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Sexuality in Adolescence: Current Trends (Adolescence and Society)
by Susan M. Moore Doreen A. RosenthalSexuality in Adolescence considers the latest theory and research on adolescent development, focusing on sexuality as a vital aspect of normal, healthy maturation. Biological changes are discussed within a social context, and the latest research is presented on key issues of our time, including changes in teenage sexual behaviours and beliefs, sexual risk-taking, body dissatisfaction, sex education, teen pregnancy and abortion. Susan Moore and Doreen Rosenthal explore the roles of parents, peers, the media, social institutions and youth culture in adolescent sexual adjustment. This volume covers topical issues ranging from the role of the internet in adolescent romance to the pros and cons of abstinence education versus harm minimization. Issues, such as whether there are male-female differences in desire, sexuality, motives for sex, and beliefs about romance are examined, along with the question of whether a sexual double standard still exists. Maladaptive aspects of sexual development, including sexual risk-taking, disease, unplanned pregnancy, and sexual coercion are also covered. This fully revised and updated second edition also addresses the crucial issues of: sexual minority adolescents the social determinants of adolescent sexuality sexual health as opposed to sexual illness. This book aims to promote sexual well-being, and argues for the importance of the adolescent period as a time for engendering healthy sexual attitudes and practices. It will be valuable reading for students in the social and behavioural sciences interested in adolescent development and the topic of sexuality, and for professionals working with young people.
Sexuality in Adolescence: The digital generation (Adolescence and Society)
by Doreen Rosenthal Susan Moore Meredith Temple-SmithSexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research and theory about adolescent sexuality in today’s world. The book examines biological, social and health-related approaches and reviews qualitative and quantitative research from psychology, sociology, epidemiology and medicine, emphasising the interplay between perspectives and privileging the voices of young people as they discuss the joys and pains of sexual awakening. The focus is on understanding healthy sexual development and its many variations, but problems and issues arising as young people make their journey to adult sexuality are also considered. The book presents global research on many key issues of our time, including the impact of media and technology on adolescent sexuality, changes in adolescent sexual behaviors and beliefs, sexual risk taking, sex education, and teen pregnancy and abortion. This fully revised and updated third edition of Sexuality in Adolescence also addresses the crucial issues of sexual diversity, sexual safety and sexual communication, including coercion, peer pressure and double standards. In Sexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation, the authors aim to promote sexual wellbeing, and argue for the importance of the adolescent period as a time for engendering healthy sexual attitudes and practices. This book will be valuable reading for students in the social, behavioural and health sciences who are interested in adolescent development and the topic of sexuality, as well as for professionals working with young people and families.
Sexuality in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
by Raymond MontemayorWritten in an engaging question-and-answer format, this accessible text synthesizes contemporary empirical research to provide a panoramic view of adolescent sexual development and behavior. The book examines sexuality as part of normative growth and development, in addition to addressing traditional problem areas such as sexual risk taking. Candid personal stories bring the theory and research to life. Topics include the precursors of adolescent sexuality in childhood; biological aspects of adolescent sexuality, including puberty and the adolescent brain; the influences of parents, peers, and the media; and gender and racial/ethnic differences in attitudes and behavior. Coverage also encompasses romantic relationships; the experiences of sexual- and gender-minority youth; sexually transmitted infections; contraception, pregnancy, and teen parenthood; cross-cultural and international research; and approaches to sex education. Pedagogical Features *Headings written as questions throughout the chapters--for example, "How common is hooking up?" and "Is coming out to parents always a good thing?" *"In Their Own Words" boxes with firsthand accounts from adolescents and young adults. *"Focus on Research" sidebars that discuss research methods, challenges, and controversies in the field. *End-of-chapter summaries and suggested readings.
Sexuality in Close Relationships
by Kathleen Mckinney Susan SprecherThis is one of the first volumes to examine the interface between research undertaken in sexuality and that in close relationships from a social psychological perspective. Experts from several different disciplines offer chapters that contain theory, extant literature, and their own original research on such topics as jealousy, extradyadic sexuality, communication, love, and sexual coercion. Aimed at a fairly wide audience, this book will be of interest to students, faculty, and other professionals in social psychology, sociology, communication, and family and women's studies. It is also a valuable source of information for teachers, researchers, and clinicians working in the areas of human sexuality and/or close relationships.
Sexuality in the Field of Vision (Radical Thinkers Ser.)
by Jacqueline RoseA brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Relational Perspectives Book Series #22)
by Muriel DimenCan contemporary psychoanalysis tell us anything about sexuality that is new and clinically meaningful? It most certainly can, answers Muriel Dimen in Sexuality, Intimacy, Power, a compelling attempt to revivify Freud's core interest, in "sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term." But there is nothing ordinary about Dimen's project. Drawing on contemporary relational theory, feminism, and postmodernism, she takes a sustained, sometimes irreverent, look at assumptions about psychosexuality. For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud's writings, and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency, paradox, and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis, social theory, and feminism, Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism, and perversion. She explores, among other topics, the relations between Lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. Mixing medium and message, Dimen draws on a variety of disciplines and styles to delineate the ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes that subtend sexuality in all its personal and clinical complexity. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power is equally a historical document that will intrigue and enlighten students of women's, gender, and queer studies.
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power: Classic Edition (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Muriel DimenThis book offers Dimen’s classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy. For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud’s writings, and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency, paradox, and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis, social theory, and feminism, Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism, and perversion. She explores, among other topics, the relations between lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power covers both clinical insights and theoretical rethinking that is invaluable for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and students of women’s, gender and queer studies.
Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity
by Janell L. CarrollThe new edition continues answering the questions and concerns that readers have about themselves and their sexuality with scientific fact, sensitivity, humor, and unmatched candor. Carroll presents the range of sexual orientations and behaviors and takes into account the current social, religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural contexts. This edition includes even more examples and research on sexual diversity both within and across cultures.
Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity
by Janell L. CarrollCaroll's SEXUALITY NOW: EMBRACING DIVERSITY, 7th Edition, takes a refreshing and contemporary approach to teaching human sexual behavior. With a balance of foundational biological concepts and new, groundbreaking research, the book provides all the essential information students need and want to know about sexuality, combining scientific accuracy, sensitivity, humor and honesty. This edition offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, thoughtfully considering the impact of social, religious, ethnic, racial, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds on today’s students. MindTap provides a unique opportunity to gain insights from Dr. Carroll’s global interviews with individuals, offering varied perspectives on topics in human sexuality. Cengage Infuse is the first and only embedded course kit that lives inside your Learning Management System (LMS).
Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945
by Pippa HollowayIn the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint. In order to reaffirm the existing political and social order, white politicians legalized eugenic sterilization, increased state efforts to control venereal disease and prostitution, cracked down on interracial marriage, and enacted statewide movie censorship. Providing a detailed picture of the interaction of sexuality, politics, and public policy, Pippa Holloway explores how these measures were passed and enforced.The white elites who sought to expand government's role in regulating sexual behavior had, like most southerners, a tradition of favoring small government, so to justify these new policies, they couched their argument in economic terms: a modern, progressive government could provide optimum conditions for business growth by maintaining a stable social order and a healthy, docile workforce. Holloway's analysis demonstrates that the cultural context that characterized certain populations as sexually dangerous worked in tandem with the political context that denied them the right to vote. This perspective on sexual regulation and the state in Virginia offers further insight into why white elite rule mattered in the development of southern governments.
Sexuality, War, and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers (History Of Ideas Ser.)
by Victor TauskTausk was a major figure among pre-World War I psychoanalysts and a prominent pupil of Freud. Twelve of his papers are collected here and introduced by Pa Roazen (social and political science, York U.). Indexed by name only. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Sexually Victimized Children
by David FinkelhorBased on a large-scale survey and in light of demographic and cultural factors, the author examines why children are sexually victimized, the sources of trauma, differences between reported and unreported cases of assault, and possible increases in sexual victimization.
Sexually Violent Predators: A Clinical Science Handbook
by William T. O’Donohue Daniel S. BrombergThis information-rich volume expands current knowledge about sexually violent predators and critiques SVP laws with the goal of fostering improvements in clinical practice and public policy. It offers a finely detailed evidence base on this problematic class of offenders, including the complex interactions of biophysiological and environmental factors that contribute to criminal sexual behavior. Chapters discuss a wide range of assessment issues and instruments central to SVP evaluation, and the possibilities for developing interventions that address individual motivations and behaviors to reduce the risk of reoffending. And throughout, careful attention is paid to ongoing legal, ethical, and logical concerns regarding sexually violent offenders, their treatment and confinement, and their post-confinement placement. Among the topics covered:· Civil commitment of sex offenders.· The physiological basis of problematic sexual interests and behaviors.· Sexually violent predator evaluations: problems and proposals.· Cultural considerations in the assessment of sexually violent predators.· Management of sex offenders in community settings.· Effective use of an expert in sexually violent predator commitment hearings. Offering numerous issues for discussion and debate with considerable implications for clinical practice, policy, and the judicial system, Sexually Violent Predators will interest and enlighten forensic psychologists and psychiatrists as well as social workers, policy-makers, and legal professionals.
Sexualmedizin für die Praxis: Sexualberatung und Kurzinterventionen bei sexuellen Störungen
by Uwe Hartmann Tillmann Krüger Viola Kürbitz Christian NeuhofDas Buch vermittelt klinisch tätigen Ärzten verschiedener Fachbereiche das nötige Praxiswissen und die Fertigkeiten, die dazu befähigen:· Sexuelle Störungen zu erkennen und diagnostisch zu erfassen, inkl. der dazu notwendigen Gesprächsführungskompetenzen· Eine Sexualanamnese durchzuführen· Patienten mit sexuellen Störungen fachgerecht zu beraten· Patienten mit sexuellen Störungen unter systematischer Nutzung der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung und mit Fokus auf der Paardimension sexualmedizinisch zu behandeln und sexualtherapeutische Kurzinterventionen durchzuführen.Das Vorgehen der Gesprächsführung, Beratung und Behandlung beruht auf dem Hannover-Ansatz der Sexualtherapie. Er bietet einen allgemeinen, störungsübergreifenden Rahmen von beratenden und therapeutischen Fertigkeiten und Werkzeugen, die bei allen Patienten mit Sexualstörungen angewendet werden können. Darüber hinaus erhält der Leser die notwendigen spezifischen Kenntnisse über die verschiedenen Sexualstörungen inklusive der für diese verfügbaren aktuellen sexualmedizinischen und sexualtherapeutischen Behandlungsoptionen.Auch ärztliche und psychologische Psychotherapeuten sowie andere Berufsgruppen, die mit sexuellen Problemen konfrontierten Klienten arbeiten, finden in diesem Praxisleitfaden vieles für die tägliche Beratungspraxis. Das Buch deckt die Inhalte der Zusatzweiterbildung „Sexualmedizin“ der Bundesärztekammer sowie des Diploms „Sexualmedizin“ der Österreichischen Ärztekammer ab und vermittelt die dort festgelegten Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten. Für die Prüfungsvorbereitung stehen dem Leser zahlreiche Flashcards zur Verfügung.
Sexualpädagogische (Re)Visionen: Sexualpädagogik als Diskriminierungsschutz für Schule und außerschulische Bildungsarbeit
by Annette VanagasIn dem Band werden sexualpädagogische Inhalte und deren Potenzial als Antidiskriminierungspädagogik verbunden. Thematisiert werden Homo- sowie Transfeindlichkeit, Geschlechterstereotype und deren Wirkung auf Körperlichkeit, Sexting und Bodyshaming. In ihren Beiträgen nähern sich die Autorinnen und Autoren aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Diskursen und ethischen wie moralischen Fragen und reflektieren deren pädagogische Implikationen.
Sexualstrafrecht in Medizin und Pflege: Grundlagen für die Pflegeausbildung (essentials)
by Ulf Haakon DammannDieses essential ist eine wertvolle Orientierungshilfe zum Thema Sexualstrafrecht f#65533;r Menschen in Pflegeberufen in der Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung. Ulf Haakon Dammann liefert eine kompakte #65533;bersicht #65533;ber Erkenntnismerkmale, Definitionen und Beispiele sowie Verhaltensweisen im Umgang mit Opfern (sexueller) Gewalt. Der Autor erl#65533;utert wesentliche Aspekte des Sexualstrafrechts in Deutschland und bereitet diese als Praxistipps f#65533;r Menschen in Pflegeberufen auf.
Sexuation
by Renata SaleclContemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference are described and analyzed. On the one hand, much current thinking suggests that sexual identity is fluid--socially constructed and/or performatively enacted. This discourse is often invoked in the act of overcoming an earlier patriarchal era of fixed and naturalized identities. On the other hand, some modern discourses of sexual identity seem to offer a New Age Jungian re-sexualization of the universe--"Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus"--according to which there is an underlying, deeply anchored archetypal identity that provides a kind of safe haven in the contemporary confusion of roles and identities. In this volume, contributors discuss a third way of thinking about sexual identity and sexual difference--a direction opened by Jacques Lacan. For Lacan, what we all recognize as sexual difference is first and foremost representative of a certain fundamental deadlock inherent in the symbolic order, that is, in language and in the entire realm of culture conceived as a symbol system structured on the model of language. For him, the logical matrix of this deadlock is provided by his own formulas of sexuation. The essays collected here elaborate on different aspects of this deadlock of sexual difference. While some examine the role of semblances in the relation between the sexes or consider sexual identity not as anatomy but still involving an impasse of the real, others discuss the difference between sexuation and identification, the role of symbolic prohibition in the process of the subject's sexual formation, or the changed role of the father in contemporary society and the impact of this change on sexual difference. Other essays address such topics as the role of beating in sexual fantasies and jouissance in feminine jealousy. Literary and gender theorists, as well as psychoanalytic scholars will welcome this insightful collection. Contributors. Alain Badiou, Elizabeth Bronfen, Darian Leader, Jacques Alain Miller, Genevieve Morel, Renata Salecl, Eric L. Santner, Colette Soler, Paul Verhaeghe, Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic
Sexuelle Freiheit aufgedeckt
by Thérèse Hargot Jakob Pastötter Lydia LundbeckWas haben wir aus der sexuellen Befreiung gemacht? Nach 50 Jahren sexueller Revolution ist so viel Sex im öffentlichen Raum wie seit der Antike nicht mehr. Doch wie beeinflusst dies die heutigen Jugendlichen? Dieses Buch deckt Auswirkungen und Zusammenhänge der sexuellen Befreiung auf. Basierend auf langjähriger Erfahrung in der schulischen Sexualaufklärung und gestützt durch viele anschauliche Beispiele schildert die Autorin minutiös und bisweilen erfrischend maliziös, was und wie Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene heute über Sexualität denken. Obwohl sich diese sexuell befreit fühlen, unterliegen sie doch vielfältigen Zwängen. Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen vermittelt die Autorin anhand von vielen Beispielen, welche Auswirkungen Faktoren wie eine Bagatellisierung der Porno-Kultur, permanentes Leistungsstreben, hormonelle Verhütung und eine zwanghafte Suche nach sexueller Orientierung nach sich ziehen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es ein Irrglaube ist, dass sich die Sexualität als Konsumgut instrumentalisieren und beherrschen, pädagogisch vermitteln, sozial konstruieren sowie pharmazeutisch und chirurgisch optimieren lässt. Das reale Liebesleben könnte sonst viel Leere, Frustration, Verunsicherung und Einsamkeit erfahren. Das Buch regt dazu an, das Wagnis einzugehen, sich den damit verbundenen Fragen des Lebens zu stellen und den Lernprozess der Sozialisierung im Bereich von Liebe, Sex und Beziehungen neu zu überdenken.
Sexuelle Orientierung: in Psychotherapie und Beratung
by Margret Göth Ralph KohnSchwule, Lesben, Bisexuelle in Psychotherapie und Beratung – die wesentlichen Punkte für die PraxisPsychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten wollen schwule, lesbische und bisexuelle Patientinnen weder pathologisieren noch diskriminieren, sondern vielmehr affirmativ arbeiten. Viele ziehen sich auf emphatisches Verstehen als Instrument der Psychotherapie zurück. Andere sehen eine Lösung darin, die sexuelle Orientierung möglichst nicht besonders zu beachten. Die Folge: Oft wird die sexuelle Orientierung nur oberflächlich benannt, aber ihre Bedeutung für den Klienten nicht erkannt. In einigen Fällen bleibt die sexuelle Orientierung völlig unausgesprochen und unerkannt.Affirmative Therapie kann mehr als „Alles kein Problem mehr, ich behandle alle gleich!“Lesben, Schwule, Bisexuelle durchlaufen als Minderheit in einer heteronormativen Mehrheitsgesellschaft eine spezifische sexuelle Identitätsentwicklung, bei der die Überwindung von Internalisierter Homonegativität die größte Hürde darstellt. Sie sind spezifischem Minderheitenstress und Risikodynamiken ausgesetzt, gegen die sie eigene Ressourcen mobilisieren und Communities schaffen. Praxisnah vermitteln Autorin und Autor Wissen um die Besonderheiten einer nicht-heterosexuellen Entwicklung schwuler, lesbischer und bisexueller Identitäten und Lebenswelten. Sie regen an, die eigene Haltung zur Vielfalt sexueller Orientierung und Identität zu reflektieren, und fördern Handlungskompetenzen. Sie schreiben für Psychologische Psychotherapeuten, psychotherapeutisch tätige Ärztinnen, Berater, Studierende, Psychotherapeutinnen in der Ausbildung und Supervisoren.Eine gute lesbare Reise in nicht-heterosexuelle Lebenswelten von erfahrenen Fachleuten aus Beratung, Psychotherapie, Selbsterfahrung und Fortbildung.
Sexuelle Störungen: Eine Einführung (essentials)
by Tristan MarhenkeDieses essential bietet einen Überblick über Diagnostik, Epidemiologie, Ätiologie und Behandlung sämtlicher sexueller Störungen nach dem Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-5). Bei den sexuellen Funktionsstörungen werden die verzögerte Ejakulation, die Erektionsstörung, die weibliche Orgasmusstörung, die Störung des sexuellen Interesses bzw. der Erregung bei der Frau, die Genito-Pelvine Schmerz-Penetrationsstörung, die Störung mit verminderter sexueller Appetenz beim Mann und die vorzeitige (frühe) Ejakulation erläutert. Von den verschiedenen Paraphilien werden die voyeuristische Störung, die exhibitionistische Störung, die frotteuristische Störung, die sexuell masochistische Störung, die sexuell sadistische Störung, die pädophile Störung, die transvestitische Störung sowie die fetischistische Störung erklärt. Bei den Geschlechtsdysphorien werden die Geschlechtsdysphorie bei Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen sowie die Geschlechtsdysphorie bei Kindern beschrieben. Studious Sophie und Therapy Tara führen den Leser kenntnisreich durch das Buch.
Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality
by Teresa MilbrodtSexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious. Their creative and comic acts crash, collide, and collaborate with perceptions of disability in literature and dominant culture, allowing people with disabilities to shape political disability identity and disability pride, call attention to social inequalities, and poke back at ableist cultural norms. This book also discusses how the ambivalent nature of comedy has led to debates within disability communities about when it is acceptable to joke, who has permission to joke, and which jokes should be used inside and outside a community’s inner circle. Joking may be difficult when considering aspects of disability that involve physical or emotional pain and struggles to adapt to new forms of embodiment. At the same time, people with disabilities can use humor to expand the definitions of disability and sexuality. They can help others with disabilities assert themselves as sexy and sexual. And they can question social norms and stigmas around bodies in ways that open up journeys of being, not just for individuals who consider themselves disabled, but for all people.
Sh!thouse: A Memoir
by Lauren Dollie DukeSh!thouse: A Memoir is a story of brutal girlhood. Lauren was seven when she helped her step-father boost rum bottles from the local liquor store. The next year, her biological father took her to a hotel room and shot up heroin in the bathroom. The next day he robbed a bank with a finger gun! When he was released from prison, he moved into Lauren’s basement. They spent the weekends smoking cartons of cigarettes, diving into dumpsters and swindling used cars. Lauren’s upbringing provided her with only one lens through which she saw herself – shame. And that shame overflowed into every aspect of her life. In this compassionate and gritty real-life fairytale the author, Lauren Dollie Duke, shows how it’s possible for good people to do bad things and what it takes to create peace with where you come from in order to find true happiness. This raw and humorous account about trauma, transcendence and resilience challenges the binary of good vs. evil. It lays out the evolution of shame psychology and intergenerational trauma seeking to answer the question of how we unravel ourselves from the history and patterns of our families. Sh!thouse will make you want to investigate your own historical patterns, examine all of your relationships, and forgive everyone, including yourself. It’s a tether to our shared humanity which reminds us there is belonging in the world no matter how horrific it was to start. It is a beautifully written map that draws back to the personal root of where sabotaging behavior, shame and limitation is born.
Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue
by Amy FerrisThe silent epidemic of depression affects millions of people and takes dozens of lives everyday, while our culture grapples with a stigma against open discussion of mental health issues. Editor Amy Ferris has collected these stories to illuminate the truth behind that stigma and offer compassion, solidarity, and hope for all those who have struggled with depression.Contributors to Shades of Blue include:Barbara AbercrombieSherry AmatensteinChloe CaldwellJimmy CampDebra LoGuercio DeAngeloMarika Rosenthal DelanHollye DexterBeverly DonofrioBeth Bornstein DunningtonMatthew EbertBetsy Graziani FasbinderZoe FitzGerald CarterPam L. HoustonDavid LacyPatti LinskyMark S. KingCaroline LeavittKaren LynchLira MaywoodC.O. MoedMark MorganLinda Joy MyersChristine Kehl O'HaganJennifer PastiloffRuth PennebakerAngela Giles PatelAlexa RosalskyElizabeth RosnerKathryn RountreeKitty SheehanJenna StonejudywhiteSamantha WhiteShades of Blue brings the conversation around depression and sadness into the open with real, first-hand accounts of depression and mental health issues, offering empathy to all those who have been affected by these issues.It's time to scream out loud against this silent annihilator: We are not alone.
Shades of Light: A Novel
by Sharon Garlough Brown"I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed.
Shades of Light Study Guide
by Sharon Garlough BrownSharon Garlough Brown's novel Shades of Light is an exploration of depression, anxiety, caregiving, and the healing journey. In particular, it offers windows into the power of art as a spiritual practice. This six-week study guide is an opportunity for you to reflect on how the experiences of the characters in the novel resonate with your own experience. Daily Scripture readings and reflection questions are accompanied by an invitation to explore creativity through art and prayer collage. You'll also be introduced to the practice of visio divina (meditating on art) through a weekly link to a piece of art by Vincent van Gogh. With simple spiritual practices, this guide offers a healing balm for those in the midst of difficult seasons.