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Written by a yoga instructor and former chronic pain sufferer, this resource contains gentle postures and practical strategies for ending pain. Also includes: deep relaxation practices drawn from yogic tradition and psychological techniques for helping the reader dissolve pain.; Table of Contents:;…
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An introduction to the hospital for young children. Describes hospital situations and people such as nurses, surgeons, anaesthesia, and the hospital ward in an amusing, friendly way.
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In everyday language accompanied by illustrations, this book discusses how pain responses are produced by the brain: how responses to injury from the autonomic motor and immune systems in your body contribute to pain, and why pain can persist after tissues have had plenty of time to heal. It aims t…
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"The vast majority of physical injuries incurred by active people begin with muscular injuries that are not addressed by the conventional medical approach to orthopedic care. Injuries of this type are generally too minor to warrant splinting, casting, or medication and often do not prevent particip…
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Co-developed by the Society of Pediatric Nurses and the American Nurses Association, this practice-focused handbook is built around family-centered care. This FCC model and standard of pediatric healthcare practice focuses on the child within the context of the child's family as a unit, not on the …
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Written in positive and informal languaget this book is a guide to dealing with the common problems of stool withholding, soiling and wetting in young children. It gives insight into the perspectives of both children and parents, enabling a clear understanding of the issue.; Using friendly and info…
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A case study of a twelve-year-old boy who developed anorexia nervosa. Contains information intended to be helpful for parents, teachers and sports coaching staff.
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In addition to food recipes, this book has tips for cooking substitution, entertaining, a list of resources, as well as a detailed trouble-shooting chart for the gluten-free baker. The author also offers advice on how to deal with situations outside the home that may compromise a child’s diet, such…
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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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This manual offers practical approaches to families struggling to help their children solve the many puzzles of daily living. The strategies and selected examples and vignettes provide parents with a foundation for building more precise and effective teaching methods.
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Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simpl…
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A book that describes the author's journey through sorrow after experiencing thre miscarriages and the death of an infant son. It is a devotional collection to help others grieve and invities to presents hurts before God and to recieve over time the healing that He alone can provide.
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This sixth title in Hagman's "Gluten-free" series follows up on volumes covering bread and dessert with recipes for everything from Fruited Dressing for Pork and Chicken and Four-Star Chili to Biscuits and Gravy, Microwave Chicken and Dumplings and Chocolate Pecan Cupcakes.
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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…
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Kids learn ways to manage and relieve the pain of common headaches and stomachaches, as well as pain related to injuries and illness. Self-care skills include belly breathing, positive self-talk, aromatherapy, and acupressure.
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This illustrated book is a tool for introducing children to the idea of using their imaginations to cope with pain.
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This is a guide to control the pain that plagues a child from headaches to arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and more. Explains how to soothe the nervous system, reactivate the body's natural pain control mechanisms, determine which medications are most effective, implement relaxat…
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This book challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain …
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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 fully updated second edition of Grief in Children explains children's understanding of death at different ages and provides information on how the adults around them can best help them cope.; Whether a child experiences the death or loss of a friend, family member, classmate or teacher, it is …
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Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research and methodologies, the fourth edition of the classic guide written specifically for parents, friends, and caregivers of individuals with eating disorders.; For more than thirty years, this classic guide has been an essential resource for the ?…
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This eBook is an anxiety workbook for children age 5-11. Best Practice Guidelines for managing anxiety in this workbook have been adapted to be fun, engaging, and child friendly.
Aimed towards parents of children who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Includes information on strategies for success, structure, routine, consistency, expectations, discipline, comfort area, sensory issues, communication & language, daily life skills, social skills, crisis management, …
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This book examines child and adolescent grief in a variety of situations. Parental loss, sibling loss, and loss of a friend are each addressed in their own chapters. Other chapters examine play therapy, protocols for schools, use of the Internet as a coping tool, and the recommendations for reading…
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For all teachers and children, here are 160 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible worksheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills.
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This illustrated guide discusses educational support aids and strategies for children with autism. It builds on the need for visual support and visual structure, covering such areas as hygiene, dressing routines, preparation for school and meatimes, and establishing daily and weekly schedules.
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This illustrated book is about a boy who is receiving treatment for encopresis, or soiling. Helps children understand the causes and cure. Includes note to parents from clinical psychologist.
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Sally Sanders is good at everything she does, or so it seems. Secretly she is afraid that if she can't do something well, or be the best, she will feel like a failure. She is scared that she is not "good enough." As a perfectionist, hitting the wrong note at a piano recital, or not making the socce…
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This guide is designed to provide service providers with a succinct summary of basic information to guide frontline intervention.
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This illustrated book is a guide for children undergoing bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Written from the perspective of a child, it helps them understand why they need a bone marrow transplant, how it works and and some of the things that they can expect will happen.
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This book is written specifically for parents, teachers, and all school personnel who work with children living with congenital heart disease. It provides detailed, practical suggestions for developing strong, supportive relationships between parents and teachers.
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This guide, intended for children aged five through twelve years, has been developed using children’s ideas, artwork and play. It shares children’s worries and feelings about living in violent homes.
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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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The ABC?s of Anger leads children to discovery! It contains easy-to-read stories involving some aspect of the theme ?anger.? It provides children with an awareness of differing degrees of anger and helps them explore choices for responding when they are anger.; [...]; Each story begins with a lette…
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This information guide is for parents and caregivers of young children who have difficulty socializing and interacting with others. TalkAbility offers simple approaches to parents in helping their children develop better social skills for engaging in conversations and making friends. The ideas in t…
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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, …
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This is a two-part book written for caregivers and professionals who work with children with feeding problems. It presents behavioral interventions and approaches on solving a child's resistance to eating. * Part One was specifically written for teachers, parents, and caregivers with no prior profe…
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This book explains the best practices and procedures for helping children master the finger and hand skills needed for home and school activities..
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Depicts, step by step, children demonstrating various social skills. Each skill is formatted sequentially, similar to a cartoon strip, with digital pictures of actual children combined with text and cartoon bubbles to denote what the children are saying - and sometimes thinking - as they engage in …
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Especially designed for children with autism spectrum disorders, "foreign language backgrounds, or language-learning impairments that make it difficult for them to comprehend figurative language," this book presents idioms and their definitions. The sayings are broken down into sections by category…
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This illustreated book is for children who hold in their bowel movements and have fears about using the potty. Includes a note to parents by the author.
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In plain language, the author addresses: diagnosis; basic symptoms and its effect on school, work, home and relationships; indicators to predict the future; as well as treatment, including counseling, school interventions, social skills training, behaviour management and medication. Of interest t…
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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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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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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…
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This resource, for parents and professionals, is written by a parent of a child with down syndrome who is also a sexual educator. It provides information about how to educate children and youth with intellectual disabilities about human sexuality, including such topics as: private body parts; expre…
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This book gives all classroom teachers, special educators, and administrators a collection of ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities. It is a comprehensive resource that helps teachers reach students with varied learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors. The authors offer a t…
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In this book, author Cara Hobday proposes healthy, quick recipes for packed lunches kids can take to school each morning. The nutrients provided by each lunch are listed in easy-to-read boxes that ensure children get the needed fuel to keep them fit and strong.
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This book is a systematic and comprehensive toilet training guidebook, that addresses the challenges associated with toilet training children with autism and related disorders. Understanding that typical strategies are frequently ineffective when used with children with special needs, this resource…
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This book is designed for parents, therapists, and other caregivers to help young children with gross motor delays learn and practice motor skills outside of therapy sessions. Written by an experienced physical therapist who is also the mother of a child with cerebral palsy, this comprehensive guid…
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