Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face and Strategies to Help Them

Adopting a positive, friendly approach, this guide defines learning disabilities and offers suggestions for coping at home, in school, and with friends. It features a first-person account from a child with learning disabilities, a chapter on computers, and an extensive resource list for parents.

This manual was written by two individuals who survived the stress of family cancer by mobilizing their resources and rebuilding their lives. Mother-daughter team Leigh Wolznick and Carol Goodheart draw on their own family's experience with cancer, as well as their professional expertise - one as a hospital counsellor and the other as a psychologist.

Responding to families’ questions and fears with compassion.

Typically the patient―and his or her course of treatment―are the natural focal points when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). But Alzheimer’s is an equally debilitating illness for family members and caregivers who must come to terms with its far-reaching emotional and physical burdens.

In this handbook, clinicians are taught how to navigate the many interpersonal issues at the heart of AD―that is, how to work with the families and friends of the patient. Santulli addresses everything from how to respond compassionately to their likely questions and concerns, how to clearly explain symptoms and risk factors, when to suggest consultation with a geriatric specialist, and how to sensitively