The Resilient Family: Living with Your Child's Illness or Disability [Paperback]

Paul W. Power (Author), Arthur E. Dell Orto (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Sorin Books (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893732665
• ISBN-13: 978-1893732667
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #942,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An instructional guide for families in crisis, September 14, 2003

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This review is from: The Resilient Family: Living with Your Child's Illness or Disability (Paperback)

The Resilient Family: Living With Your Child's Illness Or Disability by rehabilitation counseling experts Paul W. Power & Arthur Dell Orto, is a practical, "reader friendly" instructional guide for families in crisis, addressing immediate and long-term problems, including the means to work with and overcome them. The Resilient Family expertly and accessibly addresses such issues as how to handle stress, the process of working with professionals, successful means of coping with crises, and more. The Resilient Family is a general yet highly useful resource for balancing both emotional and physical difficulties and especially recommended reading for families having children with long-term special needs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Resource for Families With Special Needs, October 16, 2003

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This review is from: The Resilient Family: Living with Your Child's Illness or Disability (Paperback)

As a mother of a child with CP, I found this book to be a wonderful resource offering both solid advise and spiritual hope. Living with a child with a disability is often difficult, and the author truly understands those negative feelings and challenges, and really knows how to help the reader overcome the challenges with positive action, changes of emotional strategies, and looking in the right places for the support that is needed.

I recommend this book not only for anyone with a disabled child or family member, but for anyone dealing with a disability in their extended family or circle of friends because the advise and hope it provides goes beyond the immediate family.
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