Our most popular resources on social skills, behaviour and mental health
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We've also listed some free, high quality online resources that complement our physical collection: please look for the orange icon.
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Bullying
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That's so gay!
A practical guide to making your school a safer place and creating an inclusive bully- free culture. It shows what homophobic bullying looks like, who experiences it, and explores the reasons why young people bully others homophobically. It also reveals why young people are often reluctant to report homophobic bullying, the increasing role played by the internet and the profound effects bullying can have well into adulthood. |
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Stay strong!
An activity book for young people who are experiencing bullying |
Social skills
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A therapeutic treasure deck of grounding, soothing, coping and regulating cards
A treasure trove of coping, regulating, grounding and soothing activities and techniques for working with children (aged 6+), teens and adults This pack of 70 cards and explanatory guide offers a playful, non- threatening way to develop, practice and master effective coping and regulating strategies. The range of games, skills and activities are designed to work with both the brain and body, including all our senses. The cards address a wide range of common issues including anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep difficulties and emotional dysregulation. |
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Peaches, Quackeline, Raja & Streaky 4-pack
Four delightful and inspiring illustrated books for primary age children, with animals as central characters - Little Raja, Peaches, Quackeline and Streaky. Effective ways to develop children's strengths and confidence. Each book is 20 pages x A5, and each pack contains all 4 books, plus a colourful A2 poster. |
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The Social Skills game [board game]
A board game for players aged 6 - 14. For two to six players. Designed to help children and young people relate to each other |
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The Social Skills game [board game]
A board game for players aged 6 - 14. For two to six players. Designed to help children and young people relate to each other |
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My Life and Me
Description: A book for Children and Young People to help children build their life story by recording facts about themselves, birth families and families they live with know |
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Folens PSHE- Personal relationships
Description: Photocopiable Activity Sheets |
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PSHE & Citizenship wellbeing workbook for schools
The wellbeing workbook for schools series covers personal, social and health education and citizenship at key stage 1 level. The series has been designed to encourage pupils to lead happy, confident and independent lifestyles, whilst promoting awareness of various health and safety issues. |
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Well being toolkit for teens
Free online interactive toolkit that includes a collection of positive activities that will help remind young people how amazingly, brilliant they are. |
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A teacher's handbook for PSHE and citizenship
OSHEC Curriculum descriptors and teacher page titles. This book offers a comprehensive and flexible resource for teaching key stage 1 and 2 PSHE and citizenship curriculum. It contains lesson plans to cover nearly all the key areas of the curriculum, as well as a wealth of photocopiable children's material. |
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Conflict Resolution DVD
Audience: 11-16 years Resolve conflict with this incredibly exciting interactive DVD which puts learners in complete control of the outcome of the story. An incredibly innovative DVD resource to aid discussion around issues of conflict, which plays out tense scenarios where viewers can choose the outcome. |
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Title: Cards for life
Description: Cards for Life is a unique resource designed to help adults and young people discuss the dilemmas and moral issues they face as they mature. It comprises 40 scenarios based on real-life situations that young people say are relevant to their lives, together with questions to prompt and guide discussion. Examples include: being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and acheiving, making a positive contribution and economic well-being. Also included are eight blank cards to create your own scenarios. |
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Let's talk: Feelings
Cards to enable people to become more aware of their feelings. The cards are divided into six sections: • Give an example of when you felt… • Situation cards. How would you feel? • You are feeling… How would you show it? • You are feeling… What would help you to deal with it? • A friend is feeling… How could you respond to be helpful? • Situation cards. How might the other person feel? These cards are ideal as discussion starters and encourage children to discuss a range of feelings in different situations. The cards look at children’s own feelings and those of others, hence teaching them what it means to be considerate. Age: 5+ Contents: 78 boxed cards, instructions and ideas |
Anger management
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Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel sad or angry
Format: Book Audience: Children aged 7+ Description: A mindful kids activity book for young people to colour and doodle their way to being happy, calm and confident. Use creativity to combat negative feelings, work out worries and put anger back in its place with the writing and doodling activities. |
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Anger Bingo for teens
Audience: Teenagers Teaches anger management, explore anger triggers, symptoms, causes, control, and prevention, in this non-threatening game format. Up to 16 players. |
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The Angry Monster machine [board game]
Audience: Children aged 5-10 For 2-4 players. This game helps kids transform their anger. This ingenious game was designed to have a high play value for children who have problems with anger control. Teaches children to channel their anger into a more appropriate form of expression. |
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How to take the Grrrr out of anger [book]
Audience: Children aged 8-13 Book for children and young people that explains how to manage anger and control temper |
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Dr Playwell's anger control games
Audience: Children aged 5-10 6 games designed to teach children understand and control their anger. Games take 15-20 minutes to play, and each game teaches a specific anger control skill. |
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Adolescent Volcanoes: helping adolescents and their parents to deal with anger
Format: Book Description: Adolescent Volcanoes is a practical resource for adults working with adolescents and their parents to help them understand, express and manage their anger. Featuring interactive worksheets and handouts throughout, it explores the causes of anger, focusing not only on the adolescent, but also on styles of parenting and situations at home that can exacerbate these feelings, and suggests ways to tone down confrontations and improve relationships |
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Overcoming anger and irritability
Format: Book Description: A self help guide using Cognitive behavioral techniques. |
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Managing anger
Format: Book Description: Simple Steps to Dealing with Frustration and Threat |
Bereavement
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Water bugs & dragonflies [book]
Audience: Children Short story book explaining death to young children |
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Not too young to grieve
14 minute animated film designed to help parents and carers give support to babies and children under 5 who have been bereaved. With accompanying booklet. Suitable for viewing by parents alone, with their children and in group work. |
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When a friend dies
Author Marilyn Gootman has seen her own children suffer from the death of a friend, and she knows what teenagers go through when another teen dies. If you're a parent or teacher of a teen who has experienced a painful loss, this book is for you, too. |
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The Good mourning game [Board game]
Audience: Ages 6 to 18. The board game illustrates nature's basic cycle, which, like the grief cycle, moves from stormy intensity to relative calm. Game cards introduce techniques that can help children work through the grieving process. Players learn to share memories, explore feelings, enjoy laughter and play, relax, and identify their own coping strategies. When they complete the Star Path, they each receive a Shining Star-which serves as a reminder of new coping skills learned. Whether loss has occurred through illness, death, or a change in lifestyle-such as a move, a divorce, or new custody arrangements-this game lets children resolve their grief in an open, supportive, and caring environment. |
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The Grief Game [Board game]
Audience: Aimed at ages 6 -16 years old This game is for children and adolescents who have experienced bereavement and is particularly useful for those struggling to come to terms with their loss. Intended for group work, it may also be played with individuals and can be used to facilitate intra-familial communication when played with families. Includes: Game board, 4 x cards; 2 x dice; 6 x counters; 1 x instruction booklet |
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Communicating with children when a parent is at the end of life
This accessible book demonstrates how to support children through effective and sensitive communication, covering types of communication, language, information sharing, and overcoming common barriers. |
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Title: Supporting young people coping with grief, loss and death
Format: Book Publisher: Sage publications Audience: 11-18 years Contents: Book and CD-Rom |
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Title: Remembering- providing support for children aged 7 - 13 who have experienced loss and bereavement
Format: Book Publisher: Sage publications Audience: 7-13 years |
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Title: Always and forever
Format: book Publisher: Doubleday Description: A moving story that explains death in a gentle way |
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Title: Grief and trauma in children
Format: Book Publisher: Routledge Description: An evidence- based treatment manual |
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Title: Living with loss- a book for the widowed
Format: Book Description: Liz McNeill Taylor's husband died suddenly at just forty-three. Drawing mainly on her own experience of loss, she deals with the subject of bereavement with a unique honesty and clarity. She talks about money, sex and raising a family alone. She discusses her own progression from grief and despair to anger, and then to adjustment, and describes how, eventually, she learned to enjoy life again. This is an invaluable handbook. |
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Title: On grief and grieving
Format: Book Description: With this book, Kübler-Ross and LIFE LESSONS co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic and accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights and advice designed to help readers normalise their lives and find the courage to continue. |
Childhood abuse
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Title: Not my shame
Format: Book Description: This powerful graphic novel draws the reader into the experience of trauma and dissociation caused by sexual violence. It reveals the intrusive traumatic memories and distress experienced by a victim of childhood sexual exploitation in her adulthood and follows the process of coming to terms with her past through therapy and art. |
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Helping vulnerable children and adolescents to stay safe: creative ideas and activities for building protective behaviours.
Format: Book Description: Full of creative ideas and activities, this guide provides the tools to help children develop key skills. Topics include work around: building resilience and problem solving skills; identifying a 'safety network'; developing emotional literacy; awareness of grooming strategies and safe/unsafe touch; and cyber safety. |
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Title: Breaking free
Format: Book Description: This manual is designed to help survivors of child sexual abuse. It updates the first edition, and investigates all the effects of child sexual abuse, which often persist into adult life - guilt and shame, depression and anxiety, eating disorders, fear of relationships and sexual problems. It includes discussion of false memory syndrome and female abusers, and draws on accounts of survivors who want their voices to be heard, offering a positive and optimistic approach to help survivors break free from the past. |
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Title: Beginning to heal
Format: Book Description: A first guide for survivors of child sexual abuse |
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Title: The courage to heal: a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse
Format: Book Description: Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors, The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges and triumphs of their personal healing processes. Inspiring and comprehensive, it offers mental, emotional and physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives. |
Depression and suicide
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Perry Panda: A Story about Parental Depression
Format: Book Audience: Young children Description: Perry is worried about his mum. He speaks to his grandma, who explains how his mum is feeling and offers reassurance. She makes it clear that Perry is not to blame and talks about some of the things that might help his mum feel better. |
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Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel sad or angry
Format: Book Audience: Children aged 7+ Description: A mindful kids activity book for young people to colour and doodle their way to being happy, calm and confident. Use creativity to combat negative feelings, work out worries and put anger back in its place with the writing and doodling activities. |
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Title: The princess and the fog
Format: Book Description: A story for children with depression |
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Be the one campaign- Working to reduce the number of lives lost to suicide in Rotherham. A dedicated website for the campaign is now live – www.be-the-one.co.uk
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Title: Mind over mood
Format: Book Description: Developed by two master clinicians with extensive experience in cognitive therapy treatment and training, this popular workbook shows readers how to improve their lives using cognitive therapy. The book is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with professional treatment. |
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Title: The feeling good handbook
Format: Book Description: The author reveals powerful new techniques and provides practical exercises that will help you cope with problems and learn how to make life a happier, more exhilarating experience. |
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Title: Beating the blues
Format: Book Description: A self-help approach to overcoming depression |
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Title: Understanding depression
Format: Book Description: We all have low moods from time to time. Usually, the mood passes after a few days and we get back to our normal way of living. We may say that we have been 'depressed', 'down in the dumps', 'fed up' or have had the 'blues'. But low moods like this are not what doctors call depression. Instead, they use the term to describe a more severe illness which a person has had for at least a few weeks, affecting the body as well as the mind. There has been an increase in the rates of depression over the last 40 years which may be the result of the way we live our lives now. The good news is that no matter what the cause of depression it can be treated and treated effectively. Most people who are depressed and have treatment get better. |
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Title: Caring for someone with depression
Format: Book |
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Title: Overcoming depression and low mood
Format: Book Description: Fully updated and based on extensive feedback, Overcoming Depression and Low Mood is a series of short self-help workbooks for use by people experiencing low mood and depression. Developed in liaison with a wide range of experts, the course provides access to the proven Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach. |
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Title: Overcoming mood swings
Format: Book Description: This book is a self-help manual for those who have experienced mood swings and gives background information on depression and mania. The author uses tried and tested practical techniques that will help people identify and manage their mood more effectively, and achieve a more stable emotional state. Contains a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets. |
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Title: The food and mood handbook
Format: Book Description: This handbook will be invaluable to everyone who has suffered from mood swings, food cravings, any form of eating disorder, hypoglycaemia, or PMS. |
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Title: Surviving post-natal depression- at home no one hears you scream
Format: Book Description: Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. Cara Aiken's book will help them, and the professionals who work with them, to understand this illness. The book tells the stories of ten women from very different backgrounds - including the author - who have suffered post-natal depression. |
Self harm
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Can I tell you about self- harm? A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals
Format: Book Audience: Children aged 7+ Description: Asher tells all from their own experience in this illustrated guide for children aged 7+ |
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A short introduction to understanding and supporting children and young people who self- harm
Format: Book Description: An invaluable source of information and guidance for parents, teachers, youth workers, and others who care for a young person showing signs of self-harm or suicidal behaviour. |
Obsessions and compulsions
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Title: Understanding obsessions and compulsions
Format: Book Description: This book attempts to provide a comprehensive guide to self-help, explaining the principles of anxiety reduction, giving treatment instructions in easy-to-understand language. It covers compulsive checking, washing, hoarding, obsessional thoughts and worry, obsessional personality and depression. |
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Title: Can I tell you about OCD? A guide for friends, family and professionals
Format: Book Description: Katie invites readers to learn about OCD from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is, how her obsessions and compulsions affect her daily life, and how people around her can help. |
Self esteem & resilience
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Title: Banish your self- esteem thief- a cognitive behavioural therapy workbook on building positive self- esteem for young children.
Format: Book Description: Packed with activities and real- life stories, this fun and imaginative workbook uses cognitive behvioural and mindfulness principles and techniques to help you understand your self- esteem, change how you think and act in order to build positive self-esteem |
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Title: Banish your body image thief- a cognitive behavioural therapy workbook on building positive body image for young people
Format: Book Description: Using a host of activities and real- life stories, this imaginative workbook will look at what body image means, how it develops, the impact it can have and how all this applies to your own body image. |
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Title: The simple guide to understanding shame in children: what it is, what helps and how to prevent further stress or trauma
Format: Book Description: A simple guide to the essential knowledge adults need to support children affected by shame. |
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Title: Self esteem- Simple Steps to Develop Self-worth and Heal Emotional Wounds
Format: Book Description: In this new updated and fully revised edition of this bestselling title Lindenfield helps us to recover from a deep-seated hurt and cope with knocks to our pride. |
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Title: Self-esteem for women
Format: Book Description: In this original and thought-provoking guide, Lynda Field shows how to recognise and alter your negative self-beliefs. By using a mixture of visualization techniques, positive affirmations and her unique five-step Programme for Change |
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Title: Overcoming low self-esteem
Format: Book Description: A self- help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques |
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Title: The positive woman
Format: Book Description: In ‘The Positive Woman’, Gael Lindenfield shows women how it is possible to transform their lives with a new and positive approach, which can affect everything from the state of their wardrobes to the state of their relationships. |
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Title: 'The Hurt yourself less' workbook
Description: Pack from the National Self-Harm Network designed to help people who self-harm explore and understand it. |
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Helping children to build self-esteem [book]
Audience: Children & Young people 2 photocopiable workbooks designed to help children and young people build self-esteem. |
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The dinosaur's journey to high self- esteem
Audience: Ages 5-12 The Dinosaur's Journey takes children through the Valley of Values, the Cave of Acceptance, and the Land of Courage. For 2-4 players. |
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Developing emotional literacy with teenage girls
Format: Book Publisher: Lucky Duck Books Description: This resource creates an opportunity for teenage girls to be clearer and more positive about their developing identities as young women. The 10-session programme improves confidence, self-esteem and self-awareness, with the talk element encouraging students to develop their own problem-solving strategies. |
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Title: Think good- feel good
Format: Book Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Description: A cognitive behaviour therapy workbook for children and young people |
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Title: Working with young women
Format: Book Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub Description: Activities for exploring personal, social and emotional issues for young women to build self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness. |
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Title: Let's talk: Resilience
Format: Card game Description: A card game to build emotional strength Audience: Children to adult |
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Mental health [DVD]
Audience: Ages 14-19 Includes 3 programmes each running approx 25 mins. ‘Losing it’: designed to help young people understand what mental health is and distinguish it from mental illness; ‘Winning the Mind Game’ profiles 3 successful young people who have suffered and conquered mental illness. ‘Without You’ explores the experiences of young people whose lives have been affected by bereavement |
Little Steps
Audience: 3-5 years
An early years resource that provides a range of ideas to enable practitioners to meet the needs of the 3-5 year olds in both statutory and non-statutory early years settings and promotes Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
Audience: 3-5 years
An early years resource that provides a range of ideas to enable practitioners to meet the needs of the 3-5 year olds in both statutory and non-statutory early years settings and promotes Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
Eating disorders
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Anorexia nervosa and irritability
Format: Book Description: a survival guide for families, friends and sufferers |
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Treatment manual for Anorexia nervosa
Format: Book Description: a self help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques. |
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Title: Bulimia nervosa and binge-eating
Format: Book Description: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioral therapy |
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Title: Getting better bit(e) by bit(e)
Format: Book Description: a survival kit for sufferes of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders |
Stress & worry
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The Huge bag of worries [book]
Audience: 3+ A funny and reassuring story designed to appeal to children who have occasional worries. |
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Title: Coping with stress
Format: Book |
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Title: Understanding stress
Format: Book |
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Title: I'm too busy to be stressed
Format: Book Description: Britain's best-loved TV doctor Hilary Jones knows from experience how difficult it is to relax amidst busy schedules, tight deadlines and demanding children. In his definitive guide to coping with stress in all its forms. |
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First lessons in coping with stress
Audience: 13-18 years A Stress Reducing Programme for Older Secondary Pupils with Teacher Notes and CD Recording Booklet and CD. Recommended for use by teachers who are looking for plans for "first lessons in coping with stress." It provides a useful starting-off-point and photocopiable materials that are clear. |
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Title: What's all this about stress?
Format: Book Description: This book analyses the cause and symptoms of stress, its effects on the mind and body and outlines a range of strategies for stress management. These practical techniques will be of interest to anybody who wishes to gain control of their life, improve its quality, and enhance their performance in the workplace. |
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Title: Managing stress
Format: Book Description: Ursula Markham's positive and practical book will teach you how to control the stress in your life, and gain self-confidence. Filled with useful charts, exercises and examples, it will help you to: recognize the symptoms of stress overload; assess your stress factor; relieve tension through lifestyle changes, diet, physical and mental relaxation techniques; and utilize the positive power of stress. |
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Title: Breaking point
Format: DVD Description: Three short films on stress, depression and suicide for young people and adults |
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Overcoming anxiety
Format: Book Description: A self help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques. |
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Feel the fear and do it anyway
Format: Book Description: How to turn your fear and indecision into confidence and action. |
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Overcoming anxiety: a five areas approach
Format: Book Description: Overcoming Anxiety is divided into workbooks that are designed to help those experiencing mild to moderate levels of anxiety and panic. |
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Title: Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: epidemiology, risk factors and treatment
Format: Book Description: The aim of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents is to present a comprehensive summary of the most recent empirical findings in this area. Written by eminent researchers and clinicians from Europe and America, the book is divided into three broad sections. |
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Title: Overcoming social anxiety and shyness
Format: Book Description: Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness is a self-help manual for this common problem, which explains why it happens and sets out practical methods of resolving it. |
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Title: Overcoming traumatic stress
Format: Book Description: A self- help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques |
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Title: How to stop worrying
Format: Book Description: A guide to making worry work for you, helping you to avoid stress and anxiety. The author sets out to teach how to understand fear and face the possiblities of life calmly. |
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Title: Overcoming panic
Format: Book Description: An indispensable guide for those affected by panic and/or associated agoraphobia, their friends and families, psychologists and those working in the medical profession. It explains the many forms and causes of panic and contains a complete self-help program and monitoring sheets, based on clinically proven techniques of cognitive behavior therapy. |
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Title: No worries
Format: Book Description: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel anxious or stressed |
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Title: Be brave!
Format: Book Description: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel scared or afraid |
Autism, Asperger's and Sensory Processing Disorders
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The science of ADHD
Format: Book Description: The Science of ADHD addresses the scientific status of Attention–Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an informed and accessible way, without recourse to emotional or biased viewpoints |
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Title: Being me
Format: Resource pack including DVD and CD-ROM Description: A self- development DVD and CD-Rom resource pack for people on the autism spectrum |
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Title: The out-of-sync child has fun
Format: Book Publisher: U.S Imports Description: Activities for kids with sensory processing disorder. |