Developmental Trauma offers a comprehensive introduction to the research findings that help us understand the effects on human development of early childhood trauma and adaptation to stress. It explains how DTD differs from PTSD and emerges from a toxic seed planted at the beginning of an individual’s lifespan development. This important volume examines relational traumas and adverse childhood experiences, such as exposure to family and community violence, polyvictimization (multiple repea...

Pardon My Typos: A Journey from Survival to Truly Living In this deeply personal and insightful guide, Daniel De La Cruz shares the hard-won wisdom he gained while navigating a life filled with extreme challenges from childhood abuse and addiction to being on the run from the law. Unlike traditional "self-help" books, this is a raw and honest collection of personal philosophies, "tricks," and universal truths designed to help readers stop just "playing the cards they are d...

An inspirational poetry book that will uplift you to achieve great things and encourage self-reflection from the word of the Lord. Struggles have turned into living testimonies that will bring hope, and brighten your mood when needing that spark to light your fire. The purpose of this book was to embrace empowerment, strength, faith, and self-worth, no matter what you have been through, whether it be an addiction, depression, abuse, etc. These poems will rejuvenate your purposeful meaning ...

Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the shift toward fascism in global politics. Using the lens of Mennonite literature and their own personal experience as a culturally Mennonite, queer, Latinx person, Daniel Shank Cruz investigates the age-old question of what literature’s role in society should be, and argues that when we read literature t...

Though the terms “queer” and “Mennonite” rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts these identities into conversation. In this volume, Daniel Shank Cruz brings this growing genre into a critical focus, bridging the gaps between queer theory, literary criticism, and Mennonite literature.Cruz focuses his analysis on recent Mennonite-au...

Daisy faces an impossible choice: eternal peace, joy, and love – or the torment of the abyss. Without hesitation, she chooses the latter, determined to reunite with her son, Gunter, in a realm of infernal pain and suffering. Raised on a desolate rubbish dump by his loyal dog, Red, Gunter has never known the truth of his birth – that he is the lost heir of Cruzland, the son of the late King Heyah Cruz II. All his life, he has endured the cruelty of the Cruces, and now, his fate takes an eve...

The Cruces have a crisis, an environmental crisis. Everyone wants the latest stuff, but it comes at a cost – pollution! The King sends his son out to find a new land where he can rebuild his kingdom. The Prince knows he must do the right thing, but when two cultures collide, he is left facing a crisis of conscience. Through his journey of discovery, a young man learns how to care for the environment and respect the lives of other people, even when their appearance is very different from hi...

This invaluable book provides an essential guide to how occupation-centred theories and concepts can be both taught in the classroom and translated into practice.Offering a range of creative strategies that can be tailored to an instructor’s preferred teaching style, each chapter features an accessible explanation of a theory or concept, before suggested learning activities that can be adapted to either the classroom, practice placement, or home-study. From mind maps and time diari...

In a poignant and captivating memoir, "Hey Alice" chronicles the deep and enduring friendship between two individuals who meet in high school and navigate the turbulence of the Vietnam War together. The narrative intertwines their journey into the world of show business, capturing their triumphs and heartbreaks, their unwavering love and friendship, as well as the corporate intrigue that tests their bond. Set against the backdrop of planning Alice's funeral, the story unfolds through vivid...

In his original essay on the shaking palsy (1817) James Parkinson remarked that the "senses and intellect were uninjured". Thus, it was only in later years that the complexity ofparkinsonism and in particular Parkinson's disease with dementia was recognised. Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is common and is estimated to affect more than forty per cent of patients with disease onset after age 65. Recent studies suggest that pathology of Parkin son's disease now ranks second to Al...