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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 demonstration of various pain management techniques. Children and their parents learn various coping methods for frightening or painful treatment procedures.
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
A story for children who have had bad dreams. Helps the child develop and draw on their own resources for conquering nightmares.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
This handbook is designed to introduce women with special needs (for example, women with a developmental disability or learning disbility) to a variety of procedures which are collectively referred to as the GYN (or Pelvic) exam.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library Basement | Available |
A book aimed at helping parents of visually impaired babies by providing activities and play ideas.
| Copy 4 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Eighty of the world's leading ME/CFS authorities have contributed their knowledge to produce a 750-page encyclopedia on the disease process that may be one of the biggest single causes of chronic illness in the world today. Known in the United States as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and in Great Britain…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
This booklet is to teach parents about pain in children and to help them to ask for better care. It tells about sources of pain, how to measure it in children, and pain management.
This is a comprehensive resource for parents, teachers, counselors, health-care professionals, clergy and others concerned about the children in their lives. Suggests ways of explaining death to children and teens from a number of perspectives eg. philosophical, cultural and religious.
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Divided into three parts, this program demonstrates how to present yourself in the first few minutes of meeting someone, and why your attitude is so important. Part 1 discusses how to properly meet office staff, particularly when applying for a new job. Parts 2 and 3 build on the information pre…
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Divided into two parts, this program demonstrates how to create a wardrobe for yourself, and why your personal appearance is so important. Included is information on items to choose in creating a basic wardrobe for men and for women, considerations in choosing clothing - their fit, condition, appro…
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This book was written by 10 to 13-year-old boys for 10 to 13-year-old kids. This book deals with: illegality of sexual abuse, consequences, personal responsibility, empathy, denial, and normal sexuality.
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Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.
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Children, now young adults, who participated in pain management program "No Fears No Tears, 1986." discuss the impact of cancer on their lives.
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This training package looks at the delicate issue of touch and boundaries in providing personal care to people with developmental disabilities. Included in this package are two videos totaling almost three hours on "touch", "privacy" and "boundaries" by renowned trainer David Hingsburger. Along w…
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Unlike a leg in a cast, invisible chronic illness (ICI) has no observable symptoms. Consequently, people who suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and many other miseries often endure not only the ailment but dismissive and negative reactions from others.; Since its first publication, Sick and…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 26, 2024 |
The goal of the video is to give accurate information regarding sexuality and sexual expression. This is accomplished by the straightforward, private manner in which the narrator addresses the issues of: why a person masturbates; when and where it is appropriate to do so; and very concretely dem…
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Set includes a child, youth and adult doll.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library STACKS | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | ||
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library STACKS | Available |
Set includes a child, youth and adult doll.
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Nevermind always carries on whatever happens! Each time something horrible happens to him he just tucks his feelings away and carries on with life. Find out what happens to Nevermind and how he begins to understand that his feelings do matter, how he learns to express them and stand up for himself.…
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Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides it is just too painful to ever love again. When he meets some big tough Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily Bipley meets …
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This book is written by Liz Kulp, age 13, who was born with Fetal Alcohol Effects, and her mother. Describing her personal journey, this book provides insight about what it is like to live with FAE. A useful book for families and professionals who want to learn how to help and understand children…
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