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Based in dialectical behavior therapy, this workbook helps teens learn the skills they need to ride the ups and downs of life with grace and confidence. This book offers techniques to help teenagers: 1) stay calm and mindful in difficult situations, 2) effectively manage out-of-control emotions, 3)…
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Harness the power of play--101 creative ways for you and your child to bond, have fun, and so much more!; What's the best way for children to relate to the world around them? Play! In this book, you'll find a collection of joyful activities that allow parents of children ages 3 to 9 to unlock the t…
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Occupational therapy uses simple, fun activities to help kids learn the skills they need for daily life, from eating meals and writing the alphabet to socializing with friends and family. Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids is designed to help children at all developmental ability levels stren…
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The popular, research-based Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) model is used in schools and childcare settings to address challenging behaviours in children with and without disabilties. Now, with the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families (PTR-F) model in this accessible guidebook, you can use this prove…
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The Antidepressant Skills Workbook (ASW) is a self-care manual is based on the experience of the authors and on scientific research about which strategies work best in managing depression. It provides an overview of depression, explains how it can be effectively managed according to the best availa…
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Does your child experience high levels of anxiety and BIG emotions? Do they lack the confidence to seek out peers and to see others' perspectives? Do you want to help build social and emotional skills but find yourself so busy managing the meltdowns and behaviors that come from anxiety, sensitivity…
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Provides information for women regarding depression during pregnancy and following the birth.; Includes: Introduction for Health Care Providers; Information for Women; Getting Help - Treatment Options, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Self-Care: The NEST-S Program; Action - Making Positive Changes, Cha…
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This book provides a road map of thoughtfully designed lessons to help educators empower students to develop self-regulatory abilities - abilities that research demonstrates will ensure success in life well beyond the classroom. This manual includes teaching strategies as well as concrete examples …
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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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Many people experience depression at one time or another in their lives, but during the adolescent years, the vast number of physical, emotional, and mental changes that occur make teens even more susceptible to feelings of confusion or sadness. However your depression originates, you must to learn…
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With the help of this handy guide, you can bring tried and tested occupational therapy activities into your home and encourage your child to succeed with everyday tasks while having fun in the process.; This expanded edition of the award-winning book includes new advice on toilet training, coping w…
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Imagine having the flu, while lying in a bed of ants, listening to heavy metal at high volume, and trying to do calculus. Now consider living in that body all the time. It becomes easy to understand how kids with difficulties processing and controlling sensory information can become avoidant, anxio…
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In The Little Frog Awakes, Eline Snel offers parents of young children advice and tools for responding mindfully and effectively in the moment. These skills help us regain trust in ourselves and in the integral wholeness of our kids. And when we make mindfulness practice a part of daily life, it gi…
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"Stephen Porges is the world's leading expert on relating the autonomic nervous system, a neural system that oversees largely unconscious functions such as heart rate and respiration, to social behavior. He is also the creator of the groundbreaking polyvagal theory, which has been adopted by clinic…
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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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Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions.
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The first parenting book to bring the science and psychology of children's behavior together to build brain/body awareness for self-regulation and success Self-Reg is a ground-breaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child's emotions and behavior that serves as a practical …
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This workbook contains the children's Activity Sheets for learning about Worry Dragons, Tools for taming them, and Detective Work for corresponding sessions in the Facilitator's Manual. A Tool Box template is included for making their own toolbox to keep track of the Worry Dragon Taming Tools they…
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This guide discusses how baby blues and depression may affect women's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being and what to do if that occurs.; Part 1 - Basic Aboriginal Teachings; Part 2 - Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the first year of being a parent; Part 3 - Feelings during Pregnancy an…
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Learning to Work provides engaging and age-appropriate reading material for older beginning readers. The stories are intended for older students who are not yet reading conventionally for a variety of reasons, including cognitive delays and significant learning disabilities. Along with building rea…
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This guide was created to help women who are dealing with anxiety during pregnancy and following the birth of their baby. It includes educational information that may be worked through gradually, and will help you to better manage symptoms by making changes in your thinking, behavior and self-care …
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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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Learning for Life is an education initiative that aims to develop the various aspects of digital health literacy and promote healthy lifestyle behaviours among upper elementary students and families in BC. Learning for life provides students with the competencies to use technology to support their …
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Fun, engaging, hands-on activities to help kids ages 5-9 be kind to themselves and others, and build the emotional strength and resilience needed to thrive!; Children today face many challenges; and if you are a parent, teacher, or a professional working with kids, you may be seeking answers on how…
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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Written by world-renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel, and Deena Margolin, LMFT, co-founder of the popular online community Big Little Feelings, NowMaps is a one-of-a-kind adventure that introduces the neuroscience of social-emotional learning in a fun, interactive way!; Using four easy-to-rem…
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Ce livre a été écrit par Kinsley Johnstone, l'épouse de Matthew Johnstone, auteur de Chuuut, petit guide illustré pour méditer autrement, et illustré par Matthew lui-même. Elle n'avait aucune idée de la signification du mot dépression jusqu'à ce que son mari en soit atteint et n'aurait jamais cru q…
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Sans aucune prétention psycho-médicale, ce livre décrit les états d'âme et de corps vécus par l'auteure de façon très personnelle, en mots mais surtout en images, permettant au lecteur de se sentir, le temps d'une lecture, dans la peau d'un malade de plus en plus fréquent dans notre société : le dé…
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C'est sous la forme de la confidence que l'auteure décrit de manière très personnelle, en mots et en images et sans jamais tomber dans la lourdeur ou la complaisance les questionnements et réflexions qui accompagnent les personnes souffrant ou ayant souffert de dépression.
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"Ever since Winston Churchill popularized the term Black Dog to describe the hellish bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life, it has become the shorthand for the condition suffered by millions of people from all walks of life. There are many different breeds of Black Dog, and he is …
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"Ever since Winston Churchill popularized the term Black Dog to describe the hellish bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life, it has become the shorthand for the disease that millions of people suffer, often in shame and silence.; "I Had A Black Dog is Matthew Johnsone's illuminatin…
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Sadness is an emotion that everyone feels at some time or another. But sometimes you might feel a sadness so long and so deep and dark that it seems impossible to find happiness. That kind of sadness is called depression. Meh is a wordless picture book about one boy's journey through depression. Di…
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Abigail has a dark cloud. One day it appears and then it's always with her, taking different shapes. At school, it's a ball of worries following behind her. At ballet class, it's a fog that gets in the way of her grand jetés. At a birthday party, it's a shadow that takes away her appetite. How can …
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When a boy is swept up in a wave of sadness, he finds himself tumbling. But when he remembers that this sadness won't last forever, and that the wave will eventually carry him back to shore, he discovers his friends and family waiting to gently pull him out of the water and back home.
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Votre enfant semble-t-il souvent malheureux ou inquiet? Éprouve-t-il des difficultés à dormir ou à se concentrer? Souffre-t-il d'une phobie ou encore d'une angoisse à l'idée d'attirer l'attention? Si vous reconnaissez l'un ou l'autre de ces symptômes chez lui, il souffre peut-être d'une dépression…
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This workbook blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). You will learn how pain affects both your mind and body, how negative emotions can make pain worse, and strategies to help you turn the volume down on your pain, so you can go back to enjoying act…
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Your teen years are a time of change, growth, and?all too often?psychological struggle. To make matters worse, you are often your own worst critic. The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens offers valuable tools based in mindfulness and self-compassion to help you overcome self-judgment and self-criti…
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This easy-to-follow and engaging workbook is designed to help young adults ages fourteen and up develop invaluable communication skills and practice with interactions they would encounter in everyday life. Teens will also find information on topics that are imperative for a successful transition in…
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The most effective treatment for eating disorders is family-based, and parents play an essential role. Yet most struggle to know what to do and how to do it.; With a wealth of practical examples and tips that have helped many tens of thousands of relieved parents, Eva Musby guides you through each …
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A series of activities parents can easily fit into everyday routines as a way to help children gain and improve social competence. Arranged around three major themes: at home, in the community, and holidays and special events
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) involves difficulties in social interaction and communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. Approximately half of children with ASD also exhibit disruptive behaviors such as tantrums and aggression, which can be stressful for the child and family.; Pa…
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If you've ever struggled with depression, take heart. Mindfulness, a simple yet powerful way of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and life experiences, can help you break the cycle of chronic unhappiness once and for all. In The Mindful Way through Depression, four uniquely qualified…
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Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens focuses on the social issues and challenges faced by pre-adolescents and adolescents and introduces social concepts and strategies that can help individuals navigate these tricky years. Social rules and expectations change with age; thinking and behavior that was ap…
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Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens focuses on the social issues and challenges faced by pre-adolescents and adolescents and introduces social concepts and strategies that can help individuals navigate these tricky years. Social rules and expectations change with age; thinking and behavior that was ap…
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This photocopiable activity book helps teens and tweens who are feeling voiceless, ineffective or fearful in response to events at a world, community or individual level. It incorporates exercises using art and craft, nutrition, mindfulness, yoga and other movement based activities.; This book offe…
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If you're seeking lasting relief from out-of-control anxiety, this is the book for you. It is grounded in cognitive behavior therapy, the proven treatment approach developed and tested over more than 25 years by pioneering clinician-researcher Aaron T. Beck. Now Dr. Beck and fellow cognitive therap…
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Dans les dernières semaines, Emma, elle n'allait vraiment pas bien. Personne ne pouvait le nier. Mes parents étaient trop raisonnables, ils la sermonnaient, exigeaient qu'elle se ressaisisse, qu'elle se secoue et qu'elle sourie. Le sourire, ils étaient lourds avec ce mot. Souris, Emma, tu as la vie…
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Millions of people will suffer from depression at some stage in their life. The Black Dog affects all relationships be it loved one, work place relations and even on a community level. Many may not have the tools to help support the sufferer and negate looking after their own wellbeing in the proce…
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Sexual health and sexuality can be difficult subjects for parents and caregivers to broach with autistic children, made more challenging when children are at the severe end of the autism spectrum. Some parents may even question the validity of teaching sexuality to those who are severely autistic. …
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This 11-session program uses Behavior Therapy to help your child become aware of his/her tics and the situations that make them worse. The program also includes relaxation techniques designed to help combat anxiety and stress, as well as relapse prevention strategies. Complete with psychoeducationa…
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