The SILENT Pandemic After COVID-19 explores the latest research studies, and couples that with Diana’s 30 years of experience in early childhood development and nearly 20 years in sound therapy. Her unique perspective will break down the complex issues into language parents, caregivers and educators of children can understand so you will have a better… More The SILENT Pandemic after COVID-19: What You Won’t Notice and Your Children Can’t Tell You
Book Categories: Mental Health
The Storm In My Brain: Kids And Mood Disorders (Bipolar Disorder and Depression)
This book is colorfully illustrated by children who are living with depression and bipolar disorder. Simple explanations and tips for children about how they may feel, and how they should handle it. A tip sheet for teachers is also included. Ages 4 and up. Also available as a download – The Storm in My Brain
Touch And Go Joe: An Adolescent’s Experience With OCD
Written by a 16 yr.old author who tells the story of his battle with OCD from its insidious beginnings at age 9 and increasingly intrusive symptoms, to diagnosis at age 12. Having struggled to keep the condition a secret for years, he is now able to talk and write openly about OCD and how he… More Touch And Go Joe: An Adolescent’s Experience With OCD
Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Learning Communities Transforming Children’s Lives, K-5
Growing evidence supports the important relationship between trauma and academic failure. Along with the failure of ”zero tolerance” policies to resolve issues of school safety and a new understanding of children’s disruptive behavior, educators are changing the way they view children’s academic and social problems. In response, the trauma-sensitive schools movement presents a new vision… More Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Learning Communities Transforming Children’s Lives, K-5
Turbo Max: A Story For Siblings And Friends Of Children With Bipolar Disorder
There is one thing that Rick wants this summer, a Turbo Max remote control car. When his parents buy him a diary instead, Rick knows it’s going to be a long summer. A contest at the hobby shop gives him hope that he can win the remote control car of his dreams. Just when the new… More Turbo Max: A Story For Siblings And Friends Of Children With Bipolar Disorder
Understanding Katie
Understanding Katie is a hands-on storybook written especially for children between the ages of 3-12 years of age who suffer from Selective Mutism and/or social phobia. Selectively Mute/socially anxious children ‘cannot speak’ and feel afraid when they are in various social situations, such as school. This can be a very isolating feeling. Understanding Katie will… More Understanding Katie
Understanding OCD
This book provides essential information and guidance to help parents and professionals to understand the diagnosis, treatment and management of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The book covers the causes and presentation of childhood OCD, as well as OCD related illnesses, and treatments.
Unspoken Words: A Child’s View of Selective Mutism
This unique book is directed to children with Selective Mutism as well as for parents, professionals and teachers to help them understand a child’s unspoken words when unable to speak and express themselves. It begins with a letter to children helping them to know they are not alone and others feel as they do. The… More Unspoken Words: A Child’s View of Selective Mutism
Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children’s Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Its Treatment (3rd Edition)
In this uniquely creative and heart-warming book, Dr. Wagner, an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of childhood OCD, uses the powerful real-life metaphor of the Worry Hill to describe OCD and its treatment clearly and simply through the eyes of a child. Children and adults will identify with Casey’s struggle with OCD, his sense… More Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children’s Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Its Treatment (3rd Edition)
Welcome To The Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Bipolar But Were Too Freaked Out to Ask
Hilary Smith offers devastatingly on-target, honest–and riotously funny–insights into living with bipolar and answers some of the hardest questions facing her fellow bipolaristas: Can anything ever be the same again? Am I still me if I take mind-altering meds? Can other people tell I have bipolar? Can I get this thing removed? This book give an upfront, empowering approach… More Welcome To The Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Bipolar But Were Too Freaked Out to Ask
Wemberly Worried
Wemberly worried about spilling her juice, about shrinking in the bathtub, even about snakes in the radiator. She worried morning, noon, and night. “Worry, worry, worry,” her family said. “Too much worry.” And Wemberly worried about one thing most of all: her first day of school. But when she meets a fellow worrywart in her… More Wemberly Worried
What Do You Do With A Child Like This? Inside The Lives Of Troubled Children
Take a journey inside the world of troubled children and learn why they behave as they do. Author L. Tobin offers a wide variety of proven techniques that teachers, parents, counselors, and psychologists can use to cope with behavior problems and to create positive change in children’s lives. A notebook of anecdotes and practical suggestions.
What it’s like to be Bipolar
Andrew was an elementary school student who was puzzled by his frequent outbursts of anger over seemingly insignificant frustrations. Eventually, he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, a diagnosis that finally made sense and fit all of his symptoms. In 8th grade, he wrote and illustrated this book to explain what it felt like to be… More What it’s like to be Bipolar
What survival looks like…. In School
This is a FANTASTIC resource for helping traumatized children and the adults around them, understand what is going on. Download this FREE handout for your child or young person’s teacher or trusted adult at school to help them understand what survival states look like in the school environment and what they can do to help… More What survival looks like…. In School
What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Guide to Accepting Imperfection
What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake aims to help kids who struggle with self-confidence and a fear of making mistakes, being self-critical, and purposely aiming low. Using cognitive-behavioral approaches, this interactive book is a complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to cope with mistakes so they can explore new territory without… More What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Guide to Accepting Imperfection
What To Do When You Worry To Much: A Kid’s Guide To Overcoming Anxiety
This simple book provides a step by step guide for children who have worries. Guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcome their overgrown worries. Tips for parents included. Ages 6… More What To Do When You Worry To Much: A Kid’s Guide To Overcoming Anxiety
What To Do When You’re Scared & Worried: A Guide For Kids
From a dread of spiders to panic attacks, kids have worries and fears, just like adults. This is a book kids can turn to when they need advice, reassurance, and ideas. They’ll find out where fears and worries come from, practice Fear Chasers and Worry Erasers, and learn to seek help for hard-to-handle fears they… More What To Do When You’re Scared & Worried: A Guide For Kids
What to do When Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions
Dr. Aureen Wagner brings you the latest scientific advances in the treatment of this beguiling disorder along with her many years of experience in treating children and teenagers. Using the metaphor of the Worry Hill, Dr. Wagner presents a powerful step-by-step approach that countless children have used successfully to triumph over OCD. Designed to be… More What to do When Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions
When Anxiety Attacks
Frank and full of gentle humor, Terian Koscik’s graphic memoir shares her experiences of living with anxiety, finding the courage to see a therapist, and learning more than she could have imagined. Even in childhood anxious thoughts would seep into Terian’s day. Yet she never thought that getting professional help was for her, simply concluding… More When Anxiety Attacks
When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse
Written by a therapist who specializes in abusive men, this guide reveals how abusers interact with and manipulate children and how mothers can help their children recover from the trauma of witnessing abuse.