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NJM A House for All Children: Planning a Supportive Home Environment for Children with Disabilities
A House for All Children: Planning a Supportive Home Environment for Children with Disabilities
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NJM Building a New Dream: A Family Guide to Coping with Chronic Illness and Disability
Janet R. Maurer, MD & Patricia D. Strasber, Ed.D. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc., 1989. Working with health professionals in the community, emotional stress placed on the individual and family, as well as the social consequences of the illness.
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NJM Choices: A Guide to Sex Counseling with Physically Disabled Adults
Maureen E. Newstadt & Maureen Freda. Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1987. Discusses communications and counseling, sexual adaptation, and options for adult life.
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NJM Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
Marion Cohen, University Press, 1996. This is a powerful and stirring book. It is unsparing in its honesty, its bluntness, its directness. Marion Cohen pulls us, willingly or not, into the daily life experiences of being the well spouse of a person with a debilitating and messy disability.
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NJM Don't Leave Me Hanging: The Family Care Organizer
Steve Edwards, Texas Family Concerns, 1996. In-depth workbook for families covering a variety of topics including: family resources, community resources, listing of national organizations and much more. A great family tool to use.
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NJM I'll Take Care of You, A Practical Guide for Family Care Givers
J. Llardo & C. Rothman, New Harbinger Publishing, 1999. An essential guide for all caregivers. It leads you through the process of recognizing, first, that they are caregivers as well as family members, and second, they have rights as well as responsibilities.
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NJM Living Well with MS: A Guide for Patient, Caregiver, & Family
David L. Carroll & Jon Dudley Dorman, MD, Harper Collins, 1993. A comprehensive book that aims to comfort and inform the patient, family and caregiver.
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NJM MS and the Family
Rosalind C. Kalb, PhD. & Labe C. Scheinberg, MD. Family, effects on parenting and children, physician's relationship with the family, legal implications, pregnancy, childbirth, sexuality and MS, and multifamily group therapy.
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NJM Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide For Families
Rosalind C. Kalb, PhD. Targeted for families to learn more about strengthening their coping skills, to receive information about MS and its ramifications, and to facilitate important life decisions.
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NJM Plain Text: Essays by Nancy Mairs
Nancy Mairs, 1986.
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NJM Plaintext: Essays by Nancy Mairs
Nancy Mairs, 1986.
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NJM Preventing Caregiver Burnout
James R. Sherman, PhD. This book will prove useful and invaluable to caregivers. Providing practical advice and clearly defined steps for caregivers to follow.
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NJM The Comfort of Home
Maria M. Meyer with Paula Derr, RN . An illustrated step-by-step guide for caregivers.
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NJM The Resourceful Caregiver: Helping Family Caregivers Help Themselves
Stacey Wildenberg. Caregiver's organizations, respite services, hotlines, help lines, database and directories, educational materials, home shopping.
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NJM Understanding the Needs of the Care Partner
Teleconference from May 13, 2004.
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NJM Who to Call: The Parent's Source Book
Daniel Starer. An invaluable resource guide to every 800 number, hotline, and organization that can help you raise a happier, healthier child.
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