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Why Is Self-Care Especially Important for Foster Parents?

By KVC West Virginia Staff — 2020

For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.

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The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder (Revised Edition)

The first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder, The Out-of-Sync Child touched the hearts and lives of thousands of families.

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Carol Stock Kranowitz
2025
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Thriving with Autism: 90 Activities to Encourage Your Child’s Communication, Engagement, and Play

Help children with autism strengthen their connections―supportive strategies for ages 1 to 11 To guide your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities.

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Katie Cook
2025
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The Parent’s Guide to Occupational Therapy for Autism and Other Special Needs

With the help of this handy guide, you can bring tried and tested occupational therapy activities into your home and encourage your child to succeed with everyday tasks while having fun in the process.

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Cara Koscinski
2025
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Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who are really no more than “worried well” are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and receiving unnecessary treatment.

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Allen Frances
2014
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Raising Resilient Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Maximizing Their Strengths, Coping with Adversity, and Developing a Social Mindset

In Raising Resilient Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, noted psychologists and bestselling authors Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Brooks teach you the strategies and mindset necessary to help your child develop strength, hope, and optimism.

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Robert Brooks, Sam Goldstein
2012
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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A Walk in the Rain with a Brain

Each brain finds its own special way—that’s the message in this delightful, colorful story by America’s foremost expert on learning and childhood development. Edward Hallowell, M.D., is a noted psychiatrist and teacher and a leading authority on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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Edward M. Hallowell
2025
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Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum: A Parent’s Guide to the Cognitive, Social, Physical, and Transition Needs of Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorders

From the award-winning author of Autism Spectrum Disorders, comes Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum, a complete guide to the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical needs of preteens and teenagers with autistic disorders, ranging from the relatively mild Asperger’s Syndrome to more severe...

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Chantal Sicile-Kira, Temple Grandin
2025
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Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.

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Mona Delahooke
2019
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