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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Join the parents of six-year-old Michael as they seek to understand his impulsiveness, hyperactivity, and inattention. After a multi-faceted assessment, Michael is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). Michael's parents learn techniques such as consistent schedules, docking systems, star charts, and self-monitoring to help organise home life. Michael's parents also face the pros and cons of medication.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cubanimmigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw, and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journey of the person who lives with the condition and that of their loved ones. Diagnosed with dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital stay precipitated a dramatic turn for the worse, Gerrard, an award-winning journalist and author,...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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For anyone eager to understand their child's gender experience, or to learn how best to accept, support and protect them, this book will provide knowledge, reassurance and the confidence to do so.
When Anna Bianchi's grandchild asked, "Nanny, you do know I'm a girl, don't you?", Anna recognised this as a pivotal, and daunting, moment in their relationship. She knew that to answer her grandchild, who had been assigned male at birth, her own attitudes,...
26) Gay Youth
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gay Youth is a powerful and accessible educational video for high schools and colleges that breaks the silence surrounding adolescent homosexuality. This important film addresses the ways in which gay and lesbian teens are still at high risk for dropping out of school, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, homelessness, and suicide. By contrasting the tragic suicide of 20-year old Bobby Griffith, a gay teen who could not find acceptance, with the remarkable...
27) Wish you well
Author
Language
English
Description
Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains—but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Silblings of kids who have autism have unique perspectives on Autistic Spectrum Disorder. In this 30 minutes production these wise siblings ages 4-18 tell us about their frustration, their pain, their growth to acceptance and their exceptional loyalty to their siblings. Interspersed are brief interviews with some of the siblings on the spectrum. This is a must see for parents, professionals and kids who live and work with those diagnosed with ASD....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An interview with a clinician and two senior children at the time of their mother's transition to a care facility demonstrates the microskills to assist families of the elderly with a potentially difficult life transition. Tips for how to quickly engage with family members, obtain a brief relevant history and discuss caregiver impact and burden are provided. Interviewing skills for how to collaborate with senior children and respond to suggestions...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his life--his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked...
33) Daughters-in-law
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Arthritis and related musculo-skeletal conditions are the most common chronic and long-term medical illnesses and are the leading cause of disability among people aged 15 years and older. There is no known cause, and no cure. These Speaking from Experience clips offer first-hand accounts from children living with arthritis and their parents. They discuss the ways in which it has impacted their lives and the ways they manage the condition. It was produced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thy Will Be Done follows Male-to-Female Transsexual Sara Herwig in her journey to ordination in the Presbyterian Church. The Church’s conservative groups do not recognize Sara as female and challenge her fitness and eligibility to be a pastor. In addition, it is crucial to Sara’s success that she has support from friends and family. The documentary explores the way in which alternative lifestyles and permanent choices of identity have the power...
Author
Series
Lorraine Fisher novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
You're alone. You're vulnerable. And you have something that someone else wants. At any cost.
Claudia Morgan-Brown finally has it all. Pregnant with a much-wanted first baby of her own, she has a happily established family of two small step-sons and a loving husband with a great career. But she is also committed to her full-time job as a social worker, and her husband travels often. So when Claudia hires Zoe to help her around
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