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Self Esteem and Foster Parents

By Courtney Edge-Mattos

It is an undertaking that can be hard on the heart. When we mention good self-esteem as a quality we seek for potential foster parents, people often give us a quizzical look. Why would that matter? Well, let’s explore that.

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How to Help a Friend or Loved One Suffering from a Chronic Illness

Learn how to give patients and their families the support they need.

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American Psychological Association
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‘I Put My Own Life on Hold’: The Pain and Joy of Caring for Parents

After The Times published a pair of articles on elder care—one about a Connecticut home health aide and another about women forgoing careers to care for older relatives—hundreds of our readers shared their own experiences with the hardships of trying to make the final years of a loved one’s life...

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Aidan Gardiner
2019
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Don’t Tell a Caregiver to Stay Positive. Here’s How to Help Instead

So what does help when a friend or family member is in the thick of caregiving, or any crisis?

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Kate Washington
2021
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When Your Spouse Has Cancer

Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.

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Stanford Medicine
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This is Why Mothers Have So Much Emotional Labor

It’s called emotional labor. And mothers have a lot of it.

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Colleen Temple
2018
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Emotional Responsibility of Being a Mother Damaging Women's Mental Health, Study Finds

'They still hold the mental burden of the household even if others share in the physical work and this mental burden can take a toll,' says report's author.

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Maya Oppenheim
2019
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Moms Are Burned-out: What Can We Do to Ease the Burden?

The household tasks taken over by most moms—including the often invisible emotional work—have increased exponentially.

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John Duffy
2021
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The Drama of the Gifted Child

The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.

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Marilyn Wedge
2012
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Living in the Limbo of Chronic Illness

Last week was the one-year anniversary of the beginning of my husband’s health crisis. As I gaze at the permanent handicap placard and at him sleeping, once again, on the couch, I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve learned this past year.

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Mary Wilson
2017
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I Can’t Cope with My Child’s Diagnosis

I am haunted by the shocking discovery that our daughter, three, has a condition that may cause her to die in her teenage years. How can I come to terms with this and learn to enjoy the time we have?

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Linda Blair
2008
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