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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
A set of affirmation cards designed specifically to nurture a child's self-esteem. Each affirmation card carries a powerful message that when repeated, helps children think positively.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
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.
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This workbook teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program for alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Includes an MP3 CD with 21 guided meditations.; Also available as an eBook.
This workbook teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program for alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Includes an MP3 CD with 21 guided meditations.; Also available as an eBook.
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Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking audiobook shows yo…
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"If you have anxiety or suffer from panic attacks, little things like driving, being at a party where you don't know anyone, or even going to the grocery store can seem overwhelming. But these little things are a part of everyday life, and if you try to avoid them, you may end up feeling alienated,…
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Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work - which gave …
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This illustrated book guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. Concepts and strategies are introduced through metaphors and illustrations, which made them easy to understand.
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What to Do When You Feel Too Shy guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying social anxiety using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to …
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What to Do When You Don't Want to Be Apart guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying separation anxiety using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowerin…
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On the first day of school, Isla's mind plays the what if game. Scary thoughts come, the world goes dark, and everything feels stormy. With Mami at her side, Isla takes a deep breath and blows her worries away in a big balloon. But as school gets closer, Isla's worries come back like a tornado. Mam…
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"A Thought is a Thought" simplifies the power of mindfulness into a rhyming book to provide children and parents with tools to combat negative thoughts. This book works to calm the mind of anyone that suffers from anxiety and overthinking. The mantra empowers the reader to know their value is beyon…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, January 2, 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…
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This book includes tools for children to cope with stress in various areas of their lives:; On the playground with the school bully; At home with siblings; In the classroom with difficult tasks; After school with peer pressures; Easily adaptable to multiple scenarios, scripts and activities lead na…
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A book for kids about anxiety. Kids can do amazing things with the right information. Understanding why anxiety feels the way it does and where the physical symptoms come from is a powerful step in turning anxiety around. Anxiety explained, kids empowered.; For ages 5-12 (and up).
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Stress can make you feel anxious, awful, and afraid. It can leave you jumpy and jittery, upset and uptight. When kids show signs of stress, they need stress management tools that work. With jokes, fun illustrations, and plenty of authentic examples, this book helps kids understand what stress is?an…
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If kids with anxiety could see themselves the way we see them, they would feel so much bigger than their anxiety. They would feel so much bigger than everything.; This book explains how the same brain that can make them feel anxious sometimes, also comes with amazing strengths. It also includes pow…
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In this go-to guide for teens, four anxiety experts offer tangible tips and tools you can use every day to rewire your anxious brain; manage fears, stress, and worry; and get back to living your life.; For ages 12+.
This book as meant as a companion to Taming worry dragons: A manual for children, parents, and other coaches. It is not meant as a standalone book. This is part of the TWD Series.; This pocket-sized book provides an overview of taming worry dragons (types of worries, how they affect your body and t…
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When we learn about something bad - even when we hear only bits and pieces of it - our brains get busy trying to make sense of what we've heard. Seeing distressing events on the news, or hearing about them later, can feel scary and overwhelming. Talking about what happened, and how we feel about it…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, May 29, 2023 |
