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Copeland, Mary Ellen – 2002
If you experience troubling emotional or psychological symptomslike depression, bipolar disorder or manic depression, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, an eating disorder, or an anxiety disorderyou may be looking for some information and support on…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances, Individual Power
Copeland, Mary Ellen – 2002
For many years, the traumatic things that happened to people were overlooked as a possible cause of frightening, distressing, and sometimes disabling emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, phobias, delusions, flashbacks, and being out of touch with reality. In recent years, many researchers and health care providers have become convinced…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health
Donner, Richard; Fine, Glenda Z. – 1987
This workbook is a guide for the development of self-help/advocacy groups for parents of children and adolescents who have serious emotional problems. The workbook offers background information and then offers guidelines for: (1) creating a beginning plan for the development of a self-help/advocacy group; (2) developing concrete plans for…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Emotional Disturbances, Parent Associations, Parent Counseling

Johnson, John E.; Peebles, Onis W. – Adolescence, 1973
The organization of the self-help program for adolescents at Mendocino State Hospital is structured to provide a continuing growth experience for its residents through the strategic use of role relationships, status positions and other social reinforcers. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Institutionalized Persons

Norman, Loretta K., Ed.; Friesen, Barbara J. – 1988
This directory contains information about organizations in the United States that offer support, education, referral, advocacy, and other assistance to parents of children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders. Organizations included are those identified as providing one or more of the following services: education and information;…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Information Services
Burnett, Milton – 1992
This practicum was designed to evaluate the needs of clinicians in identifying substance abuse issues in severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, and its dynamics in their family histories. This writer designed and administered pre and post questionnaires to both professional and paraprofessional staff members to evaluate attitude…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Emotional Disturbances

Peterson, Lawrence E.; Kelleher, Carol Carter – Child Welfare, 1987
Reports on a parent group model available to parents, whether or not their children live at home or in a treatment complex for disturbed adolescents. The group, led by professional leaders, focuses on the needs of the parents rather than those of the child; it is not a replacement for family therapy. Parents provide mutual support for each other.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances, Group Therapy, Parent Attitudes

Yoakum, Katie S., Ed.; Friesen, Barbara J. – 1986
This directory contains information about 214 organizations that offer support, information, and other services to parents of seriously emotionally handicapped children and adolescents in the United States. The directory listings were compiled from information obtained through a 1985-86 survey of parent organizations conducted by the Families as…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Emotional Disturbances, Information Services, Parent Associations
Leedy, Jack J., Ed. – 1969
Twenty-two papers by different authors consider poetry therapy as treatment for persons with emotional disorders. Its use with the following is described: a psychotic patient, hospitalized schizophrenics, psychoneurotics in a mental health center, and disturbed adolescents. Also discussed are poetry as therapy and as a therapeutic art, principles…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biblical Literature, Bibliotherapy, Emotional Adjustment

Meyers, Carole; Moss, Irwin – Child Welfare, 1992
Describes efforts of residential treatment facilities to collaborate with community-based substance abuse programs to meet the needs of clients. Examines the rationale for and administrative, managerial, and clinical issues relevant to such collaboration. Illustrates the difficulties encountered in establishing effective program linkages and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Alcohol Abuse, Children