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This book uses Family-Based Treatment based on the Maudsley approach to recommend a feeding strategy to parents of anorexic teenagers. It offers practical ideas as well as a large range of recipes.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of 37 simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness.
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 31, 2024 |
Aimed towards parents of children who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Includes information on strategies for success, structure, routine, consistency, expectations, discipline, comfort area, sensory issues, communication & language, daily life skills, social skills, crisis management, …
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 19, 2024 |
When kids feel good about themselves, they naturally perform better. This book will take you step-by-step through the process of helping your children transform negative thoughts, images and feelings into positive affirming ones that result in successful behavior and feelings of greater confidence.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 4, 2024 |
Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable, or to dare greatly. Whether the arena is a new relationship, an important meeting, our creative process, or a difficult family conversation, we must find the courage to walk into vulne…
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 |
From the cover: "Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of families and educators around the world to the miracle of signing with their babies?and left them wanting more! Now in this new, bigger edition, Monta Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language …
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
Utilizing anime illustrations to capture the teen and tween audience, this book uses the core concepts related to Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Behavior Mapping (SBM). The core of the book consists of 10 social scenarios: each scenario is played out through the lens of Social Fortune or Social Fa…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 31, 2024 |
In this inspiring book, Harvard-trained child and adult psychiatrist and expert in human motivation Dr. Shimi Kang provides a guide to the art and science of inspiring children to develop their own internal drive and a lifelong love of learning. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and behavioral res…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
A booklet that explains FAS in order to understand the problem behaviours caused by this condition. It provides strategies that help prevent or decrease the secondary characteristics of FAS such as tantrums, anger, anxiety, withdrawal, etc. Topics include basics, infant care, routines/daily structu…
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 19, 2024 |
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 |
A comprehensive workbook to navigate gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 |
This book provides a road map of thoughtfully designed lessons to help educators empower students to develop self-regulatory abilities - abilities that research demonstrates will ensure success in life well beyond the classroom. This manual includes teaching strategies as well as concrete examples …
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
There is a generational divide in our understandings of gender. This comprehensive guidebook helps to bridge that divide by exploring the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid or otherwise gender-expansive. Co…
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, December 12, 2023 |
This fully updated second edition of Grief in Children explains children's understanding of death at different ages and provides information on how the adults around them can best help them cope.; Whether a child experiences the death or loss of a friend, family member, classmate or teacher, it is …
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 20, 2024 |
Jon loves his life in the North. But when he feels a pain that won't go away, he must go to a children's hospital in the south to find out what is wrong. A doctor there tells Jon he has cancer and will have to stay at the hospital for a while. Suddenly Jon's life is upside down! But with a handful …
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 20, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how autism affects individuals, and their siblings.
copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 |
Now in its sixth edition and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has been the unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren't …
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, and treatments for childhood cancer.
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
Looking for simple techniques to revamp your family's bedtime routine and wake up to a happy, healthy child? Discover the latest science-based sleep tips that will benefit your entire family.; Dive into this vibrant kid-tested, doctor-approved bedtime story to learn creative and practical ways to b…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, April 1, 2024 |
When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut down, responding with reactivity instead of receptivity. This is what New York Times bestselling authors Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson call a No Brain response. But our kids can be…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 18, 2024 |
Join Vincent on his journey to learn more about how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder works in the brain and how ADHD is treated.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
The first parenting book to bring the science and psychology of children's behavior together to build brain/body awareness for self-regulation and success Self-Reg is a ground-breaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child's emotions and behavior that serves as a practical …
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 21, 2024 |
Social Skill Strategies is a two-book, social-emotional curriculum for use with preadolescent and adolescent students. Teach 57 social communication skills using the reproducible student pages, structured activities, home assignments, and role-playing scenarios.; Book A (353 pages) teaches introduc…
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, April 1, 2024 |
Appréhender et tempérer les troubles de l'adolescence. Tous les ados ne se ressemblent pas. Certains vivent cette période repliés dans leur chambre, d'autres ne cessent de sortir. Certains perdent tout intérêt pour les études, d'autres sont toujours premiers, certains ont le joint aux lèvres dès le…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 22, 2024 |
Superflex Takes On One-Sided Sid, Un-Wonderer and the Team of Unthinkables introduces readers to the Unthinkable One-Sided Sid, who uses his powers to make people talk only about their interests or themselves, and his sister sidekick Un-Wonderer, who uses her powers to keep people from thinking abo…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
Superflex Takes On Glassman and the Team of Unthinkables introduces readers to a very persistent and sneaky Unthinkable named Glassman who causes people to have large reactions to small problems (or, shatter like a pane of glass). In the story, Aiden's classmates are regularly visited by Glassman a…
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
Superflex and Focus Tron to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Focus Tron. Wherever they are?at school, or home, in the community?Focus Tron helps Social Town citizens remember to use their focusing powers to stay connected to what they?re doing or what others are talking about. In the…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
"This life-affirming, instructive and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is, or who might one day be, sick. And it can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplifting inspiration to family, friends, and loved ones struggling with the many terrifying or dishea…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 18, 2024 |
"Nobody gets me, Mama!" In All My Stripes, Zane the zebra feels different from the rest of his classmates. He worries that all they notice about him is his "autism stripe." With the help of his Mama, Zane comes to appreciate all his stripes - the unique strengths that make him who he is! Includes a…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
If you've ever felt different, if you've ever been low, if you don't quite fit in, there's a name you should know... Meet Dr. Temple Grandin - one of the world's quirkiest science heroes! When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alone become one of the most powe…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know?; He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. He?s been bad since he can remember! This seed cuts in line every time, stares at everybody and never listens. But what happens when one mischievous litt…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
The Sorry Plane is a playful introduction for kids and their caregivers to the importance of understanding and respecting our feelings, from the bestselling author of Rest Play Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one).; When Molly accidentally breaks a balloon she and her si…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, July 2, 2024 |
Gerbert the gosling is strong and brave and has fun times with his family and friends but knows that, one day soon, he won't be able to keep up with them anymore. As Gerbert prepares for his final migration, he finds a way to show his flock that he will always be with them. Includes a one-page Note…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 20, 2024 |
This book offers step-by-step exercises for managing your emotions without losing control, engaging in destructive behavior, or lashing out at others. You'll also find new chapters on self-compassion and cognitive rehearsal--the act of mentally preparing yourself for situations that trigger your em…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 24, 2024 |
"Researcher, thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown offers a liberating study on the importance of our imperfections?both to our relationships and to our own sense of self; "The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expe…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, February 12, 2024 |
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Ten flexible modules give clinicians tools for engaging kids and their parents and implementi…
copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work offers parents an effective, step-by-step guide to some of the most common struggles for kids aged 5-12. Written by mental health professionals with over 30 years' experience listening to kids' thoughts and feelings, this book provides a framework to e…
copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | ||
copy 3 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say?or what not to say?to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches th…
copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 20, 2024 |
In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child's nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all.; Helping Your Child with Extreme…
copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
This workbook blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). You will learn how pain affects both your mind and body, how negative emotions can make pain worse, and strategies to help you turn the volume down on your pain, so you can go back to enjoying act…
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
Defining the true meaning of the d-word (to instruct, not to shout or reprimand), the authors explain how to reach your child, redirect emotions, and turn a meltdown into an opportunity for growth. By doing so, the cycle of negative behavior (and punishment) is essentially brought to a halt, as pro…
copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 21, 2024 |
The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling, they can become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. In thi…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, June 4, 2024 |
High performance cars can go from zero to sixty in just a few seconds. Anger can feel a lot like that for teens. One minute they are calm, but the next, something sets them on a course to speed out of control. Getting to anger's edge too fast can get teens in trouble. Expert author Michael Tompkins…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 22, 2024 |
Breathe Like a Bear is a beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous and had bad dreams. Then he met someone who helped him talk about the terrible thing, and made him feel better.; This gently told tenderly illustra…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 13, 2024 |
The social world is a big, complicated place that requires us to constantly figure out hidden rules in situations to help us make sense of how we are all interpreting and responding to each other?s actions and reactions. This book teaches students how to recognize and develop social skills. Every o…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
As important as screens are in our lives, we all need to unplug, especially children. This active, encouraging board book offers young children and families an easy way to set boundaries and limits for screen time, and to find enjoyable ways to spend time without screens. "Together, we say, 'All do…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 14, 2024 |
Internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child's individual differences in the context of relational safety.; Featuring impactful worksheets and charts, this ac…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
This graphic novel tells the story of Bridget and Carlton. Bridget and Carlton are as close as any sister and brother. But their relationship is particularly special. Carlton has autism and is almost completely nonverbal. He's smart, funny, creative, and loving. He has immense challenges in speakin…
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copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |