Like Sound through Water by Karen J Foli
The author recounts her personal experiences dealing with a child suffering from auditory processing disorder, describing the misdiagnoses and lack of understanding of the ailment that hampered her struggle to help her son learn to communicate.Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an associate professor and the director of the PhD in nursing program at Purdue University, School of Nursing, West Lafayette, Indiana. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana State University, her master's degree from Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, and her PhD in communications from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and has received numerous teaching awards, including the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from Purdue University.
For the past 15 years, Dr. Foli's research program has focused on the transitions and needs of nontraditional social units: adoptive and kinship families. Through her research in the area of parental postadoption depression, Dr. Foli has described and tested a mid-range theory of postadoption depression and articulated the profiles of parents who struggle with depressive symptoms before and after placement; she has published her findings in nursing and interdisciplinary journals. Dr. Foli is a member of the Adoption Quarterly editorial board and has authored or coauthored three additional health-related books, including one specifically about adoption, The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption. Coauthored with John R. Thompson, MD, the book focuses on helping adoptive parents recognize and overcome challenges related to the placement of a child.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743421980 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743421981 |
| Title | Like Sound through Water |
| Author | Karen J Foli |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2002-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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