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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, $27.95

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.

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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, $64.95

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.

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Anxiety Disorders: General Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder Panic Disorder and Others. Paul Caldwell, $19.95

A compassionate and thoughtful look at the various forms of anxiety disorder. Dr. Caldwell's book features treatment options, cases studies and resources for both adults and children suffering from the challenges of anxiety disorder.

The Art and Science of Child Custody Evaluations. Jonathan Gould & David Martindale, $46.95

Addressing key topics in child custody evaluation, this book provides essential knowledge for practitioners who want to meet the highest standards for both scientific validity and legal admissibility … Going beyond the basics, the book gives in-depth attention to controversial, frequently encountered issues, such as how to evaluate allegations of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child alienation. Also covered are the challenges of interviewing children effectively and working in the adversarial forensic context. A user-friendly appendix contains sample letters and statements of understanding, with permission to photocopy.


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.

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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.


Aspies on Mental Health: Speaking for Ourselves. Luke Beardon & Dean Worton, Editors, $25.95

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.

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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.


Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures, 5th Edition. Raymond Miltenberger, $155.95

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.

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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.


Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness. Judy Ryde, $34.95

In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practicing in a multicultural environment.

Judy Ryde reveals how white people have implicit and explicit advantages and privileges that often go unnoticed by them. She suggests that in order to work effectively in a multicultural setting, this privilege needs to be fully acknowledged and confronted. She explores whether it is possible to talk about a white identity, addresses uncomfortable feelings such as guilt or shame, and offers advice on how to implement white awareness training within an organization.

Ryde offers a model for 'white awareness' in a diverse society and provides concrete examples from her own experience. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners in the helping professions, including social workers, psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, healthcare workers, occupational therapists and alternative health practitioners.


The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing. Bruce Perry & Maia Szalavitz, $19.50

In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, child psychiatrist Bruce Perry tells stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the brain's astonishing capacity for healing. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what exactly happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease a child's pain and help him grow into a healthy adult … In this deeply informed and moving book, Bruce Perry dramatically demonstrates that only when we understand the science of the mind can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

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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.

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Bullying, Rejection & Peer Victimization: a Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. Monica Harris, Editor, $84.50

Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization addresses bullying across the developmental spectrum, covering child, adolescent, and adult populations.

The contributors offer in-depth analyses on traditional aggression and victimization (physical bullying) as well as social rejection (emotional bullying). Peer and family relationships, relational aggression, and cyber-bullying are just a few of the important topics discussed.


Bullying, Suicide and Homicide: Understanding, Assessing and Preeventing Threats to Self and Others for Victims of Bullying. Butch Losey, $37.95

In our society, bullying is commonly seen as a normal, inescapable part of growing up that children and adolescents must simply endure. In BULLYING, SUICIDE, AND HOMICIDE, Butch Losey challenges this viewpoint, arguing that bullying is not a part of childhood development, but rather an aberrant behavior that, for the victim, can lead to adverse decisions, such as suicide and homicide. He provides a detailed understanding of the relationship between bullying, suicide, and homicide and an assessment and response strategy that can be utilized by mental health professionals who work with children and adolescents. This strategy involves a three stage ecological approach: screening to identify warning signs for bullying, depression, suicide, and violence; assessing the risks of suicide and threats of violence using specially tailored forms and tools; and mediating to identify appropriate interventions. All of the associated tools and forms that the author has created are included as appendices and on the accompanying CD.

Losey's sensitive and compassionate treatment of this important subject will inform and motivate mental health professionals in their work with victims of bullying.


By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents. Keith Hawton & Karen Rodham, $34.95

Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk. By Their Own Young Hand explores the findings of the first large-scale survey of deliberate self-harm and suicidal thinking in adolescents in the UK, and draws out the implications for prevention strategies and mental health promotion.

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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’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.

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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 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.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma, 2nd Edition. Edited by Victoria M. Follette & Josef I. Ruzek, $40.95

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.


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.

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Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss. Jody Fiorini & Jodi Ann Mullen, $29.95

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.


Crazy Like Us: the Globalization of the American Psyche. Ethan Watters, $34.00

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; the exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for?

For millennia, local beliefs in different cultures have shaped the experience of mental illness into endless varieties. Crazy Like Us documents how American interventions have discounted and worked to change those indigenous beliefs, often at a dizzying rate. Over the last decades, mental illnesses popularized in America have been spreading across the globe with the speed of contagious diseases. Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home the unsettling conclusion that the virus is us: As we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.


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.

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Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions. Edited by Kenneth Dodge, Thomas Dishion & Jennifer Lansford, $44.95

Most interventions for at-risk youth are group based. Yet, research indicates that young people often learn to become deviant by interacting with deviant peers. In this important volume, leading intervention and prevention experts from psychology, education, criminology, and related fields analyze how, and to what extent, programs that aggregate deviant youth actually promote problem behavior. A wealth of evidence is reviewed on deviant peer influences in such settings as therapy groups, alternative schools, boot camps, group homes, and juvenile justice facilities. Specific suggestions are offered for improving existing services, and promising alternative approaches are explored.


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.

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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.


Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Interventions. Edited by Sandra Wieland, $79.50

Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents is a groundbreaking text for the study of dissociation in young people. Eight unique and compelling case studies present many aspects of working with traumatized children who dissociate — trauma processing, attachment work, work with the family, interactions with the community — and give frank analysis of the difficulties clinicians encounter in various therapeutic situations and how and why they arrived at particular therapeutic decisions. While the book includes intensive analysis of each author’s theoretical framework as well as that of dissociation in general, it also shows clinicians, in the most practical terms, how to translate the theories of dissociation into action.

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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, $27.50

This book addresses the nature of the intrusive, negative, and anxious thoughts pregnant and postpartum women can experience. It provides answers to the women who seek information, clarification, and validation and is a useful resource for healthcare professionals who work with them. It is a resource for consumers and clinicians who confront these negative cognitions by outlining what these thoughts are, why they are there, and what can be done about them. The compassionate tone of the book aims to inform and reassure, and is written by two clinicians who have established themselves as leading experts and authors in this specialized field.

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DSM-IV-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health. Edited by Cathryn Galanter & Peter Jensen, $96.50

Designed to be a reference and a teaching tool, the DSM-IV-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health draws on the most current information the field has to offer with respect to diagnosis and treatment.


DSM-IV-TR™ In Action, 2nd Edition. Sophia Dziegielewski, $72.00

Now with the most current treatments and evidence-based practices, DSM-IV-TR in Action brings the DSM-IV-TR to life with clear instruction on using it to formulate and complete an assessment, accurately diagnose clients, and prepare a comprehensive and effective treatment plan. New treatment plans have been added, and existing ones have been updated. This edition also discusses the expected changes to come in the highly anticipated DSM-5. Numerous case studies bring the material to life and demonstrate how the DSM-IV-TR is applied in practice.


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.

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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.


The Expressive Arts Activity Book: a Resource for Professionals. Suzanne Darley & Wende Heath, $34.95

This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences.

Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas. Featuring individual and group activities of varying difficulty, including card making, painting to music, meditation, and body mapping, it also includes real-life anecdotes that bring the techniques to life. The Expressive Arts Activity Book is full of fun, easy, creative ideas for workers in hospitals, clinics, schools, hospices, spiritual and religious settings, and in private practice.


Everyday Parenting: a Professional's Guide to Building Family Management Skills. Thomas Dishion, Elizabeth Stormshak & Kathryn Kavanagh, $21.50

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.

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Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Facilitator Package. Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Shana Nichols & Susan Hepburn, $97.50 (set includes Facilitator Manual, DVD, Parent Workbook & Child Workbook)

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. This innovative group therapy program for children 8–14 years old and their parents is ideal for small groups of 4–5 children but also effective in one-to- one therapy. This proven, ready-to-use program was developed to address the specific needs and challenges of children with high-functioning ASD and Asperger syndrome. Facing Your Fears works because it:

  • targets specific fears or worries that interfere with day-to-day functioning at home and school
  • actively involves parents in every session—the key to helping children make progress and ensuring that families provide skillful, sensitive support
  • engages children with memorable, age-appropriate strategies for defeating anxiety, from creating "worry bugs" to filming movies of themselves facing their fears
  • gives children repeated opportunities to practice their social interactions with others
  • uses the highly effective principles of cognitive behavioral therapy
  • helps children and parents generalize the skills they learn in group to other settings

The complete set includes everything professionals need to run a successful program. With the Facilitator's Manual, group leaders will get complete guidance on conducting each session: clear step-by-step instructions, materials lists, goals, sample schedules, and helpful hints for running sessions smoothly. The Parent Workbook and Child Workbook (also sold separately in packs of 4) give children and families a wide variety of creative activities to help them fight fears and worries head-on, both inside and outside the group setting. And the included DVD inspires and motivates kids with sample movies of real children facing their fears.

Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parent Workbook. Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Shana Nichols & Susan Hepburn, $35.50 for set of 4 workbooks

Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Child Workbook. Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Shana Nichols & Susan Hepburn, $35.50 for set of 4 workbooks


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)

 

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Forensic Issues in Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities. Edited by Ernest Gralton, $34.95

Adolescents with developmental disabilities are a complex population who require specialized treatment and care. This interdisciplinary text examines the processes involved in working with this client group in forensic settings, and explores the ways in which their needs differ from those of other young people who engage in high risk behaviour or offending.

The book covers assessment, intervention and treatment options for adolescents with a wide range of developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, acquired brain injury, developmental traumatology, and complex comorbidities. It describes the obstacles, challenges and opportunities to consider when working with this population, and the role played by various professionals, including forensic psychiatry and psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, education, art psychotherapy and social work. The book also outlines the issues to consider when working in secure and community settings as well as the legal aspects of working with this client group, and the complex issues surrounding risk assessment.


Freeing the Angry Mind: How Men Can Use Mindfulness & Reason to Save Their Lives & Relationships. C. Peter Bankart, $24.95

If anger is harming your health and hurting the people you love and care about the most, you need to make the decision to get your anger under control … What you need to do is replace your anger with calm and happiness … An integration of Buddhist thinking, mindfulness practice, and cognitive-behavioral psychology, (Freeing the Angry Mind) sets out a straightforward program of exercises and advice that can help you move through anger to a richer, more meaningful way of living your life. And it does this with humor, candor, and wit. With this book, a little introspection, and a lot of practice, you'll be able to exchange your anger for compassion, your hot temper for mindfulness, and your self-loathing for self-awareness.


Growing Up Resilient: Ways to Build Resilience in Children and Youth. Tatyana Barankin & Nazilla Khanlou, CAMH, $16.95

Resilience in child development is a much-talked about topic these days. Many people want to better understand what it is, how it is related to the healthy development of children and youth and what they can do to strengthen resilience in young people. This new booklet from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) guides parents, educators, child and youth workers and other professionals in understanding and supporting the individual, family and community roots of resilience.

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Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, 2nd Edition. Edited by Jude Cassidy & Phillip Shaver, $70.50

This comprehensive work is more than just the standard reference on attachment — it has become indispensable in the field. Coverage includes the origins and development of attachment theory; biological and evolutionary perspectives; and the role of attachment processes in personality, relationships, and mental health across the lifespan. The second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to incorporate significant recent advances in theory, research, and clinical applications.


Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents. Edited by John Abela & Benjamin Hankin, $85.95

This timely, authoritative volume provides an integrative review of current knowledge on child and adolescent depression, covering everything from epidemiology and neurobiology to evidence-based treatment and prevention. From foremost scientist-practitioners, the book is organized within a developmental psychopathology framework that elucidates the factors that put certain children at risk and what can be done to help. Proven intervention models are discussed in step-by-step detail, with coverage of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and pharmacological approaches, among others. Special topics include sex differences in depression, understanding and managing suicidality, and the intergenerational transmission of depression.


The Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy: Practical Guidelines for Child Therapists. Rinda Blom, $40.95

This book is an introduction to gestalt play therapy a technique which combines the principles of gestalt theory with play techniques, so that children are able to use play to address their needs and problems … The Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy provides the reader with an explanation of gestalt theory, a practical explanation of the gestalt play therapy model and also a wide range of play techniques that can be applied during each phase of the therapy process. It also features case studies throughout which illustrate how the techniques work in practice.

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The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Edited by James Luiselli, $53.95

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.


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.


The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice. Edited by Diana Fosha, Daniel & Marion Solomon, $43.50

Normal human development relies on the cultivation of relationships with others to form and nurture the self-regulatory circuits that enable emotion to enrich, rather than enslave, our lives. And just as emotionally traumatic events can tear apart the fabric of family and psyche, the emotions can become powerful catalysts for the transformations that are at the heart of the healing process.

In this book, leading neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, therapy researchers, and clinicians illuminate how to regulate emotion in a healthy way. A variety of emotions, both positive and negative, are examined in detail, drawing on both research and clinical observations. The role of emotion in bodily regulation, dyadic connection, marital communication, play, well-being, health, creativity, and social engagement is explored. The Healing Power of Emotion offers fresh, exciting, original, and groundbreaking work from the leading figures studying and working with emotion today.


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.

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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.


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.

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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, $76.95

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.


Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Edited by Christine Lynn Norton, $38.95

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.

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Islands of Genius: the Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired and Sudden Savant. Darold Treffert, $27.95

Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which individuals with developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders, have one or more areas of expertise, ability, or brilliance — "islands of genius" — that exist in contrast with their overall limitations. In this fascinating book, Dr. Darold Treffert looks at what we know about this remarkable condition, and at new discoveries that raise interesting questions about the hidden brain potential within us all.

Dr. Treffert explores the phenomena of genetic memory — instances in which individuals somehow "know" things they never learned; and sudden genius or "acquired savantism" — where a neuro-typical person unexpectedly and spectacularly develops savant-like abilities following a head injury or stroke. Showing that these phenomena point convincingly towards a reservoir of untapped potential — an inner savant capacity — within us all, he looks both at how savant skills can be nurtured, and how they can help the person who has them, particularly if that person is on the autism spectrum. A central colour section contains the extraordinary artwork of some of the savants who are mentioned in the book.

Islands of Genius will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered what makes the mind of a savant tick, as well as clinicians, parents, teachers, therapists, and others who care for and about, individuals with savant syndrome.


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.


Marital Conflict and Children: an Emotional Security Perspective. Mark Cummings & Patrick Davies, $46.50

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.

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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.


Mental Health in Pregnancy and Childbirth. Edited by Sally Ann Price, $55.95

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.

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Moving Beyond Icebreakers: an Innovative Approach to Group Facilitation, Learning, and Action. Stanley Pollack, with Mary Fusoni, $49.95

Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a groundbreaking resource for teachers, group facilitators, social workers, trainers, youth workers, community organizers, department heads ... for anyone who runs meetings, large or small, with participants of any age or demographic makeup.  The book includes a five-part meeting structure that you can use to become an expert facilitator, following an approach that engages both youth and adults in meeting the group's goals. You will also find detailed agendas, lesson plans, and scenarios that show how this approach works in the real world. Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a practical guide to group facilitation and an invaluable resource for community building in a variety of settings.


Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Implications for Mental Health Assessment. Thomas Achenbach & Leslie Rescorla, $48.95

This important volume synthesizes an array of international findings to broaden the knowledge base on cultural variations in children's emotional and behavioral problems. Drawing on both empirically based and diagnostically based approaches; the authors examine similarities and differences in the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of particular disorders. They distinguish between culture-specific and more general problems in adaptation, identify instruments and procedures that are particularly suited to multicultural assessment, and discuss the implications for developing more effective services.


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.

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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.


Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development. Graham Music, $42.50

This book provides an indispensable account of current understandings of children’s emotional development. Integrating the latest research findings from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience and developmental psychology, it weaves these into a readable and easy to digest text.

It provides a tour of the most significant influences on the developing child, always bearing in mind the family and social context. It looks at key developmental stages, from life in the womb to the pre-school years and right up until adolescence, whilst also examining how we develop key capacities such as language, play and memory.

Issues of nature and nurture are addressed and the effects of different kinds of early experiences are unpicked, looking at both individual children and larger-scale longitudinal studies. Psychological ideas and research are carefully integrated with those from neurobiology and understandings from other cultures to create a coherent and balanced view of the developing child in context.

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Once Upon a Group: a Guide to Running and Participating in Successful Groups. Maggie Kindred & Michael Kindred, $17.95

Once Upon a Group is a short, light-hearted guide to groupwork, providing an easily-digestible way of understanding group dynamics, the practicalities of running a group, and how to participate in one. It covers how and where to set up a group, including the type of room used, the size of the group and the arrangement of chairs, and the importance of boundaries and rules within a group. It also covers issues such as communication, sensitivity, listening, leadership, decision-making, labeling and stereotyping, and forms of participation, among many others. Each topic is illustrated with a lively drawing to communicate the ideas presented. Based on research but written in an instantly accessible style, this fun guide will be essential reading for all those involved in groupwork including health and social care practitioners, volunteers, advice workers, youth workers and students.


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.

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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.


Personality Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. Arthur Freeman & Mark Reinecke, Editors, $123.99

Personality traits are pervasive and enduring patterns of the ways individuals perceive, relate to, think about, and behave within their environment. When these traits become inflexible and maladaptive they constitute personality disorders. This edited volume explores the clinical reality of personality disorders in the especially vulnerable population of children and adolescents.


Play Therapy with Children in Crisis: Individual, Group, and Family Treatment, Third Edition. Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb, $60.50

This widely adopted casebook and text presents effective, creative approaches to helping children who have experienced such stressful situations as parental death or divorce, abuse and neglect, violence in the school or community, and natural disasters. 17 of the 21 chapters are entirely new, and all chapters reflect the latest knowledge on crisis intervention, trauma, and short-term play therapy. Timely new topics include the crisis of parental military deployment, immigration-related trauma, terrorism, and disrupted adoption.

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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.

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The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation. Stephen Porges, $52.00

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, $64.50

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.

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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.


Psychodiagnostic Assessment of Children: Dimensional and Categorical Approaches. Randy Kamphaus & Jonathan Campbell, $97.99

An unparalleled resource for accurately diagnosing an array of childhood problems. Psychodiagnostic Assessment of Children explains dimensional (e.g., classification methods that emphasize quantitative assessment measures such as behavior rating scales) and categorical (e.g., classification methods that emphasize qualitative assessment measures such as clinical observation and history-taking) methods of assessment and diagnosis. It then highlights assessment interpretation issues related to psychological assessment and diagnosis. The remainder of the text covers constructs and core symptoms of interest, diagnostic standards, and assessment methods, interpretations of findings, and case studies for all of the major childhood disorders.


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.

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Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy through Attachment. Elizabeth Perl, $38.50

Adolescent girls and young women in therapy often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women brings the reader innovative ways to embrace this resistance in order to build a strong therapeutic relationship that can get to the root of self-defeating patterns. The book is unique in addressing clinical work both with teens and with women in their twenties and beyond, who frequently struggle with unresolved adolescent issues.


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.

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Relational Trauma in Infancy: Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychology. Edited by Tessa Baradon, $40.50

This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes innovative contributions to the field of infant mental health in bringing together previously separated paradigms of relational trauma from psychoanalysis, attachment and the neurosciences.


The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers and Health Professionals, 2nd Edition. Thomas Skovholt & Michelle Trotter-Mathison, $43.95

Therapists and other helping professionals, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, social workers, and clergy, work in highly demanding fields and can suffer from burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary stress. This happens when they give more attention to their clients’ well being than their own.

The authors describe the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and a self-care action plan. Vivid real-life examples and self-reflection questions will engage and motivate readers to think about their own work and ways to enhance their own resilience. Eloquently written and supported by extensive research, helping professionals will find this a valuable resource.


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.


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.

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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.


Steps to Stability. The Kinship Centre, $79.95

This DVD presents practical information on helping children in the child welfare system transition from one setting to another. Youth and families speak about their personal experiences in achieving permanence and stability, and experts in the field add tools and techniques for parents, social workers, child advocates and mental health professionals. The video is appropriate for a wide audience and is useful as a training tool for professionals. 

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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.


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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.

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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.


Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers: a Guide to Providing Understanding and Help. Atle Dyregrov, $34.95

Trauma can result from a range of experiences from bullying to witnessing violence to living through war. Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers is an accessible, comprehensive book providing an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and how they can be supported following trauma.

Variables affecting the impact of trauma are explored such as different developmental stages, gender, the reactions of friends and parents, the child's personality, and their caring environment. Appropriate and effective ways of helping children after a traumatic event are outlined, and different types of therapy, such as group therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, are discussed. The book offers case examples and practical tips throughout, and includes a chapter on how someone working with a traumatized child can help and look after themselves.


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.

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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.


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.

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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.


Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: a Guide to Evidence-Based Practice. Joel Paris, $27.95

Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Paris examines a range of therapies and identifies the core ingredients of effective intervention. He offers specific guidance for meeting the needs of this challenging population, including ways to improve diagnosis, promote emotion regulation and impulse control, maintain appropriate therapeutic boundaries, and deal with suicidality and other crises. Highly readable, practical, and humane, the book also explains the latest thinking on the causes of BPD and how it develops.

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Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3rd Edition. Eric Mash & Russell Barkley, $103.50

Now in a revised and updated third edition, this major professional reference and text offers an authoritative review of evidence-based treatments for the most prevalent child and adolescent problems. Leading contributors present state-of-the-art applications for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, ADHD, autistic spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, the effects of maltreatment, substance use, and more. The third edition incorporates important, ongoing developments in research and treatment design. In particular, increased attention is given to combined treatments and how they translate into real-world clinical settings, and how individual, developmental, and contextual factors may influence outcome.


Unconditional Care: Relationship-Based, Behavioral Intervention with Vulnerable Children and Families. John Sprinson & Ken Berrick, $36.95

This clinician-friendly guide presents a model for engaging the most challenging children and families who are served by the child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and special educations systems. These children are among the most troubled clients that treatment providers will ever encounter. They have been failed by every adult, every treatment modality, and every system of care that they have encountered.

Unconditional Care, a breakthrough guide from the founder and clinical director of California's Seneca Center for Children and Families, offers both a theoretical model and practical guidelines for working with this most difficult group of children. The approach weaves together attachment theory and learning theory into a coherent relationship-based intervention strategy built around a no-fail policy: a child can never be discharged from a program for exhibiting the behaviors that resulted in the placement. The concept of unconditional care allows, for the first time, a safe space for youth to reconstruct their perceptions of themselves and those who care for them.


Understanding Disorganized Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults. David Shemmings & Yvonne Shemmings, $34.95

Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear without solution' and the effects can be lasting and damaging.

This book is a comprehensive and accessible text on disorganized attachment. It outlines what it is, how it can be identified and the key causes, including neurological, biochemical and genetic explanations. Factors that contribute to disorganized attachment are covered including unresolved loss and trauma, and the behaviour of caregivers. The authors also discuss evidence-based interventions to help families and carers as well as how to work with adults to prevent or minimize its occurrence. To root the theory in practice and to illustrate real-life examples of disorganized attachment case vignettes are included.

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Understanding and Teaching Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents, 4th Edition. Phyllis Newcomer, $58.50

This informative text is written for both general and special education teachers as well as for counselors, social workers, and psychologists interested in helping children and adolescents make healthy emotional adjustments in the classroom and in life. Its content provides extensive information about types of emotional and social disorders and therapeutic approaches that may be used with children and adolescents in educational settings.


Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play Therapy. Lawrence Rubin, Editor, $66.50

Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play Therapy takes us on a dynamic tour of the benefits of using icons of popular culture and fantasy in counseling and play therapy. In presenting case studies and wisdom gleaned from practicing therapists' experience, Lawrence Rubin shows what can be accomplished by paying attention to our intrinsic social need for fantasy and play.


War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind. Renny Golden, $45.95

Renowned criminologist and activist Renny Golden sheds light on the women behind bars and the 350,000 children they leave behind. In exposing the fastest growing prison population, Golden sets up new framework for thinking about how to address the situation of mothers in prison, the risks and needs of their children and the implications of current judicial policies.

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What Have I Done? A Victim Empathy Programme for Young People.  Pate Wallis, $52.95

What Have I Done is a photocopy-ready handbook and DVD designed to encourage empathy in young people who commit crimes or hurt others through their actions. The course is flexible and interactive, and can be used on an individual basis or with small groups, and is suitable for young people with limited literacy. The exercises are challenging and aim to be engaging through the use of creative arts, film, role-play and discussion. Clear guidance is provided for the course leader, and evaluation is built into the course, including a psychometric test. A DVD to help stimulate discussion is also included.

This comprehensive resource can equally be used in schools, children's homes, youth groups and any context with young people. The programme is measurable, featuring pre- and post-programme empathy scales, and is suitable for young offenders subject to a youth rehabilitation order.


What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: a Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD. Dawn Huebner, $17.50 (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

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Why People Die by Suicide. Thomas Joiner, $22.50

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: a Workbook for Children of Parents with Mental Illness. Lisa Anne Clarke, Illustrated by Bonnie Matthews, $16.50

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 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.

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Working With Parents of Noncompliant Children: a Guide to Evidence-Based Parent Training for Practitioners and Students. Mark Shriver & Keith Allen, $62.95

This book presents an in-depth look at evidence-based programs for training parents of children with behavior problems. Authors Shriver and Allen review the empirical support for four major programs, as well as some more popular programs that lack strong empirical support. Throughout this review they teach readers how to identify the best research in parent training, how to prepare for parent training sessions, and finally show how to translate this research into everyday practice.


Young Children and Trauma: Intervention and Treatment. Edited by Joy Osofsky, Foreword by Kyle Pruett, $34.50

Recent years have seen significant advances in knowledge about the effects of exposure to psychological trauma on young children from birth to age five. This volume brings together leading experts to address practical considerations in working with traumatized young children and their caregivers. State-of-the-art assessment and treatment approaches are presented, together with innovative service delivery models. With a focus on building cross-disciplinary collaboration to better serve this vulnerable population, this is an indispensable resource for all mental health and human service professionals working with children at risk. In a new preface to the paperback edition, editor Joy D. Osofsky reflects on critical lessons learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Young People in Love and in Hate. Nick Luxmoore, $20.95

Using dozens of recognizable vignettes, psychotherapist and school counselor Luxmoore movingly explores the dramatic conflict between young people's loving and hating as they move from the intimacy of relationships with parents to relationships with boyfriends and girlfriends, frantically negotiating sex and sexuality, the meaning of love, faithfulness and unfaithfulness and many other issues vital to the adults these young people will become.

The book will be essential reading for professionals and parents struggling with the ferocity of young people's feelings where 'I love you!' and 'I hate you!' are never far apart.


Young People’s Experiences of Loss and Bereavement: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach. Jane Ribbens McCarthy, $46.95

Young People’s Experiences of Loss and Bereavement offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary overview of our knowledge and theorizing of bereavement and young people. Looking through a great range of relevant literatures, this book explores how loss and bereavement impact upon young people's lives. Young People's Experiences of Loss and Bereavement provides essential reading on issues of loss, change and bereavement for students, researchers and professionals alike.


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.

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