Difficult: Mothering Challenging Adult Children through Conflict and Change

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1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Author’s Note No access
1. Chapter One What Is a Difficult Adult Child? No access
2. Chapter Two Once a Mother, Always a Mother? No access
3. Chapter Three Give Me Shelter No access
4. Chapter Four Guilt, Shame, and Mother-Blame No access
5. Chapter Five Torn in Two No access
6. Chapter Six Mental Illness in the Family No access
7. Chapter Seven Who Cares for the Mentally Ill? No access
8. Chapter Eight Substance Abuse in the Family No access
9. Chapter Nine Chronic Sorrow No access
10. Chapter Ten Violence in the Family No access
11. Chapter Eleven The Pain of the Past No access
1. Chapter Twelve Stages of Change No access
2. Chapter Thirteen Seeing and Not Seeing No access
3. Chapter Fourteen Readiness No access
1. Chapter Fifteen Social Support No access
2. Chapter Sixteen Self-Care No access
3. Chapter Seventeen Staying Safe No access
4. Chapter Eighteen Helping Your Adult Child No access
5. Chapter Nineteen What Comes Next? No access
Appendix A Resources for Mothers and Adult Children No access Pages 195 - 208
Appendix B Research Methodology No access Pages 209 - 214
Appendix C The Mothers No access Pages 215 - 224
Notes No access Pages 225 - 244
References No access Pages 245 - 256
Index No access Pages 257 - 266
About the Author No access Pages 267 - 268