Shawna Harline

In today's society, it is more important than ever to embrace civic responsibility and duty. "Active Citizenship: Embracing Civic Responsibility and Duty" provides readers with a comprehensive guide to understanding the importance of civic engagement and the role that it plays in shaping our communities. With practical tips and strategies for effective engagement, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to make a positive impact in their community and take an active role in shaping the future of their city, province, and country. Starting with an overview of civic responsibilities and duties, readers will learn about the various levels of government and the different issues that each level addresses, providing a solid foundation for civic engagement at every level.

Let's talk about e-mental health - our psychological well-being in an electronic space. This electronic space can be any aspect of the digital world, including virtual reality, social media, apps, and websites. While we explore its developments, we face its dangers as well. From the individual psyche to our shared social systems, E-Mental Health and the Modern Mind: Developments, Dangers, and Destruction looks at the factors that adversely affect one's mental health in an electronic space. As this digital world grows more prominent in our everyday lives, we must look at our evolving environmental contexts and rethink our conventional delivery methods of mental health care.

E-mental health has brought about massive changes to the landscape of healthcare delivery, social health, and even on the geo-political scale. Along with these massive technological leaps, there are accompanying repercussions that are not all beneficial. When we break it down, the prefix e- indicates electronic and mental health refers to our psychological well-being. When combined, we draw the expansive definition for e-mental health: our psychological well-being in an electronic space. This electronic space can be any aspect of the digital world - virtual reality, social media, entertainment, apps, websites, etc. As it entrenches itself into our everyday life, we must explore its benefits but stay skeptical to its detriments.