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Supported by clinical data, Mental Imagery Therapy for Autism (MITA) is a unique, early-intervention application for children with language delay and autism. MITA trains mental integration and language, starting with simple vocabulary, and progressing towards higher forms of language, such as adjec…
Calm Harm provides some immediate techniques to help break the cycle of self-harm behaviours and explore underlying trigger factors; build a safety net of helpful thoughts, behaviours and access to supportive people; and provides the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. It also provides signpos…
This is a resource app for you to share with your child to help teach skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence. Tap and touch to help the monster friend take deep breaths, think of plans, and try them out!
The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work togethe…
This app is designed for children aged 8-12 and their parents to build healthy habits by following the simple, yet effective, Live 5-2-1-0 message: FIVE or more vegetables and fruits, no more than TWO hours of recreational screen time, at least ONE hour of active play, and ZERO sugary drinks every …
The app focuses on positive body, body acceptance, distress, preoccupations with one?s appearance or perceived flaws. Features include: 15 free levels to learn and improve, 1 free daily training level, 500+ challenges including topics such as body-focused self-esteem, importance of appearance, sham…
This app will guide you through creating a personalized suicide safety plan that will help support you when you are feeling sad or hopeless, or experiencing thoughts of suicide. The plan is intended to be developed together with a healthcare professional, but can also be built on your own, or with …
In Alphabreaths, children will learn their ABCs and the basics of mindfulness through playful breathing exercises. Breaths like Mountain Breath and Redwood Breath will connect them with nature, while breaths like Heart Breath and Wish Breath will help them remember to fill their heart with gratitud…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 17, 2024 |
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…
eMoods is a free mood tracker app that lets you:; - Easily chart your daily highs and lows, sleep, medications, and other symptoms related to common mood disorders like Bipolar/Manic Depressive illness, Depression, and Anxiety.; - Email a printable PDF report at the end of each month to your doctor…
Daylio is a self-care bullet journal with goals, a mood diary, and happiness tracker. The app enables you to keep a private journal without having to type a single line.
Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking audiobook shows yo…
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Marvin isn't like other gorillas. He doesn't stomp his feet and he never ever pounds his chest with a thump thump roar. Marvin is mindful. He's focused. He's calm...and he's about to teach his grandpa to be a king of calm, too! Includes a reader's note loaded with information about living mindfully…
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With clever, inventive art and universally relatable themes, A Little Space for Me by Jennifer Gray Olson is a heartwarming picture book about the importance of mindfulness, understanding, and finding a moment of peace within a big, busy world.; Sometimes, when it's too loud, too crowded, too messy…
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"If you have anxiety or suffer from panic attacks, little things like driving, being at a party where you don't know anyone, or even going to the grocery store can seem overwhelming. But these little things are a part of everyday life, and if you try to avoid them, you may end up feeling alienated,…
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Teach children the basics of mindful breathing - along with their ABCs - in this playful and interactive picture book.; In Alphabreaths Too, children learn their ABCs along with the basics of mindfulness through fun exercises and illustrations they?ll want to come back to again and again. Each lett…
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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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Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work - which gave …
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This workbook teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program for alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Includes an MP3 CD with 21 guided meditations.; Also available as an eBook.
This workbook teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program for alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Includes an MP3 CD with 21 guided meditations.; Also available as an eBook.
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