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Author
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Parenting doesn't always come naturally. This book provides expert guidance for caregivers who struggle with parenting because of adversity in their own lives, or simply because they are raising kids in an increasingly stressful world. As parents and caregivers, we want to shore up kids to help them through difficult or disturbing experiences. But if we or our child have experienced adversity or trauma, this can be especially challenging, and we may...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Studio
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Through "personology" (a combination of characteristics influenced by sun sign, season, and day of the year) and an analysis of several thousand character profiles, the authors have pinned down the traits most common to people born on the same day.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A clinical psychologist draws on her years of experience with patients to show how perfectionism can cause depression, low self-esteem, and other problems and leads readers through a comprehensive program designed to release them from its grip.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
There are issues, and there are issues--love, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. How can we even begin to think clearly about dilemmas so universally confounding? Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions he's reached at your fingertips. Stutz has been writing these remarkably insightful short essays since the late 1990s, and they are collected here for...
6) Raising a kid who can: simple strategies to build a lifetime of adaptability and emotional strength
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to help parents focus only what's truly essential and build their child's neurobiological capacity to thrive where they are planted, in good times and bad.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Rhode Island state trooper Charlie Baileygates proves that nice guys finish first after marrying the prettiest gal in town. But when she leaves him for another man Charlie develops a split personality, and his outrageous opposite, Hank, is born!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Two years after her parents' surprising and painful split, twelve-year-old Jo and her mom find themselves on the 100-mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail along Lake Superior's north shore--a journey that Jo had always looked forward to hiking with her dad. It's not a situation that either of them ever predicted they'd find themselves in, yet here they are in the wilderness with their entire lives stuffed into a pair of thirty-pound packs. Along...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ray Edwards was one of the top marketers and copywriters in the business with A-list clients like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Michael Hyatt when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. The diagnosis brought his life to a screeching halt and propelled Edwards to question everything he thought he knew about his Christian faith, his relationships, what kind of person he was, and how the world worked. Out of options and deeply depressed, Edwards decided...
Author
Series
Elle(s) volume 2
Publisher
Ablaze
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy and a startling discovery, Elle will be forced to face down her greatest enemy: herself. Elle, the high school student with as many personalities as she has hair colors, finds herself trapped in her subconscious mind following a double psychological shock. That leaves her to navigate the hidden worlds of her various personalities in search of an escape route, while Blue--a sociable version of herself with a tendency to lie,...
11) A scanner darkly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his operation. Filmed using an animation technique called interpolated...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...
Author
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Land of Dreams is a fantastic place, where wishes are born as a tiny twinkle of light, rising up from Inspiration Lake. From there, a wish must take a long journey in order to become a gleaming star in the sky-and it will need help along the way! So, every wish has two guardians known as Dream Keepers: one in charge of Happy Thoughts, and one in charge of Hard Work. When a very special wish needs to reach a home all the way at the top of Challenge...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stress. It's everywhere these days: a cry for help, the answer to why illnesses pop up (or won't go away), an issue for students and workers, and a culprit when it comes to everything from car accidents to weight gain. Stress is one of those problems most of us are left to figure out and solve by ourselves (a warm bath with scented candle only goes so far). Akbar walks worried readers through how to calm themselves by: understanding how your brain...
Author
Publisher
Page Two
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Resilience is not a given. You need a strategy. Leaders and business professionals handle grueling hours and exceed high expectations. They are undaunted by challenges and embrace opportunities for growth. They assume they are resilient. But given enough demands, anyone can burn out. This makes logical sense, yet you likely still think it could never be you. You are fabulous and at risk of burning out. Resilience is not an innate character trait....
19) Seeds of change
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text illustrates how small acts become powerful seeds that improves oneself and the community.
Author
Publisher
Ablaze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The revelation of the mystery of her origins has allowed Elle to regain control of her life. But all is not well... On the surface, the high school student tries to resolve her contradictions. Inside, her multiple personalities attempt to unravel the mystery of the voice that speaks to them all. And in both cases, it would seem that Blue Elle has the answers, or at least the leads. Is it therefore time for reconciliation? Finally...it's "All for one"...but...
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