William R. Taylor

Just completed Cope With Your Crisis: Find Hope, Manage Stress, Curb Demoralization,

a non-fiction book for adults and older adolescents in the US and abroad. It's available on Amazon as an e-book.

I've come to see finding hope as one key to feeling better, but I also know how easy it can be for some of us to lose hope, or never find much, at various points in our lives.

Cope With Your Crisis aims to support readers' own efforts to solve problems, and to suggest some possibilities they may have overlooked.

Some readers might also find helpful the index site at the National Institute of Mental Health. Many mental health topics are covered there.

(I need to add that readers who feel suicidal or homicidal should contact their health care provider, or the local Help Line in the phone book. Cope With Your Crisis is not intended as treatment for life threatening or other psychiatric conditions.)

There is a convenient checklist cueing responses to a crisis at the UCLA site on crisis coping. The site is addressing crises in young people at school, but the same principles could be adapted to other places.

Cope With Your Crisis is available as an ebook from Amazon.