Welcome to the Health Resource Center!
The resources below are available to you in Room 1110, Sindecuse Health Center. Many of these resources may be checked out, or you can review them in the resource center.

GENERAL HEALTH

Taking Control of Your Health
(CD-ROM)

Offers health information on both traditional medicine and alternative therapies for a variety of conditions.

The Meaning of Health (Video)
Explores various meanings and methodologies for achieving and maintaining good health.

LUNG HEALTH

Asthma Explored (CD-ROM)
Describes causes of asthma and how to effectively manage this chronic condition.

Clearing The Air (Booklet)
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.

If Only I Could Quit (Book) - $12
Combines personal success stories, the twelve step philosophy and the hope of positive daily meditations to create a 3 month, one-day-at-a-time program.

Quit and Stay Quit - Clean and Free (3 Workbooks) - $20
Personalizes the powerful forces behind nicotine and tobacco dependence, helps smokers assess their readiness for change, and provides a stepped approach to recovery.

Stages of Quitting Nicotine and Tobacco (Video)
Examines the process of recovery from nicotine dependence, helps smokers move through four stages of recovery and guides you through the fear of quitting.

Understanding the Problems of Nicotine and Tobacco Dependence (Video)
Describes the biology of addiction and helps smokers make the choice to reclaim their lives, their health and their values.

Why Do You Smoke? (Booklet)
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.

MEN'S HEALTH

Angry Men, Passive Men: Understanding The Roots of Men’s Anger and How to Move Beyond It (Book) $11
Explores the root causes of men’s emotional issues and offers a comprehensive solution to restore their sense of joy and well-being.

Finding Our Fathers (Book)
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.

It’s In The Male (Book)
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.

The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession (Book)
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.

The Pain Behind the Mask - Overcoming Masculine Depression (Book)
John Lynch, Ph.D., and Christopher Kilmartin, Ph.D., discuss the latest strategies for treating masculine depression.

NUTRITION

Easy Low-fat Cooking (Video)
How to add fruits and vegetables to any meal, step-by-step recipes and ideas for quick and easy meal preparation.

Eating to Lower Cholesterol (Booklet) - $2.50
Recommendations for low-fat shopping and cooking; comprehensive chart of fat and cholesterol content of foods.

Healthy Eating for Healthy Weight (Video)
Quick-fix diets don’t work. Learn why and explore skills for breaking the diet cycle through lifetime nutrition management.

Healthy Eating on the Run (Video)
Learn how to eat healthfully despite a hectic schedule with timesaving tips.

Nutrition Interactive (CD-ROM)
Explore nutrient needs, healthy weight management skills, components of sports nutrition and food safety and labeling.

Supermarket Nutrition (Video)
Savvy shopping skills for how to use the Food Guide Pyramid and how to find low-fat alternatives to favorite foods.

The Healthy Weigh (Booklet) - $8
Practical guidelines for long-term weight management success, tips for smart eating and snacking, and exercise and calorie guidelines.

EATING DISORDERS

Eating Disorders: Journeys of Self-discovery and Recovery (Video)
Young women who have struggled with bulimia describe the depression, denial, secrecy, and shame they experienced and discuss their ultimate path to recovery.

Hope for Compulsive Eaters (Audio Tapes)
Examines common issues related to eating disorders; emphasizes the lifelong nature of recovery.

Reviving Ophelia (Video)
A look at the challenges of growing up female in today’s media culture.

Self-Image: The Fantasy, The Reality (Video)
Examines how media influences young people to diet, develop eating disorders, use steroids and suffer from low self-esteem.

Slim Hopes: Obsession with Thinness (Video)
Using over 120 ads from magazines and TV, Jean Kilbourne explores the demoralizing and life-threatening impact of anorexia and bulimia.

Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends (Book) - $12.50
Guidelines, practical suggestions and insights for parents, spouses, friends, and persons with eating disorders.

ADDICTION

Alcohol 101 (CD-ROM)
Participants attend a party and are faced with making choices.

Books and Booze (CD-ROM)
Assess your relationship to alcohol and learn the difference between alcohol use, abuse and dependence.

Portrait of Addiction (Video)
Recovering addicts show that addiction can happen to anyone and so can recovery.

Shame and Addiction (Video)
Outlines sources of shame and provides guidelines for steps to recovery.

The Hijacked Brain (Video)
Bill Moyers explains the brain chemistry of addiction and explores new treatments.

DEPRESSION

Beating Depression (Video)
ABC Nightline special examines depression.

Depression: Beyond the Darkness (Video)
An understanding of depression and its effects are presented from an informative, humanistic viewpoint.

Faces of Depression (Video)
People who have been successfully treated for depression share their stories of struggle and triumph.

Moving Back Into The Light (Video)
Describes clinical depression as a biochemical condition and discusses how depression can be treated and managed.

When Someone You Love Suffers From Depression (Video)
Learn to recognize depression and ways to help a person get the treatment needed.

SEXUAL HEALTH

Choosing a Contraceptive (CD-ROM)
Explores a variety of contraceptive methods, the realities of sexually transmitted infections, and communication skills.

Dr. Ruth’s Encyclopedia of Sex (CD-ROM)
Provides valuable information on healthy sexuality in an honest and entertaining way.

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (CD-ROM)
Explores effective communication skills and ways to solve relationship problems.

Secrets of Successful Relationships (Video)
Explains differences in how men and women approach relationships and offers skills for effective communication.

Sex in the CD (CD-ROM)
Provides information, resources and avenues to explore the dynamics of healthy relationships. Learn more about the topics of sexual responsibility and the ingredients for intimacy.

What Now? Living with Genital Herpes (Video)
This video helps to minimize the shame, pain and fear associated with a genital herpes infection.

How To Be An Assertive, Not Aggressive Woman (Book) - $7.95
In life, love, and on the job, learn how to express your opinions and wishes, and stand up for your rights with assertive techniques.

Perimenopause: Preparing for the Change (Book) - $12
Helps women learn to practice preventive health care, and to enhance their physical and emotional well-being throughout the natural life transition of menopause.

The Dance of Anger (Audio Tape)
Teaches women how to turn anger into a constructive force for reshaping their lives.

Too Good For Her Own Good: Searching For Self and Intimacy in Important Relationships (Book) - $13.25
Learn how to nurture others without ignoring your own feelings and needs.

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Adapting To Stress (Booklet) - $2
Practical suggestions for reducing stress.

Living With Stress (Video)
Good vs. bad stress and how to cope with stress in a healthy way.

Mindfulness and Meditation: Stress Reduction (Video)
Shows you how to take advantage of inner resources for learning, growing and healing.

Students and Stress (CD-ROM)
Assess your sources of stress and learn what you can do to manage it.

Body, Mind & Soul (Video)
Deepak Chopra looks at Ayurveda, a system of health care that believes the mind exerts the deepest influence on the body.

Don’t Say Yes When You Want To Say NO (Book) - $6.50
Learn to say what you mean and mean what you say.

Goin’ Home - A Therapeutic and Spiritual Guide Toward Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors (Book) - $10.50
Self-defeating behaviors include low self-esteem, excessive worry, and substance abuse. This guide awakens the healthy choices and attitudes that lie within us.

Healing and the Mind (Video)
Explores how our thoughts and emotions can affect our physical health.

Principle-Centered Living (Video)
Helps you identify your sources of personal security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Progressive Relaxation and Breathing (Audio tape) - $12
Learn deep muscle relaxation, correct breathing and relaxation techniques.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Audio tape series)
Learn skills to most effectively manage and organize your personal life.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families (Audio tape series)
Learn skills to balance family and work, maintain parental control and build a trusting, loving marriage.