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19 Best Books of 2019
These top selling titles are highly purchased and praised by your colleagues and even some clients
2019 was a year of great growth in awareness and social acceptance towards mental health. These 19 titles are our most popular and highly praised resources with professionals and lay-people alike.
Cultivate Gratitude to Fight Anxiety in Children
Showing appreciation for our kids makes it easier for them to appreciate others, and themselves.
Jennifer Cohen Harper shares easy ways to promote gratitude and positivity in your child’s day to day life.
H.A.L.T. a mindful check in
Mind-body practices to help you and your clients regulate mind, body, emotions, and impulses.
Just like a shaken jar of glitter, our thoughts can make it hard to think and see clearly.
Watch Dr. Chris Willard practice the H.A.L.T. mindful check-in to relax the mind and body – and glitter... so we can stay attuned to our thoughts and behaviors.
ºÚÁÏÍø Book Club: December 2019
How to grow your gratitude this holiday season.
This month's suggested reads include four books to help your clients be aware of and thankful for the positive habits and practices they experience. Plus, there's a FREE worksheet...
Play Therapy Activities to Help Kids Achieve Greater Self-Regulation
Interventions based in Play Therapy and Mindfulness to understand and improve the world of children
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS, shares simple, playful and on-point interventions that combines mindfulness, expressive arts and play to help kids achieve greater self-regulation, focus more and stress less.
Taming the Wild Things
Helping anxious kids and those trying to shield them from feelings of fear, insecurity, uncertainty, or discomfort.
Lynn Lyons, LICSW, shares how to override the demanding voice of anxiety.
The Trauma Therapist Podcast: The Author Series with Tim Gordon
ºÚÁÏÍø author Timothy Gordon, MSW, RSW, sat down with Guy Macpherson, PhD, to discuss his new book, The Act Approach, and card deck, Coping Skills For Trauma, on a 2019 September episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast.
ºÚÁÏÍø Book Club: October 2019
Four children-focused books to add to your reading list.
This month's suggested reads include four products to help improve the well-being of the children in your life.
What to Do When Your Client is Considering Suicide
And Why Contracts For Safety Are Not a Good Idea
Paul Brasler, MA, MSW, LCSW, discusses how to best support high risk clients, why therapists should avoid creating Contracts For Safety, and tips on creating an effective Safety Plan.
Finding Balance in Recovery
Helping alcoholics and addicts create equilibrium in their life—and why it’s important
Sarah Allen Benton, MS, LMHC, LPC, AADC, offers a free worksheet to help addicts examine balance distribution in their life and identify what areas need more or less focus.