The SILENT Pandemic after COVID-19: What You Won’t Notice and Your Children Can’t Tell You

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

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

Understanding Katie

Book Cover, 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

Book Cover, 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.

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

Book Cover, 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

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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

Book Cover, 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 Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions

Book Cover, 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