Many OCD sufferers fail to improve using the standard exposure-response prevention (ERP) treatment. But, as Clinical Psychologist Michael Alcee contends, it's not the patients who are failing the treatment, but rather the treatment that is failing the patients because it ignores the heightened empathy and existential sensitivity that accompanies ......
Overcoming Social Anxiety from Childhood to Adulthood
Look around you at all the people connecting and socializing. And you are just standing here alone, like a social reject, again. Nobody likes you. Why would they want someone like you around? For years, social anxiety whispered its way into Natasha Daniels' mind and quietly sabotaged her life. Even while working as a therapist, helping children ......
Inspired by his own transformation from feeling left out to leading others while staying true to his shy nature, in Shy by Design, career coach and communications advisor Michale Thompson now shares 12 easy-to-grasp principles that will shy people flip conventional wisdom with the communication skills they need to own their voice.
Many children worry about doing things on their own, with fears escalating to the point of not being able to leave their parents' side. But staying with a parent isn't always possible, and doing things independently is an important part of growing up. Facing Mighty Fears About Being Apart From Parents teaches 3 steps to manage oversize fears. Fun ......
The Anxiety Recovery Journal is designed to support you in managing your feelings of anxiety. Drawing on evidence-based techniques, such as CBT, and on the authors' professional and lived experience, it features helpful journaling prompts, creative activities, beautiful colouring pages and motivational quote pages to help you calm your anxious ......
Rewire Your Brain, Reduce Anxiety, and Recreate Your Life
Readers want to understand that there is life beyond anxiety. Happiness needs to be within their grasp. The Missing Peace will show them how to touch it, feel it, and nurture their natural desires, not those with which society burdens us. Often said but true, people need to learn to love themselves, but the real question is how to love ......
50 Fun Activities to Overcome OCD with CBT and Exposures
Show OCD whos boss!
Using the exercises in this book, youll learn how to spot when OCD is stirring up trouble, and how to stop it in its tracks. All 50 activities are designed by an expert therapist for kids aged 8-12 to help you grow your skills to take down OCD - starting with how to recognize compulsions, and building up to ......
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 ......
This is an innovative and cutting edge guide that provides a practical protocol on the management of anxiety and vagus nerve dysfunction through nutrition, exercise and lifestyle. In taking a holistic approach, it can be applied across various disciplines in healthcare, bodywork, and mental health.
A Guide to the Perks, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of DBT for Better Mental Health
Everyone can benefit from better mental health, and this clear guide breaks down the four modules of DBT into key skills to improve your life. Tips and tricks show you how to get the most out of each skill and avoid pitfalls, so you can improve your mental health and handle anything life throws at you.
Effective Recovery from Hair Pulling, Skin Picking, Nail Biting, and Oth
Written by clinical psychologists, Dr. Marla Deibler and Dr. Renae Reinardy, this evidence-based, step-by-step guided workbook helps you more effectively manage body-focused repetitive behaviors, including nail biting, hair pulling and skin picking, and live the life you want.
Surviving Transphobia is an inspiring collection of essays by transgender and nonbinary experts and celebrities. We tell you our histories, reveal our vulnerabilities, share our strategies to remain determined in bleak times, and offer loving support as you brave agony and seek joy.
This story follows Gretchen as she navigates her way through her newly developed fear of vomiting. With the help of her school counsellor and the acronym GRIP, Gretchen learns an effective diaphragmatic breathing method that helps reduce the physiological symptoms associated with the fight or flight response, such as digestive distress.
Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety
Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and how clinicians treat trauma, anxiety, and PTSD today.
About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural ......
Filled with practical tips and fun facts, this book eases over-size fears about making mistakes, helping 6-10-year-olds live happier lives. Supplemental guidance for parents and caretakers ensures maximum effectiveness.
This is a fun, colourful and melodic introduction to the mindful practice of body scanning written for children. The gentle rhyming text helps children become aware of their bodily sensations and helps them understand how their Zensations might be linked to their emotions. Perfect for bedtime or nap time routines or even medical environments.
For centuries, spirituality has told us that the answer to life’s problems lies within us, if only we would realize that we are more than what we imagine.
Written with warmth and humor, and filled with practical tips, this book eases oversize fears about real and pretend baddies and villains, helping 6-10-year-olds live happier lives. Supplemental guidance for parents and caretakers ensures maximum effectiveness.
A guide for educators and therapists to engage children in social-emotional learning through structured activities. The social skill-based improv games, participant written plays, and basic plays are accompanied with downloadable materials, and offer a graduated exposure of techniques for different participant comfort levels
Part of the How to Help series of books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people at home and in school, Anxiety and Depression offers a complete introduction to these complex, sensitive topics.
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.
Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging
Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice, this book is the essential guide to understanding why you mask and how to feel confident without one. With expert advice on how to feel secure taking off your mask, this guide will give you all the tools you need to re-connect with yourself and the things you love.
Healing Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder and Taking the Wheel of the Driven Personality
Gary Trosclair explores the power of the driven personality and the positive outcomes those with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can achieve through a mindful program of harnessing the skills that can work, and altering those that serve no one. If you were born with a compulsive personality you may become rigid, controlling, and ......
Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go
An essential guide to exploring and practicing non-monogamy, which prioritises your mental health and wellbeing. Suitable for any stage in your journey, it provides advice on understanding your 'why', setting boundaries, finding independence, cultivating self-compassion as well as practical considerations.
A highly illustrated guide to integrating Yin Yoga into treatment plans for substance abuse and mental health conditions. Yoga therapists, yoga teachers and mental health professionals will learn how to use accessible techniques for a variety of settings.
No one like to throw up, but emetophobia is different, turning disgust into dread. Facing Mighty Fears About Throwing Up presents techniques to help shrink this common fear.
This queer mental health workbook uses CBT, DBT and ACT to support LGBTQIA+ people with mental health challenges such as anxiety, self harm, shame, trauma, low self-esteem, and eating disorders. With a wealth of strategies, activities, and practical insights, this workbook helps queer people improve their wellbeing based on their personal needs.