My Kid is Driving Me Crazy helps mothers thrive while living with a child with mental illness. Mental illness in a loved one sucks! Some days, all moms want to do is stay in bed, because facing reality seems insurmountable. Living with her son, who suffers from depression, anxiety, and oppositional defiance disorder (ODD), taught life coach Tamara Arnold how to become the successful woman she is today. Tamara spent years going to therapy, for herself and with her son, learning how...

The Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) Survey is an initiative of the World Bank in cooperation with other development partners and nongovernmental agencies and carried out in more than 14 countries globally. In Ghana, the first phase of the survey focusing on adults in urban communities was carried out in cooperation with the University of Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), the Ministry of Education, the Council for Technical and Vocatio...

Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists and activists examine the aspects of our mortality and the im...

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from ...

Die Schicksale des ausgesetzten Königssohns Ödipus, von Odysseus, Persephone, Jason, Medea und vielen anderen Gestalten der Antike erinnern daran, dass Migration, Flucht und Trauma so alt sind wie die Menschheit selbst und sich in unbewussten Phantasien bei Individuen und Gruppen niedergeschlagen haben. Sie bilden oft unerkannte Quellen für Neugier und Interesse an Geflüchteten einerseits, aber auch von Fremdenhass, Antisemitismus und antimuslimischem Rassismus andererseits. Sie tragen zu ...