Smart But Stuck: Resilience with Learning Disabilities by Myrna Orenstein Ph D.

Smart But Stuck by Myrna Orenstein Ph D.

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Description Learn how smart people with learning gaps struggle, survive, and achieve. Smart But Stuck, Third Edition, is an updated look at how smart people with learning gaps can not only overcome them, but become successful in learning and in life. This new edition of this classic explores the emotional aspects of learning disabilities and imprisoned intelligence, showing how and why smart people with learning disabilities are resilient in getting help in order to struggle, survive, and achieve. The book also includes new material on the relationship between learning disabilities, neuroscience, and the neurophysiology of the human brain. This unique and compelling new version takes into account that the reader may have a learning disability, so it's easy to read and understand. Topics build on each other so the reader's knowledge becomes cumulative without dramatic effect and so emotional, biological, and social issues are easily integrated as the reader learns to turn a learning disability into an advantage. Smart But Stuck, Third Edition examines: * imprisoned intelligence and resilience: how does it happen? * shame and resilience * discovery and diagnosis * learning to live with the diagnosis * resilience and fulfilling potential * neurocognitive foundations of learning disorders * self-psychology and imprisoned intelligence * psychotherapy * and much more. Smart But Stuck, Third Edition, is a must-read for people with learning disabilities and their families, psychotherapists, social workers, educators, parents, vocational counselors, and college counselors.

Author Biography

Myrna Orenstein, Ph.D., LCSW, BCD, ACSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist. She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago and her Master's degree in social work from the University of Chicago. Dr. Orenstein is a former instructor at Oakton Community College in Illinois. She is currently an allied professional with the Association of Educational Therapists and was on the board of the Mental Health Association of the North Shore in Illinois. She has presented at conferences and conducted workshops and classes on resilience and on the emotional consequences of learning disabilities in adults.

Details ISBN 1503016692 ISBN-13 9781503016699 Title Smart But Stuck Author Myrna Orenstein Ph D. Format Paperback Year 2014 Pages 338 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform GE_Item_ID:93352453; About Us

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