Books
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Kate McGrady Building Resiliency in Youth
A Trauma-Informed Guide for Working with Youth in Schools While trying to make sense of the world around them, our children and adolescents also often times face deeper and more individualized issues surrounding family, peer relations, community, and internal belief systems. The number of children and adolescents who have experienced mild to severe forms of trauma has risen exponentially. Parents, caretakers, educators, and professionals working to support youths must therefore be well-versed in trauma and resiliency. This book is a helpful tool. It offers information to help you better understand trauma and its impact on children and adolescents, details signs of trauma in children and adolescents, offers evidence-based practices, theories, and data on trauma and resiliency strategies and techniques that touch on all wellness points. These can be individualized to match specific needs. There is also a guide for successful trauma-informed professional growth and development and tips on how to avoid compassion fatigue.
$42.95
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Connecting With Our Children
Guiding Principles for Parents in a Troubled World Parents want a special relationship with their children. They want to guide their children through the rough spots in life and help them make the right decisions. Research shows that a special parental connection is extremely important in safeguarding children against dangers such as substance abuse, sexual promiscuity, criminal activity, and suicide. This is more important than ever before in today's troubled world. But what does making this connection mean? Based on Bowen family systems theory, this book shows parents how to build the connection found in better relationships.
$22.50
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Centre For Addiction And Mental Health Can I Catch It Like A Cold? Coping With a Parent's Depression
Young Alex's father had been a policeman until he began to suffer from depression, perhaps the most common mental health issue we face. Alex's questions are those that are often asked by the children of parents who have depression: is the parent simply lazy? Does he no longer care? And is it something I can catch, like a cold? In simple, straightforward language, the book explains what depression is and how it is treated. It also prepares a child for working with a helping professional. And perhaps most important, it reassures a child that he or she is not alone.
$19.99
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?
A Guide For Friends And Family Meet Adam - a young boy with AS. Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS - he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating their many talents. This illustrated book is ideally suited for boys and girls between 7 and 15 years old and also serves as an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.
$24.95
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Calm the Chaos Journal
A Daily Practice for a More Peaceful Life For anyone who feels overwhelmed by endless to-do lists and the stresses of everyday life, this daily journal helps calm inner chaos by inviting users to process Today" and look ahead to "Tomorrow." Filled with easy-to-follow prompts that encourage essential happiness habits-including self-care, kindness, gratitude, goal setting, and letting go-these pages offer empowering practices for finding balance at the end of each day in order to greet every new one with clarity, purpose, and joy."
$22.50
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Opening Up by Writing It Down, 3rd Edition
How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. The authors describe how taking just a few minutes to write about deeply felt personal experiences or problems may help you: heal old emotional wounds, feel a greater sense of well-being, decrease stress, improve relationships, and more...
$23.50
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Paradox of Choice
Why More Is Less, Revised Edition. This book explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
$23.50
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Lara Wease Mom Days Dad Days (and Dolphin Day is Every Day!)
In this beautifully illustrated and engaging picture book, Ella provides a child's perspective on having two homes and adjusting to the differences with each one. While her parents cannot always make things the same for her, they find ways to work together to make the changes feel easier. Both parents and children will enjoy Ella and her toy dolphin in a heartwarming story that embraces both the challenges and the opportunities for parenting after separation.
$16.95
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Carolina Curriculum For Infants And Toddlers
The Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs, Third Edition is one of the two volumes of The Carolina Curriculum, an assessment and intervention program designed for use with young children from birth to five years who have mild to severe disabilities. Developed for use with children from birth to 36 months, the CCITSN is an easy-to-use, criterion-referenced system that clearly links assessment with intervention and lets professionals work closely with the child's teachers, family members, and other service providers. Already trusted by thousands of early childhood professionals from coast to coast, this proven system is even easier to use with the revisions and updates in this third edition.
$79.95
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The Heart and the Bottle
What happens when that special someone who encourages such wonder and magic is no longer around? We can hide, we can place our heart in a bottle and grow up . . . or we can find another special someone who understands the magic. And we can encourage them to see things in the stars, find joy among colors and laughter as they play. A wonderful story about dealing with loss of a parent. For children ages 4 to 8.
$29.50
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Challenge Of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
In the first book of its kind, experts describe how to help people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A summary of recent findings and recommendations is presented by the team who conducted the largest study ever done on people of all ages with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects. Twenty-two experts from the fields of human services, education, and criminal justice respond by describing their solutions to this problem of a birth defect that targets the brain and has lifelong consequences.
$22.95
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DBT Skills in Schools Emotional Problem-Solving for Teens
Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) From leading experts in DBT and school-based interventions, this unique manual offers the first nonclinical application of DBT skills. The book presents an innovative social-emotional learning curriculum designed to be taught at the universal level in grades 6-12. Explicit instructions for teaching the skills--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--are provided in 30 lesson plans, complete with numerous reproducible tools: 99 handouts, a diary card, and three student tests. The large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
$75.95
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Changing Course
Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear Author of the best-selling sequel to It Will Never Happen to Me, Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals working their way through the painful experience of being raised with addiction. "How do you go from living according to the rules--Don't Talk, Don't Trust, Don't Feel--to a life where you are free to talk and trust and feel?" Black asks. "You do this through a process that teaches you to go to the source of those rules, to question them, and to create new rules of your own," she explains. Using charts, exercises, checklists, and real-life stories of adult children of alcoholics, Black carefully and expertly guides readers in healing from the fear, shame, and chaos of addiction. A clearly articulated process for healing and excellent self-help resource for overcoming the experience of abandonment.
$22.95
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I'm Saying No!
Standing up against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexual pressure In spite of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, many women are still afraid to say no to unwanted sexual advances and reluctant to report sexual violations. This book is written specifically for these women-women who are still afraid to speak up for themselves, women who need to learn how to do so, and women whose personal history of child sexual abuse or sexual assault as an adult has wounded them so much that they have lost their voice. The author offers a ground-breaking program to help all the women who have been silenced by past trauma, women who were raised to believe they didn't have a right to say no, and women who have spoken out in the past only to go unheard.
$26.95
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Temple Grandin Autism & Education
The Way I See It: What Parents and Teachers Need To Know In these helpful pages, Dr. Grandin offers do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and extensive research. Interestingly, she argues that education for kids on the autism spectrum must focus on their overlooked strengths to foster their unique contributions to the world.
$26.95
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Chester Raccoon And The Big Bad Bully
Chester Raccoon (from the "1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Kissing Hand" must deal with a bully at school. After his mother shares a story about helping others, Chester, Ronny, and Cassy discover that the best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend. Full color.
$14.50
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Everyday Games for Sensory Processing Disorder
100 Playful Activities to Empower Children with Sensory Differences. Award-winning author and occupational therapist Barbara Sher has over 45 years experience helping children with sensory processing disorder, autism and Asperger's learn and thrive. In this new solutions-based guide, she's collected 100 sensory-rich games that make working with your child a joy. Also includes: An easy-to-grasp overview of sensory processing disorder; Inventive ideas for engaging kids, using materials easily found around the house; Inclusive games geared toward varying degrees of development, with modifications for older children; and more!
$23.99
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Child Is Born
REGULAR PRICE IS $29.95, NOW ON CLEARANCE FOR ONLY $9.95 WHILE QUANTITIES LAST Explore the miracle of birth, from attraction between a man and a woman to fertilization, pregnancy, labor and delivery; they also discuss infertility and developments in IVF and other treatments. Over 350 new photographs have been added to the fourth edition, including in utero pictures captured with endoscopy and three-dimensional ultrasound technology. Nilsson zooms in on sperm racing towards the egg, the brand-new zygote, the embryo clinging to the lining of the uterus, a tadpole-like fetus and the remarkably developed ear of a 18-week old fetus, among other moments in the process of human reproduction. With Hamberger's updated text on guidance for new parents, progress in fertility treatments, genetics and pregnancy health, the volume should continue to be a vivid reference for the whole family.
$9.95
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Each Breath a Smile Mindful Child
Preschool children will learn the beauty and power of mindfulness through conscious breathing. Presenting the Buddha's basic teachings in accessible and modern language, the text is drawn from talks given by Thich Nhat Hanh to young people. Color illustrations of trees, frogs and crickets are paired with mindfulness verses (gathas), which help children direct their excitement and anger in a peaceful direction.
$14.95
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Peekaboo Morning
Join a sweet toddler for some morning fun perfect for sharing with babies, in this playful book by Caldecott Honor winning author Rachel Isadora, author of I Just Want to Say Good Night and I Hear a Pickle. A toddler plays a game of peekaboo, and you're invited to play too! First there's Mommy to find, with Daddy not far behind. Then Puppy comes peeking around the corner, and a favorite toy train brings the toddler to Grandma and Grandpa. Rachel Isadora's brilliant, joyful pastel illustrations capture familiar and cozy people, toys, and animals that will delight babies, who will love finding out what the toddler sees next.
$12.49
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Children: The Challenge
The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations --Intelligent, Humane, and Eminently Practical Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This warm and reassuring reference helps parents to understand their children's actions better, giving them the guidance necessary to discipline lovingly and effectively.
$24.00
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Monique Gray Smith, Julie Flett My Heart Fills with Happiness Board Book
The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy.
$12.95
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Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes
100 Practical Ideas for Coping After a Tornado, Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake, Wildfire, or Other Natural Disaster. When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it's normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult thoughts and feelings. It will be a compassionate companion to you as you move through shock and numbness and struggle with ongoing grief symptoms such as fear, guilt, and sadness. Some of the 100 ideas explain the basic principles of grief and mourning and how they apply in the aftermath of a natural disaster, while others offer immediate, here-and-now suggestions of things you can do today to express your grief and live with meaning in each moment.
$17.95
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Noah Hass-Cohen, Joanna Clyde Findlay & Margaret Wehrenberg Art Therapy And The Neuroscience Of Relationships, Creativity And Resiliency
This book offers a comprehensive integration of art therapy and interpersonal neurobiology. It showcases the Art Therapy Relational Neuroscience (ATR-N) theoretical and clinical approach, and demonstrates how it can be used to help clients with autobiographical memory, reflecting and creating, touch and space, meaning-making, emotions, and dealing with long-term stress and trauma.
$53.00
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