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Training Development
• Fraser Counseling Center
Non-Profit Opns Mentoring
• Pathways Comm Network
Mental Health Providers
• EMDR Clinicians of GA
• Marriage and Family
Therapists (GAMFT)
Congregation Outreach
• Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
• Episcopal Diocese of Georgia
• The Presbytery of Greater
Atlanta & Presbyterian
Women
• Catholic Charities and the
Archdiocese of Atlanta
• The Georgia Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship (CBF)
• The Lutheran ELCA
Southeast Synod
ON-LINE TRAINING
Now available on this website via Alliant University's Continuing Education Post-Combat Behavioral Health Certificate Program
Alliant University has developed a comprehensive suite of classes to help prepare clinicians to work effectively with today's returning vets and their families. Delivered online, the classes are convenient, informative, engaging.
Learn more from the ON-LINE TRAINING page on this website. You can register or get additional information from the Alliant registrar, Eric Melendez: emelendez@alliant.edu 415-955-2029
Reference Material - BIBLIOGRAPHY
Introduction:
This represents a miscellaneous Bibliography of Books for reference and also available for purchase. These are presented for information and research only. They are not intended to represent the opinions of the CareForTheTroops organization or any person associated with the CFTT organization.
If you feel you have a book, movie, or document to recommend or contribute, please forward it's information via email to cftt.hq@gmail.com and we will consider it for inclusion on this page.
If you decide to buy anything from Amazon, the books below or anything else in fact, please consider clicking on an item below. Doing so takes to YOUR Amazon account, but in return, CareForTheTroops will get a donation from Amazon. We will appreciate the financial support.
Bibliography of Books
Congregation Support Reading Material
This book is one we have researched and what we at CareForTheTroops have decided to mail one free copy to each congregation that signs up as a Veteran Friendly Congregation (VFC). The congregations can then decide if they want to order more...for their military ministry members...for use by congregation members attending an adult education class using this book...whatever the reason.
There are 4 authors including a former military chaplain now Lutheran Pastor, a Social Worker, and 2 PhD's in Counselor Ed and Nursing. What we liked about the book is the following:
- It is layed out such that it could fit into a multi-week adult education format for Sunday or Wednesday education
- The information evolves in a manner similar to how CareForTheTroops has arranged it's workshops for therapists; starting with the basics and background of what military families are dealing with, discussing the transition issues they face, and then raising possible roles that church's can play
- It is ecumenical
- It also has appendices that are useful assessment and screening tools should the congregation want to adopt them.
- It is not too long, 112 pages of which under a hundred are the primary content. We think this will add to the acceptance of the material by more readers in a congregation.
- Cost is reasonable...in the under $12 range
Here are additional books that might be helpful to members of a Military Ministry team or congregational members.
Movies
This representative list of DVDs provides a wide range of issues about what military personnel and their families and communities are facing.
EMDR
Shapiro, Francine, PhD., and Margot S. Forrest. EMDR: The Breakthrough “Eye Movement” Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma. New York: Basic Books, 1997
Servan-Schreiber, David, M.D., PhD., The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety & Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy. Holzbrinck Publishers, 2003.
The Francine Shapiro Library is dedicated to Francine Shapiro, originator and developer of the Adaptive Information Processing Model (AIP) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing (EMDR). The Francine Shapiro Library (FSL) is the premier repository for scholarly articles and other important writings related to the AIP and EMDR. The intent of the FSL is twofold: (1) to electronically house documents related to EMDR or AIP and (2) to maintain a comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date list of citations related to AIP and EMDR. The Library is hosted by Northern Kentucky University as a service to EMDR International Association. Here is a link to the library
Marriage and Family Therapy; Counseling; Psychotherapy
Carter, Betty, MSW & Peters, J., Love Honor and Negotiate New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996
Gottman, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994
Markman, Stanley & Blumberg, Fighting for Your Marriage San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001
Napier, Augustus, The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate & Enduring Marriage New York: Harper Perennial, 1988.
Wallerstein & Blakeslee, The Good Marriage: How & Why Love Lasts New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995
Military Mental Health, PTSD, and Trauma
Coleman, Penny. Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and
the Lessons of War. Beacon Press, Boston. 2006.
Scurfield, Raymond. A Vietnam Trilogy: Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress
1968, 1989, 2000. Algora Publishing, New York. 2004.
Suicide - Prevention, Surviving
Ramchand, Rajeev; Acosta, Joie, Burns, Rachel M.; Jaycox, Lisa H., Pernin, Christopher G. The War Winthin, Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military. Rand Center for Military Health Plicy Research, Arlington. 2011.
Lezine, Dequincy A. Ph.D. Eight Stories Up, An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide. Oxford University Press, New York. 2008.
Bloom, Lois. Mourning After Suicide. The Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH. 1986, 2004.
Doty, Timothy D; Spencer-Thomas, Sally The Role of Faith Communities in Suicide Prevention, A Guidebook for Faith Leaders. Carson Spencer Foundation, Golden, CO. 2009.
Recovery from Sexual Abuse
Finney, Lynne, JD, MSW. Reach for the Rainbow: Advanced Healing
for Survivors of Sexual Abuse. New York: Perigee Books, 1990.
Thomas, T. Surviving with Serenity: Daily Meditations for Incest Survivors.
Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 1990.
Bass, Ellen, and Laura Davis. The Courage To Heal: A Guide for Women
Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. New York: Harper & Row, 1998.
