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The carriers : what the fragile X gene reveals about family, heredity, and scientific discovery / by Skomorowsky, Anne,author.(CARDINAL)878309;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.One damn thing after another -- Fragile X mutations : an overview -- Village of fools : how carriers brought fragile X to the new world, and what happened next -- A classic zebra : fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI) -- The movement disorder that started a movement : fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) -- Once more, with feelings : fragile X-associated neuropsychiatric disorders (FXAND) -- What are fragile eggs? : to test or not to test -- Borderlands of the premutation : gray zones, low-normals, and endophenotypes -- Outcomes."Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition that causes a range of neurodevelopmental problems including learning disabilities and cognitive impairment. Boys with the condition are more likely to be born fully affected by it, while women who are seemingly unaffected carriers have an increased risk of giving birth to an affected child. Recent research indicates that Fragile X syndrome is highly unusual in the world of genetic disorders, in that carriers, who were previously thought to show no symptoms at all, are in fact affected in their own ways: into adulthood, they can develop personality and emotional changes, tremors, and difficulty walking. The title characters in The Carriers, then, are the previous generations--mothers and grandparents--of fully affected Fragile X patients. This book aims to tell the stories of how families are affected by this genetic disorder over generations, as well as the initial science that discovered it and the current science that's teaching us how Fragile X is affecting silent carriers in ways that weren't previously recognized. Understanding psychiatric symptoms in premutation carriers is complicated by the fact that many are caring for children with Fragile X syndrome and fathers with the tremor/ataxia symptom (difficulty walking). This story particularly highlights women, who are often the carriers in question and also the genetic researchers achieving scientific breakthroughs." --
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Teen stress and anxiety / by Porterfield, Jason.(CARDINAL)669658;
Young adults discover the differences between being stressed and anxious in this informative narrative. They learn about possible triggers of stress and depression--specifically for teens--and how to respond to them. Physical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses to anxiety are outlined as well as the types of mental health problems that emerge during adolescence. Specific disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder are described, as are how to find help and methods of treatment.789Y
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Anxiety.; Stress (Psychology);
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The 36-hour day [large print] : a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease, related dementias, and memory loss / by Mace, Nancy L.,author.(CARDINAL)341698; Rabins, Peter V.,author.(CARDINAL)341701;
1. Dementia. What is dementia? -- The person who has dementia -- Where do you go from here? -- 2. Getting medical help for the person who has dementia. The evaluation of the person with a suspected dimentia -- Finding someone to do an evaluation -- The medical treatment and management of dimentia : The physician ; The nurse ; The social worker ; The geriatric care manager ; The pharmacist -- 3. Characteristic behavioral symptoms in people who have dementia. The brain, behavior, and personality: why people who have dementia do the things they do -- Caregiving: some general suggestions -- Menory problems -- Overreacting, or catastrophic reactions -- Combativeness -- Problems with speech and communication : Problems the person with dementia has in making himself understood ; Problems the person with dementia has in understanding others -- Loss of coordination -- Loss of sense of time -- Symptoms that are better sometimes and worse at other times -- 4. Problems in independent living. Mild cognitive impairment : Managing the early stages of dementia -- When a person must give up a job -- when a person can no longer manage money -- When a person can no longer drive safely -- When a person can no longer live alone : When you suspect that someone living alone is developing dementia ; What you can do ; Moving to a new residence -- 5. Problems arising in daily care. Hazards to watch for : In the house ; Outdoors ; In the car ; Highways and parking lots ; Smoking ; Hunting -- Nutrition and mealtimes : Meal preparation ; Mealtimes ; Problem eating behaviors ; Malnutrition ; Weight loss ; Choking ; When to consider tube feeding -- Exercise -- Recreation : Meaningful activity -- Personal hygiene : Bathing ; Locating care supplies ; Dressing ; Grooming ; Oral hygiene -- Incontinence (wetting or soiling) : Urinary incontinence ; Bowel incontinence ; Cleaning up -- Problems with walking and balance; falling : Becoming chairbound or bedfast ; Wheelchairs -- Changes you can make at home : Should environments be cluttered or bare?11. You and the person who has dementia as parts of a family. Changes in roles -- Understanding family conflicts : Division of responsibility -- Your marriage -- Coping with role changes and family conflict : A family conference -- When you live out of town -- When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help? -- Caregiving and your job -- Your children : Teenagers -- 12. How caring for a person who has dementia affects you. Emotional reactions : Anger ; Embarrassment ; Helplessness ; Guilt ; Laughter, love, and joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and feeling alone -- Worry -- Being hopeful and being realistic -- Mistreating the person with dementia -- Physical reactions : Fatigue ; Illness -- Sexuality : If your spouse has dementia ; If your impaired parent lives with you -- The future : You as a spouse alone -- When the person you have cared for dies -- 13. Caring for yourself. Take time out : Give yourself a present ; Friends ; Avoid isolation -- Find additional help if you need it : Recognize the warning signs ; Counseling -- Joining with other families: the Alzheimer's Association : Support groups ; Excuses -- Advocacy -- 14. For children and teenagers -- 15. Financial and legal issues : Your financial assessment : Potential expenses ; Potential resources -- Where to look for the forgetful person's resources -- Legal matters.16. Nursing homes and other living arrangements. Types of living arrangements -- Moving with the person who has dementia -- Finding a nursing home or other residential care setting : Paying for care ; Guidelines for selecting a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Moving to a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Adjusting to a new life : Visiting ; Your own adjustment -- When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility -- Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities -- 17. Preventing or delaying cognitive decline. Normal changes : General mental and physical health -- Lifestyle factors : Physical exercise ; Diet -- Potential treatments and cures ; Mental exercise ; Medications and vitamins -- Limiting exposure to toxic chemicals : Aluminum -- Head injury -- 18. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia. Mild cognitive impairment -- Dementia : Alcohol abuse associated dementia ; Alzheimer disease ; Cortical basal ganglionic degeneration ; Depression ; The frontotemporal dementias ; HIV-AIDS ; Lewy body dementia ; Primary progressive aphasia ; Progressive supranuclear palsy ; Traumatic brain injury (TBI or head trauma) ; Vascular dementia ; Young or early onset dementia -- Other brain disorders : Delirium ; Korsakoff syndrome ; Stroke and other localized brain injury ; Transient ischemic attack -- 19. Research in dementia. Understanding research : Bogus cures -- Research in vascular dementia and stroke -- Research in Alzheimer disease : Structural changes in the brain ; Brain cells ; Neuroplasticity ; Neurotransmitters ; Abnormal proteins ; Protein abnormalities within brain cells ; Nerve growth factors ; Transplants of brain tissue ; Drug studies ; Metals ; Prions ; Immunological defects ; Head trauma -- Epidemiology -- Down syndrome -- Old age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Neuropsychological testing -- Brain imaging -- Keeping active -- The effect of acute illness on dementia -- Research into the delivery of services -- Protective factors -- Appendixes. 1. Using the Internet ; 2. Organizations.6. Medical problems. Pain -- Falls and injuries -- Pressure sores -- Dehydration -- Pneumonia -- Constipation -- Medications -- Dental problems -- Vision problems -- Hearing problems -- Dizziness -- Visiting the doctor -- If the ill person must enter the hospital -- Seizures, fits, or convulsions -- Jerking movements (myoclonus) -- The death of the person with dementia : The cause of death ; Dying at home ; Hospice ; Dying in the hospital or nursing home ; When should treatment end? ; What kind of care can be given at the end of life? -- 7. Behavioral symptoms of dementia. The six R's of behavior management -- Concealing memory loss -- Wandering : Reasons that people wander ; The management of wandering -- Sleep disturbances and night wandering -- Worsening in the evening ("sundowning") -- Losing, hoarding, or hiding things -- Rummaging in drawers and closets -- Inappropriate sexual behavior -- Repeating the question -- Repetitious actions -- Distractibility -- Clinging or persistently following you around ("shadowing") -- Complaints and insults -- Taking things -- Forgetting telephone calls -- Demands -- Stubbornness and uncooperativeness -- When the person with dementia insults the sitter -- Using medication to manage behavior -- 8. Symptoms that appear as changes in mood. Depression -- Complaints about health -- Suicide -- Alcohol or drug abuse -- Apathy and listlessness -- Remembering feelings -- Anger and irritability -- Anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness -- False ideas, suspiciousness, paranoia, and hallucinations : Misinterpretation ; Failure to recognize people or things (agnosia) ; "You are not my husband" ; "My mother is coming for me" ; Suspiciousness ; Hiding things ; Delusions and hallucinations -- Having nothing to do -- 9. Special arrangements if you become ill. In the event of your death -- 10. Getting outside help. Help from friends and neighbors -- Finding information and services -- Kinds of services : Having someone come into your home ; Adult day care ; Short-stay residential care -- Planning in advance for home care or day care -- When the person with dementia rejects the care -- Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself -- Locating resources -- Paying for care -- Should respite programs mix people who have different problems? -- Determining the quality of services -- Research and demonstration programs.Dementia -- Getting medical help for the person who has dementia -- Characteristic behavioral symptoms in people who have dementia -- Problems in independent living -- Problems arising in daily care -- Medical problems -- Behavioral symptoms of dementia -- Symptoms that appear as changes in mood -- Special arrangements if you become ill -- Getting outside help -- You and the person who has dementia as parts of a family -- How caring for a person who has dementia affects you -- Caring for yourself -- For children and teenagers -- Financial and legal issues -- Nursing homes and other living arrangements -- Preventing or delaying cognitive decline -- Brain disorders and the causes of dementia -- Research in dementia.
Subjects: Large print books.; Alzheimer's disease; Senile dementia;
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Traumatic experience and the brain : a handbook for understanding and treating those traumatized as children / by Ziegler, Dave.(CARDINAL)672409;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174).
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Post-traumatic stress disorder in children.; Psychic trauma in children.; Brain; Child psychotherapy.;
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Language at the speed of sight : how we read, why so many can't, and what can be done about it / by Seidenberg, Mark S.,author.(CARDINAL)729804;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index."In Language at the Speed of Sight, internationally renowned cognitive scientist Mark Seidenberg reveals the underexplored science of reading, which spans cognitive science, neurobiology, and linguistics. As Seidenberg shows, the disconnect between science and education is a major factor in America's chronic underachievement. How we teach reading places many children at risk of failure, discriminates against poorer kids, and discourages even those who could have become more successful readers. Children aren't taught basic print skills because educators cling to the disproved theory that good readers guess the words in texts, a strategy that encourages skimming instead of close reading. Interventions for children with reading disabilities are delayed because parents are mistakenly told their kids will catch up if they work harder. Learning to read is more difficult for children who speak a minority dialect in the home, but that is not reflected in classroom practices. By building on science's insights, we can improve how our children read, and take real steps toward solving the inequality that illiteracy breeds."-from Amazon
Subjects: Cognition disorders.; Language experience approach in education.; Psycholinguistics.; Reading (Higher education);
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When your daughter has BPD : essential skills to help families manage borderline personality disorder / by Lobel, Daniel S.,author.(CARDINAL)823214;
"In this groundbreaking book, psychologist Daniel Lobel offers essential skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you understand your daughter's disorder, define appropriate boundaries, put an end to daily emergencies, and rebuild the family's structure from the ground up. If you have a daughter with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you may feel frustration, shame, and your family may be at the breaking point dealing with angry outbursts, threats, and constant emergencies. You may even feel guilty for not enjoying spending time with your child--but how can you when her behavior is abusive toward you and the rest of your family? You need solid skills you can use now to help your daughter and hold your family together. In this important guide, you'll learn real solutions and strategies based in proven-effective DBT and CBT to help you weather the storm of BPD and restore a sense of normalcy and balance in your life. You'll find an overview of BPD so you can better understand the driving forces behind your daughter's difficult behavior. You'll discover how you can help your daughter get the help she needs while also setting boundaries that foster respect and self-care for you and others in your family. And, most importantly, you'll learn "emergency parenting techniques" to help you put a stop to abusive patterns and restore peace. If your daughter has BPD and your family is struggling to make it through each day, this book offers essential skills to help you cope and recover a sense of stability"--"For parents with a child suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD), behavior and relational challenges can be heartbreaking. In this groundbreaking book for parents of adult daughters with BPD, psychologist Daniel Lobel offers essential skills based in proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers understand their daughter's disorder, set appropriate boundaries, put an end to daily emergencies, and rebuild the family's structure from the ground up"--Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Borderline personality disorder in children; Child rearing; Self-care, Health.;
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Growing up brave : expert strategies for helping your child overcome fear, stress, and anxiety / by Pincus, Donna.(CARDINAL)661761;
Includes bibliographical references (page 261) and index.Understanding Childhood Anxiety. The brave child: learning to cope with the range of human emotions ; What's normal, what's not: decoding childhood emotions, fears, and anxieties ; The attentive parent: how parent-child interaction styles affect anxiety -- Daily Routines That Ward Off Anxiety. Five-minutes-a-day time: a simple strategy to set the stage for brave behavior ; Managing bedtime: the benefits of a consistent sleep pattern. -- Strategies to Lessen Anxiety and Promote Bravery. The cycle of anxiety: a three-component model ; Examining anxious thoughts: one step in breaking the cycle ; Accepting physical feelings: learning about the body ; Changing avoidant behaviors: the power of parental reinforcement ; The bravery ladder: step by step to success ; Halfway to adulthood: combating the fears of adolescence. -- Special Considerations. Growing up brave through the years: finding professional help, using medications, maintaining progress.When our children are born, we do everything we can to make sure they have love, food, clothing, and shelter. We read to them, play with them, and comfort them when they cry. But despite all this, one in five children today suffers from a diagnosed anxiety disorder, and countless others suffer from anxiety that interferes with critical social, academic, and physical development. The author, childhood anxiety expert, is here to help. In this book she helps parents identify and understand anxiety in their children, outlines effective and convenient parenting techniques for reducing anxiety, and shows parents how to promote bravery for long-term confidence. Perhaps your young child has trouble sleeping or separation anxiety, or your teen suffers from social anxiety or panic attacks, whatever the issue, this book can help. Using methods based on cognitive behavioral therapy, you will learn to identify your child's fear and anxiety on the spectrum from normal and predictable to what might be cause for concern, to promote a secure attachment with your child in only five minutes a day, tools to foster coping skills in the face of anxiety producing situations, strategies for reinforcing problem-solving behavior, adaptive parenting styles, and much more. The author includes stories from her practice of children, from preschoolers to teens, who have overcome their fear and anxiety through her step-by-step approach, as well as information on therapy and medication. Whether your child has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder or simply needs help navigating this increasingly stressful world, this book provides a toolkit for instilling happiness and confidence for childhood and beyond.
Subjects: Anxiety in children.; Fear in children.; Stress in children.; Parenting.;
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Principles of behavioral science / by Buratovich, Michael A.,editor.(CARDINAL)612885;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Famous Psychologists and Their Psychological Systems -- Adler, Alfred -- Adlerian psychotherapy -- Bandura, Albert -- Bruner, Jerome -- Cognitive development -- Cognitive development: Jean Piaget -- Cognitive psychology -- Conditioning -- Erikson, Erik H. -- Festinger, Leon -- Freud, Sigmund -- Freudian psychology -- Hierarchy of needs -- Identity crises -- James, William -- Jung, Carl -- Jungian psychology -- Kohlberg, Lawrence -- Maslow, Abraham -- Milgram experiment -- Moral development -- Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich -- Pavlovian conditioning -- Person-centered therapy (PCT) -- Piaget, Jean -- Radical behaviorism: B. F. Skinner -- Rogers, Carl R. -- Self-actualization -- Skinner, B. F. -- Social comparison theory -- Social learning theory -- Stanford prison experiment -- Thorndike, Edward L. -- Two-factor theory -- Watson, John B. -- Zimbardo, Philip --Conditions and Disorders -- Abnormality: Biomedical models -- Abnormality: Legal models -- Abnormality: Psychological models -- Alzheimer's disease -- Amnesia and fugue -- Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa -- Antisocial personality disorder -- Anxiety disorders -- Aphasias -- Ataxia -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) -- Autism spectrum disorder -- Avoidant personality disorder -- Battered woman syndrome -- Borderline personality disorder -- Codependency -- Dementia -- Despair -- Developmental disorders -- Developmental psychology -- Dysgraphia -- Dyslexia -- Dysphonia -- Eating disorders -- Factitious disorders -- Frontal lobe syndrome -- Frontotemporal dementia (Pick's disease) -- Gender dysphoria syndrome -- Geriatric psychological disorders -- Hate crimes -- Hypochondriasis, conversion, and somatization -- Intellectual disability -- Juvenile delinquency and development -- Learned helplessness -- Learning disorders -- Memory disorders -- Mood disorders -- Multiple personality -- Narcolepsy -- Neurotic disorders -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) -- Oedipus complex -- Panic attacks -- Paranoia -- Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) -- Personality disorders -- Pervasive developmental disorders -- Phobias -- Postpartum depression -- Posttraumatic stress (PTS) -- Psychological impact of disability -- Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) -- Schizoid personality disorder -- Schizophrenia: Background, types, and symptoms -- Schizotypal personality disorder -- Sexual predatory behaviors -- Sexual variants and paraphilias -- Sleep disorders -- Substance use disorders -- Suicide -- Synesthesia --Neurological Considerations -- Brain -- Brain damage -- Brain lateralization -- Cognitive neuroscience -- Hormones and behavior -- Memory: Physiology -- Memory: Sensory -- Memory storage -- Nervous system -- Neurology -- Neurons -- Neuropsychology -- Neurotransmitters -- Psychopharmacology -- Sleep -- Synaptic transmission -- Thyroid gland -- Pharmacological Considerations -- ADHD medications -- Antianxiety medications -- Antidementia drugs -- Antidepressant medications -- Antipsychotic medications -- Baclofen -- Benzodiazepines -- Ketamine -- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) -- Opioids -- Psilocybin -- Stimulant medications.Tests and Therapies -- Ability testing and bias -- Aptitude testing -- Aversion therapy -- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) -- Behavior and genetics -- Behavior therapy -- Behavioral assessment -- Behavioral family therapy -- Biological and psychological theories of deviance -- California Psychological Inventory (CPI) -- Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) -- Clinical interviewing, testing, and observation -- Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) -- Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) -- Cognitive therapy (CT) -- Dialectical behavioral therapy -- Differential association theory -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) -- Gestalt therapy -- Hypothesis development and testing -- Implosion -- Intelligence scales -- Intelligence testing -- Mental health screening in adults -- Mental health screening in children -- Mental Status Exam -- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) -- Norm-referenced testing -- Personality rating scales -- Play therapy -- Problem-solving stages -- Problem-solving strategies -- Psychodynamic therapy -- Psychological testing -- Psychotherapy: Goals and techniques -- Psychotherapy: Historical approaches -- Rational control theory -- Rational emotive therapy -- Reality therapy -- Role conflict and role strain -- Self psychology -- Somatic norms theory -- Testing, tests, and measurement -- Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) --Discusses human action and how human behavior relates to society. Covers two broad categories: how we process information to make decisions that help us function and survive in our social environment, and how our relationships, interactions, communication networks, and relational dynamics play out in our social system. Includes 171 entries arranged in A to Z order to help make finding a topic of interest easy. A glossary, a comprehensive further reading list, and a subject index are also included.
Subjects: Reference works.; Psychology.; Behavioral assessment.; Social sciences.;
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Stay sharp. [kit] Small town America. by Alexander, Heather.Only in America.; Penworthy Company, LLC;
Laminated information sheet -- "Learn about the small farm towns of America in Penworthy's Small Town America Kit. Enjoy the classic games of checkers, dominoes, and monopoly all with a farm theme. Lastly, let your mind relax as you work through a tractor themed puzzle."--Adults. Designed for elderly persons, or those with memory issues. Also appropriate for sharing with children.
Subjects: Puzzles and games.; Board games.; Jigsaw puzzles.; Educational games.; Rural life; Small towns; Short-term memory.; Memory.; Cognition.; Creative thinking.; Games; Puzzles.; Mental health.; Sensory stimulation.; Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Dementia; Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Dementia; Dementia; Memory in old age; Manipulatives (Education); Perceptual-motor learning.; Older people.; Puzzles; Educational toys.; Memory disorders;
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More than genes : what science can tell us about toxic chemicals, development, and the risk to our children / by Agin, D. P.(CARDINAL)780437;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The richness of our ignorance -- Pollution babies -- From one cell to a hundred trillion -- The fetal brain -- Life in utero : shaping or destruction? -- The endless fetal hangover -- Unborn days and sexuality -- Developmental brain disabilities -- Genes, the womb, and mental illness -- Much ado about IQ -- Culture, poverty, and fetal destruction.Biologist Dan Agin marshals new scientific evidence to argue that the fetal environment can be just as crucial as genetic hard-wiring or even later environment in determining our intelligence and behavior. Stress during pregnancy, for example, puts children at far greater risk of anxiety disorders. Nutritional deprivation during early fetal development may elevate the risk of late onset schizophrenia. And exposure to a whole host of environmental toxins, especially lead, as well as maternal use of alcohol, tobacco or drugs can have impacts ranging from mild cognitive impairment to ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders. Agin argues that differences in IQ among ethnic and socioeconomic groups are far more attributable to higher levels of stress and chemical toxicity in inner cities--which compromise the health of the fetus--than to genetics. The good news is that there are ways to protect fetal development.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Fetus; Prenatal influences.;
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