Perlmutter, Kenneth
Summary: "The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose. Parents complain about their children's screen addiction, law enforcement decries the flood of fentanyl, scores of Americans overdose and die daily, and teen alcohol poisoning and marijuana-induced psychosis rates continue to rise. Disabling depression and anxiety are diagnosed at alarming rates in families across the country....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.89 PERHerman, Judith Lewis
Summary: "From one of America's most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto reimagining justice for sexual and domestic violence survivors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.883 HERMcGraw, Phillip C.
Summary: The author examines the crisis in the American family, discussing the importance of the family relationship, its impact on mental health and good child development, and practical, innovative solutions for bringing families back together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.85 MCGBancroft, Lundy
Summary: In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 BANSummary: After watching this program, viewers will be able to identify the acts and behaviors that are considered sexual abuse, describe the responsibility that professionals have in identifying and reporting sexual abuse, understand the context and prevalence of sexual abuse in society, describe some of the behaviors that abusers may exhibit when communicating with caregivers, and discuss some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Slepian, Michael
Summary: "Think of a secret that you're keeping from others. It shouldn't take long; behavioral scientist Michael Slepian finds that on average, we are keeping as many as thirteen secrets at any given time. His research involving more than 50,000 participants from around the globe shows that the most common secrets include: lies we've told, addiction or mental health challenges, a hidden relationship,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 SLEDavidson, Jordan
Summary: "A new kind of family planning book for the millennial and Gen Z generations, offering inclusive guidance on the realities of parenthood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 DAVSummary: David Nugent, once a violent and abusive person himself, today runs a community-based behavior change group in Australia called Heavy M.E.T.A.L.: Men's Education Toward Anger & Life. Helen Wirtz is a facilitator at MonashLink's Men's Responsibility Group. This program tracks the progress of group members Andrew, Adam, and Alex-three husbands and fathers with dangerous antisocial behavioral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Foster, Fiona King
Summary: "In a secessionist rural state that has cut itself off completely from urban centers, where living is hardscrabble and poor but "free," Brooke Holland runs a farm with her husband, Milo, and two daughters. Their life at the fringes of modern society is tenuous - they make barely enough from each harvest to keep going - yet Brooke cherishes the loving, peaceful life they have carved out for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Foster 2021Kirschman, Ellen
Summary: Police families are brave, resilient, and proud--and they face remarkable challenges, sometimes on a daily basis. Now thoroughly updated for today's turbulent times, this is the resource that cops and their loved ones have relied on for decades. Trusted expert Ellen Kirschman gives you practical ways to manage the stress of the job and create a healthy, supportive home environment. The third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperGalinsky, Ellen
Summary: "Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence. Almost every adolescent has said to parents, "You JUST don't understand." In The Breakthrough Years, child development expert Ellen Galinsky explains why that is so often true. Galinsky's seven-year inquiry into the adolescent brain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 GALSummary: "Red Without Blue is the groundbreaking documentary about the indestructible ties of family. This visually arresting film chronicles the close, yet sometimes strained relationship between identical twins Mark and Alex as Alex undergoes a transformation into a woman named Clair. Captured over a period of three years, RWB documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farleys' struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiepix 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REDCavell, Timothy A.
Summary: "To build healthy and lasting parent-child relationships, parents need practical strategies that meet their child's needs and address the circumstances that affect their families. Written for parents of children from toddlers to teens, this book gives parents a science-based plan to help their children grow up to be emotionally healthy adults. A parent's job unfolds and shifts over time....
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Publisher / Publication Date: APA LifeTools 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 CAVOden, Nikki
Summary: In this collection of laugh-out-loud stories, lawyer and mom coach, Nikki Oden, serves up 40 bite-sized chapters filled with raw and easy-to-implement advice for any mom who has ever struggled with nurturing her career and her family at the same time. You'll walk away entertained, inspired, and equipped with the tools you need to create a mom life you absolutely love.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Advantage Media 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 ODESummary: Like far too many children in foster care, Maisie has suffered abuse and neglect almost all her life. She desperately wants to be adopted, but early experiences have left the 7-year-old with a vast store of anger, confusion, and distrust. Several families have tried to adopt Maisie but found her behavior too challenging, so she was bounced again and again back into the foster care system....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Muñoz, Alicia
Summary: "It's time to stop overthinking your relationship! The four-step approach in this book will help you move beyond excessive rumination, so you can rediscover joy, ease, and meaningful connection with your partner. Rumination-obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice that can interfere with normal life-is a common and destructive issue that can negatively impact romantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 MUNOsherson, Samuel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.632 OSHBuqué, Mariel
Summary: From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle, she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room, Dr. Buqué teaches readers how trauma is transmitted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 BUQNichols, Peter
Summary: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? Centered around a popular seaside resort club and its community, The Rocks is a double love story that begins with a mystery, then moves backward in time, era by era, to unravel what really happened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NICDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 DIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DidStaniszewski, Anna
Summary: "Am I really Polish? On a trip to visit relatives in Poland, a young girl feels disconnected from her identity ... until she and her cousin bond over their shared love of mermaids, magic and fairy tales"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STASt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCGriffin, Anne
Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022