Recommended Books For Mental Health

by Cristina Dunahoo | Jun 2, 2026 | Resources

Trauma, Attachment & Mental Health  The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk What Happened to You? — Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog — Bruce Perry When the Body Says No — Gabor Maté The Myth of Normal — Gabor Maté The...

The Development of Identity and Self-Concept

by Cristina Dunahoo | Jun 2, 2026 | Resources

Abstract Self-concept and identity are reliant on a strong sense of self-worth. The stronger thefoundation on which children base their perceptions, assumptions and beliefs of themselves, thebetter equipped they are to participate in a civil society (Broderick &...

Exploring the process of meaning making in healing and growth after childhood sexual assault: A case study approach

by Cristina Dunahoo | Jun 2, 2026 | Resources

Sheryle Vilenica*, Jane Shakespeare-Finch and Patricia Obst School of Psychology and Counselling,Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia(Received 14 August 2012; final version received 3 September 2012) Childhood sexual assault (CSA) is one of the...

Infant Mental Health, Brain Development and Trauma

by Cristina Dunahoo | Jun 1, 2026 | Resources

Helping Caregivers Provide Nurturing Care Foreword Infant mental health is often ignored, mostly because it is an unfamiliar oruncomfortable topic (Reschke, 2021). At the same time, many believe that infants’ andyoung children’s mental health problems are not...

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

by Cristina Dunahoo | Jun 1, 2026 | Resources

What Is EMDR? Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured psychotherapyapproach that helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they lose their emotional intensityand disruptive impact. EMDR helps individuals move from feeling “stuck” in...