Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Understanding and Applying the New Therapies. James Herbert & Evan Forman, $72.00

The past decade has witnessed a well-documented surge in interest among clinical psychologists in mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches to behavior change. Each chapter presents a state-of-the-art description of a specific model; a brief review of the data; and a summary of directions for future development and research. Clinicians will want to add this volume to their CBT libraries.

The Adolescent & Young Adult Self-Harming Treatment Manual: a Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach. Mathew Selekman, $42.50

This is a practical and informative manual that will help both experienced and beginning therapists feel more confident and competent working with adolescent and young self-harming clients.

Anger Management Games for Children. Deborah Plummer, $29.95

This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children's anger. Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, it is designed to foster successful anger management strategies for children aged 5-12. The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. The games address issues that might arise in age-specific situations such as sharing a toy or facing peer pressure. They also encourage children to approach their emotions as a way to facilitate personal growth and healthy relationships.

Animals in Our Lives: Human-Animal Interaction in Family, Community and Therapeutic Settings. Peggy McCardle, Sandra McCune, James Griffin $49.50

What do we know about the benefits of human–animal interaction (HAI) — and what future research needs to be done to ensure high-quality, evidence-based practices? This book is a resource that presents the latest research on the positive effects of animal therapies and interactions on child health and development.

Gathering contributions from the leading experts in the field, this state-of-the-art research volume is essential for anyone interested in the impact animals have on child development, whether through interaction with pets or through more formal interventions like therapeutic horseback riding or assistance dogs. Program administrators, researchers, and practitioners will explore the current evidence on:

• how children with disabilities — including autism — can benefit from animal therapies
• how animals can strengthen empathy, trust, relationships, and other hallmarks of social competence
• why animal-assisted intervention is valuable for children with mental health issues and physical illnesses
• how animals in classrooms can motivate children to learn and enhance a wide range of developmental skills
• which key factors help ensure ethical HAI practices
• how to reduce risks associated with child–animal interactions, including allergies, bites, and viruses
• why pet ownership can benefit both a child and the whole family

Whether used as a text or as a reference for researchers and decision makers (or as a source of information for pet owners and parents), this book will help readers take the first important steps toward ethical, evidence-based HAI practices that really improve child outcomes.

Anxiety in Childbearing Women: Diagnosis and Treatment. Amy Wenzel, $53.50

Nearly all new mothers experience some apprehension about the transition to parenthood, but some women's symptoms reach the point of meeting diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder. Indeed, new research suggests that in the perinatal period — which includes both pregnancy and the first year postpartum — some types of anxiety are more common than depression. This book describes the various ways in which perinatal anxiety is expressed in women, as well as approaches for assessment and treatment.

The first half of the book describes the five main types of perinatal anxiety — worry and generalized anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, panic attacks, social anxiety and childbirth-related fear and trauma and presents a biopsychosocial model. The second half of the book covers the assessment and treatment of perinatal anxiety, including pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, psychoeducation, and self-help resources.

This volume will be a tremendous resource for clinical psychologists, counselors, physicians, midwives, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, and others who work with pregnant and postpartum women, as well as researchers and graduate students in any of these fields.

The Art and Science of Motivation: a Therapist’s Guide to Working with Children. Edited by Jenny Ziviani, Anne Poulsen & Monica Cuskelly, $34.95

The book provides readers with both a theoretical and practical understanding of methods for engaging and working successfully with children with a range of difficulties, from physical disabilities to learning disabilities and emotional and behavioural difficulties. The authors present an innovative new paradigm — the model of Synthesis of Child, Occupational Performance and Environment-In Time (SCOPE-IT) — for working with these groups to enhance motivation and engagement and to achieve the best possible treatment outcomes. Combining research-based theory with a wealth of tools and strategies for practice, this book will be inspiring reading for all those working therapeutically with children and young people, including occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists. 

The Art Therapy Sourcebook. Cathy Malchiodi, $24.95

Newly updated and revised, this authoritative guide shows you how to use art therapy to guide yourself and others on a special path of personal growth, insight, and transformation. Cathy Malchiodi, a leading expert in the field, gives you step-by-step instructions for stimulating creativity and interpreting the resulting art pieces. This encouraging and effective method can help you and others recover from pain and become whole again.

Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need: Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self-Esteem. Diana Coholic, $34.95

Art-based activities can develop resilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice and research, for practitioners to use as a basis for their own arts-based groups or one-to-one sessions. The activities in this book encourage relaxation and increased self-awareness, exploration of feelings, values and understanding. It is especially beneficial for children not ready to embrace traditional therapies or counselling.

This book is accessible and suitable for helping, health and education practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines, such as social work, psychology and counselling.

Asperger Syndrome in Adulthood: a Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians. Kevin Stoddart, Lillian Burke & Robert King, $34.00

A thorough overview of Asperger syndrome for mental health professionals.

Despite the dramatic proliferation of research, clinical perspectives, and first-person accounts of Asperger Syndrome (AS) in the last 15 years, much of this information has focused on the application of the diagnosis to children. This book addresses Asperger Syndrome as it manifests in adults. It integrates research and clinical experience to provide mental health professionals with a comprehensive discussion of AS in adulthood, covering issues of diagnosis as well as co-morbid psychiatric conditions, psychosocial issues, and various types of interventions—from psychotherapy to psychopharmacology. It also discusses basic diagnostic criteria, controversies about the disorder, and possible interventions and treatments for dealing with the disorder.

Aspies on Mental Health: Speaking for Ourselves. Luke Beardon & Dean Worton, Editors, $27.95

People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights for family, friends and also for mental health professionals.

Touching on everything from difficulties at work and college to coping with low self-confidence, self-harm, alcohol, misdiagnosis, sectioning, counselling, medication and battles with mental health services, the book provides a window into how people with AS experience mental health issues, and what can be done to help. The individual accounts describe innovative coping strategies and methods for maintaining emotional and psychological wellbeing as well as practical advice on things like how to stay positive and deal with day-to-day stress and meltdowns.

Assessment of Parenting Competency in Mothers with Mental Illness. Teresa Ostler, $35.95

The stakes are undeniably high when it comes to deciding whether a mother with mental illness can raise her child in a safe, nurturing environment. Now, mental health professionals will have sound assessment strategies that fairly evaluate the parenting competency of mothers with a wide range of mental illnesses, from "baby blues" to schizophrenia.

Going beyond measuring only the mother's degree of mental illness, the safety of the environment, or the rate of child development, this groundbreaking resource integrates multiple approaches so that professionals understand the full picture of parenting competency. With this much-needed resource, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and child welfare professionals will be primed to conduct more accurate assessments, make informed decisions, build stronger mother–child relationships, and facilitate family preservation whenever possible.

Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice. Edited by David Oppenheim & Douglas Goldsmith, $27.50

This book reviews state-of-the-art knowledge on attachment and translates it into practical guidelines for therapeutic work. Leading scientist-practitioners present innovative strategies for assessing and intervening in parent-child relationship problems; helping young children recover from maltreatment or trauma; and promoting healthy development in adoptive and foster families. Detailed case material in every chapter illustrates the applications of research-based concepts and tools in real-world clinical practice.

The Attachment Therapy Companion: Key Practices for Treating Children & Families. Arthur Becker-Weidman, Lois Ehrmann & Denise LeBow, $29.50

Here in a single accessible guide, is a comprehensive go-to resource on the foundational principles and treatment guidelines for doing attachment therapy. It provides all the nuts and bolts a clinician needs to be familiar with to provide effective, informed, attachment-focused treatment to children and families. 

Complex trauma and developmental trauma disorder are also covered in depth, as well as up-to-date information on how brain science has changed our understanding of relationships and developmental functioning, and, in turn, phases of treatment and intervention options. By delineating the standards of care for treating attachment and trauma disorders, this book provides clinicians with a comprehensive framework to assess, develop, and evaluate the best approach to helping their clients.

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum. Temple Grandin & Richard Panek, $32.95

When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies have moved from the realm of psychology to neurology and genetics, and there is far more hope today than ever before thanks to groundbreaking new research into causes and treatments. Now Temple Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to a thrilling journey into the heart of the autism revolution.

Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show us which anomalies might explain common symptoms. We meet the scientists and self-advocates who are exploring innovative theories of what causes autism and how we can diagnose and best treat it. Grandin also highlights long-ignored sensory problems and the transformative effects we can have by treating autism symptom by symptom, rather than with an umbrella diagnosis. Most exciting, she argues that raising and educating kids on the spectrum isn’t just a matter of focusing on their weaknesses; in the science that reveals their long-overlooked strengths she shows us new ways to foster their unique contributions. From the “aspies” in Silicon Valley to the five-year-old without language, Grandin understands the true meaning of the word spectrum. THE AUTISTIC BRAIN is essential reading from the most respected and beloved voices in the field.

Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopathy), 2nd Edition. Donald Black, $24.95

BAD BOYS, BAD MEN examines antisocial personality disorder, drawing on case studies, scientific data, and current events to explore antisocial behavior in people. In this new edition, Dr. Black builds upon the success of the previous volume and updates it with new research findings, including the genetic and biological determinants of antisocial personality disorder.

Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures, 5th Edition. Raymond Miltenberger, $178.95

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES is a precise, step-by-step approach to the technology, history and application of behavior change. The book provides plenty of opportunities for students to practice, including practice tests, application and misapplication studies and three forms of quizzes at the end of every chapter.

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How It Works, 9th Edition. Gary Martin & Joseph Pear, $118.35

This 9th edition of BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO DO IT assumes no specific prior knowledge about psychology or behavior modification on the part of the reader. Those who want to know how to apply behavior modification to their everyday concerns — from helping children learn life's necessary skills to solving some of their own personal behavior problems — will find the text useful.

The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence. Linda Spear, $50.00

Recent research confirms that the brain undergoes major development during adolescence. This book reviews the neuroscience of the adolescent brain and how this knowledge is revolutionizing our understanding of adolescent behavior. Topics include the emergence of self-control and risk-taking, use of alcohol and drugs, and depression.

Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice. John Arden & Lloyd Linford, $43.99

Designed for mental health professionals treating children and adolescents, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents is a simple but powerful primer for understanding and successfully implementing the most critical elements of neuroscience into an evidence-based mental health practice.

Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation. Carol Kershaw & J. William Wade, $43.50

In this groundbreaking book, Kershaw and Wade present Brain Change Therapy (BCT), a therapeutic protocol in which clients learn to manage their emotions and behaviors, and thus reduce stress and control emotional reactivity.

Drawing from the latest neuroscientific research as well as integrative principles from hypnosis, biofeedback, and cognitive therapy, BCT helps clients reach stable neurological and emotional states and thus shift perspectives, attitudes, beliefs, and personal narratives toward the positive. Protocols for specific presenting problems, such as fear, anxiety, and life-threatening and chronic illnesses are outlined in detail. The breadth of the BCT approach also makes it effective in working with individuals who are interested in shifting and conditioning for peak performance. The authors also offer protocols for helping clients reach peak performance states of consciousness.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School. John Medina, $16.50

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know — like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best. In BRAIN RULES, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule — what scientists know for sure about how our brains work — and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.

Medina's fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoes. In the end, you'll understand how your brain really works — and how to get the most out of it.

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple, 2nd Edition. John Preston, John O'Neal & Mary Talaga, $23.95

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple offers parents and professionals up-to-date information on medications for the treatment of children and teens suffering from psychological disorders. Fully revised and updated, this second edition includes new research and information on psychoactive medications for autism, ADHD, child-onset bipolar disorder and a variety of other common psychological conditions. Also included are fact sheets that clearly delineate frequently prescribed medications for each disorder along with medication side effects and signs of toxicity.

The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation. Joyanna Silberg, $42.95

THE CHILD SURVIVOR is a clinically rich, comprehensive overview of the treatment of children and adolescents who have developed dissociative symptoms in response to ongoing developmental trauma. Joyanna Silberg, a widely respected authority in the field, uses case examples to illustrate hard-to-manage clinical dilemmas such as children presenting with rage reactions, amnesia, and dissociative shut-down. These behaviors are often survival strategies, and in The Child Survivor practitioners will find practical management tools that are backed up by recent scientific advances in neurobiology. Clinicians on the front lines of treatment will come away from the book with an arsenal of therapeutic techniques that they can put into practice right away, limiting the need for restrictive hospitalizations or out-of-home placements for their young clients.

Child-Centered Practices for the Courtroom & Community:  a Guide to Working Effectively With Young Children and Their Families in the Child Welfare System. Lynne Katz, Cindy Lederman & Joy Osofsky, $38.50

How can early childhood professionals provide the best possible services and supports to families in the child welfare system? This guidebook has the practical, real-world answers professionals need as they navigate the complex system, work with the courts, and plan interventions and treatment for the most vulnerable young children and families.

The Child’s Voice in Family Therapy: a Systemic Perspective. Carole Gammer, $40.00

Comprehensive and imaginative, The Child’s Voice in Family Therapy is an indispensable resource for therapists who wish to respect and fulfill the needs of children within a family therapy setting.

Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime and Abuse in the Lives of Young People. David Finkelhor, $38.95

In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new model of society's response to child victimization — what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System — and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help child victims.

Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence: Messages for Best Practice. Edited by Ann Hagell & Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent, $43.95

Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence explores risk management and successful intervention for children in public care who have committed, or are at risk of committing, acts of serious violence … The book proposes strategies for effectively managing these children, drawing evidence from international practice and research projects. It highlights the limitations of current structures and makes recommendations for future development.

Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Assessment to Intervention. Stephanie McConaughy, $42.95

This authoritative work offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages — as well as their parents and teachers — and for weaving the resulting data into multi-method assessment and intervention planning. K–12 school psychologists and other practitioners learn specific strategies for assessing school issues, peer relations, emotional difficulties, family situations, and problem behavior. Stephanie McConaughy is joined by two other leading experts who have contributed chapters on assessing suicide and violence risks. In-depth case illustrations are woven throughout. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes over a dozen reproducible interviewing tools. Purchasers also get access to a companion Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Clinical Neuropsychology of Emotion. Yana Suchy, $59.50

Written in an engaging, accessible style, this book synthesizes the growing body of knowledge on the neuropsychology of emotion and identifies practical clinical implications. The author unravels the processes that comprise a single emotional event, from the initial trigger through physiological and psychological responses. She also examines how patterns of emotional responses come together to motivate complex behavioral choices. Grounded in theory and research, the book discusses relevant syndromes and populations, reviews available assessment instruments, and describes how deficits in emotional processing affect cognition, daily functioning, and mental health.

Clinical Work with Traumatized Young Children. Edited by Joy Osofsky, $45.95

Presenting crucial knowledge and state-of-the-art treatment approaches for working with young children affected by trauma, this book is an essential resource for mental health professionals and child welfare advocates. Readers gain an understanding of how trauma affects the developing brain, the impact on attachment processes, and how to provide effective help to young children and their families from diverse backgrounds. Top experts in the field cover key evidence-based treatments — including child-parent psychotherapy, attachment-based treatments, and relational interventions — as well as interventions for pediatric, legal, and community settings. Special sections give in-depth attention to deployment-related trauma in military families and the needs of children of substance-abusing parents.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma, 2nd Edition. Edited by Victoria M. Follette & Josef I. Ruzek, $50.95

Significantly revised and restructured to reflect major developments in the field, the expanded second edition of this important work is essentially a new book. The volume presents cutting-edge cognitive and behavioral applications for treating a variety of trauma-related symptoms, disorders, and special populations. Leading scientist-practitioners summarize the available treatment data and succinctly review the "whys," "whats" and "hows" of their respective approaches. Nearly all extant chapters have been completely rewritten, many with new authors, and new chapters have been added on advances in assessment, acute stress disorder, complicated grief, cognitive processing therapy, working with groups, and early intervention.

Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families, 2nd Edition. William Madsen, $38.95

Thoroughly revised and expanded, the second edition of this successful text and professional resource offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with "difficult" families. From a non-pathologizing stance, William Madsen demonstrates creative ways to help family members shift their relationship to longstanding problems; envision desired lives and develop more proactive coping strategies. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with practice innovations and many new case illustrations.

COLUMBINE. Dave Cullen, $17.50

On April 20, 1999, two boys went to their high school with bombs and guns. Their goal was to leave “a lasting impression on the world.” The horror they inflicted left an indelible stamp on the American psyche.

Now in this definitive account, Dave Cullen presents a compelling and utterly human profile of the teenage killers. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boys’ tapes and diaries. This close-up portrait of violence, a community rendered helpless, and police blunders and cover-ups is an unforgettable cautionary tale for our time.

Communicating with Children When a Parent is at the End of Life. Rachel Fearnley, $34.95

When a parent is nearing the end of life, sensitive and clear communication with children is vital to help them understand and cope.

This accessible book demonstrates how to support children through effective and sensitive communication, covering types of communication, language, information sharing, and overcoming common barriers. Developing confidence and skills such as talking, listening, giving children a voice and breaking bad news is also covered. The author outlines the concept of a 'communication continuum' which can be used to assess how much a child knows or understands about their parent's illness and how much they would like to know. The book contains a wealth of practical strategies and ideas, as well as case vignettes, practice tips and reflective exercises.

This is an essential resource for anyone working with or supporting a child whose parent is at the end of life, including palliative care workers, nurses, social workers, teachers and counsellors.

Companioning the Grieving Child: a Soulful Guide for Caregivers. Alan Wolfelt, $32.95

Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers to grieving children. Providing a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment’s model for companioning the bereaved, Wolfelt encourages counselors and other caregivers to aspire to a more compassionate philosophy in which the child is the expert of his or her grief - not the counselor or caregiver. The approach outlined in the book argues against treating grief as an illness to be diagnosed and treated but rather for acknowledging it as an event that forever changes a child's worldview. By promoting careful listening and observation, this guide shows caregivers, family members, teachers, and others how to support grieving children and help them grow into healthy adults.

A Comprehensive Guide to Suicidal Behaviours: Working with Individuals at Risk and Their Families. David Aldridge & Sergio Pérez Barrero, $38.95

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at the person at risk, the family and personal relationships they have and the communities in which they are embedded, this book will help anyone working with suicidal individuals to prevent this major cause of death.

Backed up by research and clinical expertise the book clarifies the facts about suicide and debunks the many unfounded myths surrounding the subject. It covers the classifications and manifestations of suicide, as well as the major risk factors, at-risk groups and warning signs. Advice on effective communication and a repertoire of strategies for distress management are offered, not only for supporting at-risk individuals and those who have survived a suicide attempt, but also families coping with bereavement. A final chapter explores the impact of the internet and the digital age on both the propagation and prevention of suicide.

This book will be essential reading for anybody working with people at risk of suicide, including clinicians, therapists, psychologists, social and healthcare workers and volunteers working in suicide prevention.

Coparenting: a Conceptual and Clinical Examination of Family Systems. Edited by James McHale, $71.50

Coparents may be members of the extended family, divorced or foster parents, or other specialized caregivers. The editors of this volume bring together a wide range of research to explore the various caregiving arrangements and dimensions that the term comprises. COPARENTING examines the concepts, theories, and empirical research underlying this dynamic socialization force characteristic of all family systems: explores clinical applications; and concludes with policy implications for human services agencies, courts, and educational systems.

Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss. Jody Fiorini & Jodi Ann Mullen, $30.95

This comprehensive resource provides developmentally appropriate interventions for counseling children and adolescents who have experienced a wide range of grief and loss, including secondary and intangible losses such as moving or divorce. The book synthesizes current research and best-practice approaches for counseling youth. It provides a method for assessing individual needs and offers guidelines for selecting appropriate counseling strategies.

DBT Made Simple: a Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Sheri van Dijk, $44.95

Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for all mental health conditions rooted in out-of-control emotions. However, there are limited resources for psychologists seeking to use DBT skills with individual clients. DBT MADE SIMPLE provides clinicians with everything they need to know to start using DBT in the therapy room.

The first part of this book briefly covers the theory and research behind DBT and explains how DBT differs from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy approaches. The second part focuses on strategies professionals can use in individual client sessions, while the third section teaches the four skills modules that form the backbone of DBT: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The book includes handouts, case examples, and example therapist-client dialogue—everything clinicians need to equip their clients with these effective and life-changing skills

DEPLOYMENT: Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families. Karen Petty, $34.95 (Ages 1-12)

Military kids face many unique stressors and difficult transitions related to deployment, relocation, separation from loved ones and changes in family structure. Caring for these children requires a clear understanding of the challenges and triumphs military families deal with so that you can offer the best support possible.

Deployment: Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families is a comprehensive handbook which includes theory-based, practice-driven strategies and curriculum suggestions to help children move forward living full lives. Includes information on how to enhance childcare programs using multiple intelligences theory and the Reggio Emila approach.

Devastating Losses: How Parents Cope with the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs. William Ferguson, John Jordan, John McIntosh & Beverly Feigelman, $60.50

This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's traumatic death or suicide. The book intertwines data, insight, and critical learning gathered from research with the voices of the 575 survivors who participated in the study.

The text emphasizes the sociological underpinnings of survivors' grief and provides data that vividly documents their critical need for emotional support. It explains how bereavement difficulties can be exacerbated by stigmatization, and by the failure of significant others to provide expected support. Also explored in depth are the ways in which couples adapt to the traumatic loss of a child and how this can bring them closer or render their relationship irreparable. Findings suggest that with time and peer support affiliations, most traumatically bereaved parents ultimately demonstrate resilience and find meaningful new roles for themselves.

Developing Everyday Coping Skills in the Early Years: Proactive Strategies for Supporting Social and Emotional Development. Erica Frydenberg, Jan Deans & Kelly O’Brien, $37.95

This book will help develop coping skills through arts and language-based activities. The strategies suggested build on children's existing knowledge and skills to enhance their learning, and contribute to improving children's emotional health and creativity; developing resilience; and increasing children's capacity to cooperate, respect and play with others.

The authors also explain how to identify children at risk, particularly those experiencing anxiety or delay in social and emotional development, so that parents and practitioners can intervene early where difficulties exist. Practitioners and parents of children aged 3-8 will find a treasure trove of activities to build coping and self-esteem through creative play and imagination.

Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability (DM-ID): a Clinical Guide for Diagnoses of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability. Editors Robert Fletcher, Earl Loschen, Chrissoula Stavrakaki & Michael First, $86.95

Although psychiatric disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) are common, they are often not appropriately identified.  Determining an accurate psychiatric diagnosis becomes especially difficult as the level of intellectual functioning declines.

To address this issue, The Diagnostic Manual — Intellectual Disability (DM-ID):  a Clinical Guide for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability offers clinicians who work with individuals with ID a convenient, easy-to-use reference for applying DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria to their clients.

Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability (DM-ID): a Textbook of Diagnoses of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability. Editors Robert Fletcher, Earl Loschen, Chrissoula Stavrakaki & Michael First, $150.00

The Diagnostic Manual — Intellectual Disability (DM-ID):  a Textbook of Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability is a diagnostic manual designed to facilitate an accurate DSM-IV-TR diagnosis in persons who have intellectual disabilities and to provide a thorough discussion of the issues involved in reaching an accurate diagnosis.  The DM-ID offers a broad examination of the issues involved in applying diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders to persons with intellectual disabilities.  It includes a description of each psychiatric disorder, a summary of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, a review of the research and an evaluation of the strength of evidence supporting the literature conclusions, a discussion of the etiology and pathogenesis of the disorder, and adaptations of the diagnostic criteria, where applicable, for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Dignity in Health Care: a Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives. Milika Matiti, $45.95

Dignity in the care of patients and clients of all ages, whether in hospital or community settings, is an area of increasing importance and concern. DIGNITY IN HEALTHCARE provides a practical approach, underpinned by up-to-date theory, to this crucial issue for those providing care to people in all stages of life, including those with mental illnesses or learning disabilities. Care in areas such as maternity, community, palliative and acute care and others is explored in depth. Approaches to education and practice development for promoting dignity in care are also outlined clearly and accessibly, with each chapter combining an evidence-based theoretical underpinning with practical application through scenarios. This book will be of interest to practicing nurses, midwives and other health professionals seeking clear insights into the principle of care that is central to all healthcare professions.

Disorders of Behavioral and Emotional Regulation in the First Years of Life: Early Risks and Intervention in the Developing Parent-Infant Relationship. Mechtild Papousek, Michael Schieche & Harald Wurmser, Editors. $64.95

Disorders of Behavioral and Emotional Regulation in the First Years of Life provides a scientifically proven demonstration of how to help families struggling with common and behavioral disorders. Contains numerous case studies and describes scientific and clinical evidence on topics such as excessive crying, sleeping and feeding disorders, and failure to thrive.

Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Richard Bromfield, $40.95

Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome is the only guide of its kind for doing both talk and play therapy with young people with Asperger Syndrome. It meets the growing need for practical clinical guidance in this area. Using vivid case material, it offers wisdom attuned to clinicians’ needs and those of the young people they endeavor to help.

Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Motherhood. Karen Kleiman & Amy Wenzel, $49.50

EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation. Ana Gomez, $60.50

This book provides a wide range of leading-edge, step-by-step strategies for clinicians using EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children with severe dysregulation of the affective system. The book offers developmentally appropriate and advanced tools for using EMDR therapy in treating children with complex trauma, attachment wounds, dissociative tendencies, and compromised social engagement. The book also presents the theoretical framework for case conceptualization in EMDR therapy and in the use of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model with children.

A unique and innovative feature of this book is the masterful integration of strategies from other therapeutic approaches, such as Play therapy, Sandtray therapy, Sensorimotor psychotherapy, Theraplay and Internal Family Systems (IFS), into a comprehensive EMDR treatment maintaining appropriate adherence to the AIP model and EMDR therapy methodology.

Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents: a Practitioner’s Guide. Michael Southam-Gerow, $37.50

Emotion regulation difficulties are central to a range of clinical problems, yet many therapies for children and adolescents lack a focus on emotion and related skills. In a flexible modular format, this much-needed book presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and adolescents understand and manage challenging emotional experiences. Each of the eight treatment modules can be used on its own or in conjunction with other therapies, and includes user-friendly case examples, sample dialogues, and engaging activities and games. Emotion-informed assessment and case conceptualization are also addressed. 

The Emotional Brain: the Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. Joseph LeDoux, $17.50

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive. In this provocative book, he explores the brain mechanisms underlying our emotions, mechanisms that are only beginning to be revealed.

Engaging Boys in Treatment. Craig Haen, Editor, $43.50

Traditional therapy can often be an off-putting experience for boys as it is in direct opposition to the ways they generally interact and connect with others. This book explores a variety of creative approaches that professionals can use to enhance the clinical experience and better reach their young male clients. Chapters discuss the theory behind and implementation of various creative approaches to therapy with boys, such as play therapy, including sports, movement, and gross-motor activity; animal-assisted therapy; the use of video games and computers; the use of superheroes in role play, metaphor, and play therapy; and art therapy. Attention is also given to methods for working with several subgroups of boys that require specialized treatment approaches, including gender variant and sexual minority boys and boys with ADHD. The first book of its kind, mental health professionals will find this a comprehensive and highly valuable text to help them understand, help, and support boys and their development.

Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment. George McCloskey & Lisa Perkins, $53.95

Quickly acquire the knowledge, skills and tools you need to understand and assess children and adolescents struggling with executive functions deficits.

Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment, 2nd Edition. Daniel Miller, $53.95

This evidence-based guide provides a current and concise overview of the field of school neuropsychology with practical guidance on how to apply neuropsychological assessment principles in school settings. The Second Edition features new coverage of major neuropsychological tests batteries for children, including NEPSY-II, WISC-IV Integrated, and D-KEFS. A new accompanying CD-ROM includes helpful tools such as sample case studies and searchable databases of neuropsychological tests.

Executive Function & Child Development. Marcie Yeager & Daniel Yeager, $26.50

Poor executive function (EF) in the brain can mean behavioral and attentional problems in school. This book explains to professionals and parents how EF develops in kids, what EF difficulties look like, and what creative and effective interventions can meet their needs. Executive functions involve mental processes such as:

• Working memory–holding several pieces of information in mind while we try to do something with them–for example, understand and solve a problem or carry out a task.
• Response inhibition–inhibiting actions that interfere with our intentions or goals.
• Shifting focus–interrupting an ongoing response in order to direct attention to other aspects of a situation that are important for goal attainment.
• Cognitive flexibility–generating alternative methods of solving a problem or reaching a goal.
• Self-monitoring–checking on one's own cognitions and actions to assure that they are in line with one's intentions.
• Goal Orientation–creating and carrying out a multi-step plan for achieving a goal in a timely fashion, keeping the "big picture" in mind.

Everyday Parenting: a Professional's Guide to Building Family Management Skills. Thomas Dishion, Elizabeth Stormshak & Kathryn Kavanagh, $21.95

The EVERYDAY PARENTING program can be used for guiding individual family therapy, leading parent groups, and training counselors to work collaboratively with parents. This session-based approach is divided into three areas of skills based on the concept of mindful parenting: supporting positive behavior, setting healthy limits, and building family relationships by helping parents change interaction patterns that occur daily in families and relationships. An accompanying CD contains printable forms and handouts.

The Family Guide to Mental Health Care: Advice on Helping Your Loved Ones. Lloyd Sederer, $27.50

THE FAMILY GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE is the first comprehensive print resource for the millions of people who have loved ones suffering from some kind of mental illness. In this book, families can find the answers to their most urgent questions. From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders, schizophrenia, and much more, readers will learn what to do and how to help.

Real-life scenarios and authoritative information are written in a compassionate, reader-friendly way, including checklists to bring to a doctor’s appointment so you can ask the right questions. For readers who fear they will never see the light at the end of the tunnel, this book gives hope and a path forward.

From the first signs of a problem to sorting through the variety of treatment options, you and your family will be able to walk into a doctor’s office know what to do and what to ask.

Family-Centered Treatment with Struggling Young Adults: a Clinician’s Guide to the Transitions from Adolescence to Autonomy. Brad Sachs, $42.95

FAMILY-CENTERED TREATMENT WITH STRUGGLING YOUNG ADULTS is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad Sachs, PhD, provides both a conceptual framework for understanding the reasons behind the increasing number of young adults who are unable to achieve psychological and financial self-reliance and a treatment framework that will enable practitioners to help these young adults and their families to get unstuck and experience age/stage-appropriate growth and development. In FAMILY-CENTERED TREATMENT WITH STRUGGLING YOUNG ADULTS, clinicians will gain an in-depth understanding of the complex psychological challenges that parents and young adults face as the latter forges a path towards success and self-reliance. Moreoever, they'll come away from the book having learned an innovative approach to sponsoring family engagement at the launching stage—one that reduces tension, resolves conflicts, and promotes evolution and differentiation on both generations’ parts.

The Felt Feelings Series. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 each

The Felt Feelings Series was designed to help therapists and parents understand appropriate ways of expressing their feelings.  Each therapeutic story has rich and detailed text, accompanied by delightful illustrations.

• The Angry Lizard. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (for children who have anger problems)
• The Butterfly Blanket. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (for children who have lost a parent or caregiver to illness)
• Crustback and the Wormhole. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (parental separation, lack of parental involvement)
• Elephant in My Room. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (for children who struggle to express their feelings)
• Glo’s Amazing Journey. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (challenges related to an illness of disability)
• Shelly’s Shell. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (for children who have been sexually abused)
• Stretch. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (for children coping with family conflict)
• The Telling Bee. Lynne Steffy, illustrated by Gary Frederick, $10.95 (encourages children to disclose abuse or bullying)

Handbook of Executive Functioning. Sam Goldstein  & Jack Naglieri, $349.00 (due August 2013)

Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood. THE HANDBOOK OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING cuts through the confusion, analyzing both the whole and its parts in comprehensive, practical detail for scholar and clinician alike. Background chapters examine influential models of EF, tour the brain geography of the executive system, and pose salient developmental questions. A section on practical implications relates early deficits in executive functioning to ADD and other disorders in children, and considers autism and later-life dementias from an EF standpoint. Further chapters weigh the merits of widely used instruments for assessing executive functioning and review interventions for its enhancement, with special emphasis on children and adolescents.

The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Edited by James Luiselli, $53.50

Aggressive and destructive behaviors are an ongoing challenge for many children, adolescents, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This comprehensive text is a compendium of knowledge on addressing challenging behaviors using evidence-based, empirically supported practices. With contributions from more than 30 prominent clinicians and researchers, this book gives readers cutting-edge research and clear assessment and intervention guidelines in six key topic areas:

• Self-Injurious Behavior
• Aggressive Behavior
• Sexual Offending Behavior
• Health-Threatening Eating Disorders
• Criminal Behavior
• Therapeutic (Physical) Restraint

Ideal for use as a graduate-level textbook or a valuable in-service reference for psychologists, social workers, educators, and other professionals, this book gives professionals the knowledge and proven best practices they need to assess high-risk challenging behavior, intervene appropriately, and improve quality of life for the people they serve.

Handbook of Self-Regulation, 2nd Edition: Research, Theory, and Applications. Edited by Roy Baumeister & Kathleen Vohs, $53.50

This authoritative handbook comprehensively examines the conscious and non-conscious processes by which people regulate their thoughts, emotions, attention, behavior, and impulses. Individual differences in self-regulatory capacities are explored, as are developmental pathways. The volume reviews how self-regulation shapes, and is shaped by, social relationships. Failures of self-regulation are also addressed, in chapters on addictions, overeating, compulsive spending, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Wherever possible, contributors identify implications of the research for helping people enhance their self-regulatory capacities and pursue desired goals.

He Shoots! He Scores! A Tale from the Iris the Dragon Series.  Gayle Grass & Graham Ross, $18.00

A children’s book dealing with child and youth mental health challenges and stigma.

Healing Together: a Couple’s Guide to Coping with Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress. Suzanne Phillips & Dianne Kane, $21.95

When one or both partners in a relationship experience a major traumatic event, the strain can really put the relationship in jeopardy; Healing Together offers couples simple techniques for communicating, regaining trust, and supporting one another through the process of trauma recovery.

Healing Young Brains — the Neurofeedback Solution: Drug-Free Treatment for Childhood Disorders, Including Autism, ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety. Robert Hill & Eduardo Castro, $18.95

Healing Young Brains is a parent’s guide to treating their children with neurofeedback as an alternative to drugs. Neurofeedback is a form of brainwave feedback that can help train a child's brain to overcome slow brainwave activity and increase and maintain its speed permanently. Quick, noninvasive and cost effective, neurofeedback is effective without any of the side effects associated with drugs commonly used to such childhood disorders as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sleep disorders, and emotional problems.

Health Consequences of Abuse in the Family: a Clinical Guide for Evidence-Based Practice. Edited by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, $26.95

HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF ABUSE IN THE FAMILY translates research into practice by examining the intersection of family violence and health. Specifically this volume looks at the healthcare needs of people who have experienced abuse and subsequently have related chronic diseases and conditions.

HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF ABUSE IN THE FAMILY broadly summarizes research and clinical cases and offers practical suggestions to the psychologists and other healthcare providers working in a variety of settings. Chapters address the implications for clinical practice as well as review relevant studies and provide additional resources. In addition, the special needs of children with disabilities, elders, and women are discussed.

The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics, 11th Edition. Anne Dipchand, et al, $85.95

This handbook offers current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pediatric clinical problems.

Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Volume 1, Typical Development. Edited by Donna Coch, Kurt Fischer & Geraldine Dawson, $59.95

This state-of-the-science volume brings together leading authorities from multiple disciplines to examine the relationship between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. Chapters explore the complex interplay of neurobiological and environmental influences in the development of memory, language, reading, inhibitory control, and other core aspects of cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. Throughout, the volume gives particular attention to what the research reveals about ways to support all children's learning and healthy development.

Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Volume 2, Atypical Development. Edited by Donna Coch, Geraldine Dawson & Kurt W. Fischer, $59.95

Synthesizing the breadth of current knowledge on brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this important volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. Leading authorities present their latest research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers. In addition, the effects of social stress and maltreatment on brain development and behavior are thoroughly reviewed. Demonstrating the uses of cutting-edge methods from developmental neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, the contributors emphasize the implications of their findings for real-world educational and clinical practices.

The Impact of Attachment. Susan Hart, $53.00

Combining theories of neurobiology, interpersonal relationships, and intra-psychic concepts, this significant book explores the importance of attachment. Hart addresses children's normal development and relational disorders and presents a unified and integrated therapeutic approach that takes attachment issues into consideration.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: a Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention. Stanley Greenspan, & Serena Wieder, $75.95

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: a Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention redefines working with infants, young children, and their families when mental health, developmental, or learning problems occur. Greenspan and Wieder show how mental health and developmental challenges can be classified according to each child's unique emotion, cognitive, language, and sensory processing profile. Most importantly, they demonstrate and present their new data on the most effective ways of intervening with these challenges, demonstrating how even children with the most severe mental health and developmental problems can make more progress than formerly thought possible in learning to relate, communicate, and think meaningfully and adaptively.

The Infant Mind: Origins of the Social Brain. Edited by Maria Legerstee, David Haley & Marc Bornstein, $90.95

Integrating cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, this book provides a dynamic and holistic picture of the developing infant mind. Contributors explore the transactions among genes, the brain, and the environment in the earliest years of life. The volume probes the neural correlates of core sensory, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities. It highlights the importance of early relationships, presenting compelling findings on how parent–infant interactions influence neural processing and brain maturation. Innovative research methods are discussed, including applications of behavioral, hormonal, genetic, and brain imaging technologies.

Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Edited by Christine Lynn Norton, $42.95

Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a unique composite of the literature on various innovative interventions for children and adolescents, and provides a developmental and neurobiological rationale for utilizing innovative interventions with this population. Based on the latest research, this book emphasizes that children and adolescents need more than just talk therapy. These innovative interventions can be applied in a variety of practice settings including schools, juvenile justice, community-based counseling centers, and residential treatment. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, and provides a historical, theoretical, and research-based rationale, as well as a helpful case study, for each type of intervention being discussed.

January First: a Child’s Descent Into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her. Michael Schofield, $29.95

Michael Schofield’s daughter January is at the mercy of her imaginary friends, except they aren’t the imaginary friends that most young children have; they are hallucinations. And January is caught in the conflict between our world and their world, a place she calls Calalini.  Some of these hallucinations, like “24 Hours,” are friendly and some, like “400 the Cat” and “Wednesday the Rat,” bite and scratch her until she does what they want.  They often tell her to scream at strangers, jump out of buildings, and attack her baby brother.    

At six years old, January Schofield, “Janni,” to her family, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, one of the worst mental illnesses known to man.  What’s more, schizophrenia is 20 to 30 times more severe in children than in adults and in January’s case, doctors say, she is hallucinating 95 percent of the time that she is awake. Potent psychiatric drugs that would level most adults barely faze her. 

JANUARY FIRST captures Michael and his family's remarkable story in a narrative that forges new territory within books about mental illness. A compelling, unsparing and passionate account, JANUARY FIRST vividly details Schofield’s commitment to bring his daughter back from the edge of insanity.  It is a father’s soul-baring memoir of the daily struggles and challenges he and his wife face as they do everything they can to help Janni while trying to keep their family together. 

Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process for New Practitioners. Deborah Roth Ledley, Brian Marx & Richard Heimberg, $38.50

A highly practical guide for beginning therapists, this concise primer fills the gap between academic training and what clinicians need to know for day-to-day work with clients … Invaluable appendices point the reader toward additional resources, including empirically supported treatment manuals, journals, and websites.

A Manual of Dynamic Play Therapy: Helping Things Fall Apart, the Paradox of Play. Dennis McCarthy, $33.95

Children will experience natural growth and change throughout their lives. Play, by its very nature, always results in things falling apart, often literally, and children generally find satisfaction in this process of collapse and renewal.

This book harnesses the power of the reorganizing process to elicit positive and profound change in children dealing with social, neurological, developmental, health and family issues. The author clarifies the theory behind this innovative play therapy approach, and explains its practical application to a full spectrum of client needs, using inspirational and real-life anecdotes as examples. He also describes the importance of using symbols in play therapy and focuses on ways to enable children to act out their internal aggression in a safe and healthy manner.

Medication Fact Sheets: a Behavioral Medication Reference for Educators, 4th Edition. Dean Konopasek, $45.50

This newly revised edition serves as a handy and easy-to-understand reference for nonmedical professionals. It is essential for teachers, counselors, social workers, and psychologists to have a basic understanding of medications that are frequently used to treat students with psychiatric conditions such as ADHD, depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, and other mental disorders. The author provides a brief overview of 99 prescription medications. Each one-page, reproducible fact sheet identifies what the medication is for, what it does, potential side effects, dosages, and in what forms it is available. User-friendly appendixes separate medications by class, pregnancy risk, and controlled substance categories. A CD providing PDFs of the fact sheets is included.

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: a Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs. Marc Lewis, $21.00

Marc Lewis is a distinguished neuroscientist. And, for many years, he was a drug addict, dependent on a series of dangerous substances, from LSD to heroin. His narrative moves back and forth between the often dark, compellingly story of his relationship with drugs and a revelatory analysis of what was going on in his brain. He shows how drugs speak to the brain - which is designed to seek rewards and soothe pain - in its own language. He shows in detail the neural mechanics of a variety of powerful drugs and of the onset of addiction.

Dr. Lewis freed himself from addiction and ended up studying it. He traded in his pharmaceutical supplies for the life of a graduate student, eventually becoming a professor of developmental psychology, and then of neuroscience. This is the fascinating story of his journey, seen from the inside out.

Mental Health in Pregnancy and Childbirth. Edited by Sally Ann Price, $83.95

Describing common disorders and their relationship with pregnancy, Mental Health in Pregnancy and Childbirth promotes an understanding of the issues involved and offers tools to providing the most effective woman-centered maternity care. All health professionals concerned with the wellbeing of the pregnant woman will find invaluable help and guidance in this book. Given the identification of mental health problems as a leading cause of maternal death (CEMD 2001), this is an essential guide to the effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women and families coping with mental illness.

A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World. Susanne Antonetta, $18.00

In this fascinating literary memoir, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal experience as a manic-depressive, as well as interviews with people with multiple personality disorder, autism, and other neurological conditions, to form an intimate meditation on mental ‘disease’. She traces the many capabilities-the visual consciousness of an autistic, for example, or the metaphoric consciousness of a manic-depressive-that underlie these and other mental ‘disabilities’. A stunning portrait of how the world shapes itself in minds that are profoundly different from the norm, A Mind Apart urges readers to look beyond the concept of cures to the gifts inherent in many neuro-atypical conditions. Employing a wide-ranging approach to her subject, Antonetta provides a rare glimpse into the wildly varying landscapes of human thought, perception, and emotion.

Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being. Thich Nhat Hanh, illustrations by Wietske Vriezen, $19.95

Initially developed as stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, the Ten Mindful Movements have become a popular tool to reduce stress and tension. These simple and effective movements, based in yoga and Tai Chi, can increase mental, emotional, and physical well-being, and are suitable for people with a wide range of physical abilities. Each exercise is fully illustrated by Wietske Vriezen, a Dutch artist and movement teacher. The book includes a 35-minute DVD of Thich Nhat Hanh and members of the Plum Village Sangha demonstrating the Mindful Movements.

Mindfulness & Acceptance for Counseling College Students: Theory and Practical Applications for Intervention, Prevention & Outreach. Jacqueline Pistorello, $57.95

The college years are very stressful for many people, so it comes as little surprise that college-aged youth often suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Even among college students whose distress is not clinically diagnosable, the college years are fraught with developmental challenges that can trigger bouts of psychological suffering. In MINDFULNESS AND ACCEPTANCE FOR COUNSELING COLLEGE STUDENTS, clinical researcher Jacqueline Pistorello explores how mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches are being utilized in higher education settings around the world to treat student mental health problems like severe depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders, and/or to help students thrive in and out of the classroom.

This book offers easy-to-use programs for college counselors, therapists, instructors, administrators, and even high school counselors who are looking for tools to help high school students prepare for the transition to college. Counselors with extensive experience with mindfulness and acceptance approaches can learn new ways of adapting these approaches to interventions with college students, and counselors interested in these approaches but lacking experience can learn about these effective therapies. Finally, college administrators and staff can gain ideas for implementing mindfulness practices in various campus contexts to help promote student mental health or academic engagement.

Minding the Child: Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People, and Their Families. Nick Midgley & Ionna Vrouva, Editors, $40.95

What is 'mentalization'? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to 'keep the mind in mind'? Why does it matter if a parent can 'see themselves from the outside, and their child from the inside'?

MINDING THE CHILD considers the implications of the concept of mentalization for a range of therapeutic interventions with children and families. Mentalization, and the empirical research which has supported it, now plays a significant role in a range of psychotherapies for adults. In this book we see how these rich ideas about the development of the self and interpersonal relatedness can help to foster the emotional well-being of children and young people in clinical practice and a range of other settings.

MINDING THE CHILD will be of particular interest to clinicians and those working therapeutically with children and families, but it will also be of interest to academics and students interested in child and adolescent mental health, developmental psychology and the study of social cognition.

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain. Louis Cozolino, $43.50

In The Neuroscience of Human Relationships, Louis Cozolino shows us how brains are highly social organisms. Balancing cogent explanation with instructive brain diagrams, he presents an atlas of sorts, illustrating how the architecture and development of brain systems—from before birth through adulthood—determine how we interact with others.

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Second Edition: Healing the Social Brain. Louis Cozolino, $56.00

Theoretical advances in brain imaging have revealed that the brain is an organ continually built and re-built by one's experience. We are now beginning to learn that many forms of psychotherapy, developed in the absence of any scientific understanding of the brain, are supported by recent neuroscientific findings. In fact, it could be argued that to be an effective psychotherapist these days it is essential to have some basic understanding of neuroscience. Louis Cozolino's The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Second Edition is the perfect place to start.

Written for psychotherapists and others interested in the relationship between brain and behavior, this book encourages us to consider the brain when attempting to understand human development, mental illness, and psychological health. Fully and thoroughly updated with the many neuroscientific developments that have happened in the eight years since the publication of the first edition, this revision to the bestselling book belongs on the shelf of all practitioners.

A Non-Violent Resistance Approach with Children in Distress: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Carmelite Avraham-Krehwinkel & David Aldridge, $33.95

Parents, teachers and other professionals often struggle to know how to deal with disruptive, abusive or aggressive behavior. This book addresses the urgent need for a realistic, practical and effective approach to dealing with severe disruptive behavior in children and adolescents.

Adapting the principles of non-violent resistance originally advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, the book provides de-escalation techniques which empower the adult and unburden the distressed child. The authors outline the theoretical basis upon which the approach was developed, and explain how and why it can be so effective. Case studies demonstrate how the approach can be used to reach more successful places with unhappy and disruptive children of different ages. A separate section for parents provides useful advice on how to take the theoretical material and use it to deal with problematic behavior in everyday life.

As effective as it is original, this approach will empower desperate parents and despairing caregivers by equipping them with hands-on tools to contain, counter and positively direct the aggression and opposition which they face from children in distress.

101 Things to Do on the Street: Games and Resources for Detached, Outreach and Street-Based Youth Work, 2nd Edition. Vanessa Rogers, $31.95

101 Things to Do on the Street is packed with creative and innovative ideas for street games and activities to help young people aged 11-19 explore personal, social and emotional issues.

Specifically designed so that few resources or props are needed, the activities included are all practical, easy to follow, and above all, fun. As well as helping young people get to know each other, they explore issues such as gender stereotypes, offending behaviour, values, trust and street safety. They also aim to improve skills such as teamwork, communication, compromise and negotiation. From role-play and arts and crafts to discussion and quizzes, there are over 100 ideas to meet the needs of young people who choose to meet on the street, which can also be adapted for use elsewhere. This second edition includes information on what detached and outreach work is, tips and ideas on how to get started, staying safe guidelines, and over 30 revised or new activities.

This invaluable resource will be used time and again by outreach youth workers, mobile projects, community development officers, and youth offending teams — in fact anyone working with young people who need tried and tested ideas to engage and motivate outside of building-based provision.

Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well. Kathy Regan, $18.95

Opening Our Arms is the journey of one child psychiatric unit and a profound questioning of current practice in child welfare. In this bird's eye view of a group of people undertaking major change, the unit transforms itself toward more humane, trauma-sensitive care based on the Collaborative Problem Solving Approach of Ross Greene and Stuart Ablom. An extraordinary and compassionate view of the most troubled children.

Pediatric & Neonatal Dosage Handbook 18th Edition: a Comprehensive Resource for all Clinicians Treating Pediatric and Neonatal Patients. Carol Taketomo, et al, $66.50

The pediatric population is a dynamic group, with major changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics taking place throughout infancy and childhood. Because of these changes, the need for the evaluation and establishment of medication dosing regimens in children of different ages is great. THE PEDIATRIC & NEONATAL DOSAGE HANDBOOK is a trusted resource for all medical professionals managing pediatric patients.

Pills Are Not for Preschoolers: a Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids. Marilyn Wedge, $17.00

Family therapist Marilyn Wedge offers a much-needed alternative to the labels and potentially harmful medications that so often are given to children whose behavior is deemed problematic. In her provocative new book, Wedge explains why addressing family problems with prescriptives — not prescriptions — can achieve longer lasting and better results for the entire family. PILLS ARE NOT FOR PRESCHOOLERS demonstrates why family therapy can be a successful alternative to medications in alleviating the symptoms of childhood ADHD, depression, anxiety and behavioral issues.

Playing with Fire: Training for Those Working with Young People in Conflict, 2nd edition. Fiona MacBeth & Nic Fine, $52.95

PLAYING WITH FIRE is a structured manual and training programme to help youth counsellors work with young people caught up in conflict and violence. All aspects of conflict are covered, from the initial igniting spark to the roaring blaze.

The manual includes ideas and session plans that can be adapted to the needs of a particular group. Sessions include exercises and activities that explore situations of conflict, develop skills to deal with them, and rehearse techniques for future use. The training section outlines how to deliver the programme, including how to use role-play and work constructively with conflict in the training room.

This second edition includes new sessions on working with issues of identity and prejudice and working with wider community issues, as well as new exercises and activities. Appendices include alternative session plans and ideas on games and group work exercises. This is a valuable guide for youth practitioners and all those working with young people who face conflict or violence.

Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: an Integrative Handbook of the Mind. Daniel Siegel, $31.50

Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common "framework" where each of these important perspectives can be honored and integrated with one another has been created. Our mental lives are profoundly relational. The interactions we have with one another shape our mental world. Yet as any neuroscientist will tell you, the mind is shaped by the firing patterns in the brain. How can we reconcile this tension — that the mind is both embodied and relational? Interpersonal Neurobiology is a way of thinking across this apparent conceptual divide.

This POCKET GUIDE TO INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY is designed to aid in your personal and professional application of the interpersonal neurobiology approach to developing a healthy mind, an integrated brain, and empathic relationships. It is also designed to assist you in seeing the intricate foundations of interpersonal neurobiology as you explore relatedresources.

The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation. Stephen Porges, $47.50

A collection of groundbreaking research by a leading figure in neuroscience. This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen Porges's 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.

Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: a Clinician's Guide. Cheryl Tatano Beck & Jeanne Watson Driscoll, $94.95

Designed for clinicians delivering postpartum care, including physicians, midwives, OB-GYN nurse practitioners, and women's health practitioners, this text overviews the six different mood and anxiety disorders that may present during a woman's postpartum year. Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders focuses on assessment, screening tools, diagnosis, treatment, and implications for practice, and includes case studies to integrate the process.

The Practitioner Guide to Skills Training for Struggling Kids. Michael Bloomquist, $37.50

Addressing frequently encountered emotional, behavioral, and academic difficulties, this essential guide shows how to help parents implement proven skills-building strategies with their kids (ages 5–17). The author draws on over 25 years of research and clinical practice to provide a flexible program for individual families or parent groups. The focus is on teaching kids the skills they need to get their development back on track and teaching parents to cope with and manage challenging behavior. Featuring vignettes and troubleshooting tips, the Practitioner Guide is packed with ideas for engaging clients and tailoring the interventions. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, it contains more than 60 reproducible handouts and forms.

Also available: Skills Training for Struggling Kids: Promoting Your Child’s Behavioral, Emotional, Academic, and Social Development. Michael Bloomquist, $20.50 —- An invaluable client recommendation, which guides parents to implement Dr. Bloomquist's strategies and includes all of the handouts and forms they need.

Promoting Psychological Well-Being in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness. Melinda Edwards & Penny Titman, $34.95

Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked.

Promoting Psychological Well-Being in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness provides a comprehensive guide to promoting the psychological well-being of children with chronic illnesses and medical conditions, covering support within health, social services and education. It discusses issues such as the impact of diagnosis and the experiences of children and their families in managing their medical condition and treatment. Strategies to support children and help them to cope with medical conditions are demonstrated, including cognitive behavioural and systemic approaches, and techniques such as relaxation and motivational interviewing. Case examples from clinical practice are given to illustrate the application of psychological ideas and frameworks to a variety of medical conditions and psychological difficulties. The book also includes a comprehensive resources section of where to look for further information.

Psychotherapy for Individuals with Intellectual Disability. Edited by Robert Fletcher, $60.95

This book provides the reader with insightful and useful ways to provide psychotherapy treatment for individuals who have intellectual disability.  It brings together all three modalities (individual, couple, and group), and a variety of theoretical models and techniques are discussed.  This book is a major contribution to the effort to make psychotherapy available to individuals who have ID and should serve to further stimulate interest in the provision of psychotherapy treatment for individuals who have ID co-occurring with significant mental health problems.

Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children: Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment. Alicia Lieberman & Patricia Van Horn, $28.95

This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child-parent psychotherapy promotes the child's emotional health and builds the parent's capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when stress and trauma have disrupted the quality of the parent-child relationship. The book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework together with practical strategies for combining play, developmental guidance, trauma-focused interventions, and concrete assistance with problems of living. Filled with evocative, "how-to-do-it" examples, it is grounded in extensive clinical experience and important research on early development, attachment, neurobiology, and trauma.

The Quiet Mind: Reducing Anxiety. Loretta Oleck, $43.95

• For Children, Teens and Adults
• Easy and Ready to Use Activities
• Includes Book and CD

THE QUIET MIND: REDUCING ANXIETY provides photo-activities to resolve anxiety, including overcoming fears, decreasing feelings of apprehension, learning to relax, reducing triggers, and building an inner safety and calm. The combination of activities and creative options along with the visual cues of the photographs lay out an easy-to-follow groundwork for healthy and needed change. The Quiet Mind series is suitable for educators, mental health professionals, and parents looking for practical and creative ways to modify or diminish negative behaviors and symptoms.

Resilient Grandparent Caregivers: a Strengths-Based Perspective. Bert Hayslip Jr. & Gregory Smith, Editors, $53.50

The study of grandparents raising grandchildren has tended to have a negative bias, emphasizing the difficulties such people face and the negative impact that grandparent caregiving has on them physically, socially, and emotionally. This book seeks to reverse this trend by taking a positive approach to understanding grandparent caregivers, focusing on their resilience and resourcefulness. This method reflects a strengths-based approach and the importance of benefit-finding and positive coping. Chapters feature information from both qualitative and quantitative studies and are written by a diverse range of professionals, such as counselors, psychologists, geriatric social workers, and nurse practitioners, to provide multidisciplinary perspectives for practitioners working with grandparent caregivers.

The School Psychologist's Survival Guide, Grades K-12. Rebecca Branstetter, $39.95

THE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST'S SURVIVAL GUIDE offers help for school psychologists who must often travel to multiple school sites, deal with students with severe disabilities, meet with concerned parents, and manage school crises. The book is filled with practical advice, proven strategies, and useful tools, complete with reproducible forms, letters, and checklists for busy professionals.

The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Build Confidence and Achieve Your Goals. Lisa Schab, $18.95

Psychologists believe that low self-esteem is at the root of many emotional problems. When you have healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as deserving of the respect of others. When you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your opinions and ideas, and may find yourself fading into the background of life. Without some measure of self-worth, you cannot accomplish your goals.

In THE SELF-ESTEEM WORKBOOK FOR TEENS, you will learn to develop a healthy, realistic view of yourself that includes honest assessments of your weaknesses and strengths, and you will learn to respect yourself, faults and all. You will also learn the difference between self-esteem and being self-centered, self-absorbed, or selfish. Finally, this book will show you how to distinguish the outer appearance of confidence from the quiet, steady, inner acceptance and humility of true self-esteem.

The book also includes practical exercises to help you deal with setbacks and self-doubt, skills for dealing with criticism, and activities that will aid in the development of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-worth. With the right amount of self-confidence, you will have the emotional resources you need to reach your goals.

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, 2nd Edition. Edited by Heidi Gerard Kaduson & Charles Schaefer, $33.50

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated second edition, this volume presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Invaluable for all those optimizing limited time with clients, the book describes effective methods for individual, family, and group treatment of children struggling with specific disorders and life challenges. Featured are detailed, session-by-session guidelines and lively clinical illustrations that bring diverse techniques to life. In the second edition, all chapters have been updated, some with new authors, and five new chapters have been added on bipolar disorder, PTSD, family and groups and play, and parent training approaches.

Social Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults: Translating Developmental Science into Practice. Candice Alfano, Editor, $75.95

During adolescence, the physical, cognitive, and behavioral hallmarks of social anxiety disorder (SAD) often make their first appearance. This developmental period is characterized by rapid physical growth and sexual maturation, as well as unique emotional and cognitive developments and underlying neurological changes. At the same time, increasing social demands, peer pressure, romantic interests, hormonal changes, and greater independence present a dizzying and sometimes overwhelming array of challenges. Although symptoms of social anxiety are common in adolescents, only recently have researchers begun to examine the problem in this age group. Fortunately, an increasing number of studies have uncovered important nuances in the development and presentation of social anxiety symptoms and SAD in adolescents and young adults. The contributors to this book examine social anxiety in the lives of young people (aged 12 to 25) in the context of dating and romantic relationships, alcohol and drug use, performance anxiety and school refusal, and alongside co-morbid disorders such as depression.

Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Bill Eddy & Randi Kreger, $19.95

Divorce is difficult under the best of circumstances. When your spouse has borderline personality disorder (BPD), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), or is manipulative, divorcing can be especially complicated. While people with these tendencies may initially appear convincing and even charming to lawyers and judges, you know better — many of these "persuasive blamers" leverage false accusations, attempt to manipulate others, launch verbal and physical attacks, and do everything they can to get their way.

SPLITTING is your legal and psychological guide to safely navigating a high-conflict divorce from an unpredictable spouse. Written by Bill Eddy, a family lawyer, therapist, and divorce mediator, and Randi Kreger, coauthor of the BPD classic STOP WALKING ON EGGSHELLS, this book includes all of the critical information you need to work through the process of divorce in an emotionally balanced, productive way.

Starving the Anger Gremlin: a Cognitive Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People. Kate Collins-Donnelly, $19.95

Starving the Anxiety Gremlin: a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management for Young People. Kate Collins-Donnelly, $22.95

Starving the Stress Gremlin: a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Stress Management for Young People. Kate Collins-Donnelly, $22.95

These creative resources are based on cognitive behavioural principles that link thoughts, feelings and behaviours. With engaging activities, the books help young people to understand why they get anxious, what stresses them, or why they get so angry - and how they can 'starve' these gremlins in order to manage their feelings.

These appealing workbooks use fun activities, worksheets,  and real life stories, and can be used by young people aged 10+ on their own or with a parent or practitioner. They are also ideal resources for those working with young people, including mental health practitioners, social workers, educators, guidance counselors, and youth workers.

Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions. Judith Siegel, $19.95

When you are criticized or rejected, do you have a tendency to lash out or withdraw entirely? Both types of knee-jerk reactions can have lasting and unintended consequences, affecting our friendships, careers, families, and romantic relationships.

STOP OVERREACTING helps you identify your emotional triggers, discover a new way of processing impulsive thoughts and feelings, and understand how your emotions can undermine your ability to think rationally in moments of crisis and stress. You'll learn how to neutralize overwhelming emotions and choose healthy responses instead of flying off the handle. It's time to stop overreacting and start feeling collected and in control.

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, 2nd Edition. Paul Mason & Randi Kreger, $24.95

Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped nearly half a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this destructive disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised edition has been updated with the very latest BPD research and includes coping and communication skills you can use to stabilize your relationship with the BPD sufferer in your life.

The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder. Randi Kreger, $29.95

Struggle for Control: Child and Youth Behaviour Disorders.  Helen Slinger & Melanie Wood, National Film Board of Canada, $19.95 (DVD, 57 minutes)

This documentary looks at the causes, symptoms, community resources and treatments of three of the most commonly diagnosed behavior disorders: ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. Viewers see how these disorders affect the life of the child at home and at school and the effects on the family.

Suffer the Children:  the Case against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative. Marilyn Wedge, $33.50

A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses. Instructive, illuminating, and uplifting, Suffer the Children radically reframes how we as parents, as health professionals, and as a society can respond to problems of childhood in a considerate and respectful fashion.

The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Child and Family Social Workers. Helen Donnellan & Gordon Jack, $38.95

So, you've passed your degree and have started your first job. But are you confident about translating the theory into practice? Are you prepared to juggle the workload of a busy social worker? Do you have a plan for your continuing professional development? This practical guide provides a wealth of suggestions to help you to hit the ground running in the early stages of your new career.

Talking to Families About Mental Illness: What Clinicians Need to Know. Igor Galynker, $41.00

A clinician's guide to understanding and responding to the concerns of family members whose loved one suffers from mental illness.

Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders. Jennifer Resetar, Tara Snyder, Michael Sterba, $34.95

Incorporating social skills into treatment planning for 109 emotional, behavioral and social disorders, this is a practical guide for therapists, psychologists and educators striving to improve the lives of troubled youth.

Testifying in Court: Guidelines and Maxims for the Expert Witness, 2nd Edition. Stanley Brodsky, $32.95

Testifying in court can be a challenging experience. Novices who are unfamiliar with the judicial environment can feel insecure about many aspects of their testimony, from the language they use to the clothes they wear. Even experienced expert witnesses can be flustered by a skillful lawyer's cross-examination.

For over 20 years, Stanley Brodsky's TESTIFYING IN COURT has been a trusted guide for expert witnesses across a variety of professions. Readers have come to know and trust his sage and good-humored advice on every aspect of the experience from initial preparations to maintaining power and control during cross-examination. In this extensively updated edition of his classic text, the author has combined a wealth of new research with feedback from users of the first edition and his own evolving experience as an expert witness. As in the first edition, key principles are addressed in brief essays that draw on real-life scenarios and end in a take-home maxim.

Therapeutic Exercises for Children: Guided Self-Discovery Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques. Robert Friedberg, Barbara Friedberg & Rebecca Friedberg, $31.95

THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES FOR CHILDREN is an empirically-supported program for helping anxious and depressed children ages 8 to 11. The guide provides specific recommendations for implementing this cognitive-behavioral program including suggestions for selecting and individualizing the workbook exercises to meet the specific needs of different children and groups of children. Theoretical and clinical issues related to the treatment of anxious and depressed children including indications and contra-indications for using these techniques, and cultural adaptations. This program makes therapy fun for children by balancing the teaching of new coping skills with coaching to help them experientially apply these skills to highly personalized events in their day-to-day lives. Also includes suggestions for working with parents, conducting school-based groups, and numerous references.

Transforming Behavior: Training Parents & Kids Together. Mary Cook, $75.95

Looking for a proven, flexible, and cost-effective way to address challenging behavior, social skills development, and family conflict? Look no further than this ready-to-use group therapy program, ideal for clinicians working in a range of settings with children 8–12 and their parents.

With 22 adaptable modules (11 for children, 11 for parents), this field-tested program gives professionals everything they need to lead group therapy sessions that improve the lives of whole families. The TRANSFORMING BEHAVIOR program is easy to implement, with a comprehensive manual and a CD-ROM with dozens of printable worksheets, quizzes, sample scenarios, and other practical handouts for parents and children. A program with long-term benefits for children and parents, TRANSFORMING BEHAVIOR will transform whole families and equip children with social-emotional skills they'll use for their entire lives.

Traumatic Experience and the Brain: a Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized as Children. Dave Ziegler, $26.95

Traumatic Experience and the Brain is the result of Dr. Dave Ziegler's three decades of experience with children traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. This book details the effect of such trauma on the developing brain, describing how it actually rewires one's perceptions of self, others, and the world. It is a book of hope for foster, natural, and adoptive parents of such "broken" children and the therapists, teachers and social workers who attempt to help them.

Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: an Evidence-Based Guide. Edited by Christine Courtois & Julian Ford, $63.50

Chronic childhood trauma, such as prolonged abuse or family violence, can severely disrupt a person's development, basic sense of self and later relationships. Adults with this type of history often come to therapy with complex symptoms that go beyond existing criteria for PTSD. This important book brings together prominent authorities to present the latest thinking on complex traumatic stress disorders and provide practical guidelines for conceptualization and treatment. Evidence-based assessment procedures are detailed and innovative individual, couple, family, and group therapies are described and illustrated with case vignettes and session transcripts.

Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems: a Focus on Relationships. Debra Peplar & Bruce Ferguson, Editors, $38.99

UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING GIRLS’ AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS aims to understand what is going wrong in children’s relationships that might create, exacerbate, and maintain aggressive behaviour problems in childhood and adolescence. In this volume, leading researchers in the aggression field examine, with a particular focus on girls, how problems develop for children in relationships and how we can help them develop healthy relationships.

Individual chapters explore biological and social contexts, including physical health and relationship problems that might underlie the development of aggressive behaviour problems. Contributors discuss prevention and intervention strategies that help aggressive children build the requisite skills and relationship capacities and also shift dynamics within critical social contexts, such as the family, peer group, classroom, and school. The support of healthy development not only of children but of their parents and other important adults in their lives, including teachers, has been shown to be effective in reducing the burden of suffering associated with aggression among children and adolescents.

What Children Need to Be Happy, Confident and Successful: Step by Step Positive Psychology to Help Children Flourish. Jeni Hooper, $27.95

This book provides a practical model for helping children flourish and achieve their personal potential in every area of their lives. Drawing on ideas from positive psychology and child development theory, the model explores the five key areas of wellbeing: personal strengths, emotional wellbeing, positive communication, learning strengths, and resilience. Practical activities are included for each area, and a questionnaire provides an assessment to enable you to keep track of progress.

Suitable for use with children aged 3–11, this step-by-step guide is an ideal resource for professionals working with children, including counsellors, social workers, teachers, and psychotherapists, as well as parents.

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: a Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD. Dawn Huebner, $17.95 (ages 6-12)

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder. This interactive self-help book turns kids into super-sleuths who can recognize and more appropriately respond to OCD's tricks. With engaging examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions, it helps children master the skills needed to break free from OCD's sticky thoughts and urges, and live happier lives.

The complete list of books in this series by psychologist Dawn Huebner:

What to Do When You Dread Your Bed: a Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems with Sleep

What to Do When You Grumble Too Much: a Kid's Guide to Overcoming Negativity

What to Do When You Worry Too Much: a Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: a Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD

What to Do When Your Temper Flares: a Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger

What to Do When Bad Habits Take Hold: a Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Nail Biting and More

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why?

Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner brings a comprehensive understanding to seemingly incomprehensible behavior. Among the many people who have considered, attempted, or died by suicide, he finds three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and, chillingly, the learned ability to hurt oneself. Joiner tests his theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology - facts about suicide rates among men and women; white and African-American men; anorexics, athletes, prostitutes, and physicians; members of cults, sports fans, and citizens of nations in crisis.

The result offers insight, guidance, and essential information to clinicians, scientists, and health practitioners, and to anyone whose life has been affected by suicide.

Wishing Wellness is a workbook for the child whose mother or father is suffering from a serious mental illness. Packed with information, interactive questions, and fun activities, it's an ideal tool for children and their therapists or other professional mental health workers.

Working with Alienated Children and Families: a Clinical Guidebook. Amy Baker & S. Richard Sauber, Editors, $51.50

No matter how the professional intersects with families affected by alienation, be it through individual treatment, reunification therapy, a school setting, or support groups, he or she needs to consider how to make proper assessments, how to guard against bias, and when and how to involve the court system, among other challenges.

The cutting edge clinical interventions presented in this book will help professionals answer these questions and help them to help their clients. The authors present a range of clinical options such as parent education, psycho-educational programs for children, and reunification programs for children and parents that make this volume a useful reference and practical guide.

Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches: Enabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve their Potential. Judith Milner & Jackie Bateman, $33.95

Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.

Based on solution focused practice principles, this book illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with all children and young people, regardless of any health, learning or development need. It demonstrates how the approach can capture children's views, wishes and worries, and can assist them in identifying their strengths and abilities. The approach encourages positive decision-making, and helps children to overcome challenges, achieve their goals and reach their full potential. The book is packed with case examples, practical strategies, and practice activities.

This valuable text will be of great use to a range of practitioners working with children and young people, including social workers, youth workers, counsellors, teachers and nurses.

Your Child in the Balance: Solving the Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma. Kevin Kalikow, $25.50

This book deftly navigates the thorny subject of whether and when to give prescription psychiatric medication to children and adolescents. A perfect overview for parents looking for an accessible guide, this book takes readers through the basics of diagnosis and treatment in children and adolescents. Your CHILD IN THE BALANCE is chock full of a wide variety of clinical scenarios, each demonstrating the challenges faced by parents and professionals who are considering the use of medication. 

The book teaches the reader how to analyze the risks and benefits that characterize all medicines and that underlie the decision to medicate. The principles discussed in YOUR CHILD IN THE BALANCE will resonate with parents and professionals whether they are considering Ritalin and Adderall or Prozac and Zoloft. The use of antipsychotics, like Abilify and Risperdal, and even holistic sleep medicines, like melatonin, are put into an even-handed perspective, as is the question of whether psychiatric medicines are over or under prescribed to children. The book concludes with a guide to help all parents navigate this vexing, but crucial, choice.