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Resources
Our resources page provides valuable materials on neurodiversity, trauma, and mental health, including guides and links to trusted organizations. These resources aim to support education, raise awareness, and empower individuals and communities.
Crisis and Mental Health Hotlines (US-based only)
National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
📞 Call/Text: 988
🌐 www.988lifeline.org
Crisis Text Line (24/7)
📱 Text: HELLO to 741741
🌐 www.crisistextline.org
RAINN (Sexual Assault/Incest Survivors)
📞 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
🌐 www.rainn.org
The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ Youth)
📞 1-866-488-7386
📱 Text: START to 678678
🌐 www.thetrevorproject.org
Diagnostics and Workbooks
DSM V
The DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) is the standard classification system used by mental health professionals to diagnose and categorize mental disorders based on specific criteria and symptom patterns. The DSM-5 is primarily used in the United States, but it's also widely referenced internationally—especially in research, insurance billing, and clinical settings—though some countries may rely more heavily on the World Health Organization’s ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases) for official diagnoses. Click the link to the left to download a fully copy.
ICD-11
The ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision) is a global diagnostic tool developed by the World Health Organization for classifying diseases, disorders, and health conditions, including mental and behavioral disorders, used for clinical, research, and public health purposes. It's used worldwide, especially by countries outside the U.S., and serves as the international standard for health data reporting and diagnostic coding. Click the link to the left to download a fully copy.
Complex PTSD Workbook
The Complex PTSD Journal is filled with introspective prompts and practices that guide you in understanding your emotions, establishing healthier relationships, and finding lasting peace. Click the link to the left to purchase.
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Click the link to the left to purchase.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Click the link to the left to purchase.
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience. Based on the theory of structural dissociation of the personality in combination with a Janetian psychology of action, the authors have developed a model of phase-oriented treatment that focuses on the identification and treatment of structural dissociation and related maladaptive mental and behavioral actions. The foundation of this approach is to support patients in learning more effective mental and behavioral actions that will enable them to become more adaptive in life and to resolve their structural dissociation. This principle implies an overall therapeutic goal of raising the integrative capacity, in order to cope with the demands of daily life and deal with the haunting remnants of the past, with the “unfinished business” of traumatic memories. Click the link to the left to purchase.
When The Body Says No
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Explores the role of the mind-body link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
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Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and personal and moving stories, including those of people such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Reagan (Alzheimer''s), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer) and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)
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Reveals ''The Seven A''s of Healing'': principles in healing and the prevention of illness from hidden stress.
Click the link to the left to purchase.
For Students / Future Researchers
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
American Psychological Association (APA)
🌐 www.apa.org/ed/precollege/students
Scholarships, internships, and psychology career path guidance.
Neurodiversity in Higher Education
🌐 www.neurodiversityinitiative.com
Resources and advocacy tips for navigating college as an ND student.