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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes Publisher Comments "This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." In this elegant and thought... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir Publisher Comments Revised and expanded seminal work on families, with over a million copies sold in 12 languages. The New Peoplemaking expresses Satir's most evolved thoughts on self-worth, communication, family systems, and the ways in which people relate to one another.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries by Alice Miller Publisher Comments In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Family Crucible by Augustus Napier Publisher Comments This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families-stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm Publisher Comments Winner of an iParenting Media Award and Finalist in the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards! Ellen Notbohm’s first book, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, was a shot heard throughout the worldwide autism community. Now, for the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Scared To Cry: How Trauma Affects Children and Ultimately Us All by Lenore Terr Publisher Comments In 1976 twentysix California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terrs landmark study on the effect of trauma on... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Neurons To Neighborhoods : the Science of Early Childhood Development (00 Edition) by Jack P. (ed.) Shonkoff Publisher Comments How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Letters To a Young Therapist by Mary Pipher Publisher Comments Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's "girl-poisoning culture," Reviving Ophelia, has sold nearly two million copies and established its author as one of the nation's foremost authorities on family issues. In Letters to a Young... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing with the Family: A Symbolic-Experiential Approach by Carl Whitaker Synopsis Dancing with the Family presents something of a clinical importance, not to offer an all-encompassing theory of the family therapy. This book emphasize on a dual focus. You will be asked to remain cognizant of the centrality of the person of the... (read more) List Price $76.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children by Eliana Gil Publisher Comments Abused and traumatized children have special therapeutic needs. This book focuses on the impact of trauma and how to help children achieve a positive resolution. Issues such as facilitating and intervening in post-traumatic play are highlighted along... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World by Mary Pipher Publisher Comments "An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other Like most lives, Mary Piphers is filled with glory and tragedy, chaos and clarity, love and abandonment. She... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents by Alan E. (edt) Kazdin Synopsis This volume provides a uniquely practical overview of evidence-based treatments for social, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and youth. Pioneering clinical researchers offer accessible, hands-on presentations of their respective approaches:... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Interviewing Children and Adolescents: Skills and Strategies for Effective Dsm-IV Diagnosis by James R Morrison Synopsis This highly practical volume provides a complete guide to conducting an age-appropriate child or adolescent interview and formulating a clinically useful DSM-IV diagnosis. Illuminating both the art and the science of child diagnosis, the book blends... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps--And What We Can Do about It by Lise Eliot Publisher Comments A precise scientific exploration of the differences between boys and girls that breaks down damaging gender stereotypes and offers practical guidance for parents and educators. In the past decade, we've come to accept certain ideas about the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Emergence : Labeled Autistic (86 Edition) by Temple Grandin Publisher Comments Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. An intelligent child with a thirst for knowledge, but unable to properly express herself or control her behaviour, Temple struggled through grade school. Eventually moved from a "normal... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher Review "Serious and thoughtful material presented with the fluidity of good fiction sure to appeal to parents, teachers, and anyone interested in modern American culture." Kirkus Reviews... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin Publisher Comments Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autismbecause Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Loss Sadness & Depression Volume 3 Attachmen by John Bowlby Publisher Comments Bowlbys seminal contribution to the way we understand attachment concludes with an examination of loss. He offers not only a new developmental model but also rare insight into the dynamics of mourning, the problems of depression, and the processes of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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