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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.
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 |
This picture book prepares children for a joint injection. Using simple language and photos, the story explains who the child will meet, and what will happen, when they come to the Medial Day Unit for this procedure.
This picture book prepares children for a procedure at BC Children's Hospital. Using simple language and photos, the story explains who the child will meet, and what will happen when they come to hospital. The book also includes links to videos, and what your child can expect if they stay overnight.
This activity book was written by a former Art Therapist with the Patient and Family Counselling Program and an Oncology Nursing Practice Leader with the BC Cancer Agency. It is designed for children, ages 6 to 12, to help them learn, creative ways of coping when a family member is living with can…
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
This pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written in Simplified Chinese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written in Punjabi, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written by a BC Children's Hospital pediatrician specializing in teen and adolescent medicine, this book offers a breakthrough mindfulness program to help you deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce conflicts with family and friends.
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A guide for parents of children and adolescents who have difficulty with executive functioning skills including; planning and organization, self-monitoring, impulse control, working memory, and initiating tasks. This book offers short-term strategies and ways to build skills needed for long-term, …
| Copy 3 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 | ||
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Children with Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing struggle to regulate their emotions and behaviors in response to sensory stimulation. This book explains how to recognize these disorders, which are often misdiagnosed, and offers practical ways of helping children with regulation disorders.;…
This booklet provides information on what to expect physically and emotionally as you deal with the immediate stages of grief in the hours, days and weeks after giving birth.; This booklet is a companion to the bcwomens.ca website.; Keywords have been highlighted in each section under 'resources + …
This pamphlet provides information and suggestions for how to support a woman who's currently in or has been in an abusive relationship.
A pamphlet that explains what to expect after dental treatment. It provides post operative information on: bleeding, cleaning, stitches and eating.
This pamphlet was developed by the Neurosciences Nursing Department at BC Children's Hospital to provide information to families about administering Midazolam in the nose.
This pamphlet was developed by the Neurosciences Nursing Department at BC Children's Hospital to provide information to families about administering Midazolam in the cheek.
Explains what a seizure is, what you should and should not do when your child is having a seizure.
This pamphlet provides information for new parents about the flu, precautions they can take to protect their baby from the flu virus, and what will happen if you or your baby gets the flu while staying in the hospital.
This booklet includes several handouts to help parents of children with diabetes and youth learn more about basal-bolus insulin with multiple daily injections (MDI). Some of the information will help in understanding what basal-bolus insulin therapy is; other information and exercises will help pa…
