IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS
LIVING WITH ILLNESS (with or without psychotherapy)
CULTURE-RELATED STRESS & CROSS-CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT
FINDING PERSONAL MEANING & HAPPINESS
ADOPTION IDENTITY/SEARCH
PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH
Improving Relationships
Learn about how I approach work with couples on Dan Wile's
Collaborative Couple Therapy website.
Learn about how to improve important relationships with Emotional Intelligence on Relationship Help.
Read a five-step guide for building better connections in
important relationships The Relationship Cure.
Living With Illness (with or without psychotherapy)
Read about reaction to illness at the National Institutes of Health website.
Read articles about what can help when you have a chronic illness: building support networks, improving relationships, developing partnerships with doctors on CFIDS & Fibromyalgia Self-Help.
Learn about the effects of having a chronic illness at the Cleveland Clinic.
Learn about coping with chronic illness at The Father's Network.
Culture-Related Stress and Cross Cultural Adjustment
Find books to help you develop skills in intercultural communication, strategies to deal with culture-related stress; learn about international relocation on Intercultural Press.
Read articles about intercultural friendship; relocating children on Families in Global Transition, Inc.
Read stories of Korean adoptees in Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity by Ellen Lee, Marilyn Lammert & Mary Anne Hess at Tamarisk Books.
Finding Personal Meaning and Happiness - Holistic Healing
Read about Integrated Kabbalistic Healing in the words of the creator of this holistic healing approach at A Society of Souls.
Read one IKH healer's description of healing into wholeness and the difference between this approach, western medicine and conventional psychotherapy on the website Dharma Sun Healing.
Learn about Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms, a movement practice and a "marriage of art and healing" that joins body, heart and mind on the Gabrielle Roth website.
Read about levels of happiness and finding personal meaning; virtues that define good character, strengths that describe behavior that lead to virtues, and internal states that can increase your level of happiness on the website The Route to Happiness.
Read lectures on practical spiritual wisdom at International Pathwork Foundation.
Read sacred poetry from around the world on the website Poetry Chaikhana.
Read about the mystical qabalah (kabbalah) on Work of the Chariot.
Explore an online community and magazine about seeking answers to questions about spirituality, true happiness and mental wellness at Spirituality & Community.
Learn about mindfulness meditation.
Visit the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at UMass Medical School.
Visit the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC, a local spiritual community teaching and practicing Vipassana meditation.
Adoption Identity/Search (adult adopted persons, birth parents, adoptive parents)
Explore the website of the American Adoption Congress, representing individuals and families whose lives are touched by adoption or other loss of family continuity.
Read about Korean adoptees in my 2008 book: Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity by Ellen Lee, Marilyn Lammert & Mary Anne Hess, published by Tamarisk Books.
Visit the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute website to learn about its work to better the lives of everyone touched by adoption.
Explore adoption community resources (search, therapists, magazines,) at the Korean-American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network website.
Find information and support if you are seeking to adopt at Adopting. com.
Find books on adoption at Tapestry Books.
Find information about open adoption including birth mother support, gay adoption, singles adoption support, open adoption resources.
Psychology and Mental Health
Get information about mental health topics at the Mental Health America website.
Learn about community outreach, professional education, advocacy, direct services, volunteering and news at the website for the Mental Health Association of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Inform yourself, find support, learn ways to take action at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) website. Information Helpline: 800-950-NAMI (6264).
Information Helpline: 800-950-NAMI (6264)
Search the National Institutes of Mental Health--National Library of Medicine website for reliable health and mental health information.
Find resources, news, research findings at the PsychCentral website.
Read articles, take quizzes, look up diagnoses at the Psychology Today website.
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