LibGuides: Mental Health Awareness: Library Materials

The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal by Julia Cameron
Call Number: BF408 .C175 1996
ISBN: 9780874778861
Publication Date: 1997-12-29
Julia Cameron keeps row after row of journals on the wooden bookcase in her writing room, all containing Morning Pages from more than twelve years of her life. The journals, she says, listen to her. They have been company on travels, and she is indebted to them for consolation, advice, humor, sanity. Now the bestselling author of The Artist's Way offers readers the same companion, in which we may discover ourselves, our fears and aspirations, and our life's daily flow.
August Wilson Century Cycle by August Wilson
ISBN: 9781559363075
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
In 1982, black American playwright August Wilson set out to write one play for each decade of the twentieth century to capture the real lives of his people. He completed the cycle just before his death in October 2005. Each volume is introduced by an eminent fellow-writer. 'No-one else - not even Eugene O'Neill - has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theatre' John Lahr, from his introduction Most of the plays are also available as separate volumes. For more information, see the individual entries: Gem of the Ocean (1900s) foreword by Phylicia Rashad Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1910s) foreword by Romulus Linney Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1920s) foreword by Frank Rich The Piano Lesson (1930s) foreword by Toni Morrison Seven Guitars (1940s) foreword by Tony Kushner Fences (1950s) foreword by Samuel G. Freedman Two Trains Running (1960s) foreword by Laurence Fishburne Jitney (1970s) foreword by Ishmael Reed King Hedley II (1980s) foreword by Marion McClinton Radio Golf (1990s) foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Call Number: RC552.P67 V358 2014
ISBN: 9780670785933
Publication Date: 2014-09-25
A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781299841048
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. "Evolution's Rainbow "explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior.
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Call Number: ON ORDER
ISBN: 9781501132742
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another--and to one another--as we fight to become ourselves.
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016
ISBN: 9781568584638
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.

Burnout and trauma
Dr. Geri Puleo, SPHR, is the President/CEO of Change Management Solutions, Inc., a boutique B2B consulting firm helping clients who are planning, implementing, or struggling with change. The creator of the Burnout During Organizational Change (B-DOC) Model, she has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in the B2B and B2C markets. The founding president of Tri-State Society of Human Resource Management (a Superior Merit winner), she is currently launching a new SHRM chapter in the Airport area. The former author of 2 columns for E-Magnify and The Employment Paper (a subsidiary of The Pittsburgh Business Times), her blog, http://a-new-way- to-work.com, focuses on achieving professional success by reducing burnout and maintaining work-life balance during organizational change. A frequent and popular keynote speaker and trainer at national, regional and local conferences, Dr. Puleo has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in business, human resources, organizational development, leadership/ management, and strategy at Penn State University, Seton Hill University, Robert Morris University, Strayer University and CCAC.
From Burnout to Bliss
Reflections on the definition of burnout, how to recognize and heal from it. Also, perspective is taken on how burnout unfolded during the pandemic...This conversation was filmed this year during Panama's Black History Month at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort, in the area of the Panama Canal. There's significance in this because my father worked in the Canal, and many of our ancestors labored tirelessly in its construction. Countless people from our African diaspora landed there looking for better opportunities while this monument was being built. They suffered discrimination and even died. These are stories that give context to a legacy of burnout among marginalized communities.
Thanks to Professor Ligia Grenald for the interview; Juliaf Design for coordinating a beautiful event; and @jarbmedia for masterfully capturing the essence of our conversation.
On seeing vulnerability as a powerful experience
Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.