Parenting Your Child With Autism
“This wonderful book will bring comfort and practical help to many families as they search for creative ways to relieve their children’s distress, develop new skills, and find areas of joy.†—Joseph Gold, MD, chief medical officer at McLean Hospital
Depression : a Guide For the Newly Diagnosed
Overview If you’ve recently been diagnosed with depression, you probably have a few questions about the road to recovery that lies ahead. You might wonder what the best treatments are for your symptoms, how to tell if you’re making progress, and who, if anyone, you should tell about your diagnosis. In Depression: A Guide for […]
Eat What You Love Love What You Eat With Diabetes
Library Journal Physician May (Am I Hungry? What To Do When Diets Don't Work), with dietician and diabetes educator Fletcher, applies the principles she presented in her earlier book, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How To Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle, to eating properly with diabetes. Herself a former "yo-yo dieter," May criticizes […]
Fire Child Water Child
Overview In his years working with children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), pediatrician Stephen Scott Cowan has discovered that what helps one child focus his or her attention may not benefit another. There are five distinct ways children focus, presented for the first time in Fire Child, Water Child. This guide to parenting children with […]
Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder : Understanding & Helping Your Partner
Overview Bipolar Disorder is characterized by alternating periods of dramatically manic behavior and episodes of extreme sadness and hopelessness, often with periods of normalcy in between. Those close to bipolar individuals may experience feelings of fear, loss, and anxiety and a constant uncertainty about the bipolar individual's mood. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder is the […]
OCD : a Guide For the Newly Diagnosed
Library Journal: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can cause frightening and often misunderstood symptoms, and there's often a long delay between onset and diagnosis. Tompkins (psychology, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring) provides patients with a resource that will not only help them understand their diagnosis but […]
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook For Depression
From the Publisher: There are hundreds of books on the market that try to help you "overcome" or "put an stop to" depression. But what if depression isn't a "thing" to be gotten rid of? What if depression is a behavior that, in the context of the life of someone who is depressed, serves an […]
Healing the Trauma of Abuse : a Women's Workbook
This workbook offers women who have suffered sexual, physical, or emotional abuse crucial skills for coping, self-understanding, and self-care. The book is designed to be worked through from beginning to end, with self-evaluation questionnaires, writing exercises, and a variety of activities and relaxation techniques throughout. Also included are questions to ask a doctor, a personal […]