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Let's Play Therapy Institute LLC provides free webinars courses for using video games in play therapy. Courses address using Roblox, Animal Crossings, Minecraft and Fortnite therapeutically.
Whole Child Counseling shares resources and strategies to help keep kids engaged in tele-health sessions. The resource specifically provides ideas on how to use games in teletherapy.
Gabby is an outgoing, groovy gecko-until she goes into the woods with Wiley the Wizard Lizard. To make sure his bad magic is not revealed, the wicked wizard casts a spell of silence on her. She feels powerless to tell her secret. The reader then accompanies Gabby on her journey to find her voice. A delightful story in itself, the book will resonate with traumatized children who remain locked behind walls of silence. This therapeutic narrative gently invites children to talk about traumatic experiences and ultimately empowers them to overcome their victimization.
Emetophobia--the disproportionate fear of vomiting or being in the presence of someone vomiting--affects millions of people yet is seldom discussed. Part-memoir, part clinical history, Dara Lovitz provides a brutally honest account of her life as an emetophobe. Written with her therapist, Dr. David Yusko, her story unravels the mystery of emetophobia.Lovitz spent years trying traditional talk therapy and self-help books yet nothing seemed to reduce her anxiety. In desperation, she tried exposure therapy. With a therapist's guidance, she was able to overcome emetophobia. The history of exposure therapy for treating emetophobes is covered.
Game Play Therapy’s revised third edition (like the previous editions) continues to fill a gap in the literature by offering mental health practitioners the information needed to understand why and how to use this intervention effectively. The contributors offer advice for choosing the most useful games from the more than 700 now available and describe the fundamentals of administering the games. This important updated book: -Contains material on the recent advances in the field including information on electronic games and disorder-specific games Includes illustrative case studies that explore the process of game therapy -Reviews the basics of the underlying principles and applications of game therapy -Offers a wide-range of games with empirical evidence of the effectiveness of game therapy Written for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health clinicians, the revised third edition of Game Play Therapy offers a guide that shows how to apply game therapy techniques to promote socialization, encourage the development of identity and self-esteem, and help individuals master anxiety.
Generation Mindful was founded by Suzanne Tucker, a mom of four who has been a physical therapist and parent educator for over 27 years. Generation Mindful's goal is to provide tangible, evidence-based tools and toys to help parents and educators apply the science of positive discipline into their everyday lives, particularly when they were feeling stressed or their children were acting out. Generation Mindful offers tools for purchase in the form of posters, visuals, books. printable, toys and more related to positive parenting and positive discipline. Generation Mindful also offers courses for purchase. Check out their extensive blog which incorporates positive parenting and caregiver self-care.
A totally accessible user's guide from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide. Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to achieve real change. Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives and performers.
Here is a super simple and fun getting-to-know you activity! Check out the description for instructions and question ideas.
A motivational and inspiring guide to wholehearted living, rather than just the average self-help book, with this groundbreaking work Brené Brown, Ph.D., bolsters the self-esteem and personal development process through her characteristic heartfelt, honest storytelling. With original research and plenty of encouragement, she explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an “imperfect” life and embracing living authentically. Brown’s “ten guideposts” are benchmarks for authenticity that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty—a perfectly imperfect life. Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to “dig deep” and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can’t hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.
Beatrice Bottomwell has NEVER (not once!) made a mistake. She never forgets her math homework, she never wears mismatched socks, and she ALWAYS wins the yearly talent show at school. In fact, the entire town calls her The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes! One day, the inevitable happens: Beatrice makes a huge mistake in front of everyone! But in the end, readers (and perfectionists) will realize that life is more fun when you enjoy everything—even the mistakes. A growth mindset book for kids.
In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology―more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity―has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person’s developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can.Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents in the back of the book.
This blog entry suggests 10 basic ways adults can work with the modern adolescent rather than against them taking into account the idea that “Adolescence is like gravity; It is much easier to work with it than against it.” Check out the numerous ways as a therapist you can work with and use the processes of adolescence to help engage teenagers in therapy.
In the "Going to See a Play Therapist" Social Story. Dr. Grant provides pictures and short explanations about who a play therapist is and what a child can expect when they see a play therapist.
The idea behind GoNoodle® is simple: be a force of joy, health, and self-discovery for kids and the adults who love them. We power the good energy of kids where they are today: online, IRL at schools and home, and in the metaverse and beyond grounding them in the joy of being silly, mindful, and curious. GoNoodle offers GoNoodle Music Videos, a GoNoodle Blog with resources for Adults, fun videos for activities & routines, and fun resources for academic areas and skills.
Through the lens of a pet fish who has lost his companion, Todd Parr tells a moving and wholly accessible story about saying goodbye. Touching upon the host of emotions children experience, Todd reminds readers that it's okay not to know all the answers, and that someone will always be there to support them. An invaluable resource for life's toughest moments.
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Attending CE courses also allows therapists to stay current on the trends in psychotherapy and mental health treatment so they can provide the best care possible to their clients. Online learning courses are a convenient way for many mental health professionals to access quality education resources; learn more about treatment modalities, current research, and specific behavioral health conditions; and expand their clinical skills.
The GoZen! animated suite includes 7 animated programs, worksheets, and key learning points for kids ages 6-15 to learn social and emotional learning skills. Here's just snapshot of what they'll take away from the programs: Resilient thoughts: Learn to catch, check, collect, challenge, and change worrisome, negative, or looping thoughts. Mindfulness: Discover how to go from asking constant "What if" questions to coming back to "What is" going on in present moment. Emotional Intelligence: Dive into their inner emotional world to expand self-awareness of emotions, what they mean, and how to navigate them. Impulse Control: Embrace many methodologies to pause before they react to a trigger or event. Kids are armed with essential life skills embedded across programs including hundreds of animations, worksheets, key learning points, discussion questions, and interactive practice.
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What is GoZen!? GoZen! creates online social and emotional learning programs loved by kids ages 6-15, parents, professionals, and schools. Our mission is to reach 1 million kids with skills to transform stress, anxiety, worry, anger, perfectionism, negativity, and social worry into POWER ! We don’t help kids manage challenging feelings, we help them transform them into confidence, courage, and resilience! We’re basically emotional alchemists.
