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During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country’s premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix.

Drawing on well-researched, clinically proven methods of behavioral therapy, prolific author-psychologist Dr Douglas Ruben has proudced a dynamic ten-step course in shame relief--a malady plagung many members of today's stress-laden, never enough society. Dr. Ruben outlines specific problems that can be overcome by his method. Included among these are perfectionism, avoidance or escape from fear, personalizing problems, and repeating bad relationshps.

Isaac's parents have abandoned him for a trip to Italy in the final days before his bar mitzvah. And even worse, his hotheaded older brother, Josh, has been left in charge. An undefeated wrestler, MMA fighter, and bar brawler, Josh claims to be a "Son of the 613" - a man obedient to the 613 commandments in the Tanakh - and he has the tattoo to prove it. When Josh declares that there is more to becoming a man than memorization, the mad "quest" begins for Isaac.

This is an audiobook in the I-Can-Do-It Book series. It helps you to build respect in your child. It gives simple steps for children to listen, respond, and do as they are told, or "mind you". A respectful, mindful child is a child who follows instructions. This is a softer, more direct, and highly effective way to build compliance. Parents will not have to yell, scream, swear, threaten, or even make ultimatums.

Stop drinking today: Addiction specialist Dr. Douglas Ruben has done it again. His latest book explodes the myths of alcoholism for what it is: a power-hungry craving programmed in childhood. Forever Sober graphically reveals secrets of rapid nondrinking and lasting sobriety. Explicitly told is why addicts drink, why sobriety fails, and what to do about it.

This is a book in the I-Can-Do-It Book series. It reviews mistakes and solutions for getting angry. Anger is our natural response to difficulty, frustration, and sadness. Anger may seem a solution to problems because our body gets wired and we feel more intense. But this is not really true. Anger is a weakness, not a strength. In this book, we will learn how to identify when you are getting angry, and how to prevent or stop it, before it ruins your day. Each chapter presents side-effects of habit-forming mistakes.

This audiobook helps you figure out when it is right to seek outside help or therapy. Professionals may tell you that your child has problems. Some educators may even urge testing through the school to find out if your child qualifies for learning disabilities or emotional impairment. Still, feedback about your child's misbehavior may come from trusted friends and relatives. How do you know who is right? And once you make the choice for therapy, which therapy is right for you and your family? Use this audiobook to begin answering these questions.

This is a power-point audiobook in the I-Can-Do-It Book series. This audiobook covers post-divorce adjustment problems for children, adolescents and young adults. They are the Children of Divorce (CoD). Divorce is a surrealistic and confusing time. Family permanence shatters, venerability of parents dissolves, the covenant of safety ends, feelings of victimization and abandonment intensify, and the expected new role of the offspring - as sympathizer or mediator - forces unwanted changes.

This is a power-point audiobook in the I-Can-Do-It Book series. This audiobook helps build compassion and caring in kids who lack a maturity and sensitivity to people, animals and things. Caring is not naturally human. We learn it. Some kids learn this quickly and are helpers around the house. Other kids are selfish, more self-pleasing and feel other people should do for them. You are in the best position to steer a caring child to be more caring, and to re-steer a non-caring child to show caring.

This book helps you prevent a serious mistake. A family mistake. Once a child makes improvement, you, as parents feel happy and relieved. You may think your child is compliant, or even a more respectful member of the family. You set a high standard or expectation for your child, now that he or she shows promise of good changes. You feel great and your family is back to normal. But when your child falls below this standard, you don't just feel disappointed. You feel annoyed, even angry, that your child failed, is reverting to old habits.

This is a book in the I-Can-Do-It Books series. It reviews common mistakes parents and families make on using discipline to correct unwanted child behavior. Awareness of these mistakes makes it easier to prevent bad outcomes and focus on good outcomes from using techniques correctly.

25 Secrets to Emotional Self-Healing give you 25 powerful steps to erase a stress-producing lifestyle. Here is your menu for slowing down the pace of life, and feeling not just okay, not just good, but great! Short, practical guidelines are for worriers, depressed and insecure people, and anybody trapped in the same circle of mistakes.

Here is a highly effective parenting audiobook featuring Dr. Ruben's rapid positive-parenting steps for controlling and eliminating child tantrums, disobedience, lying, stealing, perfectionism, anger, impulsivity, and school problems. Solutions provided for common family problems include step parenting, adult life after children, and knowing when therapy is best. Dr. Rubenn's methods stem from scientific and clinical research on parenting, using applied and experimental analysis of behavior.

Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers sent back to the front again and again under duress. Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four show signs of anxiety, depression, or acute stress, all symptoms of PTSD. Other soldiers poorly adjust when they get home. This self-help manual provides urgent relief to the soldiers of long and multiple deployments in Iraq or just retuning home. Chapters are first-aid kits of fast, practical, and effective strategies to defuse stress and feel emotionally alive again.

This is a power-point book in the I-Can-Do-It Book series. This audiobook is a tool chest to reverse apathy, aloofness, and lack of motivation in a child. It guides you on how to change your child's sense of entitlement, or wanting many privileges for free.

This audiobook reviews the deep concerns with using and overusing time-out. Time-out is very popular for home discipline and is part of many parenting training guides because it seems easy to use and quick to understand. But despite its commercial popularity, time out is really over-rated, very complicated with difficult children, and never teaches any new behavior.

This audiobook helps you correct a problem before it becomes a more serious problem. Lying is a common reaction from children at all ages but for different reasons. Lying is not a moral or ethical problem. It is a way for a child to protect himself or herself and not look insecure. This audiobook looks at lying differently and invites you to see it through different eyes.

This audiobook helps you prevent a serious misbehavior. The behavior of stealing. Taking things that belong to other people seems harmless to a child. A child crosses a fine line between sharing objects and possession of objects. In this audiobook, steps are offered to dismantle a child's temptation to steal objects for immediate gratification. It also helps you to understand the situations that are most at risk for stealing to occur.

This audiobook shows a remarkably easy way to get your children to get along without feuding. It teaches them how to tolerate or be patient around each other. Patience is fundamental to later learning problem solving. Kids can only solve problems if they get along. This audiobook allows for fast-learning, and ready-to-use skills.

Effects of Bad Parenting is an emergency first-aid kit for parents and professionals utterly baffled by today's unmotivated, disobedient, complacent, and free-spirited children. The audiobook responds to the accelerated epidemic of school apathy, college dropouts, college graduation delays, insensitivity, impulsivity, casual sexual practices with friends, and overprivileged kids. More than a recipe for cures, this guidebook carefully translates complicated psychopathology into straight forward, easy-to-understand language.