The ABC’s of Anger: Stories and Activities to Help Children Understand Anger. Ray Ali, illustrated by Eric Olsen, $21.95

Stories and charming illustrations help children identify the underlying reasons for feelings of anger and frustration and to find effective ways of dealing with those feelings.

ACT Made Simple: an Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Russ Harris, $47.95

Join the many thousands of therapists and life coaches worldwide who are learning acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). ACT is not just a proven effective treatment for depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, eating disorders, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and myriad other psychological issues. It's also a revolutionary new way to view the human condition, packed full of exciting new tools, techniques, and strategies for promoting profound behavioral change.

A practical and entertaining primer, ideal for ACT newcomers and experienced ACT professionals alike, ACT Made Simple offers clear explanations of the six ACT processes and a set of real-world tips and solutions for rapidly and effectively implementing them in your practice. This book gives you everything you need to start using ACT with your clients for impressive results.

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.

After a Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal. Margo Requarth, $18.95

After a Parent’s Suicide is a compassionate guide for parent survivors on how to manage both the immediate and the long-term implications of the suicide; how to talk to your children and how to see them through the anguish to a place of healing, acceptance and life.

Anger Management Games for Children. Deborah Plummer, $29.95

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

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals. Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson, $19.95

In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now, in Animals Make Us Human she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on their terms, not ours.

Whether it’s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.  Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who’s ever cared about an animal.

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

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.

Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need: Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self-Esteem. Diana Coholic, $32.95

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.

Assessment of Parenting Competency in Mothers with Mental Illness. Teresa Ostler, $33.95

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

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

Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice. Edited by David Oppenheim & Douglas Goldsmith, $41.50

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, 4th Edition. Raymond Miltenberger, $151.95

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.

Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in Adolescents: Nature, Assessment and Treatment. Edited by David Wolfe & Eric Mash, $55.95

Bringing together leading authorities, this comprehensive volume integrates the breadth of current knowledge on clinical problems of adolescence, including conduct problems, substance abuse, mood and anxiety disorders, developmental and learning disabilities, eating disorders, abuse and trauma, and more. Chapters present in-depth information on the core features of each disorder; its etiology, course, and outcome; diagnostic issues specific to adolescents; and effective approaches to assessment and treatment. Also provided are cutting-edge perspectives on the broader processes underlying healthy or maladaptive development in this period of rapid change and transition.

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, $47.95

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.

Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression.  Helen Slinger & Maureen Palmer, National Film Board of Canada, $19.95 (DVD, 56 minutes)

Through the personal stories of three youth, this compelling documentary traces the journey of depression, from early signs and symptoms to assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Blending Play Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Evidence-Based and Other Effective Treatments and Techniques. Athena Drewes, $72.00

This comprehensive volume is written by leaders in the field and collects classic and emerging evidence-based and cognitive behavioral therapy treatments therapists can use when working with children and adolescents. Step-by-step instruction is provided for implementing the treatment protocol covered. In addition, a special section is included on therapist self-care, including empirically supported studies. For child and play therapists, as well school psychologists and school social workers.

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, $31.50

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, $35.00

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

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

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

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

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

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma, 2nd Edition. Edited by Victoria M. Follette & Josef I. Ruzek, $58.95

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, Second 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 C. 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.

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

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

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.

Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children. Liana Lowensiten, $39.95

A uniquely creative compilation of therapeutic games, art activities, and stories to help bereaved children express feelings of grief, learn basic concepts of death, diffuse traumatic reminders, address self-blame, commemorate the deceased, and learn coping strategies. Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children includes special activities for cancer, suicide, and homicide, and tips for caregivers and school personnel. For ages 7-12 in individual, group, and family therapy.

Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce. Liana Lowensiten, $31.95

An innovative collection of therapeutic games, art techniques, and stories to help children of divorce express feelings, understand marriage and divorce, deal with loyalty binds, parental conflict, and reunification fantasies, address self-blame, and learn coping strategies. Includes tips for parents, and a ten-week group counseling curriculum. For ages 7-12 in individual, group, and family therapy.

This newly revised edition of Cross-Cultural Caring: a Handbook for Health Professionals describes Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, South Asian, and Central American ethno-cultural groups. It stresses the need to understand both the cultural beliefs and the daily life concerns facing immigrants, such as work, income, child-rearing, and aging, all of which impinge on health … This new edition provides up-to-date statistics and fresh analysis, responding to changing trends in immigration. Additional material includes a new chapter addressing the special circumstances of refugees; short real-life stories of immigrants' and refugees' experiences; and a thorough, easy-to-use index.

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.

Depression is Contagious: How the Most Common Mood Disorder is Spreading around the World and How to Stop It. Michael Yapko, $34.00

Depression’s effects reach into interactions with others, rippling destructively through marriages, families, work environments, and communities like a viral contagion. While commonly prescribed drugs address some of depression's symptoms, they cannot change the social factors that cause and perpetuate the disorder.

Michael Yapko culls from the latest findings in neuroscience, social psychology, epidemiology and genetics to provide a practical, proven plan for developing the skills and insights you need to forge stronger, healthier social connections and enjoy an enriching, interconnected life. Dr. Yapko's groundbreaking plan of action is filled with skill-building emotional and mental exercises, anecdotes and illuminating explanations.

“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.

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

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

Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Richard Bromfield, $41.95

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.

DSM-IV-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health. Edited by Cathryn Galanter & Peter Jensen, $110.50

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.

Dying to Be Free provides powerful insight into the confusion, fear and guilt that family and friends experience after the suicide of a loved one. In this a frank and compassionate book, authors Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch break through suicide's silent stigma, offering gentle advice for those left behind

Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time. Pavel Somov, $20.95

No start dates, dieting tips or meal plans in this book — just practical and meaningful exercises to help you end mindless eating and begin nourishing yourself in a healthy and fulfilling ways.

Embracing the Wide Sky: a Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind. Daniel Tammet, $19.99

Embracing the Wide Sky is a unique and brilliantly imaginative portrait of how we think, learn, remember and create, brimming with personal insights and anecdotes, and explanations of the most up-to-date, mind-bending discoveries from fields ranging from neuroscience to psychology and linguistics. In his fascinating new book, Daniel Tammet writes with characteristic clarity and personal awareness as he sheds light on the mysteries of savants' incredible mental abilities, and our own.

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.

Empowering Children through Art and Expression: Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief. Bruce St. Thomas & Paul Johnson, $29.95

Empowering Children through Art and Expression examines the successful use of arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those whose lives have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a different culture or community … This book will be a valuable resource for professionals working with traumatized children who have experienced loss, grief, relocation and other kinds of trauma.

The Expressive Arts Activity Book: a Resource for Professionals. Suzanne Darley & Wende Heath, $36.95

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.

Families Care: Helping Families Cope and Relate Effectively. Facilitator’s Manual. S. Bubbra, A. Himes, C. Kelly, J. Shenfield, C. Sloss & L. Tait, CAMH, $29.95

Families CARE is a group-based program that helps family members Cope and Relate Effectively with the person who has a substance use problem.

The program offers education, support and skills development. Family members learn about, discuss and practice such skills as coping, grieving, dealing with emotions, solving problems, setting goals, communicating, setting limits, supporting and responding to the person with a substance use problem, and helping children affected by a family member’s substance use. The facilitator’s manual consists of 18 modules that include:

• Objectives and session outlines
• Teaching points and discussion
• Handouts that provide information, clinical exercises and home practice for clients to use during the sessions and at home

Freedom from Self-Harm: Overcoming Self-Injury with Skills from DBT and Other Treatments. Kim Gratz & Alexander Chapman, $26.95

Self-injury can be as addictive as any drug, and the secrecy and shame many sufferers feel about this behavior can keep them feeling trapped. This complete guide to stopping self-injury gives you the facts about self-harm, corrects common myths this behavior, and provides self-soothing techniques you can begin using right away for regulating difficult or overwhelming emotions. Drawn from treatments such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the tools in this book can help you cope with your emotions whenever you feel the urge to self-harm.

Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practice, Second Edition. Andrew Malekoff, $35.95

This popular text provides essential knowledge and skills for conducting creative, strengths-based group work with adolescents. A rich introduction to the field, enlivened by numerous illustrations from actual sessions, the book provides principles and guidelines for practice in a wide range of settings. Andrew Malekoff covers all phases of group work, from planning to leave-taking, and highlights the value of self-reflection for successfully handling even the most challenging group situations.

Growing Up Resilient: Ways to Build Resilience in Children and Youth. Tatyana Barankin & Nazilla Khanlou, CAMH, $12.95

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.

Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, 2nd Edition. Edited by Jude Cassidy & Phillip Shaver, $143.95

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, $43.95

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.

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

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

Healing the Inner City Child: Creative Arts Therapies with At-Risk Youth. Vanessa Camilleri, Editor. $47.95

Healing the Inner City Child presents a diverse collection of creative art therapy approaches to meeting the specific mental health needs of inner city children, who are disproportionately likely to experience violence, crime and family pressures and are at risk of depression and behavioral disorders as a result. The contributors draw on their professional experience in school and community settings to describe a wide variety of suitable therapeutic interventions, including music, play and art therapy as well as psychodrama and dance/movement approaches, that enable children to deal with experiences of trauma, loss, abuse, and other risk factors that may affect their ability to reach their full academic and personal potentials. A must-read for creative arts therapists, psychologists, social workers and educators, this book offers a comprehensive overview of arts-based interventions for anyone working to improve the lives of children growing up in inner city areas.

Healing from Post-Traumatic Stress: a Workbook for Recovery. Monique Lang, $23.95

Healing from Post-Traumatic Stress is an effective, life-affirming guide to help you get through your traumatic experience. Written by an experienced psychotherapist this informative guide with a user-friendly format invites you to participate in the process of your recovery, using simple anxiety-reducing exercises, revealing questions, yoga and meditation tools, art therapy, writing, and other therapeutic techniques.

The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice. Edited by Diana Fosha, Daniel & Marion Solomon, $52.95

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.

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.

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.

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.

Islands of Genius: the Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired and Sudden Savant. Darold Treffert, $29.95

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.

Mastering Your Adult ADHD: a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program — Therapist Guide. Steven Safren, Carol Perlman, Susan Sprich & Michael Otto, $46.95

Mastering Your Adult ADHD: a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program — Client Workbook. Steven Safren, Carol Perlman, Susan Sprich & Michael Otto, $39.50

• Offers step-by-step instructions for helping your client learn proven strategies for managing ADHD symptoms
• Client workbook includes worksheets, charts to help your client monitor your progress
• Research-backed treatment with demonstrated effectiveness

ADHD in adulthood is a prevalent and impairing disorder. While medications have been effective in treating adult ADHD, the majority of individuals treated with medications have residual symptoms that require additional skills and symptom management strategies. Used in conjunction with the corresponding client workbook, this therapist guide offers effective treatment strategies that follow an empirically-supported treatment approach. It provides clinicians with effective means of teaching clients skills that have been scientifically tested and shown to help adults cope with ADHD. The step-by-step, session-by-session descriptions are a practical resource for therapists who deliver the treatment to clients with ADHD. Together, the therapist guide and client workbook contain all of the information and materials necessary to delivery this treatment in the context of individual outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy.

Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health. Rick Mayes, Catherine Bagwell & Jennifer Erkulwater, $57.50

Why and how did ADHD become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and adolescents, as well as one of the most controversial? Rick Mayes and his coauthors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder.

Medicating Children integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy. Thus, it will be invaluable to educators, clinicians, parents, and policymakers, all of whom are trying to determine what is in the best interest of millions of children.

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.

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression. Kirk Strosahl & Patricia Robinson, $28.95

Learn how to use acceptance and commitment therapy to move through depression and create a life worth living. Includes a CD with guided imagery and mindfulness exercises.

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain. Jackie Gardner-Nix & Lucie Costin-Hall, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, $26.95

In The Mindfulness Solution to Pain, the authors modify Jon Kabat-Zinn's original mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) program to create a new program they call mindfulness based chronic pain management (MBCPM). This book provides a clear, breakdown of the MBCPM program, in which readers are introduced to the concepts of mindfulness and meditation.

From the outset, the authors explain why the mind is so important in managing pain. Initial chapters introduce the readers to how the mind processes pain, the role of life experiences, genetics, the physiology of their fight and flight responses, and the role of chronic responses in impairing healing, sleep, and other important bodily functions. The rationale for working with the mind in addition to, or instead of, the other standard interventions, is emphasized. In all, regular practice of these techniques offers a good chance of quality-of-life improvement for chronic pain sufferers.

2010 Mosby’s Nursing Drug Reference: 23rd Edition. Linda Skidmore-Roth, $53.95

For current, complete drug information, with a focus on safe medication administration, this book is the ideal choice. This new edition has been redesigned making it easier than ever to find the drug information you need. Readers will find indications, precautions, and nursing considerations applicable to any patient care setting. Every copy includes a CD-ROM packed with useful tools, such as drug information in a printable format, patient teaching guides, a drug interactions tool, calculators, detailed information on herbal products, and more. A free Internet website provides the latest drug alerts, tables of recently released U.S. and Canadian drugs, web links to useful drug information sites, and more.

Moving Beyond Icebreakers: an Innovative Approach to Group Facilitation, Learning, and Action. Stanley Pollack, with Mary Fusoni, $55.95

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.

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions. Gary Cameron, Nick Coady & Gerald Adams, editors. $38.95

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international child welfare paradigms—child protection, family service, and community healing/caring (First Nations)—to look at how specific practices in other countries, as well as alternative experiments in Canada, might foster positive innovations in the Canadian child welfare approach.

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.

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.

On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System. Martha Shirk & Gary Strangler, $20.50

On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most of our youth take for granted - access to higher education, vocational training, medical care, housing, and relationships within their communities. On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to everyone who care about the future of our young people.

Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well. Kathy Regan, $20.95

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.

Parenting a Bipolar Child: What to Do and Why. Gianni Faedda & Nancy Austin, $21.95

When a child or adolescent is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it’s hard for his or her parents to know exactly what to do. Parenting a Bipolar Child offers a comprehensive overview of the available treatment options and most effective parenting strategies for dealing with this serious condition. In addition to a thorough explanation of the often necessary medical treatments for bipolar disorder, the book also details the importance of emotional regulation in bipolar children. Techniques for dealing with displays of rage, anger, and irritability in children are covered. The book also addresses sleep deprivation, one of the most common symptoms of childhood bipolar disorder, and the issues young people with bipolar disorder face in school. Subjects of particular interest to parents of older children and adolescents are covered, such as substance abuse, eating disorders, violence, and suicide. All of this information is complemented by advice on parental self-care and integrating the care of the bipolar child with the needs of the rest of the family.

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, $49.95

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.

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.

The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook: a Guide to Healing, Recovery and Growth. Glenn Schiraldi, $26.95

An informative and compassionate resource for trauma survivors, their families and caregivers.

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 with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy through Attachment. Elizabeth Perl, $38.95

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 o Early Attachment. Alicia Lieberman & Patricia Van Horn, $49.50

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. This 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 cutting-edge research on early development, attachment, neurobiology, and trauma.

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.

A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder. Colby Pearce, $21.95

This book presents a short and accessible introduction to what 'attachment' means and how to recognise attachment disorders in children.

The author explains how complex problems in childhood may stem from the parent-child relationship during a child's early formative years, and later from the child's engagement with the broader social world. It explores the mindset of difficult and traumatised children and the motivations behind their apparently antisocial and defensive tendencies.

A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder includes case vignettes to illustrate examples, and offers a comprehensive set of tried-and-tested practical strategies for parents, carers and practitioners in supportive roles caring for children.

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, 2nd Edition. Edited by Heidi Gerard Kaduson & Charles Schaefer, $31.95

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.

Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, Revised Edition. Christopher Lukas & Henry Seiden, $22.95

Silent Grief is a book for and about “suicide survivors” – those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself — several members of his family have taken their own lives — and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reactions and various ways of coping. Their message is that it is important to share one's experience of “survival” with others and they encourage survivors to overcome the perceived stigma or shame associated with suicide and to seek support from self-help groups, psychotherapy, family therapy, Internet support forums or simply a friend or family member who will listen.

Silent Grief gives valuable insights into living in the wake of suicide and provides useful strategies and support for those affected by a suicide, as well as professionals in the field of psychology, social work, and medicine.

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. 

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, 2nd Edition. Paul Mason & Randi Kreger, $22.95

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

Strengthening Family Resilience, 2nd Edition. Froma Walsh, $53.95

This informative clinical resource and text presents Froma Walsh's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity … Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a wide range of challenges: sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; persistent multi-stress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth. New chapters present resilience-oriented approaches to recovery from major disasters and demonstrate community-based and international programmatic applications.

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.

Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers: a Guide to Providing Understanding and Help. Atle Dyregrov, $32.95

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.

Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders. Jennifer Resetar, Tara Snyder, Michael Sterba, $37.50

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.

Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence. Kenneth Hardy & Tracey Laszloffy, $33.50

Teens Who Hurt presents a framework and specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. Looking at the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and societal forces that lead some adolescents to hurt others or themselves the authors discuss effective ways to address each of these factors in clinical and school settings. The book provides essential guidance on connecting with aggressive teens and their parents and managing difficult situations that are likely to arise.

Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing, Infancy Through Adolescence. Peter Levine & Maggie Kline, $30.95

An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.

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.

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.

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.

What Have I Done? A Victim Empathy Programme for Young People.  Pate Wallis, $55.95

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, $17.95 (ages 6-12)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Works When with Children and Adolescents: a Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques. Ann Vernon, $51.50 (Grades 1-12)

This practical handbook is designed for counselors, social workers, and psychologists in schools and mental health settings. The book’s activities and strategies address problems such as anger, anxiety/worry, depression, underachievement, procrastination, perfectionism, and acting out. The interventions, which are based on the principles of rational emotive behavior therapy, can be used for helping students with normal developmental issues as well as for helping those with more serious emotional or behavioral problems. Dr. Vernon provides strategies for establishing a therapeutic relationship with students who are sometimes apprehensive or opposed to counseling. The book also includes a chapter on working with parents and teachers.

More What Works When with Children and Adolescents: a Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques. Ann Vernon, $51.95

This second volume provides additional creative counseling strategies, expanded coverage of developmental applications, and over 80 entirely new interventions. The book addresses both internalizing and externalizing disorders, such as anxiety, depression, stress, grief, low frustration tolerance, anger, bullying, and acting out. It also covers self-defeating behaviors such as self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, and suicidal behavior. The interventions teach behavioral and emotional self-control by helping young people understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Numerous reproducible worksheets, checklists, and illustrations are included throughout.

When Your Child is Cutting: a Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury. Merry McVey-Noble, Sony Khemlani-Petal, Fugen Neziroglu, $20.95

When Your Child is Cutting tells parents why self-injury happens, how to spot it when it is happening, and how to address this sensitive topic with confidence. It outlines a clear and simple plan for approaching a child who self-injures-because good communication is a necessary first step in healing. By helping them assess their situation and locate the best kinds of professional help, this book strives to support and reassure parents as they move through this difficult experience.

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

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

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

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

Working With 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.

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, $44.95

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.