Authors:Melissa Allen Heath PhD, Dawn Sheen Ed.S.,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: intervention, practical, guilford, schools, series, assist, personnel, based, crisis, preparing, school
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1593851510
ISBN-13: 9781593851514

When a student is in dire need of emotional support, caring adults in the school can make a difference. This essential resource helps practitioners prepare all school personnel to respond sensitively and effectively to children and adolescents in crisis. Packed with user-friendly features--including over 50 reproducible tools--the book provides crucial guidance for helping students cope with such stressful circumstances as bullying, abuse, parental divorce, chronic illness, depression, loss, and more. The emphasis is on giving teachers and staff basic crisis intervention skills: how to react,

Author: Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. SawyerDawn Llewelly
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: spiritualities, reading
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754663299
ISBN-13: 9780754663294

The phenomenon of ’sacred text’ has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. "Reading Spiritualities" presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that extend the notion of ’text’ itself.The contributors draw on a range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature,

Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher: Image
Keywords: christ, life
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 1977-09-16
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0385132204
ISBN-13: 9780385132206

Bishop Fulton Sheen presents a passionate portrait of the God-Man, the teacher, the healer, and most of all, the Savior, whose promise has sustained humanity for two millenia. Here is the story of the greatest man that ever lived.

Author: Anitra Sheen
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: unspoken, things
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0811831574
ISBN-13: 9780811831574

The halcyon days of Los Angeles in the ’50s are the seductive setting for this mesmerizing novel, chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of the year. After her mother’s death, young Jorie grows up with her two older brothers and a mostly absent physician-father. While her brothers become increasingly wild, Jorie becomes the central force holding the family together. And as they discover more of their father’s entangled secret life, Jorie embarks on her own relationships that threaten their strange-but-stable world.

Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: own, priest
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2004-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1586170449
ISBN-13: 9781586170448

The beloved Archbishop Sheen, whose cause for canonization is open in Rome, presents a profound and deeply spiritual look at the meaning of the priesthood and relationship of the priest with Christ as an "alter Christus". Sheen delves deeply into what he considers the main character of the priesthood, and one not often discussed, that of being, like Christ, a "holy victim". To be like Christ, Sheen emphasizes that the priest must imitate Christ in His example of sacrifice, offering himself as a victim to make His Incarnation continually present in the world. "Unlike anyone else, Our Lord

Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher: Liguori Publications
Keywords: faith, lessons, passion, characters
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-08-31
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0764802291
ISBN-13: 9780764802294

This inspiring book by one of Christianity’s most prolific authors brings to life many of those who played important roles in the Eternal Drama of the Cross. This journey to Calvary dramatically introduces the reader to a deep and personal knowledge of faith.

Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: sheen, fulton, autobiography, clay, treasure
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1993-04
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0898704200
ISBN-13: 9780898704204

Treasure in Clay provides a lifetime’s worth of wisdom from one of the most beloved and influential figures in twentieth-century Catholicism.Completed shortly before his death in 1979, Treasure in Clay is the autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, the preeminent teacher, preacher, and pastor of American Catholicism.Called “the Great Communicator” by Billy Graham and “a prophet of the times” by Pope Pius XII, Sheen was the voice of American Catholicism for nearly fifty years. In addition to his prolific writings, Sheen dominated the airwaves, first in radio, and later television, with his