This engaging and sensitive book fills a major gap in showing a young child the impact on a parent of a mental illness such as bipolar disorder. In 2016, it won the Australian Association of Family Therapy Annual Award for children’s picture books and is on the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge list. Contains four pages of teachers/parents notes.
Help your back pain by understanding it. This book contains the latest and most comprehensive information and research on back pain and how you can overcome it. With a clinical base, this book is the closest someone can come to getting treatment without seeing a physiotherapist.
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 ......
This ADHD guide gives strategic advice on how to deal with issues young adults with ADHD may face, including: budgeting plans for impulsive spending, advice on rejection sensitive dysphoria, and body scans and CBT exercises, this book gives you everything you need to feel confident and supported throughout your ADHD diagnosis and beyond.
Inspiring stories from courageous cancer patients aged from 3 – 76 years. Find out how they handled diagnosis and treatment and have not only survived but thrive. Fills a gap in information available by providing practical strategies for patients, carers and family members on dealing with the emotional and physical impact of cancer.
Teaching Skills of Body Awareness and Supporting Connection with Others
There are some things that many of us take for granted - such as knowing when we are hot or cold, feel hungry, or need to go to the toilet. But how do we know these things, and why do some people struggle to recognise them? Interoception - the ability to identify and act on physical sensations inside the body - is crucial to human well-being. It ......
Meet Ben - a young boy with ADHD. Ben invites readers to learn about ADHD from his perspective. He helps children understand what it means to have ADHD and describes what it is and how it feels.
In this ground-breaking debut, Charli Clement combines their own experiences alongside unique short profiles from individuals with chronic illness, to provide an intimate and insightful look at the complexities of living with both autism and chronic illness. From navigating your diagnosis and healthcare, learning how to manage pain and your own ......
The Allies Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains
"Being autistic is full-on, but being in the life of someone who is autistic? This can be epic, world-changing love." In a world built for neurotypicals, how can you help autistic loved ones navigate their way to happiness? Packed with strategies and honest, down-to-earth advice, autistic author Jolene Stockman explores the myriad ways you ......
An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
Imagine an 8-week program that can help you overcome depression, anxiety, and stress--by simply learning new ways to respond to your own thoughts and feelings. That program is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and it has been tested and proven effective in clinical trials throughout the world. Now you can get the benefits of MBCT any ......
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.
From Invisibility, Emotional Dysregulation & Burn out to Self Knowledge
A research-informed look at the unique challenges of girls and women with ADHD, from an international ADHD expert, drawing on the lived experiences of ADHD women and girls to provide tips and strategies for stronger emotional regulation and self-understanding.
A Personalized Self-Care Approach to Managing your Sensory and Emotional
This is the go-to-guide to surviving and thriving as an autistic adult. Featuring customisable, stress-relieving strategies that are easy to implement into busy everyday life to create a calmer, happier you. Packed with lived-experience and professional tips and tricks, this guide works to help you truly look after your autistic self.
Laura Kate Dale and 15 contributors from across the world open the door and look in on the candid, intimate moments that celebrates what it means to feel autistic joy.
Professional Advice for Parents, Partners, and Siblings
Without sugar coating the facts, internationally renowned ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley explains in this book what ADHD is all about and how you can tell if your spouse, partner, friend, adult child, or sibling may have it. He shows how to guide your loved one toward the right treatment and, using examples from real life, answers questions.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge--but it doesn't have to rule your life. Find the science-based information you need in the revised third edition of this indispensable guide. Trusted authority Dr. David J. Miklowitz shares proven strategies for managing your illness or supporting a loved one with the disorder. Learn specific steps to cope ......
How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship
People with BPD can be compassionate, caring, smart, and funny, but they are also prone to explosive emotional outbursts and highly self-destructive acts. BPD expert Dr. Shari Manning helps overwhelmed loved ones understand why their spouse, adult child, or other family member acts so "impossible" -- and learn to respond differently. She presents ......
A step-by-step guide to the strengths-based approach by teaching professional and autistic author and parent Claire O'Neill. Designed to focus on the unique strengths of autistic children to help support and develop their sense of self, wellbeing and ensure that they thrive in a deficit-driven world.
Tens of thousands of parents have turned to this compassionate resource for support and practical advice grounded in cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Numerous vivid stories show how to recognize and address anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other devastating eating disorders that wreak havoc on teens and their families. James Lock and ......
An easy-to-use self-help program that is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of depression. Revealing the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause chronic unhappiness, this work guides readers through a series of exercises designed to break the mental habits that lead to despair.
A Guide for People with Autism, Special Educational Needs and Disabiliti
This carefully written and illustrated book provides an explanation of menopause for people with autism, and special education needs and disabilities (SEND). It will help readers to understand the physical process and what to expect, and provide advice and support for this stage in life. What is Menopause? forms part of the Healthy Loving, Health ......
A Stigma-Free Guide to Living a Calmer, Happier Life with Borderline Per
Drawing on the author's lived experience, this hopeful guide offers advice on everyday life with BPD. Covering what BPD is, how to talk about it, and how to get support, it includes practical coping tips and DBT-based techniques, while also tackling the stigma and negative stereotypes associated with the disorder.
The first fully illustrated journal, tailored for autistic teenagers to help them express difficult emotions like anxiety, trauma and depression. Full of prompts and the freedom to create, this go-to-diary can also be used with parents and professionals as an important safeguarding tool.
Active Pursuits from Archery to Wild Swimming for Tweens and Teens
An A-Z guide for children 8+ in how to navigate the world of sports and adventure as an autistic person. Learn bow active hobbies can develop your strengths and skills, how to accomodate your sensory needs, what you need to get started in a new hobby, and be inspired by some amazing autistic athletes along the way.
Sometimes, a persons brain gets sick with a disease called dementia.
What does dementia do to the brain? What changes might we notice if a parent or grandparent has the disease? How might we feel about it and what can help?
This book breaks down misconceptions about dementia and speaks directly to ......
This updated edition of Maxine Aston's workbook is packed full of insightful, helpful and easily accessible activities for couples where one partner is on the autism spectrum to understand and accept their differences. This book expands on topics including verbal and non-verbal communication, sexual issues, socialising and parenting, with case ......
Clear Answers for All Kids, including Children with Autism Spectrum Diso
Cancer is a difficult topic for any parent, caregiver or educator to explain to a child. This book is designed to help kids, including children with autism spectrum disorder or other additional needs, to understand what it means when someone in their life has cancer. Using a question and answer format, it explores the life changes and feelings ......
Thoroughly updated based on the latest science, this empowering workbook gives you the skills to overcome obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors--and live a freer, happier life. Leading OCD specialist Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz presents a step-by-step program grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the most effective treatment for the ......
The Bipolar Disorder Journal is for anybody struggling to stay motivated while managing the ups and downs of bipolar. With journaling prompts, written activities, and creative activities to help you develop strategies to cope and thrive, this journal is yours to be as free and imaginative with as you wish.
This book looks at what it means to be an autistic parent, offering practical advice about how to overcome the challenges of parenting when you are autistic and the advantages that being autistic brings to raising children.
The OCD Recovery Journal is designed to help you better understand and manage your OCD. Drawing on evidence-based techniques, such as CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention, and on the authors' professional and lived experience, it provides helpful journaling prompts, creative activities, colouring pages and motivational quote pages to help you ......
A Neurodiversity-Friendly CBT Programme to Build Resilience in Young People
The second edition of The Homunculi Approach brings the beloved world of the homunculi to the classroom. This fun CBT-based activity helps children and young people ages 7-16-years build emotional and social resilience. Includes downloadable resources, templates and videos to put the approach into practice.
Examining the treatment of hot flashes in menopause through an integrative lens, this book combines Chinese medicine approaches - including acupuncture and herbal medicine - with current Western frameworks of research. It covers pathophysiology, diagnosis, current research and adjunctive therapies, and suggests a fresh and interlinked approach to ......
25 Productivity Tools for Adults with ADHD and Chronically Busy People
Written by the author of The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, this book focuses on practical methods and strategies, including creative worksheets and easy to use techniques, to help you find your motivation, achieve your goals and feel less stressed about organizing your time.
A supportive guide to the transition from primary to secondary school for parents of autistic children. Covering topics including choosing a school, building a positive relationship with staff, dealing with anxiety and more, it is an essential tool for supporting your child to thrive.