Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6227 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364493 Trauma survivors frequently struggle with unwanted memories, intense emotions, and problems with everyday functioning. Effective help is out there, but the needs of family members--confused and scared about what has happened to the person they love--are often overlooked. Will the person with posttraumatic stress ever get better? How can spouses and other loved ones promote healing? Where can family members turn when they feel like they just cant cope? From experienced trauma specialists Drs. Claudia Zayfert and Jason C. DeViva, this highly practical guide is packed with information, support, vivid stories, and specific advice. Readers learn to navigate the rough spots day by day and help their loved one find a brighter tomorrow--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299817 Provides current information and practical problem-solving advice for reclaiming your life from bipolar disorder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1292732 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1165692 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1100244 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1718923 Following in the groundbreaking path of its predecessor, the second edition of the Social Workers Desk Reference provides reliable and highly accessible information about effective services and treatment approaches across the full spectrum of social work practice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=970816 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=743988 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583569 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=608636 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613753 Ending Global Poverty explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty - traps like poor nutrition, illiteracy, and lack of access to health care - and presents eight keys to escaping these traps. Stephen C. Smith gives readers the tools they need to determine which approaches are most effective in fighting, and eventually overcoming, poverty.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=572355 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=532369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=704755 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=337411 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=551553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=316052 A volunteer approached a little girl at Miami International Airport and noticed a sign pinned to her dress. It read, My name is Carmen Gomez I am five years old. Please be good to me. That five year old left Cuba in one of the worlds largest political exoduses of children in history - Operation Pedro Pan. Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 children were sent out of Cuba alone by desperate parents who feared for their childrens future under Castro. Unlike Peter Pan, however, these children continued to grow up even while separated from their families. In Operation Pedro Pan, Yvonne M. Conde has tracked down hundreds of these children in order to tell their diverse stories -their uplifting, poignant, and sometimes tragic experiences in American foster homes and orphanages, and, for some, their long-awaited, awkward and delicate reunification with their parents. Because Conde herself was a Pedro Pan child, others have opened up to her like never before to share their feelings about this painful time in their lives. Today, these children and their families struggle to heal the emotional scars of their long separation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=278001 In an era when headlines often seem dominated by horrific stories about abused children, Solomons Sword weaves together the elements of two painful custody battles into a memorable book that no reader who cares about children will be able to put aside. The first story unfolds around Gina Pellegrino, who, in 1991, hours after giving birth to a daughter, abandons the child in a Connecticut hospital, and Cynthia and Jerry LaFlamme, a childless New Haven couple who have waited five years for an adoptive baby. When asked by a caseworker to name their highest priority - do they prefer a boy, a girl, an infant, a toddler - the LaFlammes say they simply want a risk-free baby, one who cant be taken from them under any circumstances. Four months after the baby girl has come to live with them - and soon before their adoption would become legal - Pellegrino reappears, hoping to reclaim the child. Next, Michael Shapiro describes the Melton sisters, living with nineteen children amid squalor and vermin in a drafty Chicago rowhouse. One snowy night in February 1994, policemen discover the children and evacuate them as a TV camera rolls, searing into our collective conscience shameful images of the officers emerging from the house with child after child in their arms. Though the children are not victims of outright abuse, their neglect compels authorities to hold the threat of permanent removal over their hapless mothers. In examining the collision between Gina Pellegrinos belated commitment to her daughter and the LaFlammes threatened adoption of the girl, as well as the Meltons inability to understand their parental shortcomings, Shapiro meets judges, lawyers, social workers, clergy, and therapists who must advocate a course of action not only in these two cases, but in thousands more every year across America. Reading about these dedicated people who are in the vanguard of new approaches to the problem of mistreated children will leave readers hopeful that we are finally learning how to ameliorate this enduring national disgrace.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=279961 Uses first-person accounts of four women who are raising children on welfare to provide a look at the problems and concerns involved in this system. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=20958 Diane Ackermann volunteers every week at a local crisis center, where people call in anonymously, strung out, desperate, imploring, or hostile, holding on to hope through a phone line. Her secret life spent with callers is shocking, funny, stressful, healing, and inspiring. So, too, is her life in her backyard where the wild creatures she observes so closely are living their own lives on the edge. In her distinctive style she weaves these parallel threads into a book that is an astonishment. Using powerful stories of the human spirit set against a backdrop of the natural world she knows so well, Ackerman takes us with her on her travels between those intensely fascinating realms. A Slender Thread is bewitchingly like her previous, widely admired books. As ever, she is sensitive to her surroundings and to other creatures; poetic, passionate, amusing; blessed with a richly furnished mind that makes leaps of imagination and insight; adept at drawing on science, literature, history, psychology, and the immediate moment - and yet this book is dramatically different from the rest of her writing. Deeply personal and intimate, it merges her own story with the stories of others, and shares her private struggles and triumphs as well as her joyous immersion in life. We learn why many hummingbirds die in their sleep, of a distraught caller whose drunken husband is stuck in the chimney singing Irish songs, of animal suicides, of an eighty-five-year-old belly dancer, of a young woman who flees her marriage and spins an elaborate fantasy life in which she captains a team of superheroes who travel the world righting its many wrongs, of the evolution of depression and anxiety as well as of our most cherished emotions, of Winston Churchills horrifying secret, of the beauty of shade, of the hidden costs of creativity, and hundreds of other truths about being human. In the course of a year, almost everything dangerous or poignant that can happen to human beings prompts as call to a crisis center - from depression, suicide, and murder to all the trials, uncertainties, and conflicts of love. A Slender Thread is a compelling and nakedly autobiographical book, taking us deep into the heart of darkness and light.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33111 In this extraordinary first book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, author David Zucchino sets out to sift through the stereotypes, politics, and pure misinformation about families on welfare. A reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Zucchino gives us an intimate look at Odessa Williams and Cheri Honkala, two welfare mothers from Philadelphia, a city with a disproportionately large number of welfare recipients. He spends the better part of a year with these women, watching as Odessa constructs livable surroundings for herself and her extended family by scavenging and trash picking. Though her character, spirit, and resolve are constantly tested by family crises, she remains the strong and inspiring center of her large - and largely dependent - family. Zucchino also grows to admire Cheri, a single mother of one son, and a tireless advocate for the rights of the homeless. He watches as she helps one family after another pick up and keep on going. With utter dedication and zeal, and with remarkably little concern for material gains of her own, Cheri battles an inflexible city bureaucracy that in her view makes the already difficult lives of the citys poor nearly impossible. In this groundbreaking and beautifully written book, Zucchino balances his reporters objectivity with profound compassion. In seeking to answer the question What do welfare mothers do all day? he uncovers no easy answers but is able to say definitively: If there were any Cadillac-driving, champagne-sipping, penthouse-living, welfare queens in Philadelphia, I didnt find them.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=18135 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=167952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171531 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217616 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58824 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=74717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=216870 In this book, the authors have clearly laid out some thought-provoking issues that can benefit all health care providers, users, and significant others .... 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