Licsw: 18 books
Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents
7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy.
How do you manage a child who gets...
After Breast Cancer
A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
As women quickly discover, their life when treatment ends is very different from what it was before their diagnosis. Often exhausted, anxious, and emotionally volatile, they are beset by physical discomforts, fearful of intimacy, afraid for their children, worried about recurrence. Anticipating a...
Reset: Make the Most of Your Stress
Your 24-7 Plan for Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
How can you make the most of your stress?
RESET: Make the Most of Your Stress was named Motivational Book of 2015 Winner and a Finalist in the Self-Help and Health and Wellness categories by Next Generation Indie Book Awards. RESET has been called "a breakthrough model that reframes our ideas...
Frater's Thicket
A Model of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Frater’s Thicket seems an unusual title for a book. The title, however, is a compilation of two carefully chosen words. Frater meaning “brother” in some ministries and cultures. Thicket represents the current condition of man’s mind contaminated by our dysfunctional experiences in this life....
I Don't Want to Go to School
Helping Children Cope with Separation Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Honey Maloo, a bee who lives with her mother in the knot of an oak tree, is getting to be a big bug and she’s finally old enough to attend school. Honey, however, has different plans: She would much rather stay at home with her mother, who she loves dearly, so she tries every trick in the book to stay...
Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment and Treatment
New Approaches for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"This book describes violence risk assessment in both juveniles and adults, incorporating dynamic and static factors, along with treatment alternativesÖ..Research and practice are combined quite nicely, along with assessment and treatment. There is something for everyone here." Score: 91, 4 stars
--Doody's
"Forensic...
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive B
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from 0 to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional...
The Self-Compassion Diet
A Step-by-Step Program to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Most people say that when they lose weight and look better they'll like themselves more. Jean Fain suggests that we've got it all backward. "The best way to lose weight and look your best is to stop dieting and start with loving who you are." With The Self-Compassion Diet this Harvard Medical...
Rock the Boat
How to Use Conflict to Heal and Deepen Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
An honest look at what really works to bring more intimacy and deeper trust into your relationship. Couples therapist Resmaa Manakem challenges couples not to avoid conflict—Don’t be afraid to rock the boat! The emotional transformation that results can forge a greater, more mature intimacy; a...
Sitting Together
Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core...
The Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety
Total Relief for Mind and Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety blends two highly effective anti-anxiety strategies—cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Kundalini yoga—for an entirely new and powerful treatment. Written by the creators of yoga-cognitive behavioral therapy (Y-CBT), this book will help you address the physical...
by Elise Beaulieu, PhD, MSW
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
ìBeaulieuís decades of social work practice illuminate every chapter, her years of networking with colleagues in Massachusetts and nationwide enhance every paragraph, and nuggets of insight earned through successfully establishing meaningful relationships with residents and families are reflected...
Relationship Power in Health Care
Science of Behavior Change, Decision Making, and Clinician Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision process, difficulty changing health-related behavior,...
by Reid Wilson, PhD, Lynn Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Anxiety has the power to stop kids in their tracks, preventing them from exploring and growing into independent teens and young adults. Casey, the fourteen year old narrator of Playing with Anxiety: Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids, knows all too well how worry can interrupt fun, ruin school, and take...
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