Looking for information on mental health in schools? The following list includes just a few titles at the Library at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community that can help bring awareness to the community. Let us know if you see something you’d like to check out.
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Handbook of Preschool Mental Health
Preventive Mental Health at School
The Teacher’s Guide to Student Mental Health
Trauma-Sensitive Schools for the Adolescent Years
Disability and qualitative inquiry: Methods for rethinking an ableist world “covers a variety of qualitative methods: participant observation, interviewing and interview coding, focus groups, autoethnography, life history, narrative analysis, content analysis, and participatory visual methods. The chapters are framed in terms of the relevant methodological issues involved in the research, bringing in substantive findings to illustrate the fruits of the methods. In doing so, the book covers a range of physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments. This work resonates with themes in disability studies such as emancipatory research, which views research as a collaborative effort with research subjects whose lives are enhanced by the process and results of the work. It is a methodological approach that requires researchers to be on guard against exploiting informants for the purpose of professional aggrandizement and to engage in a process of ongoing self-reflection to clear themselves of personal and professional biases that may interfere with their ability to hear and empathize with others.” -publisher
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How to talk with friends is your step-by-step guide to helping your learner build strong conversation skills.
Weekly social skills lessons emphasize the entire spectrum of skill acquisition, from structured practice to generalization in the natural environment. Lessons are scripted for easy delivery and all required materials are included, making this resource suitable for both parents and professionals.
Workbooks that accompany the curriculum:
Conversation skills for kids with autism & Asperger’s
Social detective skills for kids with autism & Asperger’s
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“Making new friends at work can be tricky – it’s tough to predict how people will react to certain situations. This ‘choose your own response’ book can show you how these situations could potentially play out. Some endings are positive and some less so, and the book includes explanations about why particular outcomes may have occurred, so you can learn to avoid those situations. The best part is you can go back and see how a different choice can change the outcome of the story!” -publisher
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“People with intellectual disabilities die at a younger age and have poorer health than their non-disabled peers. This is largely avoidable and is unjust. [Health inequalities and people with intellectual disabilities] uses concepts from contemporary public health to provide a comprehensive evidence-based overview of: the nature and extent of the health inequalities experienced by people with intellectual disabilities; why these inequalities occur and persist; and what can and needs to be done to address these inequalities. The authors have a wealth of firsthand experience gained from years of working at the interface between disability research and public health. This experience is collected and shared in this volume, which will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, advocates, policymakers and researchers concerned with health and social care and the wellbeing of disabled people.” -publisher
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