Family Impact Of Illness Resource Guide
- Library of Congress Subject Headings for locating books and media in the Library Catalog:
- Adult Children Living with Parents
- Aids (Disease)—Social Aspects
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Anxiety-- Treatment
- Asperger’s Syndrome
- Autism – Patients—Biography
- Autism in Children
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Image
- Cancer—Patients
- Caregivers
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chronic disease
- Chronically ill
- Coronary heart disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Dementia
- Depression in children
- Depression, mental
- Diabetes mellitus—popular works
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Epilepsy
- Mental disorders
- Mental health
- Mental illness
- Multiple sclerosis
- Obesity—psychological aspects
- Parent and adult child
- Parkinson’s disease
- People with disabilities
- Sick—psychology
- Substance abuse
- Terminally ill--fiction
- Terminally ill children
- Selected recent Reference book titles with call numbers:
- Alzheimer Disease Sourcebook Ref. RC 523.2 .A45 2008
- Autism Spectrum Disorders Ref. Desk RJ 506 .A9 .A92377 2007
- Diabetes Sourcebook Ref. RC 660.4 .D56 2008
- Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society Ref. RC 254.5 .E48 2007 3 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse Ref. Desk RC 563.4 .G97 2008
- Encyclopedia of Health & Aging Ref. RA 777.6 .E534 2007
- Encyclopedia of Obesity Ref. RC 628 .E53 2008 2 vols.
- Handbook of Developmental Disabilities Ref. RJ 506 .D47 .H356 2007
- Mental Health in America Ref. RA 790.6 .K4644 2007
- Stroke Sourcebook Ref. RC 388.5 .S8566 2008
- Recent sample book and video titles with call numbers:
- Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth RJ 506 .E18 .B635 2009
- Cancer Care for the Whole Patient RA 645 .C3 .C332 2008
- Dancing with Rose RC 553 .K47 2007
- Dieting, Overweight, and Obesity RC 628 .S829 2008
- Fat: What No One Is Telling You VideoD RC 628 .F38 2007
- Finding Hope in Recovery VideoD HV 4998 .F56 2008
- Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety RJ 506 .D4 .M47 2008
- Living with Coronary Heart Disease RC 685 .C6 .G72 2008
- On the Spectrum: Coping with Asperger’s & Autism VideoD RC 553 .A88 .O5 2008
- Overcoming Prescription Drug Addiction RM 146.5 .C65 2008
- Pain of Depression VideoD RC 537 .P35 2007
- Why People Get Sick R 726.5 .L433 2008
- Abstracting/Indexing databases for finding articles (many in full-text):
- Academic Search Premier
- CINAHL
- Health Reference Center
- Medline
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- ScienceDirect
- Socindex
- WilsonOmniFile
- Selected Internet/World Wide Web sites:
- American Heart Association www.americanheart.org
- American Cancer Society www.cancer.org
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America www.aafa.org
- Alzheimer’s Association www.alz.org
- American Diabetes Association www.diabetes.org
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation www.cff.org
- DisabilityInfo.gov www.disabilityinfo.gov federal government resource
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation www.jdf.org
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill www.nami.org
- National Cancer Institute www.nci.nih.gov
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society www.nmss.org
- National Parkinson Foundation www.parkinson.org
- United Cerebral Palsy www.ucp.org
Prepared by Ellen Paterson/Health Bibliographer, 11/2/87.
Updated: 10/21/94; 5/31/2001; 10/12/2004; 5/27/2009