Health Resource Center

Sindecuse Health Center maintains a library of resources covering a wide range of health and wellness topics. All resources are free to borrow at any time – whether you prefer to read at home or during your visit.

Questions? Stop by the Health Resource Center, Room 3120 (upper level). Call 387-3263 for more information.

Books: A–E / F–K / L–P / Q–Z

Books A–E

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.

The ABC’s of School-Based Mentoring
A technical assistance guide focusing on programmatic innovations, reduced operational costs, recruitment of mentors, and an emphasis on success.

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.

The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession
Harrison G. Pope, Jr., M.D., Katharine A. Phillips, M.D., and Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D., discuss the relationship between society’s expectations of boys and men and how they think about their bodies.

Aerobic Exercise For Life
Specific guidelines for the components included in a complete aerobic dance-exercise program, from the warm-up through the cool-down.

AIDS Update 1997
New theories, courses of treatment, and evolving public awareness including factual information about the biological, medical, social, economic and legal aspects of this devastating modern-day epidemic.

AIDS Update 1998
A balanced review of current, factual information about the biological, medical, social, economic, and legal aspects of this devastating, modern-day epidemic.

AIDS Update 2002
An annual review of AIDS.

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.

Clearing The Air
This brief guide for recovery from nicotine dependence provides information on what to expect during the quitting process, offers helpful suggestions to minimize symptoms of withdrawal and to create new habits.

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.

Culture and Nursing Care
A set of guidelines to alert nurses to the similarities as well as differences within and among the groups that comprise the world.

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.

Doctor, Am I a Virgin Again?
Cases and counsel for a healthy sexuality.

Drugs and Human Behavior
An introduction to the field of psychopharmacology with an emphasis on the relationships between drugs, their mechanisms of action in the nervous system, and human behavior.

Drugs In American Society
Focuses on drugs and drug use from a sociological perspective. Covers the effects of drug use, and crime and violence associated with drug use.

Educating Yourself About Alcohol and Drugs
This book gives us information we need to make rational, healthy choices. Dr. Schuckit shows how each of us, dedicated to change, can travel the road to complete recovery.

Eights Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health
Describes advances in knowledge that foster understanding about how alcohol acts on the human body at the most basic biological level, and how to prevent alcohol abuse.

The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals
Everything you need to know for safe vitamin and mineral use.

Books: A–E / F–K / L–P / Q–Z

Books F–K

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.

Father Hunger
Fathers, daughters and food. Discusses the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were emotionally absent, creating a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns.

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Learn how to face the fear, indecision and anger in your life by using proven techniques to move forward in your life.

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.

Food Finder
A vitamin and mineral source guide on nutrition.

Food Medication Interactions
A guide for monitoring and preventing drug-nutrient interactions.

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.

Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook For Program Development
Foundation and components enabling a youth mentoring program to flourish with strong agency capacity, program design, community partnership, resource development and program evaluation.

The “Go Ask Alice” Book of Answers
A guide to good physical, sexual, and emotional health.

Goin’ Home
A therapeutic and spititual guide toward eliminating self-defeating behaviors.

Going to Pieces without Falling Apart

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.

Books: A–E / F–K / L–P / Q–Z

Books L–P

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.

Love Hunger: Recovery From Food Addiction
A 10-stage life plan for your body, mind, and soul for compulsive overeaters combining the experience of psychiatrists, counselors, and dietitians.

The Making of a Drug-Free American: Programs That Work
A comprehensive look at the war on drugs.

Man Enough
Explores what it is like to grow up male today offering a new approach to issue of commitment, caring, and control…creating a positive model for the fathers of tomorrow’s men.

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.

Books: A–E / F–K / L–P / Q–Z

Books Q–Z

Quit and Stay Quit
A Personal Program to Stop Smoking.

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.

Step by Step: Eating to Lower Your High Blood Cholesterol
Facts about high blood cholesterol and how it relates to heart disease.

Strong Women, Strong Bones
Cutting-edge information will help you learn what you need to know to prevent, treat and beat osteoporosis.

Supporting Mentors
Technical assistance to help a mentor assist youth in discovering their strengths and develop their self-confidence.

Surviving an Eating Disorder
Explains what to expect from the eating disordered individual and yourself and what kind of support is available.

Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue
A hope is vital training manual. How to use dialogue to provide opportunities for young people to explore their feelings through theatre.

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.

Why Do You Smoke?
Nicotine dependence fills many unmet needs. This brief self-assessment helps increase awareness of these needs which is essential in selecting effective strategies for recovery from nicotine dependence.

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.

Women’s Moods
What every woman must know about hormones, the brain, and emotional health. This book takes an intimate look at how women’s mood issues change at each stage of their reproductive lives.

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.

Books: A–E / F–K / L–P / Q–Z


 

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