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Summer Reading!

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I’m sure I’m in the majority when I say, “I’m so ready to go back to normal.” We’ve all had to sacrifice, change routines, and tried to make sense of everything that’s going on. The good news is that our library is still open and still has access to books. Yay!

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You can come by and read, work on stuff, or place holds on books and pick them up (Sidenote: The library is still only swipe access for current students, faculty, and staff. When you click on any of the titles below a new tab will open and you can place a hold on the book there). Below are some books you can dive into this summer. Some are fun, distraction reading, while others are informative about a variety of topics.

If you need some distraction in your life:

Fawkes
Shadows
How to Stop Time

Let’s Learn About Ourselves and Others

Braving the Wilderness
Loneliness
When Parents Hurt
Atomic Habits

Science with a sprinkle of pandemic history

Very, Very, Very Dreadful
The Accidental Homo Sapiens
The Gene

HERstory:

Her Neighbor’s Wife
Too Much
Women in Texas History
A Black Women’s History of the United States
Mothers, Monsters, Whores

If you’re tired of binge-watching shows on Netflix…

Vader, Voldemort, and Other Villains
Explorations in Theology and Film
Post 9/11 Cinema
Difficult Men
Kindness and Wonder

Or want to learn about our country’s politics

Love Your Enemies
Seeking Security in an Insecure World

And my own personal recommendations:

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Ready Player One
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Much love and blessings!

Helping Children and Adolescents with Mental Health

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This text examines the determinants of individual differences in children and young people, along with the origins of maladjustment and psychiatric disorders. It addresses the ways in which interventions and mental health services can be developed and shaped to address individual differences amongst children. Topics cover the influence of economic adversities and gender differences on child development and life course, as well as the range of risk and protective factors associated with the onset and persistence of problems, including sections on anxiety disorders in infants, bipolar disorder, and tics and Tourette’s.

Key features:

      • emphasizes social and environmental influences
      • focuses on early developmental and infancy processes
      • covers a range of illustrative psychiatric disorders and problems
      • addresses the training of child and adolescent psychiatrists across Europe
      • works toward the goal of producing a mental health workforce with internationally recognized competencies

Mental Healthcare for Adolescents

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This comprehensive book provides a framework for healthcare providers working with the dual challenges and opportunities presented by the intersection of mental health and technology. Technology and Adolescent Mental Health provides recent, evidence-based approaches that are applicable to clinical practice and adolescent care, with each chapter including a patient case illustrating key components of the chapter contents.

Early chapters address the epidemiology of mental health, while the second section of the book deals with how both offline and online worlds affect mental health, presenting both positive and negative outcomes, and focusing on special populations of at-risk adolescents. The third section of the book focuses on technology uses for observation, diagnosis or screening for mental health conditions. The final section highlights promising future approaches to technology and tools for improving intervention and treatment for mental health concerns and illnesses. 

This book will be a key resource for paediatricians, family physicians, internal medicine providers, adolescent medicine and psychiatry specialists, psychologists, social workers, as well as any other healthcare providers working with adolescents and mental health care. 

Assessment, Treatment, Prevention

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Anxiety in Preschool Children provides a comprehensive, integrated, and scientifically current resource for both clinicians and researchers who work with or encounter anxiety in preschool-aged children. With a focus on organizing and consolidating the most current research, this informative new volume offers an assortment of practical interventions and evidence-based strategies for assessment, treatment, and prevention that are tailored to preschool-aged children. This groundbreaking volume will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone working with this unique patient population, from parents to practitioners.

 

The Brain is not an Attic, much to Sherlock’s chagrin

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From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skill sets. These damaging—and as new science has revealed, false—assumptions have influenced all of us at some time, affecting our confidence and willingness to try new things and limiting our choices, and, ultimately, our futures. Jo Boaler has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education. In Limitless Mind, she explodes these myths and reveals the six keys to unlocking our boundless learning potential. Her research proves that those who achieve at the highest levels do not do so because of a genetic inclination toward any one skill but because of the kyes that she reveals in this book. Our brains are not “fixed,” but entirely capable of change, growth, adaptability, and rewiring. The truth is anyone at any age can learn anything, and the act of learning itself fundamentally changes who we are, and what we go on to achieve.