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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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Created by health care professionals at BC Children's Hospital, this manual helps teach kids how to manage their anxiety. Using cognitive behavioural therapy in a language kids can understand, it explains what anxiety is and provides helpful coping strategies. There are also tips for parents and ot…
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Classroom-based 8 session program aimed at anxiety prevention. Children will learn about anxiety and worries using the concept of "Worry Dragons". The focus is on teaching general anxiety management strategies for children. To be used with "The kid's guide to taming worry dragons".
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In this friendly guide just for teens, you'll gain a greater understanding of how uncertainty can trigger feelings of anxiety, fear, worry, and self-doubt. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the book offers ten skills-based tips to help you t…
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In The Anxiety and Depression Workbook for Teens, you'll find straightforward and easy-to-implement cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you stay one step ahead of your symptoms, connect with friends, try new things, bounce back from setbacks, and start feeling better right away. You'l…
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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+.
Social Anxiety Relief for Teens offers a simple, five-step cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program to help you stop your fears and worries from getting the best of you. You'll learn to recognize your triggers and identify the unhelpful behaviors you use to try to cope with or avoid them now. The…
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Using a proven-effective approach rooted in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), When Anxiety Makes You Angry will help you identify the anxiety beneath your anger, accept difficult emotions?rather than fighting or trying to ignore them?and learn healthy coping and self-regulation ski…
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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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Anxiety-busting tools for kids ages 6 to 9; Being young doesn't stop kids from worrying. This anxiety workbook for kids, created by a clinical psychologist, is full of fun exercises designed to help kids learn how to work through feelings of discomfort or worry. Each of the activities features kid-…
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Binnie is an energetic baboon, who bounces around the lush green mountains of Rwanda in East Africa. But like many of us, Binnie often feels worried and stressed, and these worries can get in her way! What if she gets lost in the jungle, or her family gets sick? What if no one likes her? Sometimes …
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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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In The OCD Workbook for Teens, therapist and OCD expert Jon Hershfield offers proven-effective mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you deal with your worst OCD symptoms. You'll learn how to stay present in the moment, manage obsessive thoughts, make peace with uncertai…
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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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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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Encourages young readers to explore the "long, winding tunnel" of the grieving process and to keep going in the face of terrible loss and sadness.
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Anxiety is the leading childhood mental health diagnosis.; This book teaches young children about their anxiety (worries) and how to relax their bodies. The book is filled with wonderfully goofy illustrations that communicate how to recognize stress and moods before they spin out of control.; The d…
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This anime-illustrated guidebook is written for teens and young adults to learn how the social mind is expected to work in order to effectively relate to others at school, at work, in the community and even at home.
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In this friendly guide, psychologist and ADHD expert Lara Honos-Webb offers six powerful "super skills" to help you pay attention, increase productivity, and get organized so you can achieve your goals and live your best life.
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This down-to-earth guide provides parents with an approach for maintaining a candid, open, mutually respectful dialogue with their teens. They cover how to: listen and respond helpfully to your teenager's concerns; express your irritation or anger without being hurtful; take action without punishin…
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Covering all stages in a child's life, from toddlers to teenagers and their postsecondary years, this book offers practical advice to parents that will help their children develop into capable, independent adults. This resource examines a parent's influence over a child's playtime, temperament, fr…
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Written for teenagers, this book covers the entire range of situations in which youth may find themselves grieving a death, whether the cause was old age, terminal illness, school violence, or suicide. The author helps youth address the gamut of strong and difficult emotions they will experience an…
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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.
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.
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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…
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"As parents, we worry about our children - about their physical health, performance at school, the types of friends they have, and, of course, their mental health. Every day seems to bring new and expanding issues and disorders and troubling statistics about the rise of mental illness in children a…
"As parents, we worry about our children - about their physical health, performance at school, the types of friends they have, and, of course, their mental health. Every day seems to bring new and expanding issues and disorders and troubling statistics about the rise of mental illness in children a…
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A young boy and his mother hatch a step-by-step plan to overcome his fear of dogs. Includes a note to parents and caregivers about anxiety, anxiety disorders, and exposure therapy.
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Adolescence is tricky at the best of times, let alone for an individual with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia. Amanda Kirby, Medical Director of the Dyscovery Centre and the mother of a DCD child herself, addresses the main difficulties encountered by adolescents …
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Scaredy Squirrel would rather stay in his safe and familiar tree, following his carefully planned routine, than risk venturing out into the unknown. Until one day, something happens that is not part of his plan...
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Today's media-saturated teenagers are bombarded with mixed messages that distort their self-image and lead many to overeat and others to starve themselves. When "I feel fat" becomes a teen's common refrain, how can worried parents respond constructively? With this book, Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer …
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This book offers powerful, step-by-step treatment strategies for panic disorders, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), worry, and fear.; You will also find new information on relapse prevention after successful …
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers. This book addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for teens to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for ?carpe diem? actions tha…
Dragons show up when you least expect them. You turn around, and there they are. You think: am I dreaming? But you aren't.; This beautiful, gently humorous book from an award-winning author is a must-have for anyone whose worries can sometimes seem bigger than they really are..
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This book provides a completely parent-based treatment program for child and adolescent anxiety. Parents will learn how to alleviate their children's anxiety by changing the way they themselves respond to their children's symptoms--importantly, parents are not required to impose changes on their ch…
With more than 150,000 copies sold, this fully revised and updated edition of the classic self-help guide for parents offers cutting-edge, proven-effective techniques for helping your child overcome anxiety and thrive.; Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But at …
All children feel afraid at times, from being afraid of the dark, to monsters, to things that might happen, and need manageable, step-by-step strategies for coping with their fears. This book reassures children that everyone feels scared sometimes and that being afraid is not silly. Kids will learn…
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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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It?s hard for teens to be happy when they?ve created a very narrow window of what defines success. The goal of this helpful book is to encourage teens to maintain their desire to achieve without striving to always be perfect and to appreciate and love who they are just as they are, not for what the…
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This book tackles children's feelings of anxiety around current events and what is portrayed in the news. Scary news is an inevitable part of life. This book can support and guide efforts to help scary news seem a bit more manageable for young people.; Whether from television news reports, the car …
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Avi is an anxious avocado who worries about everything, but one day he discovers that the more he takes a chance and says yes to new things the smaller his fears become. Includes a note to parents, caregivers, and teachers.
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This book provides a completely parent-based treatment program for child and adolescent anxiety. Parents will learn how to alleviate their children's anxiety by changing the way they themselves respond to their children's symptoms--importantly, parents are not required to impose changes on their ch…
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Les enfants anxieux sont en quelque sorte les otages de leurs peurs. Ils font tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour éviter les situations redoutées et posent sans cesse les mêmes questions angoissées. Pourtant, les réponses qu'on leur donne ne leur apportent pour ainsi dire aucun réconfort.
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Breathr offers a variety of mindfulness practices and guided meditations that can be used anywhere, anytime, such as body scans, guided breathing, walking meditation, and self-compassion practices. The app was developed by the BC Children's Centre for Mindfulness and BC Children's Kelty Mental Heal…
Breathr offers a variety of mindfulness practices and guided meditations that can be used anywhere, anytime, such as body scans, guided breathing, walking meditation, and self-compassion practices. The app was developed by the BC Children's Centre for Mindfulness and BC Children's Kelty Mental Heal…
Breath Ball helps you to overcome high stress situations, to meditate, and to relax. It comes with four breathing exercises:; - The cardiac coherence breathing exercise is used to enter a meditative trance for deep relaxation; - Prof. Dr. Loew's slow paced breathing technique is used to calm down a…
Breath Ball helps you to overcome high stress situations, to meditate, and to relax. It comes with four breathing exercises:; - The cardiac coherence breathing exercise is used to enter a meditative trance for deep relaxation; - Prof. Dr. Loew's slow paced breathing technique is used to calm down a…
Wysa is an emotionally intelligent chatbot that uses AI to react to the emotions you express. Unlock techniques that help you cope with challenges. For extra support, take guidance from qualified mental health professional. Leveraging behavioral techniques, mental health professional help you ident…
Wysa is an emotionally intelligent chatbot that uses AI to react to the emotions you express. Unlock techniques that help you cope with challenges. For extra support, take guidance from qualified mental health professional. Leveraging behavioral techniques, mental health professional help you ident…
Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction…
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