The office of Health Promotion and Education maintains a library of resources covering a wide range of health and wellness topics. All resources
are free to borrow and return within one week.
Questions? Stop by room 3120 (upper level). Call 387-3263 for more information.
7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life
Provides guidance and support to cope with cravings, manage
stress, keep off extra weight, avoid setbacks and stick with
it.
A Clinical Guide for Contraception
Essential information for the intelligent use of contraception
covering a variety of contraceptive options.
A Parent’s Guide to Asthma
A guide on all aspects of asthma care and management for children.
Angry Men, Passive Men
Understanding the Roots of Men’s Anger and How to Move
Beyond It
The Anger Workbook
A practical guide for putting anger to good, constructive use.
A tool for recognizing, understanding, approaching, and managing
anger mindfully.
The Angry Book
Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin shows how one of the most powerful
human emotions can change your life.
The Asthma Sourcebook
Explores the full range of symptoms and causes of this condition,
provides comprehensive information on medications and treatment
strategies, and discusses special considerations of asthma.
The latest information on medications, environmental role, and
alternative approaches to treatment.
Asthma: The Facts
Practical advise for coping with asthma attacks.
Beyond Anger
A guide for men on how to free yourself from the grip of anger
and get more out of life.
The College Woman’s Handbook
A peer-to-peer guide to everything you need to know about college.
This complete guide will help you get the most from your education.
The Dance of Anger
A woman’s guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships.
A helpful guide to understanding and reducing anger in close
relationships.
Fall of Freddie the Leaf
Inspiring allegory illustrating the delicate balance between
life and death.
Family Guide to Asthma and Allergies
Discusses the treatment and prevention of asthma and allergies.
Covers identifying and recognizing warning signs of an attack
and how to use inhalers.
Finding Our Fathers
Samuel Osherson, Ph.D. examines the hidden struggle of how to
reconcile a man’s childhood image of his father, creating
greater emotional awareness. A man’s relationship with
his father affects his relationships with his spouse, children,
friends and boss. Osherson offers resolutions to the inner conflict
of the father-son relationship. The book offers steps to finding
a more rewarding, more vital masculine identity.
For Women Only!
A health guide to empowerment including an up-to-date health
guide and an account of the spiritual awakening that is the
story of women’s health in our times.
Goin’ Home
A therapeutic and spititual guide toward eliminating self-defeating
behaviors.
Guide to Your Child’s Allergies and Asthma
A vital guide for asthma and allergies with answers and information
on how to identify allergies and asthma, prevent attacks, and
medication usage for children.
Guidelines for diagnosis and Management of Asthma
A deeper understanding of asthma and an increase in knowledge
about effective approaches to asthma diagnosis, monitoring,
and patient education.
Happy Hours
This book takes a look at women and alcohol. Cutting-edge research,
facts, and stories about women who have struggled with alcohol,
and the roles alcohol has played in their lives. Challenge your
knowledge about the treatment, recovery, advertising and trends
of women and alcohol.
Health Online
How to find health information, support groups, and self-help
communities in Cyberspace.
Healthy Women, Healthy Lives
A guide to preventing disease from the Landmark Nurses’
Health Study.
How to be an Assertive not Aggressive Woman
Learn how to express your opinions and wishes, and stand up
for your rights with assertiveness training.
If Only I Could Quit
Karen Casey has created a three-month, one-day-at-a-time program
to begin revoery from nicotine addiction.
It’s In The Male
Jon L. Pryor, M.D., and Stacy Glass, R.N. offer a consumer guide
to men’s health care. It’s a guide to men’s
health for everyone.
In Love & In Danger
A teen’s guide to breaking free of abusive relationships.
Keep Quit
A Motivational Guide to a Life Without Smoking.
Lift Your Mood Now
Simple things you can do to beat the blues, raise self-esteem,
control negative thinking, and reduce anxiety.
Living With Asthma
A practical guide to understanding and managing asthma.
Living With The Enemy
Photojournalism that transforms assumptions about battered women
and the men who abuse them.
The Making of a Drug-Free American: Programs That Work
A comprehensive look at the war on drugs.
Manual of Asthma Management
A practical handbook on the diagnosis and management of asthma
in paediatric and adult patients.
Mars and Venus: Together Forever
Relationship skills for lasting love.
Men & Grief
A guide for men surviving the death of a loved one.
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
A practical guide for improving communication and getting what
you want in your relationships.
Mind Body Medicine: How To Use Your Mind for Better
Health
An overview of mind/body medicine, providing up to date information
about the vital role of the mind in health.
New Directions For Youth Development: A Critical View
of Youth Mentoring
Theory practice research that promotes conversation about relationship-based
interventions and the role of adults in the lives of youths.
Our Bodies, Ourselves For The New Century
This book is by women, for women and is an essential resource
on women’s health. Vital health concerns of women of every
age, ethnic, racial background, and sexual orientation are covered.
The Pain Behind the Mask – Overcoming Masculine
Depression
John Lynch, Ph.D., and Christopher Kimartin, Ph.D., discuss
the latest strategies for treating masculine depression.
Panic Disorder in the Medical Setting
Provides practical diagnostic and treatment techniques for panic
disorder.
Relieve the Squeeze
Causes, symptoms, medications, and answers to common questions
about asthma.
Sacrificing Our Selves For Love
A guide to why women compromise health and self-esteem, and
how to stop. An explanation of society’s role in promoting
self-sacrifice, and tools to counter social pressure.
"Staying
Safe on Campus: Resources to Help You" Brochure Download Brochure
Information about where to go for assistance related to
a sexual assault, rape, harassment, or stalking.
Strong Women, Strong Bones
Cutting-edge information will help you learn what you need to
know to prevent, treat and beat osteoporosis.
Surviving an Eating Disorder
Explains what to expect from the eating disordered individual
and yourself and what kind of support is available.
Understanding Asthma
A focus on asthma and allergies that trigger the disease, including
a thorough review and classification of current treatments.
When Your Body Gets The Blues
Based on the Levity study, this book describes how sunlight,
exercise, and vitamins can overcome women’s mood problems.
If you’re tired, stressed, or eat too much, this book
can help you cope.
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
This book takes a look at an entire range of women’s health
concerns from a mind-body wellness approach. Case histories
from an actual medical practice combine technology and natural
remedies from a holistic viewpoint.
Working with LGBT College Students
Areas discussed are: identity development theories, residence
halls, career planning, health and counseling centers, HIV/AIDS,
and student leadership and organizational development.
Your Personal Net Doctor: Your Guide to Health and
Medical Advice on the Internet and Online Services
A guide to connect users to a worldwide library of information
regarding online topics.