The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions


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The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook is a collection of personal narratives, short stories, and poetry about mental illness and other life-affecting problems, mostly in the context of family life. Beginning with problems related to childhood, the stories range through adolescence, adulthood, and old age. The book explores family relationships affected by physical illness, mental illness, racism, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and much more. No academic description can convey the feelings, meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based on direct experienceexactly what you'll find in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professionscan offer this perspective. Each selection is accompanied by questions for discussion; selected reading lists are provided with each chapter. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.




Kayla's Cowboy


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It's never too late…right? Kayla Anderson is never going back to Montana. At least, that was the plan. But when her teenage son runs away to meet his great-grandparents, she ends up back in Schuyler…face-to-face with her high school sweetheart, rancher Jackson McGregor. It's complicated doesn't quite cover it, especially since Alex happens to be Jackson's son, too. Alex and his dad couldn't be more different, but Jackson will do anything to connect with his boy. And suddenly old wounds pale beside the possibility of a second chance under the wide Montana sky…




The Bar Code Tattoo (The Bar Code Trilogy, Book 1)


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Individuality vs. conformity. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Indivuality vs. conformity.. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.




Just a Little Bet


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After a night of too many drinks, smokejumper Tony Warren and his best friend, photographer Kayla Gladney, come to the realization that they’re both bad at love. They even tried dating each other, but that crashed and burned, too. Now he’s got the hangover from hell and the certain conclusion he’s just a shit boyfriend. But Kayla thinks he’s a straight-up commitment-phobe. So they make a bet—they’re going to hunt down his exes and decide once and for all why he’s so unlucky in love. Terrible boyfriend or commitment-phobe. Why does either answer feel like he’s still losing? But between roadside burgers and late night detours, they discover some fires never burn out—like the one slowly smoldering between them. And suddenly losing feels a whole lot like winning again. Each book in the Where There’s Smoke series is STANDALONE: * The Two-Date Rule * Just a Little Bet * The Best Kept Secret




The Board


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The Board is the story of five kids who inherit money, power, technology - and with a little help along the way - try to take over the world. Set in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1995, Jennifer and Brian are two kids who aren't part of the popular set. But they do know the difference between right and wrong. After the two fall in love, together they devise a plan of action to fight back and stop ... The Board. This intense suspense novel will keep you guessing throughout. Bill Bos Lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is writing his next novel. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/BillBos




The Girls Who Have It All


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Everyone knows that high school is all about drama, some fights, finding true friendship, and true love. However, in Diana Waller's case these simple aspects of high school life are taken to the extreme. When the most beautiful girl in high school history, Ashlee Summers, meets Diana she realizes that this might be the first person who could ever out smart her. With strange and bizzarre tactics these girls battle it out but one girl might end up leaving K. Wilson Private High School forever. Twisty and dramatic, The Girls Who Have It All tells a story about finding yourself and that one true love will always stand beside you even if you're wrong.




Zombie Salvation


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p>What makes zombie lore so popular? Is it because the creatures are so lethal or unpredictable? Whats the origin of the first zombie? Lets go back to Lazarus. Was Jesus resurrection of the legendary dead man the first historical account of a zombie? This story begins with a tale of an alien plot that threatens to make mans worst fear become a horrific reality. Let your mind run wild in this first book with crazy government conspiracy theories, a crippling pandemic, and prepare for a crazy tale. Could the undead be our salvation, our only hope for survival?