A Guide to Better Psychological Health and Well-Being
When life feels like it's spinning out of control, people often respond with negative emotions and moods that can make coping with problems even more difficult. This book helps readers understand how they can view situations more rationally, taking command of their emotions and lives.
Highlights the knowledge uncovered by researchers about how women talk about sexual assaults they experience and the responses they receive from others in American society. This book shows how support providers experience disclosure, as well as factors that influence how they respond to the disclosing survivor.
The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say No Way -- and Parents Say Way
Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age 8, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. Based on effective known treatment for OCD, this book demonstrates ways to "boss back" when OCD butts in, enabling youngsters to eliminate their symptoms.
Grounded in cutting-edge theory and research about literacy development, this book is filled with practical assessment and instructional ideas for teachers in grades Pre-K-3.
Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Presents a framework and various specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. This book sheds light on the interplay of individual, family, community, and societal forces that lead some adolescents to hurt others or themselves. It provides useful guidance on connecting with aggressive teens and their parents.
A practical guide for school psychologists and researchers that demonstrates how advances in telehealth can be applied to school consultation with students, educators, and families.
A set of cards to help children and teens recently diagnosed with autism to characterise and understand their diagnosis in a positive light. Comprising strengths and differences, with blank cards to be tailored to each individual, these cards can be used by practitioners to facilitate discussions with patients and families.
The structure of society--whether political, social, economic, religious, or familial--can be described as built upon structures of acceptable blame. But what happens when we can no longer persuade each other about where blame for particular actions should land? What happens when the expected scapegoats refuse that role and bystanders question ......
