Parents and caregivers today face a world of challenges with everything from keeping themselves healthy and happy to providing their children a safe environment that fosters the physical, emotional... This description may be from another edition of this product.
As a mother of a child with CP, I found this book to be a wonderful resource offering both solid advise and spiritual hope. Living with a child with a disability is often difficult, and the author truly understands those negative feelings and challenges, and really knows how to help the reader overcome the challenges with positive action, changes of emotional strategies, and looking in the right places for the support that is needed.I recommend this book not only for anyone with a disabled child or family member, but for anyone dealing with a disability in their extended family or circle of friends because the advise and hope it provides goes beyond the immediate family.(...)
An instructional guide for families in crisis
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The Resilient Family: Living With Your Child's Illness Or Disability by rehabilitation counseling experts Paul W. Power & Arthur Dell Orto, is a practical, "reader friendly" instructional guide for families in crisis, addressing immediate and long-term problems, including the means to work with and overcome them. The Resilient Family expertly and accessibly addresses such issues as how to handle stress, the process of working with professionals, successful means of coping with crises, and more. The Resilient Family is a general yet highly useful resource for balancing both emotional and physical difficulties and especially recommended reading for families having children with long-term special needs.
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