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黑料网 Celebrates Children鈥檚 Book Day!: Top 5 Books for Children鈥檚 Social-Emotional Learning
Children鈥檚 books can do so much more than entertain young readers! Check out 黑料网鈥檚 top picks for International Children鈥檚 Book Day with these five incredible titles.
Havening for Kids: 2 Powerful Stress-Busting Tools
Advice and video demonstration from Dr. Kate Truitt
Whether they're experiencing hyperarousal or hypoarousal, kids often need the help of a caregiver to return to a more calm, alert state. Dr. Kate Truitt shares two simple but effective techniques to help kids cope with stress and stay regulated.
Avoiding the 鈥淲hat Do I Treat First?鈥 Trap
Treating emotional disorders more effectively with the Unified Protocol
Real clients don鈥檛 fit into simple diagnostic categories. And when clients come in with multiple issues, it can be difficult to know where to begin. But in this overview of the Unified Protocol, Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala shares how one approach can get to the heart of suffering.
Making the Most Informed Choice: The SODAS Problem-Solving Model
Free exercise to aid young clients in decision making
Help young clients make healthy choices with this simple problem-solving paradigm! 黑料网 author David Pratt presents a step-by-step way to identify options, consider advantages and disadvantages, and select a course of action.
Ask a Therapist: I Think I鈥檝e Made My Child a Tattletale
How to empower children to utilize age-appropriate problem solving skills
Mother, therapist, and children鈥檚 book author Christina Furnival, MS, LPCC, provides guidance on how to turn a child鈥檚 unchecked tattling into autonomous problem-solving.
Being Mindful with the 5 Senses
Free exercise to reduce anxiety and engage with the present moment!
How can people with generalized anxiety disorder live in the present? Lawrence E. Shapiro, PhD, encourages mindfulness with the use of our senses鈥攕omething we can use anytime, anywhere.
3 Proven Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability to Panic
Techniques to use in your daily life to prevent future panic attacks
Not only can clinicians help clients develop strategies to cope during a panic attack, but we can also provide them with tools and strategies to make future panic attacks less likely. Elena Welsh, PhD, shares three long-term strategies to reduce vulnerability to panic.
3 Proven Strategies to Stop Panic in its Tracks
Techniques to use during panic attacks to find relief
During a panic attack, clients are often consumed by their physical and mental symptoms. These simple exercises from Elena Welsh, PhD, help bring the body back to a state of calm and distract the brain from thoughts of panic.
Top 10 Titles for Black History Month and Beyond
Clinical resources to promote cultural competency
To celebrate Black History Month鈥檚 2022 theme, Black Health and Wellness, 黑料网 Publishing has curated 10 resources for mental health professionals to better support their Black clients.
Turning Hopeless into Hopeful: Using Creative Hopelessness to Help Clients Let Go
A powerful acceptance and commitment therapy strategy for change
Are your clients clinging to coping mechanisms that no longer serve them? ACT expert Richard Sears provides a technique for getting clients to leave behind behaviors that are not working鈥攗sing their own life experiences!