For this project, you will need to research a mental health topic and utilize credible resources to inform an audience. Please refer to your assignment requirements for specifics.
The resources on this page are here to help you get started, generate ideas, organize your notes and prepare your project. Extend your search for materials and information through interviews and additional research. Watch the video to get started.
#WorldMentalHealthDay | #endstigma | #mentalhealth | #unsuicide | #depression
Video by: bringchange2mind.org/
Use keyword searches on the topic to generate ideas. Review your results and narrow and select a specific disorder.
Use the keyword search to get started, and then narrow your topic after reviewing the results. Database Access Codes
Science Daily
National Alliance on Mental Health
Example of Scholarly / Peer Reviewed
#WorldMentalHealthDay | #endstigma | #mentalhealth | #unsuicide | #depression
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155.41 Oli
Olive, M. Foster. Child abuse and stress disorders. New York : Chelsea House Pub., c2007.
155.51 Qui
Quill, Charlie. Anger and anger management. 1st ed. New York : Rosen Pub., c2009.
The basics of anger -- Reacting to anger -- Anger and self-esteem -- Family and anger -- Understanding your anger -- Managing your anger.
161.85 Eat
Eating disorders. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale, Cengage Learning :, c2015.
Examines the problems of and potential solutions to eating disorders including bulimia, binging, and anorexia.
359.96 MCN
McNab, Chris, 1970-. Learning mental endurance for survival. Broomall, PA : Mason Crest, [2015].
Uses special forces training to look at the techniques needed to hone one's mental endurance for survival.
371.71 McP
McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Stressed out in school? : learning to deal with academic pressure. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Pub., Inc., c2010.
"Examines the stress and academic pressure students of all ages encounter, including early education, homework, standardized tests, college applications, peer pressure, and alternative learning styles"--Provided by publisher.
616.85 BRI
Brinkerhoff, Shirley. Drug therapy and anxiety disorders : by Shirley Brinkerhoff. Broomall, Pennsylvania : Mason Crest Pub. Inc., 2004.
616.85 ESH
Esherick, Joan. The silent cry : a teen's guide to escaping self-injury and suicide. Philadelphia, Pa. : Mason Crest, c2005.
Provides information for teens about suicide and self-destructive behaviors, examining the difference between healthy and unhealthy risk-taking and more.
616.85 IRW
Irwin, Cait. Monochrome days : a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with depression. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Explores the causes, treatment, and managagement of adolescent drepression; and offers tips on dealing with the disorder both at school and at home.
616.85 Lev
Levin, Judith (Judith N.), 1956-. Depression and mood disorders. 1st ed. New York : Rosen Pub., c2009.
What is depression? -- Causes of depression -- Teenage depression -- Getting help. Learn what depression is, how to identify the signs of depression and how to treat it.
616.85 MAC
Machoian, Lisa. The disappearing girl : learning the language of teenage depression. New York : Dutton, c2005.
How to recognize the difference between ordinary teenage angst and depression in adolescent girls,identifying some of the reasons why girls are especially vulnerable to depression and suicide.
616.85 MAY
Mayo Clinic on Depression; answers to help you understand, rcognize and manage depression : Keith Kramlinger, M.D.; Editor in chief. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, 2001.
616.85 MOO
Mooney, Carla, 1970- author. What is panic disorder? San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, c2016.
Experts estimate that panic disorder affects as many as 6 million American adults and is twice as common in women as men. This title examines this disorder.
616.86 MIL
Miller, Malinda, 1979-. Dual diagnosis : drug addiction and mental illness. Broomall, Pa. : Mason Crest, c2013.
Describes what life is like for those who have both a drug addiction and a mental illness and explores treatment options.
618.92 BON
Bonnice, Sherry. Drug therapy for adjustment disosrders. Broomall, Pennsylvania : Mason Crest Pub. Inc., 2004.
618.92 TAY
Taylor, Blake E. S. ADHD & me : what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table. Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, c2007.
Teenager Blake Taylor chronicles his experiences with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
R 150.3 SAL
Salem health : psychology & mental health. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
R 613 LEV
Levchuck, Caroline M. Healthy living : Caroline Levchuck,Michele Drohan. Detroit : UXL; an imprint of the Gale Group, 2000.
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616.85 DUN
Dunkle, Clare B. Hope and other luxuries : a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia. San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, 2015.
"Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story--told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose--of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic"--.
F SCH
Schumacher, Julie. Black box. 1st. New York : Delacorte Press, 2008.
When her 16 year old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls : by Laurie Halse Anderson. New York : Viking Press, 2008.
Eighteen year old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles.
[Fic] CAL
Ballard, Alexandra. What I lost. 1st ed., 2017. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017.
When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
FIC COL
Colasanti, Susane. Waiting for you. New York : Viking, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
FIC GEO
George, Madeleine. Looks. New York : Speak, 2009.
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
FIC JEN
Jenkins, A.M. Damage. New York : Harper Collins, 2001.
Seven-teen year old football hero, Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks he has.
FIC MAC
Mac, Carrie, 1975-. 10 things I can see from here. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017].
Maeve, a sufferer of severe anxiety, moves in with her recovering alcoholic father and her very pregnant stepmother and falls for a girl who is not afraid of anything.
FIC WIL
Williams, Suzanne. Bull rider. 1st. New York : McElderry Books, 2009.
When his older brother, a bull riding champion returns from Iraq, partially paralyzed, 14 year old.
FIC WIL
Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls under pressure. 1st American edition. New York : Delacorte Press, 1998.
Ellie learns to deal with her self-image as she battles anorexia.
FIC-P KAS
Kaslik, Ibi, 1973-. Skinny. Pbk. ed. New York : Walker, 2008, c2004.
After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
FIC-P KES
Kessler, Jackie Morse. Hunger. Boston : Graphia, 2010.
Anorexic seventeen-year-old Lisabeth Lewis, appointed Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, revels in the freedom that comes with traveling the world on her steed, and having to visit places where hunger is a real part of everyday life gives her a new perspective on her own eating issues.
FIC-P MAY
Maynard, Joyce, 1953-. The cloud chamber. 1st Simon & Schuster ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2006, c2005.
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
Pa-F SPA
Sparks, Beatrice. Kim : empty inside : the diary of an anonymous teenager. 1st Avon ed. New York : Avon Books, 2002.
Seventeen-year-old Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.