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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.
Terrible things happen to children. Traumatic events in the lives of their families, their friends or in the world leave children feeling confused, insecure and frightened. Some things happen in nature like floods and earthquakes. People, also cause violence and trauma. This book is designed to hel…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Illustrated book dealing with the many complicated feelings the well child experiences in a situation where a sibling is ill: guilt about having caused the illness, fear that the sibling will die, anger over being left out, anxiety about catching the sickness, and longing for life to return to the …
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available | ||
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This book is a collection of comforting, down-to-earth thoughts and meditations, including the authentic voices of survivors, for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
This is a book offering support for young children when a brother or sister is in hospital. It explores the emotions that go through children's minds when a sibling is in hospital.
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 | ||
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Join Baby, Bunny and Fido as they learn how to use a potty. This book will help to make this everyday activity familiar to very young children. Each bright, friendly picture has lots to look at, point to and talk about and will entertain babies and toddlers, as well as adults.
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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 |
First-person accounts of teenagers who overcame major life obstacles with insight, independence, relationships, initiative, creativity, humor, and morality. This inspiring book uses teens' stories to discuss "asking tough questions", "being your own person", connecting with people and "doing the r…
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This book presents ideas to help teens recognize mourning as a natural process of loss, reassures them not be afraid of deep emotions, and shows them how to release grief in healthy, positive ways.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 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…
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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings o…
| copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 12, 2024 | ||
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of…
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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 |
A journal for teens to make them understand that their feelings of loss are normal. It is intended for teens to write in it to be able to explore their feelings and get them out.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Casey and his father find a special way to share their love when his father has to go away on business. Includes a note to parents.
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This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 17, 2024 |
A small book packed with realistic ideas for first things to do when a baby dies and simple funeral planning.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
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…
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To Kabat-Zinn,, the author, meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous distractions of modern life. This book presents basic …
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In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute - now the world's largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth -Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stori…
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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.
| Copy 7 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 | ||
| Copy 5 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 13, 2024 | ||
| Copy 9 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | ||
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