How to Handle More Than You Can Handle
Caring for Yourself While Raising a Disabled Child
$28.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
A guide to navigating the emotional experience of caring for and raising disabled children with high-support needs, from a therapist and parent of a disabled child.
Amanda Griffith-Atkins, a therapist who is also one of the millions of people raising a disabled child with high-support needs, knows firsthand about the dark places parents go—the grief, the anger, the frustration—and the shame these feelings can bring up. In her practice, and now her book, she gives parents an invaluable…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781523527618 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1523527617 |
| Author: | Amanda Griffith-Atkins |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Workman Adult |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Amanda Griffith-Atkins
Amanda Griffith Atkins, MS, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of the Amanda Atkins Counseling Group in Chicago. Amanda earned a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northwestern University, but it wasn’t until her son was born that she discovered her life’s purpose: to help parents of disabled children find their stride. Through the process of embracing disability parenting, Amanda has become an in-demand therapist and gets daily inquiries from people all over the world.
She is a former contributor to Liberating Working Moms and has contributed to articles in the Chicago Tribune, Bustle, POPSUGAR, Better, Chicago Parent magazine, and Crain’s Chicago. She is also a lecturer at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Adler University. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three sons.
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