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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.
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals n…
Show your worries who?s boss―an OCD workbook for kids ages 6 to 11; If you worry a lot and have behaviors you can?t help repeating, you?re not alone―even though it can feel that way sometimes. The Standing Up to OCD Workbook for Kids has 40 fun activities to help you manage bad thoughts…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 17, 2024 |
This is a must-have guide for kids and teens ages 10 to 16 with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to help them take control and use their strengths to find success in school and in life. This fully updated second edition uses a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approach, including exposure/respo…
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This illustrated book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Using examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions, this interactive self-help book helps kids develop the skills needed to recognize and mor…
| Copy 6 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 | ||
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In this down-to-earth, fun and empowering book, Joe Wells talks about his teenage experience of OCD and all the coping mechanisms and treatment options that have worked for him. It's packed full of brilliant, honest advice for others struggling with this disorder, written by someone who understands…
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This workbook is aimed at people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), providing evidence-based approaches to understanding and managing OCD, day-to-day coping strategies, and self-help techniques to maintain progress.; Table of Contents:; Chapter 1 What is OCD? Its many faces; Chapter 2 A clos…
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An OCD book just for you?full of powerful tools and engaging illustrations to help you live the life you want to live, instead of being controlled by OCD.; Do you have thoughts that seem loud? Do your worries spiral out of control and then suck you in? Do intrusive thoughts show up and make you sca…
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Grounded in state-of-the-art treatment research, this compassionate guide helps you change your own behavior to support your loved one's recovery. By gently but firmly encouraging the person you care about to face their fears, you can stop being controlled by the disorder, disentangle yourself from…
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The first book for teens that explains the causes and impact of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The book is interspersed with accounts and artwork from young people with BDD, along with perspectives of their families. BDD is a debilitating mental health disorder, and this book gives advice on treat…
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This user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive?compulsive disorder (OCD). Ten flexible modules give clinicians tools for engaging kids and their parents and implementing successful exposure and response prevention…
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Ten flexible modules give clinicians tools for engaging kids and their parents and implementi…
| copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
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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Tens of thousands of readers are living freer, happier lives thanks to the clinically proven strategies in this book. Now thoroughly updated based on the latest science, the workbook helps OCD sufferers use the powerful techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)--the most effective treatment …
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. An aspiring hockey player travels back in time to meet with Olympic gold medalist and professional hockey player Chandra Gunn. Gunn has lived most of her life with epilepsy.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains why growth related disorders happen, tests that your health care team may perform, and the importance of nutrition.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how autism affects individuals, and their siblings.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 |
Join Vincent on his journey to learn more about how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder works in the brain and how ADHD is treated.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores why bed-wetting happens, and treatments.
Join Charlie on his journey to learn how leukemia is diagnosed, what cancer does to the body, and what to expect with leukemia treatment.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, April 3, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how infections work, and explains hand hygiene.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains different degrees of burn, scarring, and how grafting works.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how thalassemia affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how pneumonia affects the body, which tests diagnose pneumonia, how it's treated, and how to prevent it..
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, how chemotherapy works, and what to expect during treatment.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how asthma affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how scoliosis affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Join Dara on her journey to learn about her brother's osteosarcoma, how it affects his body, possible treatment options, and how to show her support.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Maggie learns about what happens before, during, and after an operation, and the surgical team who will be taking care of her.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Savi understand encephalitis.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Isaac understand his body and the procedure for photopheresis.
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Join Duke on his journey to learn more about his appendix, appendicitis, and appendectomy procedure.
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Join Mark on his journey through the human body to learn about how concussions affect the brain and concussion recovery.
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Join Tara on her journey to learn more about managing seizure triggers, epilepsy symptoms, and treatment.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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This book details powerful CBT skills to help you move past body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRB). You will learn why you engage in these behaviors, and how to identify the places, things, or experiences that cause your behavior to become worse. Finally, you will learn strategies to use when fa…
OCD.app Anxiety Mood Sleep is a mental health and sleep app designed for those with OCD, anxiety, and depression. The app touches on many topics, including: self esteem, belief in change, self criticism, negative thinking, coping, harm, comparing, perfectionism, emotions, social fears, self as an o…
OCD.app Anxiety Mood Sleep is a mental health and sleep app designed for those with OCD, anxiety, and depression. The app touches on many topics, including: self esteem, belief in change, self criticism, negative thinking, coping, harm, comparing, perfectionism, emotions, social fears, self as an o…
The first book offering support for parents and carers of children and young people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), this guidebook explains the condition as well as the impact that it may have in education settings, family life and socialisation.; The guide begins by explaining how and why BDD…
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Isaac Itkin can?t get away from his thoughts.; As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts.; The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn?t seem to be wor…
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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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The Medikidz help Freddy overcome his fears about having a blood test.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, and treatments for childhood cancer.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how ulcerative colitis affects the body, and how medication helps.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how primary immunodeficiency affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how epilepsy and epilepsy medicines can affect children and youth, and how to cope.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening exercise in childhood and youth help the body. The Medikidz also explain how not exercising can harm the body.
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The Medikidz teach Cameron, June, and Marcus what happens in a clinical trial and how clinical trials help doctors and scientists find new treatments to help kids with different illnesses around the world.
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The Medikidz take Raj on a trip through the human body to better understand how Crohn's disease/colitis affects the body and how he can manage it, in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Crohn's Disease.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Beth understand her body and how illness and replacement enzymes affects it.
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