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  • Learning to Plan and Be Organized
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    Learning to Plan and Be Organized

    Featuring real-life advice, strategies and tips, Learning to Plan and Be Organized is a practical guide that teaches kids with AD/HD how to enhance their executive function skills of planning and organisation. This reader-friendly and easy-to-use book...
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  • Learning to Plan and Be Organized
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    Learning to Plan and Be Organized

    Featuring real-life advice, strategies and tips, Learning to Plan and Be Organized is a practical guide that teaches kids with AD/HD how to enhance their executive function skills of planning and organisation. This reader-friendly and easy-to-use book...
    $26.99

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  • The Colors of Grief
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    The Colors of Grief

    Janis Di Ciacco, PhD has a Master's Degree in Special Education, a Dipl+¦me Linguistique from the Universit+¬ de Besan+ºon and a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Denver. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified school...
    $65.99

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  • Effective Grief and Bereavement Support
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    Effective Grief and Bereavement Support

    Effective Grief and Bereavement Support shows how social networks, whether they be friends, colleagues or family, can provide an important source of support following sudden bereavement.Individuals in social networks surrounding bereaved people often...
    $66.99

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  • Griefland
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    Griefland

    Griefland. It's a place no one wants to visit-a place without borders where language is inadequate and pain is constant. It's a place where every morning one awakens to the stark reality that a loved one will never be seen, heard-or embraced-again. This...
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  • Autism and Girls
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    Autism and Girls

    The revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book Asperger's and Girls describes the unique challenges of females on the autism spectrum. In it, you'll follow the lives of women with autism through childhood, the social and academic challenges...
    $46.99

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  • Transitions in Dying and Bereavement
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    Transitions in Dying and Bereavement

    In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice and palliative care team members-especially social workers and counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care...
    $141.00

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  • Transitions in Dying and Bereavement
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    Transitions in Dying and Bereavement

    In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice and palliative care team members-especially social workers and counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care...
    $141.00

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  • Children, Bereavement and Trauma
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    Children, Bereavement and Trauma

    The recognition of children's natural resilience as fundamental to their ability to cope with trauma is central to this book. Deriving from the authors' experience of working with bereaved children after the Hillsborough disaster, the book advocates a...
    $47.99

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  • The Forgotten Mourners
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    The Forgotten Mourners

    Children have long been the 'forgotten mourners'. This new and revised edition of the highly successful book by Sue Smith and Margaret Pennells raises awareness of the sensitive issues involved for bereaved children, highlighting their needs and their...
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  • Bulimia Nervosa
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    Bulimia Nervosa

    This manual is written for professionals working with people suffering with bulimia nervosa and for sufferers themselves. It provides a framework for understanding what maintains the disorder and why it has developed. In addition, there is a step-by-step...
    $51.99

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  • Elder Abuse Work
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    Elder Abuse Work

    The subject of the abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly in community and residential care settings, is, increasingly, beginning to be recognized and addressed as a serious social concern in Britain. In Canada, by contrast, research and methods...
    $98.99

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  • Spirituality and Ageing
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    Spirituality and Ageing

    This volume presents the experience of ageing as an opportunity for spiritual reflection and affirmation of life. The contributors are religious and spiritual leaders and ethical thinkers from a range of backgrounds. They define ''spirituality'' not just...
    $83.99

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  • Helping Children to Manage Loss
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    Helping Children to Manage Loss

    Children experience loss in many ways: in the loss of a parent through death or divorce, through illness or disability, in failure and bullying, and in the host of hurts that are inherent in being alive.Helping Children to Manage Loss: Positive...
    $66.99

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  • Speaking Our Minds
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    Speaking Our Minds

    Gain exceptional insight into the world of the person with Alzheimer's through this enlightening collection of first-hand accounts. Speaking Our Minds provides an unparalleled view into the day-to-day experience of Alzheimer's through the reflections of...
    $58.99

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  • Facing Death
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    Facing Death

    Individuals facing death may not know how to express the range of emotions, questions, and discoveries they experience. At the same time, family members, friends, and even professional caregivers may be uncertain as to whether and how to broach the...
    $64.99

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  • Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings Series
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    Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings Series

    Professional caregiving staff deal regularly with disruptive behaviors in residents with dementia but often do not have adequate tools to decipher the underlying causes of these behaviors. Through this 21-minute DVD, viewers learn to evaluate all aspects...
    $204.00

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  • Los Mejores Amigos en el Cuidado de Alzheimer
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    Los Mejores Amigos en el Cuidado de Alzheimer

    Now available in Spanish, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care is your guide to the ground-breaking and uplifting method for the care of people with Alzheimer s disease. Discover the power of the essential elements of friendship: respect,...
    $80.99

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  • Validation Techniques for Dementia Care
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    Validation Techniques for Dementia Care

    Written especially for family members and friends caring for people with dementia, this practical guidebook offers a solution to commonly faced communication and relationship difficulties. The Validation approach's caring, empathetic techniques have been...
    $62.99

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  • Alzheimer's from the Inside Out
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    Alzheimer's from the Inside Out

    Richard Taylor has lived for five years with a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is now a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Richard served on the board of the...
    $58.99

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  • Happy New Year to You!
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    Happy New Year to You!

    This second book in the series of "Two-Lap[trademark]" books provides the same outstanding communication opportunities as the award-winning The Sunshine On My Face. Designed specifically for memory-challenged adults to read aloud with a companion, the...
    $60.99

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  • Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey
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    Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey

    This practical, easy-to-read book is a guide for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). The author describes common examples of challenges in day-to-day care, provides guidelines for ways to respond to these...
    $75.99

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  • The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning
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    The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning

    Roger Grainger was a registered Dramatherapist, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and occasional TV actor. He held a PhD in Sociology from Leeds University as well as Doctorates in Theology and Implicit Religion, and worked as a psychiatric chaplain for...
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  • Anorexics on Anorexia
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    Anorexics on Anorexia

    In this work recovering sufferers of anorexia nervosa describe in their own words their personal experiences of this illness, providing not only support for fellow sufferers but also valuable insights for the families of sufferers and for carers and...
    $52.99

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  • Wholeness in Later Life
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    Wholeness in Later Life

    Ruth Bright is a Consultant Music Therapist who specialises in grief counselling and was Founding President of the Australian Music Therapy Association. She is a long-standing member (and immediate Past-President) of the Board of Directors of the...
    $67.99

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  • Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia)
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    Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia)

    Part of the How to Help series of books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people at home and at school, Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia) offers a complete introduction to this complex and often misunderstood topic. DCD...
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  • Learning to Cope with CRPS / RSD
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    Learning to Cope with CRPS / RSD

    With the help of this compact guide, anyone suffering from CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) (also known as RSD – Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) will better understand their condition and cope with the reality of living with it. Prof Karen Rodham...
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  • The Myeloma Survival Guide
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    The Myeloma Survival Guide

    The definitive guide to living a longer, fuller life with myeloma The Myeloma Survival Guide makes sense of the difficult questions myeloma patients face, dealing with every aspect of life after diagnosis, from creating a wellness team to navigating...
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  • Black Again
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    Black Again

    "I was driven by the belief that if I wanted to go somewhere Id need to be something other than Black." LaTonya Summers was only six years old the first time she unconsciously tried to be "more white". Recollecting experiences from her childhood in...
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  • Every Last Breath
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    Every Last Breath

    When Joanne Jacobson's writing about her mother's respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder, she found her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two chronic illnesses as they grow...
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  • Hindu Culture and Lifestyle - Part III
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    Hindu Culture and Lifestyle - Part III

    We have tons of information freely available anywhere anytime. We don't know what is good for us, what is not and at what stage we should learn what. In this mental concoction, we remain confused, wrongly informed, lack real content and fail in many...
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  • The Special Needs Planning Guide
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    The Special Needs Planning Guide

    This book will be one of the first of its kind to combine financial planning knowledge with a focus on families who have members with disabilities. John and Cynthia have done a lot of work to transform their financial planning presentations into an...
    $64.99

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  • The Special Needs Planning Guide
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    The Special Needs Planning Guide

    This book will be one of the first of its kind to combine financial planning knowledge with a focus on families who have members with disabilities. John and Cynthia have done a lot of work to transform their financial planning presentations into an...
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  • When Your Friend Dies
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    When Your Friend Dies

    Many of us will grieve the death of a friend. Yet, this particular kind of grief is not recognized as often as that experienced when a spouse, child, or parent dies. Grief counsellor and speaker Harold Ivan Smith has worked with "friend grief" both...
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  • When Your Spouse Dies
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    When Your Spouse Dies

    The death of a spouse can create emotional, spiritual, and financial chaos for the one left behind. It is a journey through grief no one wishes to make. In this helpful volume, Mildred Tengbom addresses the emotions and difficulties widows and widowers...
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  • Grieving the Death of a Pet
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    Grieving the Death of a Pet

    Because our relationships with our animal companions are unlike human relationships, the death of a pet is like no other loss that we will experience. In this book, Betty J. Carmack draws on the wisdom of "Ecclesiastes", her own experience, and...
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  • Grieving the Death of a Mother
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    Grieving the Death of a Mother

    A mother's death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother's last breath inevitably changes us. Drawing on his own experience of loss, as well as those of others,...
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  • Helping Children Grieve, revised edition
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    Helping Children Grieve, revised edition

    Helps adults talk to children in meaningful ways, nurturing their faith and building their emotional strength during a time of crisis. The author explains common reactions (emotional, physical, and behavioral) parents can expect from children of all...
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  • When Your Parent Dies
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    When Your Parent Dies

    Each year, 12 million Americans experience the death of a parent. Even when the death is expected, the loss presents both unique challenges and opportunities for personal spiritual growth. "When Your Parent Dies" is a brief, focused book that guides...
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  • When Your Child Loses A Loved One
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    When Your Child Loses A Loved One

    Talking with a grieving child may put a parent at a loss for words. In this brief guide, Theresa Huntley leads parents through a child's grief process, including how to talk with children about death, how children grieve, what steps parents should take...
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  • When Your Child Dies
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    When Your Child Dies

    The loss of a child is something no parent is prepared to face. Drawing on her experience as a counsellor, Theresa Huntley gives grieving parents tools to begin to cope with this devastating loss. She discusses the difficult task of mourning and the...
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  • Facing Cancer Together
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    Facing Cancer Together

    Pamela Brown is recovering from cancer. As a freelance writer she was inspired by the thoughfulness of friends and relatives during her illness to compile this simple, supportive book.'
    $28.99

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  • Seeing Through our Tears
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    Seeing Through our Tears

    Daniel Bagby is a pastor, professional counsellor and a professor of pastoral care. With this book, he seeks to provide an understanding of the emotions that find expression in tears.'
    $34.99

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  • The Art of Growing Old
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    The Art of Growing Old

    This is a book for all adults interested in increasing satisfaction in their lives. Each chapter moves f rom theory to practice, with thought-provoking questions, sp ecific suggestions, and clear illustrations. '
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  • Invisible Chains
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    Invisible Chains

    When you are showered with attention, it can feel incredibly romantic and can blind you to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when attentiveness becomes domination? In some relationships, the desire to control leads to jealousy, gaslighting,...
    $120.00

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