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Dark night cometh
The stresses Dr. Austin Mardon incurs during his misadventures in Antarctica and the USSR reach a boiling point, setting off a weekend-long psychotic bender that will change his life forever. Now, as a person with schizophrenia, Dr. Mardon must contend with having lost 50 IQ points, the fallout of his professional and personal life, and […]
After the war: Surviving PTSD and changing mental health culture
After serving in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Stéphane Grenier returned to Canada haunted by his experiences. Facing post-traumatic stress disorder and an archaic establishment, he spent ten years confronting-and changing-the military mental health system from within. Coining the term “Operational Stress Injury” to allow the military to see mental […]
Decolonizing education: Nourishing the learning spirit
Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation, racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure of current educational policies for Aboriginal […]
Principles-focused evaluation: The guide
How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles—and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. Patton explains why principles matter for program development and evaluation […]
Anxiety, stress & mindfulness: A do-it-yourself guide to wellness
Instead of trying to get rid of anxiety and stress, change your relationship to them. Mindfulness practice grounds us. Our drama-of-the-moment becomes thoughts and feelings that come and go as we navigate back to now. Awareness wakes us up from automatic pilot, and the mental fog begins to lift. Damaging self-talk starts to lose its […]
Suicidal behavior (2nd ed.)
The book is invaluable as a compact how-to reference for clinicians in their daily work and as an educational resource for students and for practice-oriented continuing education. Its reader-friendly structure makes liberal use of tables, boxed clinical examples, and clinical vignettes. The book, which also addresses common obstacles in treating individuals at risk for suicide, […]
Too many people: Contact, disorder, change in an Inuit society, 1822-2015
Too Many People: Contact, Disorder, Change in an Inuit Society, 1822–2015 examines the history of contact between the outside world and a group of Inuit, the Iglulingmiut, living in Canada’s Eastern Arctic. The nature of these encounters and their impact is described and analyzed from 1822 to 2015. Seeking to understand how order was brought […]
How not to kill yourself: A portrait of the suicidal mind
“If you’re going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject. If you lie or if you fudge, the reader will know.” The last […]
How to build and maintain relationships with mental illness
This book outlines tools for building and maintaining relationships for and with people with mental illness by providing some insight and solutions to typical challenges. However, this book will not paraphrase the work of medical professionals, who accurately and scientifically assess mental illness. Instead, this book shows that people should care about mental illness because […]
Dark night cometh
The stresses Dr. Austin Mardon incurs during his misadventures in Antarctica and the USSR reach a boiling point, setting off a weekend-long psychotic bender that will change his life forever. Now, as a person with schizophrenia, Dr. Mardon must contend with having lost 50 IQ points, the fallout of his professional and personal life, and […]
The myth of normal: Trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture
‘It all starts with waking up… to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing’ Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is ‘normal’ when it comes to health? Over four decades […]
Overcoming the neutral zone trap: Hockey’s agents of change.
Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features […]
The semicolon
A compelling, sensitive picture book that gives voice to the experience of childhood depression. Inspired by the use of the semicolon by mental health advocates around the world, this story will help parents and educators begin conversations with children about big feelings finding hope and building resilience.
Loving someone with suicidal thoughts: What family, friends, and partners can say and do
If you love someone who has suicidal thoughts, you may struggle with profound fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. You desperately want to help, but you’re unsure of where to start. This book can guide you as you support your loved one—without sacrificing your own needs and well-being. You’ll find the answers to […]
Suicide risk assessment and prevention, volume 2
Suicide in Different Cultures Suicide in South Asia Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Madhumitha Balaji Cultural Considerations in Suicide Research and Practice Paola Mendoza-Rivera, Helen Ma, Bruce Bongar, Joyce P. Chu The Roles of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide Stephanie Freitag, Yara Mekawi, Koree S. Badio, Ecclesia V. Holmes, Alix Youngbood, Dorian A. Lamis Suicide Among Indigenous […]
Suicide risk assessment and prevention, volume 1
Models of Suicide Models of Suicide and Their Implications for Suicide Prevention David Lester Neurobiological Approach to the Study of Suicide Kees van Heeringen The Journey Back from Suicide Sylvia Huitson Suicide as Syndemic Chris Caulkins Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide from a Cultural Perspective Teresita Morfín-López Protective Factors in Suicidal Behavior Gerard Hutchinson […]
Tattered teddies: An interactive handbook about the awareness and prevention of suicide in children
Tattered Teddies has been designed to provide information and to allow you, the readers, to engage with, and uniquely apply the knowledge to the children in your care. The content within Tattered Teddies provides current research and strategies for intervention with children at risk of suicide.
River of life: Aboriginal youth suicide workshop
The River of Life workshop is designed to provide information and interventions for caregivers working with youth at risk of suicide aged fifteen to twenty-four.
Namwayut: A pathway to reconciliation
Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation. Before we get to know where we are going, […]
Midnight storm moonless sky: Indigenous horror stories
Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous life with spellbinding flights and frights of speculative […]
Feeling good: The new mood therapy
From renowned psychiatrist Dr. David D. Burns, the revolutionary volume that popularized Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and has helped millions combat feelings of depression and develop greater self-esteem. Anxiety and depression are the most common mental illnesses in the world, affecting 18% of the U.S. population every year. But for many, the […]
Reasons to stay alive
Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend (and now-wife), Andrea. And eventually, he learned to appreciate life […]
What it takes to make it through: Stories of suicide resilience & loss.
A Storybook Project Initiative from the ASR Suicide Studies Collective at St. Michael’s Hospital. A collection of stories by those with lived experience of suicide loss and suicide.
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