RESOURCES (Links need updating: August,
2010)
Keywords: PTSD, post traumatic stress, emergency help, drugs, alcohol, suicide, suicide prevention,
psychiatric emergency, stress, resilience, family stress, traumatic stress, disasters, violence prevention
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WEBSITES, ETC.
Emergencies
If you have a psychiatric emergency, such as a suicidal or homicidal individual, or any other condition
requiring immediate evaluation, search in Google or another Internet search engine under "emergency psychiatric services,
[fill in name of nearest town or city.] Many phone books also list such services in the blue pages or similar listing.
Help with stress
The following websites can help with many of the problems in the List of Bad Things or Stresses
http://www.conquering-stressful-family-hurdles.com/index.html very good advice about handling many different family problems
Suicide Prevention Information
www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/campaign/kit/default.aspx
For a List of Useful Pamphlets, covering almost all child and adolescent psychiatric conditions and many other common problems,
see
Facts for Families, from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3615 Wisconsin
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016-3007 phone 202 966-7300 FAX 202 966-2891; on the Internet: http://www.aacap.org/info_families/index.htm
NOTE: If your copy of this book is on paper, the site is http://www.aacap.org/info_families/index.htm.
Don't leave out the underscore _ between info and families in
that web address. You enter it in your browser search window exactly as written.
On Resilience
"Raising
Resilient Children, Robert Brooks, Sam Goldstein, Contemporary Books, Chicago, IL, 2001
Also on Resilience
http://www.urban.org/publications/411255.html
This website describes the Literature Review and Evidence from the HOPE VI Panel Study--Final Report (available
in PDF format) Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037
Author(s): Elizabeth Cove, Michael Eiseman, Susan J. Popkin
http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/resiliency
and also see
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA312537.html
and
http://www.unitedspinal.org/publications/nursing/2007/01/18/individual-and-family-factors-associated-with-health-related-quality-of-life-in-adolescents-and-young-adults-with-spina-bifida/
The Best Book I Know on Setting Up Fair Rules and Keeping Them
"Living With Children: New Methods for Parents
and Teachers"
by Gerald Roy Patterson, published in 1977, but still available on Amazon.com and other bookstores.
Some Parenting Books Recommended by Friends
1. "Positive Discipline," Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. Ballantine
Books, 1996 (especially for teachers, but useful for parents)
2. "The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved
Child From Birth to Age Ten," Martha Sears, William Sears, Little, Brown, 1995
3. "Children: The Challenge,"
Rudolf Dreikurs, Vicki Soltz (available from online booksellers)
4. "One Small Plot of Heaven: Reflections on Family Life
by a Quaker Sociologist," Elise Boulding, Pendle Hill Publications, 1989
Information on Peer Counseling: Peer Counseling. Highlights: An ERIC/CAPS Fact Sheet. http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed266341.html ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Box 40, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
The Best Book I've Found on Depression in Adults and Adolescents (and possibly useful with children)
"Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy," by David D. Burns, M.D. Avon, New York, 1992; still available on
Amazon.com and in many bookstores.
Family Stress; Individual Stress
Ronald L. Pitzer Family Sociologist, School of Social Work, College
of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota (The Family Stress Series, University of Minnesota Extension Service) www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/DE2466.html
University of Minnesota Extension Service, Office
of the Director, 240 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108-6068
Self-teaching site on stress http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/managingstress/htm/index.htm
"Families Under Stress: What Makes Them Resilient?" Hamilton I. McCubbin, June 22, 1997,
www.cyfernet.extension.umn.edu/research/resilient.html University of Minnesota, The Family Stress Series, University of Minnesota Extension Service, Office of the Director,
240 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108-6068
Coming to Our Senses and Wherever You Go
There You Are both by Jon Kabat-Zinn. These books teach mindfulness meditation, an approach to stress reduction.
Stress of preparing for retirement (http://www.conquering-stressful-family-hurdles.com/retirement-readiness.html or search "retirement readiness," "prepare for retirement")
Disasters and Traumatic Stress
For Information on Disaster Coping
from
The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)
500 C Street, SW Washington,
D.C. 20472 Phone 800-621-FEMA (3362)
http://www.fema.gov/
To order free FEMA publications, call 1-800-480-2520
To buy FEMA disaster kit, call that number or check with American Red Cross office in phone book.
FEMA for Kids: After the Disaster: A Children's Mental
Health Checklist
www.fema.gov/kids/tch_mntl.htm ( that's tch_mntl.htm)
National Child Traumatic Stress Network www.nctsnet.org also their "Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide" www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/psfs/pfa/PFA9-6-05Final.pdf (that's nctsn_assets/ ) has suggestions for different ages
Disaster Psychiatry Handbook www.psych.org/disasterpsych/pdfs/apadisasterhandbook.pdf
On Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
National Center for PTSD's "Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide"
from www.ncptsd.va.gov/topics/katrina.html (fall of 2005) National Center for PTSD (116D),
VA Medical Center, 215 N. Main St., White River Junction, Vermont
05009.
Check sites of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/straight/cover.htm
On Network Therapy (Especially for Substance Abuse and Alcoholism)
http://www.appi.org/book.cfm?id=62142
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209-3901
Preventing Youth Violence in Urban Schools
http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/eric_archive/mono/UDS107.pdf
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, (address above) also, www.avpusa.org /
To Learn How to Use Children's Books for Spiritual Guidance, see the Internet site below. It describes ways of directing the
child's attention to the hope and optimism expressed in those stories. Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Engine that
Could, Guess How Much I Love You, all get good marks for their positive outlook. The site is: www.coe.usu.edu/ecc/top/December%25201999/Dec1999Rossi.html
