The bravery displayed by our soldiers at war is commonly recognized. However, often forgotten is the courage required by veterans when they return home and suddenly face reintegration into their families, workplaces, and communities. Authored by three mental health professionals with many years of experience counseling veterans, Courage After Fire provides strategies and techniques for this challenging journey home.Courage After Fire offers...
I enjoyed this book. Yes, some elements require the reader to imagine a little (like the family not noticing the neighbors having electricity), but what children's book doesn't? I am a librarian at an elementary school, and I found the jokes about education hilarious. The kids were getting hurt on the playground equipment, so they removed each piece of equipment. When a kid got stuck, the teachers weren't allowed to touch a kid, so the...
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Coping skills training teaches you to slow down during anxious and stressful situations. You will experience expanded self ascendancy in those situations as a consequence of applying repose techniques and allowing go of the tension. Fathoms big, doesn't it? "But how do I arrange it?” you could demand. Acquire it one footfall at a time.
STEP 1 - construct a list of personally trying offices and write them down,...
During a maximum of this you have to work, every night you prepare dinner, and kids have got more attention. At this time you will convey the point that you explicitly save, Admit it, we ALL feel that way sometimes. However, this is NOT an effective tool to deal with as adults. Cope with ADHD from the perspective of both children and parents can often be challenging, frustrating, annoying, or just downright awful. As a...
The Anger Solutions Workbook was written and illustrated with the aim of helping children ages 6 to 12 learn about the emotion of anger and how they could manage it appropriately, turning anger from a destructive to a constructive force in their lives. Divided into five major sections (Understanding Anger; Safe Ways to Express Anger; Cognitive Restructuring; Relaxation; Conflict Management), clinical social worker Lisa Schab teaches children...
I got three of these books by Liana Lowenstein and I find them very valuable in my therapy work with children and adolescents. I am a beginning therapist so I still rely heavily on resources like this to get the creative juices flowing. The only thing that is missing from this book, but present in the others, is a list in front that tells what the intervention is suitable for, suggested age range and treatment mode (individual, group or...
In an era of accountability, McDowell and Newell do an excellent job of pulling together instruments to assess patients' health. Although this volume was primary designed for Occupational and Physical Therapists, it should have a broader audience. It includes over 80 instruments with a summary on how to employ each device with estimates of reliability and validity. They give more than adequate details to enable the professional to make...
