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Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability -- by Peter Jaffe, Nancy Lemon, Samantha Poisson (Authors) (Book - Parent)
"Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Beating the Odds: Crime, Poverty and Life in the Inner City -- by Robert McNamara (Author) (Book)
"This inspiring story shares the story of a young boy who overcame the obstacles of a neglectful home life, juvenile crime, and abusive foster parents to become a successful professional. The author...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America -- by Eugene Rivers, Ronald Sider, John DiIulio (Authors) (Book)
Evangelical theologian and activist Sider gets down to specifics in this book about American social programs, which at points reads like a policy wonk's textbook. But it is not written so much for...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Concise Guide to Psychiatry and Law for Clinicians, Third Edition -- by Robert Simon (Author) (Book)
"This third edition of the Concise Guide to Psychiatry and Law for Clinicians arms psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, and other mental health care professionals with a thorough knowledge of the...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics -- by M. L. Tina Stevens (Author) (Book)
"In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead,...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
The Adoption Resource Book, 4th edition -- by Lois Gilman (Author) (Book - Parent)
"With the heart of an adoptive mother and the eye of a journalist, Lois Gilman navigates the often complicated but ultimately fulfilling world of adopting a child. This practical, wise, and...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know -- by Mark Fleisher (Author) (Book)
"Mark Fleisher exposes the depravity and humanity in gang life as seen through the eyes of a teen-aged girl named Cara. Dead End Kids provides a firsthand account of Cara's life as a member of a...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Shattered Bonds -- by Dorothy Roberts (Author) (Book)
The first book in 30 years to consider the devastating social consequences of the overwhelming numbers of black children in the child-welfare system." "The story of foster care in the United States is...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Ethics and Psychiatry Toward Professional Definition -- by Allen Dyer (Author) (Book)
"Contents Preface. Introduction: A divided profession. The place of ethics in the definition of a profession. The Hippocratic tradition in medicine and psychiatry. The tasks and methods of ethics....
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights -- by Anita Guerrini (Author) (Book)
"Experimentation on animals and particularly humans is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and medical sciences to experiment on...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)