Torke, Kyle.  Hiking the Grand Mesa: A Clementine the Rescue Dog Story (Published in 2020  by Loving Healing Press, 5145  Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI  48205).   Two young boys, Coover and Conrad, go with their Grandma and their mighty rescue dog, Clementine, on a desert adventure.  They hike through the southern Colorado Dobies, a series of steep hills made from adobe clay that formed as the nearby volcanoes, now extinct, eroded.  Their goal is to explore one of the most unique landscapes in Colorado–the Grand Mesa. At first, Coover seems a little sad and lonely at the apparently barren and solitary landscape, but Grandma introduces him to the rich wildlife, both plant and animal, around them, and both boys go tramping through an imaginative journey.  What will they see?  Where will they go?  And what will they do?

Hiking the Grand Mesa is a nature lover’s dream.  Beginning readers will be fascinated by the vivid history of the area as described in author Kyle Torke’s clear, detailed text, and by the beautiful scenery depicted in illustrator Barbara Torke’s gorgeous watercolor paintings.

This fun and insightful story is a wonderful, challenging reading experience with vocabulary development, contextual learning, and the encouragement of imagination.  From woodpeckers and toads, to cattails and sunflowers, youngsters will be awakened to a whole new world.  The first book in the series is Ice Breaking: The Adventures of Clementine the Rescue Dog.

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Crisis in the American Heartland -- Coming Home: Challenges of Returning Veterans (Volume 2)

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Veterans in rural communities face unique challenges, who will step up to help?

Beginning with a brief scenario of a more gentle view of rural life, the book moves through learned information about families, children, and our returning National Guard and Reserve civilian military members. Return experiences will necessarily be different in rural and frontier settings than they are in suburban and urban environments. Our rural and frontier areas, especially in Western states with more isolated communities, less developed communication and limited access to medical, psychological and social services remain an important concern. This book helps provide some informed direction in working toward improving these as a general guide for mental health professionals working with Guard and Reserve members and families in rural/frontier settings.
An appendix provides an in-depth list of online references for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Specific areas of concern include:

Morale, deployment abroad, and stress factors

Effects of terrorism on children and families at home

Understanding survivor guilt

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and suicide

Preventing secondary traumatization

Resiliency among refugee populations and military families

Adjustment and re-integration following the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Vicarious trauma and its effects on children and adults

How rural and remote communities differ from more urban ones following war experiences in readjusting military members

Characteristics important in therapists/counselors working with returning military



Doherty's second volume in this new series Crisis in the American Heartland explores these and many other issues.
Each volume available in trade paper, hardcover, and eBook formats.


Learn more at www.RMRInstitute.org



PSY022040 Psychology : Psychopathology - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

SOC040000 Social Science : Disasters & Disaster Relief

HIS027170 Military - Iraq War (2003-)

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