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Do you ever worry about the escalating mental health crisis facing our kids today, and silently hope your child does not end up as part of those statistics?
Do you want to teach your kids the habits, skills and mindsets that lay the foundation for positive mental health and wellbeing?
Have you ever wished there was a way to build strong protective fences at the top of the cliff, so you don't have to be the ambulance picking up the pieces at the bottom?
The...
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Comment déceler la maltraitance en milieu scolaire?
Toute personne appelée par son activité professionnelle à s''occuper d''enfants porte une responsabilité personnelle à l''égard de la prévention et de la détection de la maltraitance.
Pour les enfants en âge scolaire, l''école reste le principal lieu o des inquiétudes concernant le bien-être de l''enfant sont exprimées. Les enseignants sont en première ligne et souvent extrêmement...
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To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.
In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children from the false idea of "not feeling bad" and to empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss.
There are many life experiences that...
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Over the past decade, the number of 12- to 17-year-olds suffering from mental health disorders has more than doubled. While adolescents and teens are notorious for mood swings and rebellion, parents today are navigating new terrain as their children are increasingly at risk of struggling with a mental health issue. But the question remains: What is causing this epidemic of illness?
In Brain Inflamed, acclaimed integrative doctor Dr. Kenneth Bock...
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Treating adolescents with depression is challenging. This breakthrough book offers a new, cutting-edge treatment for children and teens with depression using a modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach. Modular CBT for Depressed Children and Adolescents offers a user-friendly, step-by-step transdiagnostic approach to help you treat youths whose depression presents in diverse ways. This manual offers a compelling rationale for using modular...
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None of us have been created to live mediocre lives, so we shouldn't settle for mediocre friendships.
Why do many male friendships tend to be shallow? Are men supposed to be interested in deep connections with other dudes? Why is it that a three-year-old boy has no issues expressing his love and admiration for his best friend, but a twenty-year-old man most likely has? If you're one of those guys who's put off by questions like these, this book is...
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Are you frustrated when your child is not responsive to your efforts to be a good parent? Are you shaking your head in confusion or barking orders as a last resort in getting through to him/her? Do you wish for more quality time with your child? Parenting is the toughest job for which most parents have no training. We tend to emulate our own parents, for good or for bad. In the Bible, Proverbs 22:6, we are told to "train your children in the ways...
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Chloe Silverman is an associate professor in the department of English at Pennsylvania State University.
How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autism
Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of...
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Terry Cohen, a young adult with Myotonic Dystrophy never wrote a book, and then after graduating from high school, he decided to write one dedicated to all young people with progressive disabilities and seeking a full life.
Terry writes- he has a disability and disease inherited from his mom, and must face it every day of his life. As a teen, he struggled the most, and then it hit him- "My disability isn't in charge of my life. I am."
It was up...
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Practical and compassionate strategies to help your child with autism spectrum disorder thrive
Get the guidance you need to meet the challenges of raising an exceptional child. Parenting a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder offers several approaches to help you effectively and respectfully manage everyday situations.
Cut down on stress with practical advice drawn from clinical knowledge. Whether building a personal support network, creating safe...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned psychologist Carol Dweck, Stanford University. This conversation provides behind-the-scenes, detailed insights into the development of Carol's important work on growth mindsets and fixed mindsets: how different ways of thinking influence learning ability and success.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Justified Applause, and questions for discussion...
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Research has shown that, for many teens, trauma can lead to addiction. Now, for the first time ever, two mental health experts offer a powerful, integrative program to effectively treat teens with these co-occurring issues. Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until now, clinicians have lacked the tools needed to treat these two issues together. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-two proven-effective...
197) Libera Felicidad
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¡DEJA DE FINGIR QUE ERES FELIZ!Libera felicidad cuenta con diversas anécdotas, metáforas, y testimonios del verdadero sentido de la Felicidad. A través de sus líneas te sorprenderás dónde está la felicidad. Te daremos algunas situaciones que te ayudarán a conseguir respuestas de por qué en el mundo, existen personas que desean estar felices, pero siguen direcciones que no lo llevan realmente a la felicidad. Cada uno de los lectores tendrá...
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This video explores the forces influencing young people's decisions about sex: media, friends, family, religion, love, AIDS, alcohol, and homophobia. Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion is a unique, accessible tool for facilitating an informed, balanced discussion about these and other influences on young people. In the age of AIDS, such talk can save lives. When young people tell their own stories, their peers listen. In this program, award-winning...
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For more than twenty years, What's Happening to Me? has helped parents explain puberty to their children who are experiencing "growing pains".
More than one million children and young adults have enjoyed the humor and honesty in this book, while learning what really happens to their bodies as they mature.
Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins are the bestselling team also responsible for Where Did I Come From?
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Prenez pleinement conscience des étapes essentielles de votre vie et de vos ressources pour les appréhender!
Notre vie est constituée d'étapes essentielles qui forment, comme dans un bouton de rose, des couches successives. Ces pétales ne sont pas seulement des pics de croissance physique et psychologique, ils sont aussi des opportunités de croissance morale et spirituelle.
Or, de notre conception à notre mort, en passant par les différentes...
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