Topical Reference List for the 'Facilitating Resilience and Independence' Workshop at the ACSW Conference, Edmonton, Alberta; March 19, 2010

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RECOMMENDED READING
Body-Mind Connection
Crombez, Jean-Charles (2003). Ideas on Healing. In, CBC ideas
transcripts (2003). Toronto, ON: CBC Radio.
Pert, C., (1997). The molecules of emotion. New York, NY: Scribner.
Sternberg, E. M., (2001). The balance within: the science connecting
health and emotions. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.
Identity and Change
Bridges, W. (1991). Managing Transitions. Reading, Massachusetts:
Perseus Books.
Ornelas, A. (1997). Pasantias and Social Participation: Participatory
Action-Research As a Way of Life. In, Smith, S. E., Willms, D. G., & Johnson, N.
A. (Eds.) (1997). Nurtured by knowledge: learning to do participatory action-
research. New York, NY: The Apex Press, pp.138 – 172.
Senge, P. (1990). The fifth discipline. New York, New York: Doubleday.
Smith, S. E. (1997). Deepening Participatory Action-Research. In, Smith,
S. E., Willms, D. G., & Johnson, N. A. (Eds.) (1997). Nurtured by knowledge:
learning to do participatory action-research. New York, NY: The Apex Press,
pp. 173 – 263.
Narcotic Pain Killers
Dalhousie, D. (2005, March). No one knew I was addicted. Chatelaine, pp.
124 – 130.
Zacny, J. P., and Gutierrez, S. (2003). Characterizing the subjective,
psychomotor, and physiological effects of oral oxycodone in non-drug abusing
volunteers. In, Psychopharmacology, 170, pp. 242 – 254.
Narrative Research and Writing
Coles, R. (1989). The call of stories: teaching and the moral imagination.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Gergen, K. (1999). An invitation to social construction. London: SAGE
Publications Ltd.
Glaser, B. G., and Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded
theory: strategies for research. Chicago, Illinois: Aldine Publishing Company.

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Mertens, D. (1998). Research methods in education and psychology.
Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Morgan, A. (2000). What is narrative therapy?. Adelaide, South Australia:
Dulwich Centre Publications.
Neuman, W. L. (1997). Social research methods: qualitative and
quantitative approaches. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Neumann, M. (1996). Collecting Ourselves at the End of the Century. In,
Ellis, C. and Bochner, A. P. (1996). Composing ethnography. Walnut Creek,
California: AltaMira Press, pp. 172 – 198.
Strauss, A. L. (1988). Teaching qualitative research methods courses.
Journal of qualitative studies in education: Volume 1, pp. 91 – 106.
van Manen, M. (1997). Researching lived experience. London, Ontario,
Canada: The Althouse Press.
White, M., and Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends.
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
Neurology
Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York, New York:
Penguin Group.
Ramachandran, V. S., and Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain.
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Sacks, O. (1998). A leg to stand on. New York, NY: Touchstone Books.
Sacks, O. (1988). The man who mistook his wife for a hat. New York, NY:
Touchstone.
Stuss, D. T. (1991). Disturbances of Self-Awareness after Frontal System
Damage. In, Prigatano, G. P., and Schacter, D. L. (Eds.) (1991). Awareness of
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Oxford University Press, Inc., pp. 63 – 83.
Pain
Jackson, M. (2002). Pain: the science and culture of why we hurt.
Toronto: Vintage Canada.
Quantum Physics
Braden, G. (2007). The Divine matrix. New York, NY: Hay House, Inc.

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Oschman, J. (2003). Energy medicine in therapeutics and human
performance. London: Butterworth Heinemann.
Zukav, G. (1979). The dancing wu li masters. New York, NY: William
Morrow & company, Inc.
Recovery
Becker, S. (2004). I had brain surgery, what’s your excuse? New York,
NY: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Bolen, J. S. (1996). Close to the bone: life-threatening illness and the
search for meaning. New York, NY: Touchstone.
Callwood, J. (2000). The man who lost himself: the Terry Evensham story.
Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Crombez, Jean-Charles (2003). Ideas on Healing. In, CBC ideas
transcripts (2003). Toronto, ON: CBC Radio.
Ferguson, B. F. (1995). The breaking of the stone: A phenomenological
study of one woman’s journey with life-threatening illness. North York, Ontario:
Captus Press Inc.
Frankl, V. E. (2000). Man’s search for ultimate meaning. New York, NY:
Basic Books.
Frankl, V. E. (1959). Man’s search for meaning. New York, NY: Pocket
Books.
Lougheed, V. (2008). Be still. Calgary. Alberta: Palabras Press.
Meili, T. (2003). I am the central park jogger. New York, NY: Scribner
Moore, A. (1990). Broken arrow boy. Kansas City, Missouri: Landmark
Editions, Inc.
Myss, C. (1997). Anatomy of the spirit. New York, New York: Three
Rivers Press.
Myss, C. (2002). Sacred contracts. New York, New York: Three Rivers
Press.
Myss, C. (1997). Why people don’t heal and how they can. New York,
New York: Three Rivers Press.

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Rehabilitation
Levers, L. L. (1997). Counseling as a recursive dynamic: process and
relationship, meaning and empowerment. In, Maki, D. R., and Riggar, T. F.,
(Eds). Rehabilitation counseling: professional and practice. New York, NY:
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Prigatano, G. P. (1999). Principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation.
New York, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Shulman, L. (1992). The skills of helping individuals, families and groups.
Itasca, Illinois: F. E. Peacock.
Wright, G. N. (1980). Total rehabilitation. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company.
Trauma
Andreasen, N. C. (1985). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. In H. I. Kaplan
and B. J. Sadock (Eds.). Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, 4th ed..
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, pp. 918 – 924.
Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Kardiner, A. and Spiegal, H. (1947). War, stress and neurotic illness. New
York: Hoeber.
Lifton, R. J. (1980). The Concept of Survivor. In, Dinsdale, J. E. (Ed.),
Survivors, victims and perpetrators: essays on the nazi holocaust. New York:
Hemisphere, pp. 113 – 126.
Lovelace, L., and McGrady, M. (1980). Ordeal. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel.
Pitman, R.K., van der Kolk, B.A., Orr, S.P., et al. (1990). Naloxone-
reversible analgesic response to combat-related stimuli in post-traumatic stress
disorder: a pilot study. Archives of General Psychiatry 47, pp. 541 – 547.
Veterans Affairs Canada (2005, August 15). Filling the gaps at The Centre
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Stress Injury Social Support Coordination Conference. [On-Line]. Available:
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Wilkerson, B. (2003, July 9). Global Business and Economic Roundtable
on Addiction and Mental Health: Notes for remarks by Bill Wilkerson, roundtable
Co-founder and CEO to Canadian Forces Operational Stress Injury Social
Support Coordination Conference. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.mentalhealthrundtable.ca/oct_2003_pdfs/CAFSpeech_
%20July92003.pdf
Worthington, P. (2003, May 27). Join the army, live with stress. Toronto
Sun. In, Wilkerson, B. (2003, July 9). Global Business and Economic Roundtable
on Addiction and Mental Health: Notes for remarks by Bill Wilkerson, roundtable
Co-founder and CEO to Canadian Forces Operational Stress Injury Social
Support Coordination Conference. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.mentalhealthrundtable.ca/oct_2003_pdfs/CAFSpeech_
%20July92003.pdf.