Books
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Sweetgrass
A modern story of traditional Indigenous knowledge that follows a young boy and his Auntie as they gather and braid sweetgrass, one of the four sacred medicines. With Auntie's traditional Mi'kmaw knowledge and Matthew's gentle guidance, Warren learns about the many uses for sweetgrass—as traditional medicine, a sacred offering, a smudging ingredient—and the importance of not picking more than he needs. Once the trio is back at Auntie's house, she shows the boys how to clean and braid the grass.
$12.95
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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Using the latest research along with vivid case histories, authors Randy Frost and Gail Steketee describe the psychological and biological causes of compulsive hoarding, a disorder that affects as man as six million people.
$22.95
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Jillian Roberts Calm
This soothing board book by child psychologist, professor and author Dr. Jillian Roberts was written to remind us that the little people in our lives need us to be their calm. To recognize their big feelings, teach them how to honor them and let them go. A valuable tool to help young ones learn to co-regulate, Calm is just as much for babies as it is the adults in their lives.
$10.95
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James J. Crist, Ph.D. & Elizabeth Verdick Siblings: You're Stuck with Each Other, So Stick Together
Humorous yet practical advice for building positive sibling relationships. Turn sibling rivalry into positive sibling relationships with this fun, humorous pocket guide for kids. Siblings can make for great friends, and it’s nice to have someone who’ll love you no matter what. But kids know that sibling relationships can be hard when problems of fairness, jealousy, conflict, tattling, privacy, and other things come up—and they usually do. Siblings teaches kids how to deal with sibling rivalry and more, including special situations such as siblings with special needs, step-siblings, and adopted siblings, and it focuses on building positive sibling relationships. After all, siblings are siblings their whole lives.
$16.95
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Rudy Simone Aspergirls
Empowering Females With Asperger Syndrome Rudy Simone guides you through every aspect of both personal and professional life, from early recollections of blame, guilt, and savant skills, to friendships, romance and marriage. Employment, career, rituals and routines are also covered, along with depression, meltdowns and being misunderstood. Including the reflections of over thirty-five women diagnosed as on the spectrum, as well as some partners and parents, Rudy identifies recurring struggles and areas where Aspergirls need validation, information and advice. As they recount their stories, anecdotes, and wisdom, she highlights how differences between males and females on the spectrum are mostly a matter of perception.
$29.95
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Kathy L. Korb-Khalsa, Estelle A. Leutenberg Life Management Skills VI
Life Management Skills handouts are adaptable and have a broad usage enabling therapists, social workers, nurses, teachers, psychologists, counselors and other professionals to focus on specific goals with their specified populations. They are designed for specific well-defined purposes, and activity-based, allowing for extensive client involvement. The graphic representations are intentionally different from handout to handout in typestyle, art and design to increase visual appeal, provide variety and clarify meaning. The purchaser of the book can make unlimited copies of the handouts for use by clients. Volume VI has 50 reproducible activity handouts covering: anxiety/fear, expressive therapy, goal setting, healthy living, independent living skills, interpersonal skills, leisure, personal responsibility, positive outlook, recovery, relationships, self-esteem, spirituality, stress management and therapeutic treatment.
$69.95
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Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual
Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, Ptsd & Substance Abuse Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach -- rooted in neuroscience -- Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications.
$51.95
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When A Loved One Has Borderline Personality Disorder
A Compassionate Guide to Building a Healthy and Supportive Relationship Loving someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be complex and overwhelming. This guide provides compassionate strategies and exercises to help you set boundaries, practice self-care, and build a healthier and more supportive relationship.
$23.99
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My Body! What I Say Goes! 2nd Edition
A book to empower and teach children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent, and respectful relationships. Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text, this book will empower children by teaching them crucial skills in personal body safety. This in turn will help protect them from inappropriate touch. Also included are in-depth Discussion Questions to further enhance the learning and to initiate important conversations around body autonomy.
$18.95
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Promoting Emotional Resilience
Cognitive-Affective Stress Management Training (CASMT) This book presents a brief emotion-focused coping skills program that helps clients regulate their affective responses in stressful situations. CASMT promotes resilience by integrating cognitive-behavioral strategies with relaxation training, mindfulness, and other techniques. Systematic guidelines are provided for implementing CASMT with individuals or groups. The book includes detailed instructions for using induced affect, a procedure that elicits arousal in session and enables clients to practice new emotion regulation skills. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the volume's 16 reproducible handouts and forms in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size, and can also download a muscle relaxation training audio track.
$64.50
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Allen Berger 12 Smart Things To Do
When The Booze And Drugs Are Gone Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action. Drawing on the teachings of Bill W. and psychotherapy pioneers, this book offers 12 hallmarks of emotional sobriety that, when practiced, give people confidence to be accountable, ask for what they want and need, and grow and develop a deeper trust in the process of life. Learning not to take others' reactions personally, trusting your own inner compass, taking responsibility for your reactions to problematic situations are practices that help people cope with their problems.
$22.95
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Friends Forever
How Parents Can Help Their Kids Make and Keep Good Friends. Frankel offers clear-cut friendship-making guidelines for parents and their children. Some of the book's recommendations include: don't over-schedule a child's time; guide children to participate in "friend-attracting" activities; seek out friends in the neighborhood. The author includes methods for dealing with bullying and inappropriate friendships, Offers clear guidance for helping children become a good friend and attract lasting friendships for life, Shows how to teach kids the social and emotional intelligence skills they need to form friendships such as listening, empathy, compassion, recreational conversation, The book also includes techniques for teaching kids how to use MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter in positive ways that will foster friendships.
$27.00
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John & Julie Gottman 10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
From inside the famed Gottman Institute's "Love Lab", here are 10 scientifically proven, practical ways to strengthen your marriage. Using decades of scientific research, Dr. John Gottman and his wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, show that most couples face serious problems-but what the Gottman's have proven is that such difficulties don't have to lead to a broken relationship, or even divorce. In 10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, the Gottman's provide vital tools-scientifically based and empirically verified-that you can use to regain affection and romance lost through years of ineffective communication. Learn how to strengthen your relationship and make it more fulfilling.
$23.00
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Self-Esteem Habit for Teens
50 Simple Ways to Build Your Confidence Every Day In this book, you’ll learn 50 easy, little ways you can make self-esteem a reality (and a habit!) every day—anytime, anywhere. Following the advice within this fun, pocket-sized guide, you’ll discover the six steps of lasting self-esteem, and find tips to help you learn from your mistakes, practice gratitude, see things from a different perspective, celebrate strengths, stop overgeneralizing, and cultivate healthy relationships. (One of Instant Help Solutions series)
$35.95
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Children's Friendship Training
This book represents twelve years of research by the authors to develop a comprehensive social skills training program for children. Broken into four parts, the book begins with a complete step-by-step manual and presents the empirical outcome of tests of the interventions and as well as a review of other social skills training interventions for children. The nature and development of children's friendships are included in the second section. Session content is presented in the third part with a chapter devoted to each of the twelve sessions of this intervention. Each of these sessions sets out goals, offers a training plan and gives an "at-home" plan as well as a "group" plan. The final section will cover unique situations.
$69.95
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Mindful Teen
Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time The Mindful Teen offers a unique program based in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to help you deal with stress. The simple, practical, and easy-to-remember tips in this book can be used every day to help you handle any difficult situation more effectively-whether it's taking a test at school, having a disagreement with your parents, or a problem you are having with friends.
$26.95
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Bruce Moon Art-Based Group Therapy
Theory and Practice Using this book as a guide, Art Therapy students may be more empowered to enter into the uncertain terrains of their practice, grounded in a theory soundly based in their area of study. Practitioners will no doubt be encouraged, validated, and inspired to continue their work. Educators can employ the twelve principles as they teach the basic theories and applications of group dynamics and processes. Advocates and practitioners continually explain, evaluate, and communicate what they do; the author succeeds in establishing a framework that allows Art Therapists to communicate the value of their work in a language that is unique to Art Therapy.
$82.95
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Todd Parr The Don't Worry Book
From bestselling and beloved author Todd Parr, a new book that reassures kids everywhere that even when things are scary or confusing, there's always something comforting around the corner. Todd Parr brings his trademark bright colors and bold lines to his new book about things that might make kids worry--from loud news, to loud neighbors, or a big day at school. With his signature humor and instantly recognizable style, Todd speaks out to kids who are feeling the weight of their world, offering solutions and comfort, as well as giggles.
$23.99
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Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
Winner of six awards: Academics’ Choice “Smart Book” Award; PubWest Book Design Gold Award; Mom’s Choice Gold Award; Moonbeam Silver Award, Nautilus Silver Award, and The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, this book is a sequel to The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain "Did you know you can stretch and grow your own brain? Or making mistakes helps your brain learn? Just like how lifting weights helps your muscles get stronger, trying new things without giving up strengthens your brain. An excellent choice.
$28.95
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Rabbityness
Rabbit enjoys doing rabbity things, but he also loves un-rabbity things! When Rabbit suddenly disappears, no one knows where he has gone. His friends are desolate. But, as it turns out, Rabbit has left behind some very special gifts for them, to help them discover their own unrabbity talents! Rabbityness celebrates individuality, encourages the creativity in everyone and positively introduces children to dealing with loss of any kind.
$24.95
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Little Heroes Sensory Integration
This edition of Little Heroes is designed to help parents, caretakers, and teachers understand sensory processing problems and explain them to their children. The stories are all true, based on children that have been seen at our partner clinic in Chicago called Children's Research Triangle. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a much fuller explanation of sensory integration and behavior problems.
$14.95
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's
No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be or may become, they function better as adults if they've had the chance to learn basic skills, from being on time to good personal hygiene. Jennifer's personal experience with Asperger's Syndrome and having a brother with autism makes her perspective doubly insightful. Learn how to create opportunities for children to learn in natural settings and situations, teach vital skills such as everyday domestic tasks, choosing appropriate attire, and being polite, help individuals on the spectrum develop good habits that will help them be more fit and healthy, Improve time management skills such as punctuality and task-switching.
$27.95
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Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children
Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness. Bringing together sensory integration and a neurodevelopmental understanding of the impact of trauma on the developing brain, this book shows how parents can help their children to improve their sensory processing and become more physically and emotionally resilient.
$31.95
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Pavlo Gets the Grumps
Pavlo does not feel like going to the park. Not today. He does not want to go swimming. He even says no to the movies. What’s going on, Pavlo? Pavlo has the grumps. Though Mama suggests one fun activity after another, Pavlo doesn’t want to do any of them. Can anything cheer him up on this down day? Capturing a range of emotions through nuanced expressions and a simple text, Natalia Shaloshvili’s comforting picture book looks at familiar childhood feelings, suggesting that grumpy days, sadness, and even anger happen to everyone. But that’s OK — good friends and family will love you anyway. And who knows what might happen if you decide to give that big slide a try after all?
$23.99
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