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Stephen W. Porges Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings since the publication of that seminal work. At its heart, polyvagal theory is about safety. It provides an understanding that feeling safe is dependent on autonomic states, and that our cognitive evaluations of risk in the environment, including identifying potentially dangerous relationships, play a secondary role to our visceral reactions to people and places. Our reaction to the continuing global pandemic supports one of the central concepts of polyvagal theory: that a desire to connect safely with others is our biological imperative. Indeed, life may be seen as an inherent quest for safety. These ideas, and more, are outlined in chapters on therapeutic presence, group psychotherapy, yoga and music therapy, autism, trauma, date rape, medical trauma, and COVID-19.
$60.00
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Stephen W. Porges Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations Of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism. Adopted by clinicians around the world, the Polyvagal Theory has provided exciting new insights into the way our autonomic nervous system unconsciously mediates social engagement, trust, and intimacy.
$65.95
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Reset Your Child's Brain
A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time. Victoria L. Dunckley, who specializes in working with children and families who have failed to respond to previous treatment, has pioneered a new program. In her work with more than 500 children, teens, and young adults diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, 80 percent showed marked improvement after completing the four-week program presented here. Interactive screens, including those on video games, laptops, cell phones, and tablets, overstimulate a child’s nervous system. While virtually no one in today’s connected world can completely shun electronic stimuli, Dunckley shows how the most vulnerable among us — our children — can and should be spared their damaging effects.
$30.95
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Rebecca Kase The Applied Polyvagal Theory Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational Tool to Harness the Power of the Vagus Nerve for Emotional Balance, Self-Regulation, and Resilience
These are approachable, interactive, and tangible tools to teach the science of safety and bring these complicated concepts to life. Whether your clients are struggling with trauma, anxiety, panic, depression, addiction, chronic pain, codependency, or more, this flip chart will allow them to apply the principles of polyvagal theory to their own well-being. Intended for in-session use, this flip chart features: a two-sided 9x12 design that stands upright for easy visibility and portability; 24 exercises, diagrams, and photos on client-facing pages with detailed explanations and supplemental prompts on therapist-facing pages; and dry-erase surface client-facing pages for easy markup, customization, and reuse.
$63.95
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Louann Brizendine The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think
This book explores the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with Dr.Louann Brizendine's trademark accessibility and candor. Readers are introduced into the male reality, through insights suggesting that the male brain is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine that thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy. It has an area for sexual pursuit, and experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others' faces to be more aggressive. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.
$22.99
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Scholastic Inc The MindUP Curriculum: Grades PreK - 2
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. Includes a BIG, colorful teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain! Correlates with social and emotional learning goals created by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).
$30.99
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Thomas Armstrong The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain (published in hardcover as Neurodiversity)
Bestselling author, psychologist, and educator Thomas Armstrong illuminates a new understanding of neuropsychological disorders. He argues that if they are a part of the natural diversity of the human brain, they cannot simply be defined as illnesses. Armstrong explores the evolutionary advantages, special skills, and other positive dimensions of conditions such as ADHD, dyslexia and autism.
$24.95
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Alfred David The Secret Life of the Brain: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Mind
This book explores the fascinating advances that have been made in neuroscience, from the intricacies of memory and intelligence, to the enigmatic workings behind our sense of humor and our dreams. Full of illuminating illustrations and diagrams, this book lifts the lid on how drugs affect the brain; the science behind addiction; how the brain deals with trauma and pain; and how love, age and sex affect the brain. Finally, there is insight into cutting-edge scientific theories. The Secret Life of the Brain is written in accessible language for all readers who want to know more about a complex science.
$24.95
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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The Whole Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook has a unique, interactive approach that allows readers not only to think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting approach, but also develop specific and practical ways to implement the concepts -- and bring them to life for themselves and for their children. Includes: Dozens of clear, practical and age-specific exercises and activities; Applications for clinicians, parents, educators, grandparents and care-givers; and more!
$43.95
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Dr. Lise Eliot What's Going on in There? (Brain Development in Early Childhood)
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life This book discuss the brain's development from conception through the critical first five years and explores the evolution of the senses, motor skills, social and emotional behaviors, and mental functions such as attention, language, memory, reasoning, and intelligence. This remarkable book also analyzes how a baby's brain is "assembled" from scratch, the critical prenatal factors that shape brain development, how the birthing process itself affects the brain, which forms of stimulation are most effective at promoting cognitive development, and how nutrition, stress, and other physical and social factors can permanently affect a child's brain.
$29.00
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Kenneth Nunn, Tanya Hanstock, Bryan Lask, Linn Iril Hjelseth Who's Who Of The Brain: A Guide To Its Inhabitants, Where They Live And What They Do
Residents include Frederick Foresight (the frontal cortex), Mayor of Cephalton-upon-Ridge, who is the `big picture' person responsible for planning and decision-making; Sage Seahorse (the hippocampus), who has an astonishing memory for times, names and places; Annie Almond (the amygdala), the community's alarm system who is always on the alert; and many other fellow citizens. Each character is introduced and their appearance, role and key functions in the brain explained. The authors also show what happens when things go wrong in the brain, and illustrate the work using examples of classic clinical cases.
$35.95
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Louis Cozolino Why Therapy Works
Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn, and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change. The book also shows how our brains have evolved into social organs and how our interpersonal lives are a source of both pain and power. Readers will explore with Cozolino how our brains are programmed to connect in intimate relationships and come to understand the debilitating effects of anxiety, stress, and trauma. Finally, the book will lead to an understanding of the power of story and narratives for fostering self-regulation, neural integration, and positive change.
$33.95
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