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Compassionate and enduring, renowned author, psychotherapist, and certified sex therapist Wendy Maltz presents a comprehensive program for healing that sensitively takes readers step-by-step through the recovery process, integrating expert advice with groundbreaking exercises, proven techniques, and first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of sexual healing. This compassionate resource can help you to:Identify the sexual effects of sexual abuseEliminate negative sexual behavior and resolve specific problemsGain control over upsetting automatic reactions to touch and sexDevelop a healthy sexual self-conceptOriginally published two decades ago, The Sexual Healing Journey is a highly respected resource for understanding and healing the intimate sexual problems caused by sex abuse.The updated third edition features a new preface, revised materials, and an updated, expanded resource section.
Kids with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) experience unwanted thoughts, worries or impulses called obsessions. For some children and teenagers, these obsessions are related to sex. This kind of OCD can be especially hard because kids are ashamed of having sexual thoughts that they can’t control. This Childmind Institute article discusses how sexual obsessions affect kids with OCD, what kinds of sexual obsessions might kids with OCD experience, and how are sexual obsessions in OCD treated.
Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understanding―much gained from raising their own children―Faber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate fresh thoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals, this edition also includes a new afterword.
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Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents, and Parents: At-Risk Adjudicated Treatment Program (SITCAP®-ART), is one of Starr’s SITCAP® model group programs. Developed for at-risk and adjudicated youth, this program provides Juvenile Court Systems with trauma intervention that supports the needs of adolescents exposed to traumatic incidents. The goal of the program is to reduce traumatic reactions, restore a sense of safety and power, improve the adolescent’s behavior, and ability to learn and be productive within his family and community environments. This program is included in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices and is a sensory, evidence-based model for at-risk and adjudicated youth. The programs also comes with the booklets A Trauma Is Like No Other Experience and What Parents Need to Know by William Steele.
The audio exercises included with Sitting Still Like a Frog are based on mindfulness-training exercises for adults and developed especially for children and their parents. They form the core of learning to be more mindful at different times throughout the day. You can do the exercises together with your child or children. Some kids like to do the exercises on their own, and many parents love doing the exercises themselves. You can do them sitting on the floor, on a couch or chair, or lying in bed.
Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions—with a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises read by Myla Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who along with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.
The author of Beneath The Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens discusses six common questions that adoptees grapple with in adolescence. Although not all teens dwell on each of the subjects described below, it is common for teens to grapple with each area as they try to gain understanding of their personal adoption experiences.
In, therapy, one of the most common activities used to gage youths’ current state of mind is a check-in. A check-in where a teen can speak about how they’re feeling, how their day or week’s been, or answer a targeted question related to a discussion or topic that might be presented in the session at some point.What’s important to know is that there are many different types of check-ins. Ultimately, it’s good to diversify check-ins to be able to give youth more tools to verbalize their experience. The better youth are able to verbalize their experience, the better they’ll be at managing their experience. This is something that we as therapists, counseling, educators, and anyone in the youth field should want to foster. Below are 6 simple but effective methods for integrating a check-in into your group or classroom.
Use these colorful visuals to: -expand emotional vocabulary and understand gradations of feelings -identify what “size” of a feeling a child is having in the moment, talk about “body” clues that led up to the escalation of a feeling -describe a fictional character’s emotions and emotional change from a text or video clip -understand mental state emotions such as frustration, feeling ashamed, guilty, disappointed – with overlapping feelings
SKINPICK APP – A FREE TOOL TO MONITOR YOUR SKIN PICKING BEHAVIORS The first step to beating Dermatillomania is gaining awareness of your picking patterns
Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can’t wait to begin! But how can Marisol make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream. . . . From the award-winning Peter H. Reynolds comes a gentle, playful reminder that if we keep our hearts open and look beyond the expected, creative inspiration will come. Encourages children not to give up!
Nationwide childrens.org provides information on sleep in adolescents including what to expect and how to help your teenager get enough sleep.
When big changes come along—like a new family dynamic or new family members—big feelings can come up that are difficult to navigate. Fox reminds little ones that we are connected even though families change and that it’s not their fault. This illustrated board book provides guidance and tools for both parent and child when coping with emotions commonly accompanied by significant changes or transitions in family structure. Through the daily affirmation, children will learn that they are safe, loved, and never alone.
Coping with grief and loss can be overwhelming, and finding the right words to talk to our children about it can feel impossible. Sprite's story helps you find a place to start as you help a child navigate loss. Most of us didn’t grow up learning how to talk about grief or process how it affects our bodies, minds, and emotions. This interactive board book is a tool to help start that difficult conversation. Children will learn that they are not alone, and while this moment is challenging, the memory of the loved one will always be with them no matter where they go.Sprite Offers Comfort is a book that provides concrete tools that help children understand and process grief and loss. Readers learn that all emotions are welcome and memories of loved ones will remain in their hearts.
Storms big and small enter our lives that can be difficult to experience. It's important for children to remember that when faced with a challenge, they have communities of love and support all around them.In our "Weathering the Storm" hardcover book, Fox and Lynx make it through a frightening event by leaning on their friends, welcoming their emotions, and tapping into their inner strength. This book promotes resilience, coping and empathy
Trying new things can be scary. Yak's story teaches children that it’s ok to take risks and help them understand that it's ok to not be perfect at something the first time they try it. The fear of making mistakes can stop us from even trying and fill us with self-doubt. How can we feel confident when we are less than perfect? Come with Slumberkins' Yak in this interactive board book, as she learns that she is good enough just as she is and reminds them that they don't need to be perfect to love themselves.
Snap’s Stories about Feelings are therapeutic stories and activities intended to help kids learn about and manage their own feelings. Anger, worry, fear, and sadness are among the feelings addressed in the stories and activities. Currently, the app features two stories: What's Your Lava Level?, about managing frustration, and Worried Wendall, about worry. More stories will be made available as they are completed. Kids can select a story, listen to the story, see it illustrated, and then practice what they have learned by completing the activity book. No reading is required, although kids may enjoy reading along with the story. No clinical training is necessary to use the app. Kids may use the app by themselves or with a parent or other caregiver. Counselors or therapists who work with children will find the app a welcome addition to their practices, as will teachers. What’s inside: Story: Stories are read aloud and illustrated. Kids can follow along with the text if they choose. Activity Book: Kids can free-paint or complete activity pages that reinforce the skills taught by each story. Each template contains prompts for completing the page, although kids can choose to complete the page without the prompts as well. Kids can save their pictures if they wish. Clinicians may choose not to save pictures if privacy is a concern. The app is the first in a series from Snappy Kids, a company founded by a child psychotherapist and a design engineer. Snappy Kids products are all intended to help kids learn about and manage their feelings.
Snoots Toots! A Kids Game of Empathy and Manners is an amazingly awesome therapeutic board game from Dr. Poppy Moon's Imagucation Creation Workshop! Kids will role-play their way through a variety of situations requiring manners and empathy skills. Whether they are acting out a behavior showing proper conduct telling about a situation or imagining a feeling kids will be learning skills that are critical to social and emotional development. Simple setup and easy instructions make Snoots Toots! A Kids Game of Empathy and Manners the perfect game for individual small group and classroom guidance! For ages 6 through 12; Grade level: K through 7; Players: 2 - 4.
Social-Emotional learning referred to as SEL for short, is the process of learning and applying the skills necessary to manage emotions, have self-awareness and social awareness, and show empathy. SEL is important for children to develop and maintain positive relationships, decision-making skills, develop perspective-taking skills, and build emotional intelligence. Kids are born with many intense emotions, but they aren’t born with the skills to respond to, express, or cope with these emotions. This is why engaging in social-emotional learning at home is so important. There are 5 key components to social-emotional learning: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Decision Making, Relationship Skills and Social Awareness. The skills developed under each component builds upon and intertwines with the others. Learn more about the 5 key components and how to help children develop the related skills in this article by He's Extraordinary.com.
