Caregivers Library

• Book Review: Mortal Bonds
  Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
• How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old
  As anyone who has ever cared for an elderly person can attest, time takes its role in the aging process very seriously.  For caregivers, be they family members or medical professionals, finding a way to ...
• Parenting As a Team When You’re Living Apart
  Perhaps your wife or husband is deployed. Or maybe one of you had to take a job in ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
• Family Involvement is Important in Substance Abuse Treatment
  For family and friends of drug- or alcohol-addicted individuals, addressing the addiction is one of the most difficult ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She ...
• The Naked Bird Watcher, The Snow Globe Journals, and To Walk on Eggshells
  Bipolar disorder is an isolating disease that is difficult to describe and almost impossible to understand from the outside. Its relentless ups and downs create a crushing defeat in the lives of both sufferers and ...
• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
  Valerie Porr, M.A. understands intimately the ramifications of a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It was this experience and curiosity that led her to attend a lecture by Marsha Linehan, PhD, creator ...
• Alzheimer’s and Coping with the Holidays
  The holiday season is often a time that many of us look forward for visiting and reconnecting with family and friends. Sometimes, however, this season can be sad ...
• The Link Between Vaccines and Autism: True or False?
  Does vaccination increase the likelihood of autism? One hypothesis is that vaccination in general, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) virus live vaccine, and vaccines that contain mercury cause autism. Actress Jenny McCarthy is one of ...
• My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
  I'm a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff ...
• Supporting Individuals with Depression: The Importance of Self-Care
  Depression is a disorder that affects millions of people. While we all experience ups and downs, depression is different. Often accompanied ...
• The Pocket Therapist
  Therapists are an unusual bunch.  We spend all day listening, cautioning, affirming, and putting out fires with clients who are feeling out of control, suicidal, despairing, or wildly stress-ridden.  By the end of ...
• A Day at a Time: A Journal for Parents of Children with Autism
  Finally someone has stepped forward with a handy book that helps parents of children on the autistic spectrum organize their complex lives. Jen Merheb has created A Day at a Time: A Journal ...
• Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children
  William E. Krill, Jr.’s book Gentling: a Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children is a must-read for anyone who works with children.  To say that it is a good idea to ...
• Conquering Depression in the Golden Years
  Chances are, at some point, you or someone you know will encounter a friend or family member who is a senior and struggling with or exhibiting signs of depression.  This is an illness that is ...
• Your Brain After Chemo: A Practical Guide to Lifting the Fog and Getting Back Your Focus
  For those who are preparing, experiencing, or just finishing chemotherapy and are interested in how the treatment may affect their brain, and for those who live with cancer survivors who suffer cognitive setback, this is ...
• Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce
  JoAnne Pedro-Carroll’s Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce illuminates the many ways that divorce is not merely a separation between parents, but a whole-family issue that reverberates deeply for ...
• Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
  The daughters of narcissistic mothers have been raised by primary role models who lack the fundamentals of mothering.  Conditioned to care for their mothers rather than the reverse, these women suppress their identities at their ...
• After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity
  As mental illness becomes less stigmatized, many individuals are coming out and sharing their experiences with a variety of disorders. The majority of books published on the topic are personal accounts of their struggles. Susan ...
• To Grandmother’s House We Go
  Miranda is at a loss. Her 8-year-old granddaughter Melody has come for a three-week visit so that her mother Terry can save on ...
• Approaching Neverland: A Memoir of Epic Tragedy & Happily Ever After
  In the 1960s, when author Peggy Kennedy grew up, mental illness was a family secret. It was whispered about, handed off to hospitals, restrained, subjected to electroshock therapy and slews of sedatives and sent back ...
• Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder
  As an educator, I’ve become more and more convinced of the huge need for better information and openness about all kinds of ...
• Nurse Home Visits Support New Families’ Health
  Three new studies highlight the value of home visits by nurses in pregnancy and throughout infancy. Dr. Harriet Kitzman and her team of the University of Rochester in New York looked at the effect of prenatal ...
• Rejecting Childhood Rejection
  “I can’t figure it out,” one of the writers to Psych Central's "Ask the Therapist" column wrote recently. “My parents never give me any emotional support or even seem to like me. I always get ...