Category: Book

Eric Newhouse

Faces of Recovery continues the report on how millions of American soldiers have faced the ultimate dilemma: kill the enemy or risk being killed yourself. As documented in Eric Newhouse’s earlier book, Faces of Combat, PTSD & TBI, each choice traumatizes the brain. The trauma is cumulative — prolonged combat increases emotional and physical injury.

This book also introduces a newly discovered complication, moral injury. It occurs when soldiers are ordered into a conflict they cannot morally justify, yet are forced to kill others to stay alive themselves. It happens when soldiers feel their chain of command has betrayed or abandoned them. It can also occur when a soldier has violated their own moral code, for example by killing civilians to avenge the death of friends, or when they fail to protect the buddies who have been watching their backs.

Faces of Recovery looks at the personal steps each veteran must take to feel accepted again in society. These include forgiveness, making atonement, self-forgiveness, and physical exercise to help the brain reduce depression and anxiety.

Eric Newhouse has been a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The Associated Press, and the projects editor for the Great Falls, Montana, Tribune. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for a 12-part series of stories on alcoholism.

For more information about the ongoing crusade to get appropriate treatment for combat veterans see the website FacesOfCombat.US.

More information about Eric Newhouse is available on EricNewhouse.com.

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Charles Ennis and Janet Douglas

Violence against those who provide in-home care continues to be a risk for therapists, nurses, and social workers who visit their clients in the client’s home. Ennis and Douglas use their almost fifty years of combined experience in the fields of policing and child protection to show you how to be safer in your practice. They are not trying to convince you that violence toward workers in the helping professions is a problem; you probably know that already. What they do is to show you changes you can make to perform your job more safely.

In this book are ways to prevent and reduce violence toward home-care workers using readily available tools and skills. The authors walk you through the necessary steps to examine your behaviors and the risks in a situation. This will help you be safer when the client visits your office or when you go into the field. They examine safety awareness, discuss the use of collateral information, and show you the importance of file information. They stress the need for ongoing safety assessment in the ever-changing situation in a client’s home. Finally, they show you how to protect yourself should all else fail.

Charles Ennis and Janet Douglas have worked together for more than 10 years investigating high-risk child abuse complaints where there were concerns about the potential for violence. Until his retirement Ennis was a member of the Emergency Response Team Tactical Unit and a Gang Crime Unit for the Vancouver Police Department. Douglas
has been a frontline child protection social worker in Vancouver, B.C. for the past 21 years, working with families in crisis. The authors have trained numerous agencies and their staff on how to be safe when working in the field.

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Eric Newhouse

Eric Newhouse, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper columns reprinted in this book, was a veteran newspaper reporter. As such, he’s seen what he refers to as the flotsam and jetsam of human life: the divorces, lost jobs, battered wives and children, crime, drunken drivers, car wrecks, and medical bills. And, he’s come to the conclusion that alcohol is behind much of it. Take away the alcohol, in other words, and much of the human tragedy that he chronicles would go away.

Alcohol: Cradle to Grave, offers a compelling, day-in-the-life look at how the disease of alcoholism affects Great Falls, Montana, in particular and the state of Montana general. It’s also what he terms “a microcosm of a national problem.” Here, Newhouse offers us a compelling and comprehensive understanding of the complexity, magnitude, and cost of alcohol abuse. It’s an unflinching look at the largely unnoticed river of booze that flows through our towns, our communities and our daily lives.

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Eric Newhouse

In Faces of Combat, PTSD & TBI: One Journalist’s Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse issues a call to help America’s returning warriors. His concern is that one-third to one-half of the 1.6 million men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can be expected to return home with one or all three emotional disorders – post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or major depression. But the Veterans Administration is already overloaded in treating soldiers from previous conflicts, primarily Vietnam vets who never received the help they needed and deserved.

Eric Newhouse has been a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The Associated Press, and the projects editor for the Great Falls, Montana, Tribune. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for a 12-part series of stories on alcoholism.

For more information about the ongoing crusade to get appropriate treatment for combat veterans see the websiteFacesOfCombat.US.

More information about Eric Newhouse is available on EricNewhouse.com.

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Julia Hislop

Female Sex Offenders describes how female sex offenders have victimized an estimated three million people in the United States. Dr Julia Hislop provides therapists educators, and law enforcement personnel with the information that is currently known about these offenders including the life events that lead to offending, the types of offenses committed, and strategies for treatment of offenders.

If you think you don’t need this book, please think again. The offenders and victims may be found in any group that you work with. After reading this book, we have had both therapists and educators say that they will never look at issues of abuse the same way again.

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SJ Hart

Lies In Silence advocates for improved diagnosis and treatment for bipolar and co-occurring disorders by describing the devastating toll the disorders took on three generations of the author’s family. An insightful and compelling look that gives the reader an understanding of the depth of pain and suffering experienced by people who have these genetically transmitted diseases.

SJ Hart speaks about issues related to the growing epidemic of bipolar and related disorders. You can send us an e-mail to hear how you can have her speak to your organization.

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Jay Parker

A powerful book about how sex and love addiction destroyed Jay Parker’s life and his successful struggle to “get it all back.” A meaningful book for anyone dealing with sex and love addiction issues, either their own or a loved one’s.

Parker proposes some real-life actions that sex and love addicts can take to get their lives back under control and offers suggestions about how our society can be more successful in dealing with sex offenders.

Jay Parker is a licensed addictions counselor and one of the first specializing in Internet addiction and related sex and love addiction issues. He has appeared on national television ranging from The Leeza Gibbons Show to PBS. Discussions of his work on Internet addictions have appeared in US News and World Report and other national and regional publications.

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Oliver Ross

The Book Situational Mediation teaches the best ways to resolve personal and business conflicts. It describes how to use the best features of evaluative, collaborative, transformative, and humanistic mediation to work through issues quickly, inexpensively, and with the least possible stress.

Using extensive examples and detailed commentary, Oliver Ross shows how to reach agreements in a wide variety of mediations. He offers a sensible, real-life approach for resolving disputes and teaches effective methods of conflict resolution that lead participants to solutions while fostering opportunities for growth and transformation.

The Audience
Lawyers, psychologists, clergy, counselors (marriage, family, labor relations), human resource personnel, and other professionals who want to add mediation to the services they offer.

Professionals currently providing mediation services who want to improve their mediation skills.

Other people who are wondering if mediation might be appropriate for resolving marriage/divorce issues, resolving family problems, or solving labor, contract and other disputes.

The Author
Oliver Ross earned a Doctor of Law degree from the University of San Diego in 1968, a Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University in 1992, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in human behavior psychology from Ryokan College in 1994. He has received training in advanced mediation skills at The Mediation Center in Eugene, Oregon, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Phoenix, Arizona.

Since 1994, Dr. Ross has successfully mediated over 500 conflicts involving divorcing couples, family members, executives, professionals, business owners, and parties to commercial and real estate contracts.

Oliver Ross is an “Advanced Practitioner” Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and an approved Mediator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Arizona Association of Realtors.

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Hilarie Cash and Kim McDaniel

Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control is for parents who are worried that their children may be spending too much time playing video games. Based on research and the author’s clinical experience, the book explains what gaming addiction is, how much gaming is too much, and the effects gaming has on the body and brain. The authors give gaming advice on each stage of life; birth-2 years, ages 2-6, elementary school years, adolescence, and adult children still living at home. Where there is a problem, the authors provide parents with tools that will help them successfully set limits for their children.

Hilarie Cash, PhD has been a psychotherapist since 1981. When she moved to Seattle with her family in 1993, she developed and interest in the emerging problem of internet addiction, co-founding Internet/Computer Addiction Services in 1998. Her son’s love of video games, and the clients she saw, convinced her of the profoundly addictive nature of this form of entertainment. She provides individual, family, and group therapy to game addicts, as well as writing and lecturing on the subject.

Kim McDaniel is a devoted parent and wife and has been a professional counselor for the past nineteen years. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a BA degree in psychology from California State University, Northridge and a MA degree from Pepperdine University. She has provided clinical services to children and adolescents at several residential and hospital facilities. Presently, Mrs. McDaniel’s practice is focused on providing psychological services to families, adolescents, and children.

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