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1) The babadook
Language
English
Formats
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Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband on the night she gave birth to her son. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep-seated fears of the world around him, and together they must conquer it even as the monster disrupts reality and her tentative hold on sanity.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 66
Language
English
Description
When he was growing up, Brad started making funny noises - all the time. Only Brad and his supportive mother knew he could not control it. He was teased, misunderstood, and punished for disrupting class. By the time he was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, Brad had learned to hate school. When an understanding school principal offered encouragement, Brad decided to become a teacher. Now he has to find a school where someone with Tourettes can teach...
4) Tideland
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
Series
Language
English
Description
When he was growing up, Brad started making funny noises -- all the time. Only Brad and his supportive mother knew he could not control it. He was teased, misunderstood, and punished for disrupting class. By the time he was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, Brad had learned to hate school. When an understanding school principal offered encouragement, Brad decided to become a teacher. Now he has to find a school where someone with Tourettes can teach...
6) Explosive noncompliant disruptive aggressive kids: what works, what doesn't & how to turn it around
Language
English
Description
In this DVD set, you will: "understand why time-outs, detentions and suspensions often don't turn things around and often make things worse; get kids to talk, even when no one thinks they will; apply the Collaborative Problem Solving model in families, schools, impatient units, and residential and juvenile detention facilities; [and] emphasize communication, relationship-building, collaboration, and problem-solving rather than imposition of adult...
Language
English
Description
Following the stories of four B.C. youth, this documentary sheds light on the causes, symptoms, community resources, and treatments of three of the most commonly-diagnosed behaviour disorders: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder.