Books
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Cory Helps Kids Cope with Abuse
Playful Activities for Traumatized Children Cory's Story and the variety of creative activities are specifically designed to help children cope with sexual abuse and trauma. Therapeutic games, art, puppets, and other engaging techniques address the eight components of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Includes a reproducible story, assessment and treatment activities, and detailed parent handouts. Geared to children aged 4 to 12.
$21.95
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Isabelle Henault Asperger's Syndrome & Sexuality
From Adolescence Through Adulthood Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger Syndrome. How do AS adolescents and their families cope with sexual feelings and behaviour? How do people with AS deal with intimacy and communication in sexual relationships? In this comprehensive and unique guide, Isabelle Henault delivers practical information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries.
$48.95
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Mastering Your Adult ADHD Client Workbook 2nd Edition
A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program, Client Workbook Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adulthood is a prevalent and impairing disorder. While medications have been effective in treating adult ADHD, the majority of individuals treated with medications still have symptoms that require additional skills and symptom management strategies.
$58.95
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Roger Meyer Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook
An Employment Workbook For Adults With Asperger Syndrome. Through step-by-step self-assessment, the reader is encouraged to engage actively in a self-paced exploration of their employment history, and ultimately to identify the work best suited to their personal needs, talents and strengths. The workbook contains practical exercises, with clear explanations and examples of how to use them. It leads the reader to identify and explore three jobs they have held in different life periods, their interests, skills and talents, and their application to work, their style of learning and style of work, the social skills required by specific jobs, as identified by other people than the autobiographer, the AS characteristics which further and impede work performance, successful and unsuccessful survival strategies, issues around diagnosis and disclosure which affect life at work and outside it, and creative problem solving for the present and the future - a personal wish list.
$68.00
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Tony Attwood Asperger's Syndrome
A Guide For Parents And Professionals The book provides a description and analysis of the unusual characteristics of the syndrome and practical strategies to reduce those that are most conspicuous or debilitating. Beginning with a chapter on diagnosis, including an assessment test, the book covers all aspects of the syndrome from language to social behaviour and motor clumsiness, concluding with a chapter based on the questions most frequently asked by those who come into contact with individuals with this syndrome. Covering the available literature in full, this guide brings together the most relevant and useful information on Asperger's Syndrome, incorporating case studies from the author's own practical experience as a Clinical Psychologist, with examples of, and numerous quotations from people with Asperger's Syndrome.
$33.95
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Posttraumatic Growth Workbook
Coming Through Trauma Wiser, Stronger, and More Resilient This unique, step-by-step workbook offers a new model for processing traumatic experiences in order to gain wisdom, strength, and resilience. With this guide, you'll learn more about traumatic experiences and their short- and long-term effects, discover where you are in your own process, explore vulnerability as an important aspect of post-traumatic strength, identify and develop other strengths for coping with-and growing beyond-your trauma, and successfully integrate your experience into your personal story.
$35.95
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Social Context and Self-Management
A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to someone who might struggle with such information, but have a relative strength in understanding systems. Using this approach can increase communication between someone with autism and their partner or support person. The goal of this easy-to-use book is to teach individuals, teams, or groups how and why to teach social information, as it relates to particular social environments and contexts. The Incredible 5-Point Scale was developed to increase co-operation and mutual understanding through a concrete visual system. This strategy can help to increase social understanding and self-management skills, and the examples used in this book are related to common social situations and social misunderstandings often faced by young adults.
$27.95
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Moment to Moment
Perspectives on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adolescence Young people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders suffer a wide range of disabilities (physical, emotional, and developmental) due to their prenatal exposure to alcohol. The interventions and treatment they require cover an even broader range. This book, Moment to Moment: Perspectives on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adolescence, is designed for families and professionals who provide care, treatment, and social services to adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. It provides detailed information about the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and provides further insight into the reasons behind the children's behaviors.
$35.95
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Living with Inattentive ADHD
Climbing the Circular Staircase of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Written by someone diagnosed late in life, this insightful memoir layers the author's personal experiences with practical revelations on issues common to those living with this condition, including growing up with undiagnosed ADHD, living with it as an adult, and frank discussions about the struggles and obstacles involved. ADHD profoundly affects every aspect of a person's daily life and emotional well-being. Living With Inattentive ADHD is your guide through this winding journey "circular staircase" with research-backed recommendations and advice given on everything from diagnosis, prescriptive medication, health habits, common problem areas and solutions, and more.
$21.95
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Johnathan Griffiths Asperger Meets Girl
Happy Endings For Asperger Boys Men with Asperger's Syndrome, young and old, experience difficulty with social interaction, which can be a stumbling block when it comes to getting a girlfriend. Here is a book that demystifies the enigma of 'relationships' by explaining everything in Asperger-friendly terms (some of them mathematical, naturally). Asperger Meets Girl provides hope for all hopeless wooers by offering a choice of three interrelated abstract models for understanding boy-girl relationships. And, to make life easier, these models are presented in graph form where possible. The book also gives valuable practical tips for maximizing one's chances of successfully developing a relationship, such as how to start a conversation without scaring the other person off, avoiding the inclination to stare and understanding the concept of 'personal space'.
$34.95
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George Lynn Asperger Plus Child
How to Identify and Help Children with Asperger Syndrome and Seven Common Co-existing Conditions: Bipolar Disorder, Nonverbal Learning Disability, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, High- Functioning Autism, Tourette's Syndrome, and Attention Deficit Disorder Author George Lynn combines current research with his own experience working for close to 20 years with children whom he calls attention different to create an indispensable guide about the many children with Asperger Syndrome who also demonstrate signs of other conditions. The book provides a map that helps people better understand the often complex issues of individuals with AS and, as a result, provide better services.
$34.95
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How to Do the Work
Recognize Your Patterns, Heal Your Past, Create Yourself This is an essential guide to creating a more authentic, and joyful life. Readers learn to recognize how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood activate harmful stress responses that continue on into adulthood. This continues patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviors can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell. This book offers tools to break free from destructive behaviors and reclaim your life. How to Meet Your Self is also available by the same author.
$25.99
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Non-Death Loss and Grief
Context and Clinical Implications Illustrated by case studies and clinical examples, this book focuses on the losses we encounter in everyday life and the role of these experiences in shaping our lives. It's important to have words to accurately express these living losses including the loss of communication with a loved one due to disease or trauma, which are often not acknowledged for the depth of their impact. Chapters showcase contributions from international leaders in the field and explore individual perspectives on loss as well as interpersonal and sociopolitical experiences.
$60.95
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My Grief Handbook
Why Grief Hurts and How to Cope Grief can be complicated and painful. Our memories, relationships, good times and worries are unique, and these all affect how we experience a loss. No two people will experience grief in the same way because all of our relationships are specific to us. Based on years of research, this book includes some first-hand experiences from people who have been through grief, to show how the ideas could work in real life. However, this is not another person's story. It is a guide to understanding your own.
$28.95
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How to Like Yourself
A Teen's Guide to Quieting Your Inner Critic and Building Lasting Self-Esteem This must-have guide offers real ways to help you fight back, be kind to yourself, and move forward with confidence. Inside, you'll learn the importance of self-forgiveness, accepting your faults, and how to focus on the things that make you awesome! You'll also learn strategies for defeating the dreaded ICK-the inner critic know-it-all who keeps knocking you down-and how to escape the common thought traps that hold you back from feeling good about yourself.
$43.50
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Deborah Gray Attaching In Adoption
This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to children's emotional needs and stages, and checklists are included to help parents assess how their child is doing at each developmental stage. The book covers a wide range of issues including international adoption, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and learning disabilities, and combines sound theory and direct advice with case examples throughout.
$41.95
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Daniel Hughes Attachment Focused Parenting
Effective Strategies to Care for Children A guide for all parents and a resource for all mental health clinicians and parent-educators who are searching for ways to effectively love, discipline, and communicate with children, this book presents the techniques and practices that are fundamental to optimal child development and family functioning-how to set limits, provide guidance, and manage the responsibilities and difficulties of daily life, while at the same time communicating safety, fun, joy, and love. Filled with valuable clinical vignettes and sample dialogues, Hughes shows how attachment-focused research can guide all those who care for children in their efforts to better raise them.
$45.00
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David Wallin Attachment In Psychotherapy
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness. Vivid case material illustrates how therapists can tailor interventions to fit the attachment needs of their patients, thus helping them to generate the internalized secure base for which their early relationships provided no foundation. Demonstrating the clinical uses of a focus on nonverbal interaction, the book describes powerful techniques for working with the emotional responses and bodily experiences of patient and therapist alike.
$65.95
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Susan Johnson & Valerie Whiffen Attachment Processes In Couple and Family Therapy
This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and children; the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships; and the ways attachment-oriented interventions can address individual problems as well as marital conflict and difficult family transitions. With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, the volume offers both general strategies and specific techniques for helping clients build stronger, more supportive relational bonds.
$79.95
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Struggling Readers Instruction Strategies
Why band-aids don't stick and worksheets don't work The practical, classroom-tested reading instruction strategies in Struggling Readers are carefully chosen to be effective with students in Grades 3-9. More than band-aid solutions that focus on discrete skills that don't transfer to real reading, this insightful book shows teachers how to give struggling readers what they really need: the opportunity to read texts they can and want to read; explicit instruction in long-term strategies they can use on their own; confidence in themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers.
$24.95
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Everyday Feelings Series (Ages 5-9)
Young children face many strong feelings, some of which can be difficult to handle. This series uses humor and compassion to show children how to help others and themselves feel better when dealing with challenging emotions. Lively art illustrates the stories with charm and energy. At the end of each book, a special section for adults presents ideas for helping children deal with feelings in healthy ways.
$140.95
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Polyvagal Practices
Bringing the benefits of polyvagal theory to readers through easy-to-implement exercises. Here, for the first time, is a layperson’s explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm. A polyvagal approach to life is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience. This short book offers an overview for nonspecialist readers and provides a series of exercises and meditations (practices) that allow readers to tune into their nervous systems, providing calming prompts to build and strengthen ventral vagal connections. This book includes a never-before-published comprehensive chapter on polyvagal theory, preceded by exercises that focus on mapping, reflecting, listening, deepening, creating, and connecting. Readers who want to change a pattern and find new rhythm for their nervous systems can use this material to work toward those goals.
$24.95
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Ellen Sabin Autism Acceptance Book: Being A Friend to Someone with Autism
The Autism Acceptance Book is an interactive, educational, and character-building book that introduces children to the challenges faced by people with autism while also supporting their personal journey toward appreciating and respecting people's differences. This book offers educational information, conversation-starters, and engaging exercises that invite children to walk in someone else's shoes as they learn to treat others the same ways they would like to be treated themselves. (Spiral Bound) Ages 6 to 13
$29.95
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Marguerite Rodger Autism Spectrum Disorder
Understanding Mental Health series. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a term used to describe a group of developmental disorders that include autism, Asperger Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and others. Many people with these disorders struggle with social interaction and communication. This informative book provides insight into how people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder experience the world around them and promotes understanding and acceptance. A chapter for friends and family discusses how to handle autism spectrum disorder and its effects on siblings and relatives. Grade 5-8.
$12.95
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