A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities
This book offers story medicine for children, families and communities at times of grieving, loss and separation. Stories and words have healing potential. They can strengthen us, help to reframe things, and help make meaning. Included are stories for: the loss of a loved one such as a death in the family of a baby, child, sibling, parent, ......
Ever since they were young, Peggy Cryden noticed her children's gender expression did not correspond with society's expectations of their biological gender. In this moving and honest memoir, Peggy details the experiences and challenges of raising both a gay son and a gay, transgender son and shares her family's journey of adversity and ......
Is medication the right choice for treating your child's emotional or behavioral problems? How can you be confident that he or she has been properly diagnosed? What do you need to know to get the most benefits from medication treatment, with the least risk? From leading child psychiatrists Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness, this book has already ......
Is medication the right choice for treating your child's emotional or behavioral problems? How can you be confident that he or she has been properly diagnosed? What do you need to know to get the most benefits from medication treatment, with the least risk? From leading child psychiatrists Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness, this book has already ......
This book integrates the basic and applied literature to provide mental health providers with concrete, evidence-based strategies for building and strengthening the parent-child relationship and addresses challenges typically neglected by intervention manuals.
This comprehensive guide helps all birthing and healthcare professionals vastly improve their care and knowledge of autistic pregnant people. It takes a distinctly intersectional and accessible approach to a topic often overlooked and includes management approaches and tools for birth professionals, autistic pregnant people, and their families.
When Jan Campito first entered the world of special needs, she trusted the experts to tell her what was wrong, and how to proceed to help her children. Here she was, an articulate, well-educated person, usually confident in navigating whatever situations were required, and yet she became passive and trusting when it came to assuming people would ......
The focus of this book is on recognizing what lies ahead, how to prepare for the myriad changes, and suggestions for everyone to cope with the evolution from childhood to young adulthood.
The most trying times in a child's life are during their pre-teen and teen years. Even the most well-meaning and engaged parents and teachers are often ill equipped to deal effectively with adolescents and their remarkable yet confounding social and emotional changes. Surviving Adolescence follows the roller coaster ride parents with teenagers ......
