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.

Angry Octopus: a Relaxation Story. Lori Lite, $16.50

This engaging story helps children learn progressive muscle relaxation – to quiet the ind, relax the body, let go of anger and pain, and fall asleep peacefully.

Anh's Anger. Gail Silver, illustrated by Christiane Krömer, $22.95

Anh, a five-year-old boy, comes to know his anger when they dance, play, sit and breathe together, actively creating a space for Anh to resolve an earlier conflict with his grandfather and understand the causes of a strong emotion. AHN'S ANGER is an engaging story that offers children and caregivers a mindfulness-based practice for dealing with anger and other difficult emotions.

Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness: Taking Refuge in the Buddha. Chris Mitchell, $19.95

Understanding who you are can be a lonely and difficult process following the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness illuminates this experience as an empowering path of discovery through the teachings of Buddhism.

Talking openly about his own personal experiences, Chris Mitchell provides helpful tips and suggestions for improving confidence and self-esteem towards an overall better sense of self that will be of interest to anyone diagnosed with AS or their family and friends.

A Boy and a Turtle: the Child's Visualization Book. Lori Lite, $14.25

Both parent and child can easily learn this simple, fun visualization to manage stress, enhance healing and relaxation and overall well being. (ages 3-10)

Also in this series:

A Boy and a Bear: the Children's Relaxation Book. $13.50 (ages 3-10) and
Bubble Riding: a Relaxation Story. Lori Lite, $16.95 (ages 5-11)
Sea Otter Cove: a Relaxation Story. Lori Lite, $16.50 (ages 5-11)

Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions & Balance Your Life. Sheri Van Dijk, $19.95

CALMING THE EMOTIONAL STORM offers an accessible, general introduction to dialectical behavior therapy skills for anyone who feels overwhelmed by their emotions.  This method combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices, to change the way you respond to stressful or emotional situations. Readers learn to understand and manage their emotions and begin to choose their actions rather than acting on impulses. They also practice calming their emotions in times of stress by embracing acceptance and fostering positive emotions about themselves. These life-changing skills can save many readers from unnecessary suffering due to the "emotional storm" inside.

Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear and Panic. Jeffrey Brantley, $15.95

Calming Your Anxious Mind is a gentle call to stop and pay more attention to your self and your life, and practice being - not doing. Practicing mindfulness and attending to life, moment by moment, will reduce your anxiety and stress and help you find peace and calm.

Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind. Jeffrey Brantley & Wendy Millstine, $19.95

In his first book, Calming Your Anxious Mind, psychiatrist and author Jeffrey Brantley, shows you how to use the principles of mindfulness to manage anxiety and panic and rediscover the joy in living. Now in this follow-up book, he and coauthor Wendy Millstine present a series of daily meditations you can use to overcoming fear, anxiety, and panic. These easy-to-learn and practice techniques can ease anyone into a regular beneficial mindfulness practice. Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind also includes visualizations, affirmations, and activities you can use to deal with anxiety in daily life. By practicing these techniques, you'll discover their own inner core of stability, peace, and presence.

Chi for Children: a Practical Guide to Teaching Tai Chi and Qigong in Schools and the Community. Betty Sutherland, $61.95 (includes instructional DVD)

Learning the Chinese arts of Tai Chi and Qigong is a great way for children to relax, have fun, and strengthen body and mind. This easy-to-use teacher training pack provides step-by-step instructions and simple techniques that enable anyone to teach Tai Chi and Qigong to children.

This interactive book and DVD set contains four tutorials that guide teachers through basic, intermediate and advanced exercises, as well as offering breathing and relaxation techniques to help create calm classrooms and beat exam stress. Proven to increase concentration levels, fitness and confidence, introducing children to Tai Chi and Qigong gives them the ideal foundation for a life of physical and mental well-being.

This exciting training programme will be an indispensible resource for anyone looking for a fresh and engaging way to improve children's focus, health and happiness, and will be a welcome addition to any classroom, gym class or youth group.

Child's Mind: How Mindfulness Can Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm & Relaxed. Christopher Willard, $20.50

Psychotherapist Christopher Willard provides an overview of mindfulness and meditation techniques, clear and detailed exercises designed for individuals and groups, and personal stories that demonstrate the ability of mindfulness to empower children and adolescents. CHILD'S MIND is an invaluable resource for teaching our children that confidence and power comes from the ability to be aware of and comfortable with ourselves and our surroundings.

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & Distress Tolerance. Matthew McKay, Jeffrey Wood & Jeffrey Brantley, $27.95

First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions. Research shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas — distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

THE DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY SKILLS WORKBOOK, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers straightforward, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. Whether you are a professional or a general reader, whether you use this book to support work done in therapy or as the basis for self-help, you'll benefit from this clear and practical guide to better managing your emotions.

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.

I Can Relax! A Relaxation CD for Children. Donna Pincus, $16.95 (ages 4-12)

Almost any child can benefit from having the skill of relaxation. Now your child can experience a guided relaxation training session, and will learn specific relaxation skills that he or she can use anywhere. Written by Dr. Donna Pincus, creator of The Child Anxiety Network, the "I Can Relax!" CD focuses on teaching children relaxation skills while also promoting positive self-image.

Indigo Ocean Dreams CD. Lori Lite, $17.95 (ages 6-12)

Indigo Ocean Dreams is a 60 minute CD/audio book designed to entertain your child in an ocean setting while introducing them to four relaxation and stress-management techniques. Children follow their sea friends along as they learn to release and manage anger with Angry Octopus, build self-esteem with Affirmation Weaver, implement breathing with Sea Otter Cove and visualize with Bubble Riding.

The narration is accompanied by calming sounds of dolphins, sea otters and gentle waves. An additional music sound track is included to further enhance your child's relaxation experience. These proven techniques encourage wellness and provide tools for children who suffer from anxiety, stress, trauma, hyperactivity, anger, sleep issues and lack of confidence.

JYOTI for Kids: a Meditative Technique of Purification by the Light. Simhananda, $22.95

This CD and booklet present a guided meditation that teaches young children skills for calming and quieting the mind and body.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being. Daniel Siegel, $32.50

A new framework for maintaining mental health and well-being.

Three human experiences have been documented as promoting well-being: secure attachment, mindfulness meditation, and effective psychotherapy. Leading neurobiologist Daniel Siegel presents a unifying theory that shows that the effects of these three experiences have a similar neural mechanism. Siegel uses theory, science, and anecdote to reveal how to transform the brain as well as promote well-being.

The Mindful Child. Susan Kaiser Greenland, $17.00

How to help your kid manage stress and become happier, kinder and more compassionate.

The Mindful Path through Worry and Rumination: Letting Go of Anxious and Depressive Thoughts. Sameet Kumar, $18.95

People who worry and ruminate find it difficult to stop anxiously anticipating future events and regretting or rethinking past actions. Left unchecked, this tendency can lead to mental health problems such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder. THE MINDFUL PATH THROUGH WORRY AND RUMINATION offers powerful mindfulness strategies derived from Buddhist spiritual practices and proven psychological techniques to help you stop over-thinking what you can't control and learn how to find contentment in the present moment.

The Mindful Way through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life Susan Orsillo & Lizabeth Roemer, $18.95

You can't just "get over" anxiety. In fact, the very things most people do to try to feel better — avoiding feared situations, pushing worry out of mind — only make the problem worse. Leading psychologists Susan Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer present a powerful new alternative that can help you break free of anxiety by fundamentally changing how you relate to it. With clarity and compassion, this book describes clinically tested mindfulness practices specifically tailored for anxiety in its many forms. Learn step-by-step strategies for gaining awareness of anxious feelings without letting them escalate; loosening the grip of worry and fear; and achieving a new level of emotional and physical well-being. Free audio downloads of mindfulness exercises plus other resources are available at the authors' website.

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness. J. Mark G. Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal& Jon Kabat-Zinn, $20.50

The Mindful Way through Depression draws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to provide effective relief from the most prevalent psychological disorder. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of depression. Revealing the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause chronic unhappiness, the authors gently guide readers through a series of exercises designed to break the mental habits that lead to despair. Kabat-Zinn lends his calm, familiar voice to the accompanying CD of guided meditations, making this a complete package for anyone looking to regain a sense of balance and contentment.

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: a Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias & Worry Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. John Forsyth & Georg Eifert, $23.95

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety has one purpose: to help you live better, more fully, more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen. Find out how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. Learn to nurture your capacity for acceptance, mindfulness, kindness, and compassion. Use these qualities to shift your focus away from anxiety and onto what you really want your life to be about. As you do, your life will get bigger as your anxious suffering gets smaller. No matter what kind of anxiety problem you're struggling with, this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life.

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 Prescription for Adult ADHD. Lidia Zylowska, $21.50

An 8-step program for strengthening attention, managing emotions, and achieving your goals. Includes a CD audio program of guided exercises.

The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems. Ronald Siegel, $16.50

Mindfulness offers a path to well-being and tools for coping with life's inevitable hurdles. And though mindfulness may sound exotic, you can cultivate it — and reap its proven benefits — without special training or lots of spare time. In this inviting guide, you’ll get effective strategies to use while driving to work, walking the dog, or washing the dishes, plus tips on creating a formal practice routine in as little as 20 minutes a day. Flexible, step-by-step action plans will help you become more focused and efficient in daily life; cope with difficult feelings, such as anger and sadness; deepen your connection to your spouse or partner; feel more rested and less stressed; curb unhealthy habits; find relief from anxiety and depression; and resolve stress-related pain, insomnia, and other physical problems. Free audio downloads of the meditation exercises are available at the author's website. Start living a more balanced life — today.

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain. Jackie Gardner-Nix & Lucie Costin-Hall, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, $24.95

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.

Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda. Lauren Alderfer, illustrated by Kerry Lee MacLean, $18.50

Monkey is always busy hopping from one activity and one though to another. He has Monkey brain! Then he meets Panda who seems so calm and happy. How can Monkey learn to be peaceful and happy like his friend Panda?

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: a Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything. Deborah Schoeberlein, $21.50

Mindfulness has gone mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in education. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness plants the seed for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. This book is perfect for teachers of all kinds: schoolteachers, adult educators, coaches, and parents – in short, anyone who teaches anything.

MOMfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion and Grace. Denise Roy, $17.99

Denise Roy combines the hard-won wisdom of a parent with the insights of meditation to create a spiritual practice that goes to the heart of everyday life: mothering with mindfulness. Through anecdotes, reflections, and specific practices, this book invites mothers to wake up and embrace their lives, discovering that they are always standing on holy ground.

Moody Cow Meditates. Kerry Lee MacLean, $18.50

Moody Cow is having a terrible, angry day, until Grandfather teaches Moody Cow how to let go of angry thoughts and calm down.

Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance. Christopher McCurry, $19.95

A powerful new approach to overcoming fear, panic and worry using acceptance and commitment therapy.

Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children. Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Community, $28.95

A complete overview of all of Thich Nhat Hanh’s practices for children, PLANTING SEEDS is full of hands-on activities to help children and adults relieve stress, increase concentration and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, and improve communication. It includes over 30 full-color illustrations and an audio CD with songs and easy-to-follow practices.

Steps and Stones: an Anh's Anger Story. Gail Silver, illustrated by Christiane Krömer, $19.50

When Anh feels left out, a red hairy creature named Anger teaches him some valuable lessons about slowing down and taking care of his strong emotions. By counting his steps and coordinating them with his breath, Anh learns how walking meditation can ease his angry thoughts.

Take the Time: Mindfulness for Kids. Maud Roegiers, $10.95 (ages 4-8)

With gentle rhythms and soothing imagery, Take the Time guides kids toward self-awareness and mindfulness.