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by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on January 8th, 2025 | 0 Comments


Featured Resource: Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on January 7th, 2025 | 0 Comments

The DHSS Library has over 10,000 journal titles, eBooks, print books, and DVDs available to you as a DHSS employee. 
Each week we highlight a particular title of interest to help you learn more about our collection.

This week’s featured resource is:

Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals
(Provided by eBook Medical Collection)

 From the publisher: "This is an educational and clinical resource for health care practitioners from any discipline who may encounter sex- or labor-trafficked persons. The book provides the background knowledge and frontline clinical strategies providers need to identify, relate to, and treat these psychologically wounded, yet resilient patients."

You can access Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals from a work computer or by logging in through a VPN.


DHSS Impact Award - Now Accepting Proposals

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on January 6th, 2025 | 0 Comments


Friday Funny Pages: Library Comic

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on January 3rd, 2025 | 0 Comments

(Credit: https://librarycomic.com/comic/318/)


Read@DHSS: Top 3 DHSS Library Books of 2024

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on January 2nd, 2025 | 0 Comments

The DHSS Library has over 10,000 journal titles, eBooks, print books, and DVDs
available to you as a DHSS employee. 
Each week we will highlight three book titles of particular interest
to help you learn more about our collection.

If you have a Delaware library card, you can place a hold and pick it up
at the DHSS Library or any public library location.
Not sure if you have one? 
Email the DHSS Library and we will look up your account!

No Bad Parts : healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model book coverNo Bad Parts : healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model by Richard Schwartz; Alanis Morissette (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781683646686
Publication Date: 2021-07-06
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind--and healing the many parts that make you who you are. Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices that don't match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz's research now challenges this "mono-mind" theory. "All of us are born with many sub-minds--or parts," says Dr. Schwartz. "These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within us--and the key to health and happiness is to honor, understand, and love every part." Dr. Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts, you'll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment--and how this new understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives. Here you'll explore: * The IFS revolution--how honoring and communicating with our parts changes our approach to mental wellness * Overturning the cultural, scientific, and spiritual assumptions that reinforce an outdated mono-mind model * The ego, the inner critic, the saboteur--making these often-maligned parts into powerful allies * Burdens--why our parts become distorted and stuck in childhood traumas and cultural beliefs * How IFS demonstrates human goodness by revealing that there are no bad parts * The Self--discover your wise, compassionate essence of goodness that is the source of healing and harmony * Exercises for mapping your parts, accessing the Self, working with a challenging protector, identifying each part's triggers, and more IFS is a paradigm-changing model because it gives us a powerful approach for healing ourselves, our culture, and our planet. As Dr. Schwartz teaches, "Our parts can sometimes be disruptive or harmful, but once they're unburdened, they return to their essential goodness. When we learn to love all our parts, we can learn to love all people--and that will contribute to healing the world."
 
It Didn't Start with You book coverIt Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn
ISBN: 9781101980361
Publication Date: 2016-04-26
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling- the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains-but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited-that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It Didn't Start with You builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score. Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood. As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. It Didn't Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. It Didn't Start With You is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch.
 
The Addiction Recovery Workbook book coverThe Addiction Recovery Workbook by Paula A. Freedman
ISBN: 9781641521178
Publication Date: 2018-12-25
Get to the root of your addiction, begin healing, and prevent relapse-starting today Get the tools you need to recover from alcoholism and other forms of addiction. This substance abuse workbook equips you with actionable strategies and coping techniques to succeed in recovery when faced with daily challenges, stressors, and triggers. From navigating intimate relationships to handling high-risk situations and environments, this addiction workbook offers practical tools and hands-on exercises that you can use in your home, work, and personal life. Develop addiction recovery skills through- A comprehensive introduction that helps you understand your addiction and outlines the path to recovery. Coping skills to deal with thoughts, emotions, relationships, and high-risk situations and environments. Prevention tactics that help you succeed in lifelong recovery by setting new, addiction-free lifestyle habits and routines. Foster the skills you'll need to persevere with this addiction recovery workbook as your guide.

Happy New Year from the DHSS Library!

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on January 1st, 2025 | 0 Comments


Featured Resource: SAGE Journals, the library's most popular database

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on December 31st, 2024 | 0 Comments

The DHSS Library has over 10,000 journal titles, eBooks, print books, and DVDs available to you as a DHSS employee. 
Each week we highlight a particular title of interest to help you learn more about our collection.

This week’s featured resource is:

SAGE Journals produces over 1,000 publications on topics including health sciences, life/biomedical sciences, materials sciences/engineering, and social sciences/humanities.

Watch this tutorial, created by the DHSS Library, that explains how to use the SAGE Journals database.

 

You can access SAGE Journals from a work computer or by logging in through a VPN.

 

 


Mental Health Monday: Making SMART Resolutions

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on December 30th, 2024 | 0 Comments


Credit: Resolution Clinic

Only a few more days until the new year - have you thought about your New Year's Resolution?

According to Time Magazine, 80% of people fail to keep their NYE resolutions by February.
Only 8% actually stick to their resolutions for the entire year.
That is because people tend to make unrealistic or extreme resolutions that make it impossible to achieve on an everyday basis. Such as "giving up sugar" or "exercising every day." While diet and exercise are great areas of focus when it comes to making resolutions, they are not long-term goals.

Get a head start and review your resolution to make sure it is SMART enough for you to complete.

S - Specific
Is your goal clear and direct?

M - Measurable
How will you measure your progress?

A - Achievable
Is your goal something you can attain?

R - Realistic
Identify any obstacles or limitations to consider.

T - Timely
Set a time constraint but not too far ahead to lose ambition.

 

Make sure to prioritize your mental health as you are working on your resolution. 
SAMHSA - New Year's Resolutions: Good Mental Health Habits

Need some inspiration?
NPR created an interactive New Year's Resolution Planner with 50 ideas on moving forward in 2025


#DHSSReads: Boxing Day

by Michelle Wynne-Feigin on December 26th, 2024 | 0 Comments

The following books are available through Delaware Libraries.
If you have a 
Delaware library card, you can place a hold
and pick it up at the DHSS Library or any public library location.
 
Not sure if you have one? 
Email the DHSS Library and we will look up your account!

On Boxing book coverOn Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780385239424
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game book coverThe Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game by Sam Sheridan
ISBN: 9780802119353
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
In his acclaimed national best seller, A Fighter’s Heart, Sam Sheridan took readers with him as he stepped through the ropes into the dangerous world of professional fighting. From a muay Thai bout in Bangkok to Rio, where he trained with jiu-jitsu royalty, to Iowa, where he matched up against the toughest in MMA, Sheridan threw himself into a quest to understand how and why we fight. In The Fighter’s Mind, Sheridan does for the brain what his first book did for the body. To uncover the secrets of mental strength and success, Sheridan interviewed dozens of the world’s most fascinating and dangerous men, including celebrated trainers Freddie Roach and Greg Jackson; champion fighters Randy Couture, Frank Shamrock, and Marcelo Garcia; ultrarunner David Horton; legendary wrestler Dan Gable, and many more. What are their secrets? How do they stay committed through years of training, craft a game plan, and adjust to the realities of the ring? How do they project strength when weak, and remain mentally tough despite incredible physical pain? A fascinating book, bursting at the seams with incredible stories and insight, The Fighter’s Mind answers these questions and many more.
 
 
Our Fight: A Memoir book coverOur Fight: A Memoir by Ronda Rousey; Maria Burns Ortiz (As told to)
ISBN: 9781538757376
Publication Date: 2024-04-02
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! From New York Times bestselling author and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered chronicle of loss, resilience and finding meaning in life's journey.  From the moment she burst onto the MMA scene, Ronda Rousey was unbeatable. She repeatedly strung together back-to-back flawless victories, racking up a collection of records and forever changing the face of sports as the UFC's first female champion. A superstar in her sport, she transcended athletics, appearing in blockbuster films and becoming a role model for women everywhere. Then, on November 15, 2015, it all came crashing down.  In OUR FIGHT, Rousey explores the greatest challenge of her life and, ultimately, how she rebuilt her life into something better in the aftermath. She recounts how she replaced her pursuit of perfection with the pursuit of happiness and found an opportunity in disguise amongst the wreckage. Following Rousey's relatable journey, OUR FIGHT is a courageous narrative of career changes, marriage, motherhood, and facing your fears.  

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