Exceptional Life Journeys - Stories of Childhood Disorder

Klappentext Focuses on those childhood disorders that are common or what are sometimes referred to as high incidence disorders such as learning disabilities! autism! behavior disorder! depression! and anxiety. This book provides narratives of experience from multiple perspectives with respect to numerous childhood disorders. Zusammenfassung Focuses on those childhood disorders that are common or what are sometimes referred to as high incidence disorders such as learning disabilities! autism! behavior disorder! depression! and anxiety. This book provides narratives of experience from multiple perspectives with respect to numerous childhood disorders.

List of contents

Introductory Stories
Part 1: Behavior Disorders
Attention -Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
Prologue
Personal Stories
You Can't Have ADHD - You're Just like me!"
Parental Story
Signs Appear Early in Life and Significant Ones Will Persist
Professional Stories
In the Trenches with ADHD
Attention to a Child's Strengths: A Lesson in Resiliency
Identifying the Problems and Working Collaboratively to Make the Best Decisions
Epilogue
Conduct and Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Prologue
Personal Story
Different Roads with Different Ends
Parental Story
A Matter of Soul
Professional Stories
Sometimes Persistence and Hope is All We Have
Seeking to understand before trying to be understood
Sometimes we Gain more than we think we will in our Work with Children and Youth
Epilogue
Part 2: Emotional Disorders
Childhood Anxiety Disorders
Prologue
Personal Story
Managing the Fear
A Little Bit of History Repeating
Taming the Worry Beast
Parental Story
A Minefield
Learning to Trust Oneself
One Minute, One Hour, One Day
Am I going to have a good day?
Connecting Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
Professional Story
Strength within Ourselves often comes from the Strength of Others
Epilogue
Childhood Mood Disorders
Prologue
Personal Story
The Prison of Oneself
Parental Story
Staying "In-Touch"
Professional Stories
Mad, Bad, or Sad: Learning is a Lifelong Learning
Meaning is all you Need; Relationship is All you Have
Epilogue
Part 3: Developmental and Learning Disorders
Learning Disabilities
Prologue
Personal Story
From Confusion to Understanding and the Journey Along the Way
Parental Story
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, and another Step Forward
Professional Stories
From Experiencing and Understanding to Being Understood
My Best Year of Teaching
Keeping an Open Mind and Identifying the Primary Problem
Epilogue
Intellectual Disabilities
Prologue
Personal Story
You Go Girl
Parental Story
Perfection in Imperfection
Professional Story
More the Same than Different
Epilogue
Developmental Co-ordination Disorder
Prologue
Personal Story
Coming Out From Behind the Mask
Parental Story
Battling On With Love and Commitment"
Professional Story
There Is Much More To Coordination than Meets the Eye
Epilogue
Autistic Disorder
Prologue
Personal Story
From Good to Bad and Back to Good Again
Parental Story
A Road travelled with Many Stops and Turns along the Way
Professional Stories
Patience and Appreciation
Getting There Step-By-Step
Working beyond the Diagnosis: Respecting the Bigger Picture
Epilogue
Part 4: Eating and Health Related Disorders
Eating Disorders
Prologue
Personal Story
When Gaining is losing
My Struggle to be Free to Fly
Parental Story
She Looks Like Death
Professional Story
Finding Oneself within Ambiguity
Epilogue
Somatoform Disorders
Prologue
Personal Story
Believing in Myself and Going from Bad to Good
Parental Story
Ups and Downs and Turns Arounds
Professional Story
A Matter of Control

Report

"Jac Andrews and Peter Istvanffy have given us a real gem. This book, which is very different from any that I've read before, speaks to a variety of audiences at a wide number of levels, but it does 'speak' to us.we see real people grappling with 'exceptional life journeys,' and not simply the 'diagnoses' and 'psychopathologies.' In our deficit-oriented society, and profession, this is an eye-opener and a breath of fresh air." --Canadian Journal of School Psychology, December 2013
"The rich narratives within the book are crafted through an array of diverse writing styles that speak to the exceptional life journey of each author, keeping readers interested throughout. In terms of utility, this resource is a must-have for practitioners working with clients diagnosed with a childhood disorder. I also see this text as essential for undergraduate and graduate students training for careers in the helping fields, particularly (as the editors suggest) for students studying within the realms of counselling, education, social science, social work, medicine, and related mental-health professions. I would encourage those who are teaching and supervising in such training programs to strongly consider incorporating this text into their program curriculum. In fact, I've been recommending it to fellow counsellor educators since the first day I picked it up. It should also be noted that this book can be understood and used by 'everyday people' who might be interested in or experiencing the impact of childhood disorder themselves or within their family. For this reason, Exceptional Life Journeys could potentially be a helpful reference resource for clients (situation dependent) and/or their parents. I offer a personal confession in concluding this review-I am typically not a dichotomous thinker; however, when it comes to educational literature, I tend to harshly classify textbooks as either good books or bad books ... and this, in my opinion, is hands down a great book." --Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Product details

• Authors: Jac (EDT)/ Istvanffy Andrews
• Assisted by: Jac (University of Calgary Andrews (Editor), Jac J. W. Andrews (Editor), Peter Istvanffy (Editor), Peter (Calgary Academy Istvanffy (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.12.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780123852168
• ISBN: 978-0-12-385216-8
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Elsevier Insights
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology