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  • Trouble With Secrets

    Trouble With Secrets

    "Trouble with Secrets" part of Parenting Press's well-respected "children's safety" collection. Other titles include "It's My Body", "Protect Your Child From Sexual Abuse", "Something Happened and I'm Scared to Tell", "Loving Touches", "Something is Wrong at My House" and "Telling Isn't Tattling". Recommended by members of Parents Anonymous, and available in both Spanish and English, this book helps children understand what to do when asked to keep a secret. Some secrets are fun and should be kept secret, author Johnsen explains. But if you feel hurt or confused when you're told something is a secret, you need to tell a grownup. Uses examples of secrets that will be familiar to children.

  • Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents

    Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents

    How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and CompetencyTens of thousands of clinicians have used this book--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--to plan and organize effective interventions for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma. The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework can be used with children, parents, and other caregivers in a wide range of settings. The volume guides the clinician to identify key treatment goals and intervene flexibly to strengthen child–caregiver relationships and support healthy development and positive functioning. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, it is packed with case vignettes and clinical tools, including 79 reproducible handouts and forms. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

  • Treating Trauma in Adolescents

    Treating Trauma in Adolescents

    Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship This book presents an original and compassionate approach to assisting teens with traumatic pasts. Her book provides strategies for reaching out to teens in potentially precarious situations. Straus also addresses how to develop positive and guiding relationships with youth in order to encourage healing and growth.

  • Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers and Two Year Olds

    Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers and Two Year Olds

    In Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year Olds, discover practical advice and strategies to nurture harmed children and start them on the path to healing. Create spaces that communicate safety. Provide predictable routines. Nurture connectedness and attachment. Use rhythm to support brain development. Nurture healthy social-emotional development. Use play to encourage self-regulation and self-confidence. Care for yourself so you can care for children. To recover and develop resilience in the face of adversity, infants and toddlers need fully present, playfully engaged, calm, and invested caregivers.

  • Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional Toolbox for Children & Adolescents

    Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional Toolbox for Children & Adolescents

    116 Worksheets & Skill-Building Exercises to Support Safety, Connection & Empowerment Teach children and adolescents to cope with trauma and build a strong sense of personal resiliency. Written by expert clinicians, the activities in this workbook support a foundation of social-emotional language, an increase in consistency and routine, regulation of tough emotions, and the formation of connections with others. Inside you will find 116 easy-to-use, solution-focused activities and worksheets developed with a trauma-informed lens that promote skills such as building a sense of safety in your environment, fostering trust and positive regard, establishing healthy coping skills, promoting problem-solving pathways, developing personal empowerment, confidence and wellness.

  • Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence

    Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence

    Fear Can Stop You Loving Exploring the complex issues of trauma, attachment and family placement, the contributors to this book provide a variety of complementary perspectives on practice in this area. Focusing on how to integrate attachment theory and developmental psychology in practice with adopted or fostered children, they emphasis the need for understanding of early trauma and its effect on child development. The book adopts an inclusive approach, valuing the parent as a central member of the therapeutic team. Contributions from user families illustrate the challenges of bringing up fostered or adopted children and show how the attachment-based approach has worked for them. Bringing together a rich and innovative selection of ideas for adoption and fostering practice, this book will be a valuable resource for all involved with family support in this area.

  • Trauma Reaction Cards

    Trauma Reaction Cards

    This is a therapeutic tool to assist children and adolescents in understanding and identifying their reactions to traumatic or stressful life experiences. These colorful and illustrated cards are categorized into the four domains of trauma reactions: Behavior Reactions, Body Reactions, Brain & Thinking Reactions, and Feelings Reactions.

  • Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens

    Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens

    Mindfulness-Based Skills to Overcome and Recover from Prolonged Toxic Stress Written by an expert in teen mental health, this healing workbook offers powerful skills to help you overcome the effects of toxic stress, trauma, and adversity using mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and emotion regulation. You’ll learn all about how your mind and body respond to stress, how to identify triggers, and how to ground and calm yourself in the moment when your emotions feel too big to handle. If you’re struggling with the effects of stress or trauma, you should know that you can move forward in your life with confidence, self-compassion, and resilience. This workbook will help you, every step of the way.

  • Transforming Trauma in Children & Adolescents

    Transforming Trauma in Children & Adolescents

    This book teaches therapists the eight key skills required for SMART mastery and provides seven regulation tools for clients, helping children and adolescents manage their feelings and attend to developmental tasks like making friends, participating at school, learning to play with others, and developing a sense of self that includes--but isn't defined by--the trauma they've experienced. Enriched with case studies and recommended adaptations, the book includes resources for parents and other caregivers who want to provide ongoing supportive care outside the clinical setting.

  • The Racial Trauma Handbook For Teens

    The Racial Trauma Handbook For Teens

    Break the cycle of racial trauma, build confidence, and thrive with this practical handbook just for teens. If you or someone in your family has experienced racism or racial trauma—such as discrimination or racial violence—you may feel like the experience has made you different from other teens. You may see the world as a scary or unjust place. And you may struggle with negative thoughts, sadness, anger, resentment, or shame. Over time, these negative thoughts and feelings can get in the way of school, friendships, and being your best. But there are ways you can move forward and start living the life you deserve. This handbook will help.

  • The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself

    The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself

    For elementary school-aged children. A picture book describing (with the use of a metaphor) how the experience of trauma can create barriers between the child and others.

  • Stopping The Pain

    Stopping The Pain

    A Workbook For Teens Who Cut And Self-injure This comprehensive workbook helps teens who self-injure explore the reasons behind their need to hurt themselves and sets forth positive ways to deal with the issues of stress and control. The activities in this workbook provide teens with safe, effective strategies to help themselves to change their destructive behaviors.

  • Something Is Wrong At My House

    Something Is Wrong At My House

    How can kids understand and cope when their parents fight? Based on a true story, this 32-page book shows a child seeking, and finally obtaining, help in a domestic violence situation. Written so that it can be used with both the very young, and the school-age child, Something Is Wrong at My House provides brief text with illustrations on one page of each two-page spread, and more detailed information on the facing page. Ideal for use by school nurses, counselors, social workers and teachers, and by therapists, and the staff in shelters. Ages 4-8

  • Something Happened And I'm Scared To Tell

    Something Happened And I'm Scared To Tell

    In this book, a friendly lion helps a child come to terms with the reality of sexual abuse. The use of an androgynous child should help both males and females to recognize themselves, and the discussion of common feelings related to abuse (such as fear, guilt, and confusion) is valuable. This book encourages an abused child to talk to someone safe about what happened, explains to the child they are not to blame for the abuse, provides anatomically correct names for body parts, and talks about reasons why an adult might abuse a child.

  • Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept

    Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept

    Protect Children from Unsafe Touch by Teaching Them to Always Speak Up A beautifully illustrated picture book that sensitively broaches the subject of keeping children safe from inappropriate touch.

  • Riley the Brave: The Little Cub with Big Feelings!

    Riley the Brave: The Little Cub with Big Feelings!

    Help for Cubs Who Have Had A Tough Start in Life Riley is the story of a little bear with big feelings. Join this super-cool cub as he faces his fears with the animals who love him. This picture book is for children who have experienced trauma, to help them understand their overwhelming feelings, and learn to trust the safe grown-ups around them. Includes afterword for adults.

  • PTSD Survival Guide for Teens

    PTSD Survival Guide for Teens

    This book offers skills-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you tackle anxiety and harmful avoidance behaviors; manage negative emotions; cope with flashbacks and nightmares; and develop trusting, healthy relationships ”even if your trust in others has been shaken to the core. You also learn more about the diagnosis and symptoms of PTSD and understand what kind of help is available to you.

  • Please Tell : A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse

    Please Tell : A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse

    Written and illustrated by a young girl who was sexually molested by a family member, this book reaches out to other children in a way that no adult can. Jessie's words carry the message, "It's o.k. to tell; help can come when you tell." This book is an excellent tool for therapists, counselors, child protection workers, teachers, and parents dealing with children affected by sexual abuse. Jessie's story adds a sense of hope for what should be, and the knowledge that the child protection system can work for children. Simple, direct, and from the heart, Jessie gives children the permission and the courage to deal with sexual abuse.

  • Not in Room 204 (PTSD)

    Not in Room 204 (PTSD)

    Breaking the Silence of Abuse At a report card conference, Mrs. Salvador informs Regina's mom that Regina is doing a great job, but she is very quiet. Regina thinks of the secret she keeps so quiet-the one even her mom doesn't know. Will Regina find the courage to tell Mrs. Salvador her terrible secret? This helpful book provides a tool for adults to gently discuss sexual abuse with young children.

  • Mindfulness Workbook for Teen Self-Harm

    Mindfulness Workbook for Teen Self-Harm

    Skills to Help You Overcome Cutting & Self-Harming Behaviors, Thoughts & Feelings Pain is a normal part of life-it's how you react to this pain that really matters. Let this workbook guide you toward better strategies for dealing with stress and emotional pain, so you can be safe, happy, and in control of your life. This book contains powerful mindfulness tools to help you move beyond self-harming thoughts and behaviors, so you can get back to living your life.

  • How Are You Feeling Today, Baby Bear?  (Violence at home)

    How Are You Feeling Today, Baby Bear? (Violence at home)

    Exploring Big Feelings After Living in a Stormy Home This sensitive, charming storybook is written to help children who have lived with violence at home to begin to explore and name their feelings. Accompanied by notes for adults on how to use each page of the story to start conversations, it also features fun games and activities to help to understand and express difficult emotions. It will be a useful book for social workers, counselors, domestic violence workers and all grown-ups working with children.

  • Helping Teens Who Cut (2nd Edition)

    Helping Teens Who Cut (2nd Edition)

    Using DBT® Skills to End Self-Injury Dr. Hollander has written this book with the worried parent in mind, hoping to provide them with advice and guidance needed to address adolescent self-harm. An expert in DBT (dialectical behavior therapy), Hollander maintains that it is the foremost treatment for cutting and explains how DBT can help your loved one. Also, included: strategies for discussion about self-harm, how to teach coping skills, and other helpful advice.

  • Healing Days

    Healing Days

    A Guide for Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma Healing Days is a sensitive and reassuring story intended for children who have experienced trauma and covers the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that many kids have after a bad and scary thing happens. A useful book to read with a parent or therapist, Healing Days emphasizes that children are not to blame for what happened, and that they can get help and look forward to a happy future. Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.

  • Finding Sunshine After the Storm: A Workbook for Children Healing from Sexual Abuse (Workbook)

    Finding Sunshine After the Storm: A Workbook for Children Healing from Sexual Abuse (Workbook)

    "Finding Sunshine After the Storm" is a workbook for children who have experienced sexual abuse. It includes forty activities drawn from play therapy that kids can do to learn to manage anger, establish safe boundaries, identify adults they can trust, and reclaim their personal power.


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