudouin, Corbière, Marc, Mazaniello-Chézol, Maud, Bastien, Marie-France, Geoffrion, Steve, Briand, Catherine, Lavoie-Tremblay, Mélanie, Valderrama, Alena, Tanguay, Pascal, Givron, Hélène, Desseilles, Martin, Gouron, David, Vignault, Catherine, Quintin, Jacques, Semaan, William, Djahanbakhsh Asli, Khashayar, Boyer, Richard, Blanchet, Valérie, Provencher, Martin D., Landry, Stéphanie, Larivière, Nadine, Gauthier-Boudreault, Camille, Morin, Paul, Gabet, Morgane, Grenier, Guy, Perrottet, Daniela, Fleury, Marie-Josée, Fortin, Marie-Pier, Lavoie, Mélissa, Dufour, Isabelle, Chouinard, Maud-Christine, Hurtubise, AnickSommaire:
Porteuse d'une dimension biologique irréductible, la mort se trouve néanmoins profondément ancrée dans le social et l'organisation politique des sociétés. Agissant comme un révélateur des cultures et des sociétés, elle constitue une...
- Auteur:King, WesleySommaire:
Seventh-grader Sara wants to be normal but her panic attacks and other episodes cause her to isolate herself until, in group therapy, she meets talkative and outgoing Erin, her first friend. Grades 3-6.
- Auteur:Letourneau, Nicole, Joschko, JustinSommaire:
The latest research on child development may hold the key to the parenting of the future. Combining the expertise of its author – a celebrated expert in parent-infant mental health and mother of two – with the latest findings in gene-by...
- Auteur:Dalby, J. ThomasSommaire:
SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful chapters by eminent Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about mental health issues they face and what they are doing about it...
- Auteur:Dalby, J. ThomasSommaire:
Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with...
- Auteur:McKercher, CatherineSommaire:
An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer it...
- Auteur:Landry, JaniceSommaire:
Janice Landry asks the question, "What are you the most grateful for?" to fifteen Canadians from five provinces and two Americans. One of the seventeen is Dr. Bob Emmons, considered to be the world's pre-eminent expert in the study of...