Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; burnout is common. Alleviating such stress is the objective of Interactive Staff Training. The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and their colleagues work as a well-integrated team. This strategy has been implemented in teams serving more than 10,000 persons with psychiatric disabilities. The text combines a careful description of the central theory behind the strategy with pleanty of clinical anecdotes that...

Within recent years there has been a monumental awareness put towards environmental sustainability and resilience in response to the effects of humankind's continued imposition on existent ecological processes. Weather they be industrial developments or more specifically agricultural practices, continued fragmentation of complex adaptive systems creates radical changes in ecological systems that extend far beyond a given developmental footprint. If adequate balances can be reached between agriculture and natural processes more aspects of landscape resilience can successfully adapt to the...

In The Stigma Effect, psychologist Patrick W. Corrigan examines the unintended consequences of mental health campaigns and proposes new policies in their place. He argues that effective strategies require leadership by those with lived experience, as their stories replace ideas of incompetence and dangerousness with ones of hope and empowerment.

In The Stigma Effect, psychologist Patrick W. Corrigan examines the unintended consequences of mental health campaigns and proposes new policies in their place. He argues that effective strategies require leadership by those with lived experience, as their stories replace ideas of incompetence and dangerousness with ones of hope and empowerment.

Tow Truck Joe and friends are on a roll to Halloween fun in this rhyming lift-the-flap book by beloved author June Sobel (The Goodnight Train).

Get into gear for some Christmas cheer! Tow Truck Joe and his pup, Patch, are on a roll to help every car and truck in Motor City celebrate. Find merry surprises around every turn—and under every flap—of this festive novelty book. The friendly Tow Truck Joe and his loyal pup, Patch, are back in a Christmas adventure. With oversized lift-the-flaps, this warm and delightful story is full of interactive fun for curious kids. Follow the ever-helpful Joe and Patch as they work to fix problems and bring joy and festive cheer to all of their vehicle friends. A companion book to the beloved...