MISSING FATHER: A Daughter's Search for Love, Self-Acceptance, and a Parent Lost in the World of Mental Illness At once a powerful story of a daughter's literal and figurative search for her father and an indictment of the mental health system with legacies to this day, Missing Father will touch readers searching to make sense of the complexities of love, family and self-understanding. Filled with searing memories and beautiful, poetic writing, it captures the extraordinary character of a bipolar parent as seen through the eyes of a bewildered little girl who grows up to become a family therapist with children of her own. While it is memoir, it reads like first-rate literature in a vein with classics such as A Beautiful Mind and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Missing Father cuts through the layers of shame, alienation, and ups and downs of life in a family navigating through mental illness and will resonate with anyone who has tried to understand or reach an inaccessible loved one. It will deeply affect those who have lived through a traumatic childhood and doubted they could survive; and anyone who has had to be a parent to their parent. It is must reading for those concerned with drug company and mental health system abuses; those who work in mental health as a therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers or nurses; and who work in facilities such as board and care, assisted living and programs for the chronically mentally ill.

Missing Father: A Daughter's Search for Love, Self-Acceptance, and a Parent Lost in the World of Mental Illness

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Smith, Shauna L.

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Bacigalupi, Ray

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Our Tremendous Lover: A Devotional Commentary on the Song of Songs

Charles P Schmitt

Death notification is one of the most difficult and stressful tasks facing health care and law enforcement professionals. Authors Lord and Stewart have compiled this comprehensive guide to the training and understanding needed for conveying painful news to survivors in an appropriate and compassionate manner. It provides practical recommendations on how to deliver notifications in a range of scenarios such as a vehicular crash scene, at a hospital, or at the survivors' home. Also discussed in depth are important strategies for self-care and enhancing resiliency in death notifiers.

I'll Never Forget Those Words: A Practical Guide To Death Notification

Janice Harris Lord and Alan E. Stewart

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This inspiring and informative book uses large print and reader-friendly design to share ways that can be used to assist living well and meaningfully with life changing and chronic conditions. Major concepts related to living with chronic conditions are combined with a wealth of quotes and personal stories. An interactive book, it offers awareness activities and open space to inspire, enrich, challenge, and validate experiences, to help discover and create new ways to add meaning and quality to life. The ten topics of the book include change and loss, issues related to diagnosis, grief across the lifespan, resilience, and ways to build effective support networks. Beautifully written and designed, A Thousand Ways celebrates how hope and possibility can be lived without denying difficulty and challenge.

A Thousand Ways: Principles for living creatively with chronic conditions

Donna O'Toole

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Janice Harris Lord's definitive and beloved guide is now available in its 7th edition, completely enhanced and updated. Survivors grieving the tragic death of a loved one will find here deep understanding and insight as well as detailed practical information on dealing with legal and financial issues. Eloquent comments from survivors are combined with the author s many years of research and experience to make this an incredibly helpful resource. No Time For Goodbyes is used extensively by grieving families as well as numerous professionals and organizations. It is now available from Compassion Books, with quantity discounts.

No Time For Goodbyes: Coping With Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death, 7th ed.

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