Family Relationships, Divorce, and Children with special needs

Books In the Moraine Valley Library

• Brothers and sisters of disabled children
  Call #: HV888 .B875 2004
• The burden of sympathy: how families cope with mental illness
  Call #: RC439.5 .K37 2001

• Family experiences with mental illness
  Call #: RC455.4.F3 T46 2000

• The healing alliance
  Call #: RC488.5 .R38
• How to cope with mental illness in your family: a self-care guide for siblings, offspring, and parents
  Call #: RC455.4.F3 M366
• Living with Autism: the parents' stories
  Call #: RJ506.A9 D55 1995
• Ordinary families, special children
  Call #: HV888.5 .S45 1997
• Reflections from a different  journey
  Call #: HQ759.913 .R43 2004
• Troubled journey: coming to terms with the mental illness of a sibling or parent
  Call #: RC455.4.F3 M366
• Views from our shoes: growing up with a brother or sister with special needs
  Call #: HV894 .V54 1997

• When madness comes home: help and hope for the children, siblings, and partners of the mentally ill
  Call #: RC455.4.F3 S42 1997

Article

• “Autism and potential family stressors” by Norton, Pamela and Clifford Drew, from American Journal of Family Therapy; Spring 94, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p67.

Web resources

• “Family environments and Family Harmony: An exploration across severity, age and type of DD.”

• “Stress on Families.” Autism Society of America.

General Sources on Family, divorce, interpersonal conflict

Items are in the Moraine Valley Library

• Effects of divorce (video recording)
  Call #: HQ777.5 .E33 2000 VIDEO CASSETTE

• Family estrangements: how they begin, how to mend them, how to cope with them
  Call #: RC455.5.F3 L4 2001

• Painful partings : divorce and its aftermath
  Call #: HQ814 .S38 1997

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