How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
Todays parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security.
Zane the zebra feels different from the rest of his classmates. He worries that all they notice about him is his "autism stripe". With the help of his Mama, Zane comes to appreciate all his stripes - the unique strengths that make him who he is. Includes a Reading Guide with additional background information about autism spectrum disorders and a ......
A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
To be able to effectively offer therapy to children, complex therapeutic concepts need to be presented in an appropriate and engaging manner. This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in which to do so, with numerous games and imaginative activities to help children aged 4-12 to express and understand their ......
Improve Your Self-Esteem, Self-Care and Self Knowledge
This positive, self-affirming guide will increase your knowledge about ADHD and empower you in your daily life. The chapters are full of tips, tricks and life hacks so you can better manage your time, harness your creativity, energy and enthusiasm, and make more time for fun!
The Amazing Talents and Skills of Children with ADHD
An illustrated book to help children to understand their ADHD diagnosis in a positive light. Each character in the book focuses on a specific symptom of ADHD such as hyper-focus, sensory overwhelm, poor initiation and inattention. They also introduce readers to the unique strengths their ADHD provides, with links to further resources and support.
Explore how you can become a neurodiversity affirming clinician. With advice on presuming competence, self-advocacy and reframing behaviours, this book offers everything you need to start implementing neurodiversity affirming protocols into your practice.
Educational environments can present challenges for children with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), who require different strategies than children with a more straightforward presentation of autism, and schools frequently find themselves struggling to meet their complex needs.
This book offers honest and clear professional insights into what it really means to have ADHD and provides information about where to go and what to expect.
This essential guide for working with PDA pupils outlines effective and practical ways that teachers and school staff can support these pupils, by endorsing a child-led approach to learning and assessment.
Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
Written by a team of leading clinical psychologists, this straightforward book walks the reader through the workings of the teenage brain. Pulling together the latest research, from brain imaging techniques to studies of teen behaviour, the authors provide an invaluable framework for parents, teachers and professionals to understand how ......
A Collaborative Workbook for Parents, Carers and Children to Encourage M
This accessible guide answers the million-dollar question by steering you, step by step through carefully supported and structured conversational platforms that encourage connection and strengthen relationship bonds
I am great at thinking quickly! I have a great sense of humour! What are you really great at? I have trouble finishing my homework... I get distracted easily... Do similar things happen to you? Learn more about ADHD and what it means for you, with fun facts that you can share with your family and teachers too.
Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Pac
Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked with thousands of kids and teens who struggle with an ......
A handbook for parents for Distractible, Dreamy and Defiant children
A practical guide to parenting children with ADHD, written by two experienced former teachers in the field of ADHD and Neurodiversity, Zoe Beezer and Fintan ORegan. Chapters include guidance on: medication, diagnosis, hyperfocus, working with schools, creating structure and routines, planning for the future and navigating the teenage years.
With ASQ®-3 questionnaires in English and the Users Guide, this Starter Kit provides a low-cost, reliable way to screen infants and young children for developmental delays or concerns in the first 5 years of life.
Useful for children of ages 8-16 months. The first part of this work prompts parents to document the child's understanding of vocabulary items separated into semantic categories. The second part asks parents to record the communicative and symbolic gestures the child has tried or completed.
An Educator's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice
Experienced clinicians show how educators can easily use a proven psychological model to help pupils who have experienced relational trauma. Contains everything required to embed it into teaching practice, including building connections with students and teachers, exploration of the theory, and practical applications.
Sophie Gaston's offers the first honest and poignant depiction of autistic regression and provides invaluable advice on understanding and identifying the symptoms and how to find acceptance and happiness following diagnosis.
A Trauma-informed Guide for Counselors, Educators and Parents
Riley the Brave is back with a trauma-informed feelings activity book for children ages 5-10. Empower the brave cubs in your life with 60+ games and activities to help them be the boss of their brains. This strengths-based approach is easily adaptable for groups and classrooms. Features an educational introduction for caring adults.
Presents the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), the comprehensive, empirically tested intervention approach specifically designed for toddlers and preschoolers with autism.
Useful for children of ages 16-30 months. The first part of this work helps parents document the child's production and use of hundreds of words divided into semantic categories. The second part analyzes the early phases of grammar, including the child's understanding of word forms and the complexity of the child's multi-word utterances.
This resource offers guidance and assessment tools for professionals supporting therapeutic families. It will inform assessments and interventions, improve relationships between supporting professionals and parents, support family stability, ensure developmental needs are met and reduce the risk of burnout and family breakdown.
Helps to assess the skills of toddlers and preschoolers with autism across multiple developmental domains and to establish individualized teaching objectives.
This book presents the first English language guide to adapting schema therapy (ST) for children and adolescents. Written by the developers of the approach, it presents a wide range of innovative child- and parent-specific techniques.
More than 100,000 school practitioners and teachers (K-12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this influential go-to resource, now revised and expanded with six new chapters. The third edition presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and ......
Help children and teens with social-emotional and cognitive challenges develop critical new skills with this quick-guide to the popular DIRFloortime (R) model. Certified DIRFloortime (R) experts show parents and professionals how to promote skill development through warm and playful interactions that make the most of children's natural interests.
Seven Magic Ingredients to Help Develop Your Child's Interactive Attenti
This book is filled with magical game ideas and creative activities designed for children on the autism spectrum to maximise connection and social interaction. Covering everything from trains and planes to household appliances, animals and popular TV and film characters, each activity can also be adapted to suit your child's needs and interests.
Holistic Approaches for Challenging Behaviors in Children
Examines a powerful way of looking at childrens challenging behaviour and assessing suitable therapies. This detailed book explores in depth the constitutional polarities of children discussed by Rudolf Steiner, which in turn can lead to effective, individualised therapeutic approaches to challenging behaviour.
Strategies for Better Emotional Regulation and Peer Relationships in Children and Teens
This is the go-to-guide for educators and carers who want to support a child or teen with emotional regulation; conflict resolution and the development of emotional literacy.
Teaching Honesty to Children at Every Age and Stage
Lying is a healthy and inevitable part of child development. But when do lies become a problem? In this book, psychologist Victoria Talwar presents practical, science-based strategies to address lying and foster truthfulness in children, from early childhood to the teenage years.
School can be a scary place. But you're not alone. This interactive workbook, complete with a parent's guide and professional's guide for teachers and therapists, will help you feel more confident about asking for help, as well as provide techniques that might make going to school easier for you.
A Therapeutic Story With Creative Activities to Help Children Aged 5-10 to Regulate Their Emotions and to Find Calm
Like all dogs, Presley the Pug loves to play, run, and snuggle up under his warm blanket. But sometimes, Presley gets gets so excited that his feelings take over. Sometimes it's anger, sometimes stress, sometimes worry. He doesn't know how to calm down! What can Presley do when he feels like this? Luckily Presley's canine friends are nearby ......
Modelled after the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT), The Pyramid Infant Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS) is an assessment instrument designed to measure the fidelity of implementation of Pyramid Model practices in infant and toddler (birth to three) care settings.
One night, Lucy the raccoon follows her family out of their den, headed for the best garbage bins in town. Distracted by a jar of peanut butter, she gets separated from her family. How will she ever find her way back to her family and her cozy den? With the help of a friendly owl and his bird's-eye view, Lucy tunes into the world around her and ......
