This week’s column features Health and Parenting titles in the Adult Nonfiction collection
InRight from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism, Karin Donahue and Kate Crassons assert that autistic children can be successful when parents and teachers understand key principles of autism and have the tools to help these children expand their social and emotional skills. Emphasizing the importance of self-regulation, the ability to moderate our feelings and reactions. The authors describe practical strategies to help children manage their emotions and behavior, learn social and play skills, and cope with challenging sensory experiences. Right from the Start is a needed and indispensable resource for parents, professionals, and educators. With these techniques, we can lay a positive foundation that enables autistic children to be confident and successful in any environment.
Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Careoffers in-depth information about the common causes and symptoms of more than 300 medical issues, including conditions like allergic reactions, bug bites and stings, chronic pain, insomnia and other sleep disorders, unexpected weight gain or loss, digestive issues, common vision problems, diabetes, heart disease, mental disorders, and hundreds of other common ailments. Throughout 300 pages of expert advice, the acclaimed specialists at Mayo Clinic offer strategies for detecting these common conditions, treating them early on, and reducing your overall risk for illness. Additionally, this newly updated, seventh edition of Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care provides new chapters that follow the latest medical research and recommendations, including:
A newly revised CPR section, with easy-to-learn CPR instructions for adults
- Adult and pediatric immunization guidelines.
- Tips for committing to a nutritious diet and exercise plan.
- The latest information about smoking and alcohol abuse.
- And research on popular integrative medicine therapies and approaches.
While no book can replace the training and advice of a doctor or health care professional, this book will help you learn how to evaluate, manage, and treat common illnesses and injuries at home, while teaching you how to recognize serious medical issues that may require emergency care
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Mayo Clinic on Digestive Health, fourth edition, is an authoritative, yet practical reference manual that includes information on everything from healthy digestion to cancer treatment. The book is packed with helpful advice about how to maintain a healthy gut; manage heartburn, gas, constipation and diarrhea; treat several common digestive conditions; and prevent serious disease. The book provides guidance and helpful tips on a variety of digestive conditions, including:
- Belching, bloating and gas
- Celiac disease
- Colorectal cancer
- Constipation and diarrhea
- Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
- Diverticular disease
- Gallbladder disease
- Heartburn and GERD
Digestive problems are among the most common reasons people see their doctors. They’re also a leading reason why people take medication. Mayo Clinic presents an authoritative guide for anyone suffering from digestive health issues
Parenting Children with Diabetesby Eliot LeBow addresses the absence of information needed for successful diabetes management including more advanced diabetes education, information on emotional trauma, relationships issues and problems inside and outside the home that are caused while growing up with diabetes. This book offers parents a 360-degree perspective of what is happening to their child as they grow into and grow up with diabetes, from diagnosis to monitoring and controlling their blood sugars to their exposure to other people’s opinions in schools and other common situations as to how they should handle their diabetes. This book provides parents with special tools, insights, and education so they can more confidently and effectively communicate, understand, and empathize with their child’s experience with diabetes and their child’s relationship with the world around them. Eliot LeBow thoughtfully addresses readers, and his work helps parents resolve resistance to diabetes management creates and fosters emotional stability within the family living with diabetes. It guides parents to build a healthy, supportive relationship for and with their child. It also prepares parents for the emotional ups and downs of diabetes management and offers insight into situations most children living with diabetes face. And it provides information about working with the school system to make sure their child is safe. One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out — in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships — is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, showing up for your child might sound like a tall order.
InThe Power of Showing Upby authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, they show it doesn’t take a lot of time, energy, or money. Instead, showing up means offering a quality of presence. And it’s simple to provide once you understand the four building blocks of a child’s healthy development. Every child needs to feel what Siegel and Bryson call the Four S’s:
- Safe: We can’t always insulate a child from injury or avoid doing something that leads to hurt feelings. But when we give a child a sense of safe harbor, she will be able to take the needed risks for growth and change.
- Seen: Truly seeing a child means we pay attention to his emotions — both positive and negative — and strive to attune to what’s happening in his mind beneath his behavior.
- Soothed: Soothing isn’t about providing a life of ease; it’s about teaching your child how to cope when life gets hard, and showing him that you’ll be there with him along the way. A soothed child knows that he’ll never have to suffer alone.
- Secure: When a child knows she can count on you, time and again, to show up — when you reliably provide safety, focus on seeing her, and soothe her in times of need, she will trust in a feeling of secure attachment. And thrive!
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