In an inspirational memoir, a woman recounts her personal experiences dealing with a child suffering from Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), describing her frustrations coping with the misdiagnoses and lack of understanding of the ailment that hampered her struggle to help her son learn to communicate. 30,000 first printing.

Like Sound Through Water: A Mother's Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder

Foli, Karen J.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Atria

A mother knows when something is wrong with her child. If the problem is physical, she takes the child to a doctor. But if the problem is a misunderstanding of her child's mind, where does she turn for help? This is Ben's story. He was a happy, healthy boy - a mother's dream come true. Yet by the age of three, Ben's development was significantly delayed: He couldn't make sense of the simplest phrases, and he still hadn't started talking. When Karen Foli finally took her son, Ben, to a speech and hearing clinic, she was told that he was "probably retarded and perhaps autistic" But Karen knew that Ben was highly perceptive, even frustrated by his inability to communicate. Trusting her "mother's intuition" Karen set out on a journey to learn the truth about her son's condition . . . and what she found was APD. A person with auditory processing disorder receives jumbled and distorted sounds. But the ability to hear is usually normal. Even though it affects millions of Americans, APD can be difficult to diagnose and challenging to treat. Through years of research, and personal interviews, Karen Foli learned everything she needed to know about APD in order to help her son achieve the greatest gift of all: communication. Like Sound Through Water is her story - winning, inspiring, and true.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Atria Books

Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse

An effective treatment to help those with addictions Victims of drug addiction, chronic illness, and mental illness all too often are overwhelmed with the affliction called hopelessness. Oxford Houses succeed because their substance abuse treatment approach instills the most powerful medicine―hope for recovery. Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse provides a comprehensive thought-provoking look at just how the innovative Oxford House model inspires positive action on one of our country’s most serious problems―substance abuse. This powerful book presents the success stories of the people living in these community homes and explains just how it has worked for them. Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse gives an insightful review of Oxford House’s history and the development of the approach. Residents’ stories reveal the treatment process on the road to recovery, allowing readers to glimpse the path each individual must travel to gain entrance and assimilate into the House community. As the residents gain more control over themselves living substance free, the reader discovers the importance of relationships and reframing of self in the recovery process. This powerful book can provide hope to those individuals who feel they have lost themselves in alcohol, drugs, and mental illness. Foreword by substance abuse scholar Bill White. Topics in Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse include: • an overview of substance abuse in today’s society • a history of Oxford House to the present • substance abuse treatment approaches • the process of a resident’s entrance and assimilation • providing hope and living substance free • the nationwide expansion of Oxford Houses • recovery, and what it means to women, children, and families • criminal offenders in Oxford House • how the Oxford House model is constructed in order to help disenfranchised individuals from society • the nine Oxford House Traditions • a review of the strong evidence that Oxford House works ―and why • and more! Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse is enlightening reading for educators and students of psychology, sociology, urban studies, education, and other courses designed to prepare students for careers in the helping professions. This book is also essential for practicing clinicians, anyone concerned with society’s problems and those impacted by substance abuse and mental illness.

Jason, Leonard A.

Olson, Bradley D.

Addiction & Recovery

Routledge

An effective treatment to help those with addictions Victims of drug addiction, chronic illness, and mental illness all too often are overwhelmed with the affliction called hopelessness. Oxford Houses succeed because their substance abuse treatment approach instills the most powerful medicine―hope for recovery. Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse provides a comprehensive thought-provoking look at just how the innovative Oxford House model inspires positive action on one of our country’s most serious problems―substance abuse. This powerful book presents the success stories of the people living in these community homes and explains just how it has worked for them. Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse gives an insightful review of Oxford House’s history and the development of the approach. Residents’ stories reveal the treatment process on the road to recovery, allowing readers to glimpse the path each individual must travel to gain entrance and assimilate into the House community. As the residents gain more control over themselves living substance free, the reader discovers the importance of relationships and reframing of self in the recovery process. This powerful book can provide hope to those individuals who feel they have lost themselves in alcohol, drugs, and mental illness. Foreword by substance abuse scholar Bill White. Topics in Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse include: • an overview of substance abuse in today’s society • a history of Oxford House to the present • substance abuse treatment approaches • the process of a resident’s entrance and assimilation • providing hope and living substance free • the nationwide expansion of Oxford Houses • recovery, and what it means to women, children, and families • criminal offenders in Oxford House • how the Oxford House model is constructed in order to help disenfranchised individuals from society • the nine Oxford House Traditions • a review of the strong evidence that Oxford House works ―and why • and more! Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse is enlightening reading for educators and students of psychology, sociology, urban studies, education, and other courses designed to prepare students for careers in the helping professions. This book is also essential for practicing clinicians, anyone concerned with society’s problems and those impacted by substance abuse and mental illness.

This instructor’s guide is designed as a companion to the primary book, The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing, which digs deep into psychological trauma in nursing and approaches to healing. The purposeof the instructor’s guide is to provide content for the nurse educator surrounding best educational practices to support students who have experienced psychological trauma and to ready students for the trauma they will experience as professional nurses.

INSTRUCTOR GUIDE for The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing

Thompson, John R.

Psychology & Counseling

Sigma Theta Tau International

The purpose of The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing: Student Workbook is to provide content for simulation experiences related to psychological trauma.This student workbook is designed as a companion to the primary book, The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing, which digs deep into psychological trauma in nurses and nursing care, as well as approaches to healing.

WORKBOOK for The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing

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Like Sound Through Water: A Mother's Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder

Like Sound Through Water: A Mother's Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder

Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse

Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse

INSTRUCTOR GUIDE for The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing

WORKBOOK for The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing