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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
by Dawn Prince-Hughes
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"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)

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New Peoplemaking
New Peoplemaking
by Virginia Satir
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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)

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Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
by Alice Miller
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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)

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The Family Crucible
The Family Crucible
by Augustus Napier
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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)

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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
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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)

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Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
by Ellen Notbohm
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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)

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Too Scared To Cry: How Trauma Affects Children and Ultimately Us All
Too Scared To Cry: How Trauma Affects Children and Ultimately Us All
by Lenore Terr
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In 1976 twenty–six 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)

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From Neurons To Neighborhoods : the Science of Early Childhood Development (00 Edition)
From Neurons To Neighborhoods : the Science of Early Childhood Development (00 Edition)
by Jack P. (ed.) Shonkoff
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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)

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Letters To a Young Therapist
Letters To a Young Therapist
by Mary Pipher
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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)

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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
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Dancing with the Family: A Symbolic-Experiential Approach
Dancing with the Family: A Symbolic-Experiential Approach
by Carl Whitaker
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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)

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The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children
The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children
by Eliana Gil
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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)

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Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
by Mary Pipher
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"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)

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Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents
Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents
by Alan E. (edt) Kazdin
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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)

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Interviewing Children and Adolescents: Skills and Strategies for Effective Dsm-IV Diagnosis
Interviewing Children and Adolescents: Skills and Strategies for Effective Dsm-IV Diagnosis
by James R Morrison
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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)

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Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps--And What We Can Do about It
Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps--And What We Can Do about It
by Lise Eliot
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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)

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Emergence : Labeled Autistic (86 Edition)
Emergence : Labeled Autistic (86 Edition)
by Temple Grandin
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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)

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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by Mary Pipher
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"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)

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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
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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)

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Loss Sadness & Depression Volume 3 Attachmen
Loss Sadness & Depression Volume 3 Attachmen
by John Bowlby
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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)

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