Publications: Books
Clinicians at Community Connections have written and produced a number of books all available for sale:
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Trauma Recovery & Empowerment: A Clinician's Guide to Working with Women in Groups
Millions of women seek help every year for troubling depression or anxiety, for puzzling physical symptoms like headaches, muscle aches, and stomach cramps, for addictions to drugs, alcohol, or food and for problems with relationships. What's being discovered is that trauma, whether past or ongoing, is the cause of many of these problems.
Maxine Harris
$25.00
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Healing the Trauma of Abuse: A Woman's Workbook
This self-help workbook for women recovering from the affects of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse is based on the Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model, and can be used by a woman on her own, with a therapist or supportive friends, or in conjunction with.
Copeland - Harris
$15.00
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The Loss that is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father
This book focuses on the often ignored trauma of losing a parent in childhood. The stories of over 60 men and women tell of how early loss affects relationships, parenting style and a person’s sense of self.
Maxine Harris
$10.00
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Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Women Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness
This book exposes the prevalence of sexual, physical and emotional abuse among those diagnosed with severe mental illness, includes case studies that reveal its tragic and devastating impact. This book explores services that are available to abused women, discusses treatment, and addresses recommendations for the improvement of both policy and research.
Maxine Harris
$27.00
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Women of the Asylum
This book, originally published in 1994 and recently reissued, is a compilation of writings from 26 women placed in psychiatric institutions in the 20th century. These narratives offer a clear picture of women’s lives from both within and outside the asylums in which they lived and provide some of the most harrowing tales of the abuses of the psychiatric system.
Geller - Harris
$10.00
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Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems in Jossey Bass Publications
This issue of New Directions for Mental Health Services identifies the essential elements necessary for a system to begin to integrate an understanding about trauma into its core service programs.
Harris - Fallot
$28.00
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The Twenty-Four Carat Buddha
This book is a collection of original fairytales set in imaginary space and time, but with a piercing relevance for modern life. Accompanying the stoires themselves are a collection of reflections and a series of questions that allow the reader to explore the message of each story in greater depth. Readers who want to use the fables as a vehicle for self-exploration can uses these sections of the book, while those who prefer can ignore the more self-help focused parts of the collection.
Maxine Harris
$10.00
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