Children and Adolescents
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Play Is the Therapy: A Polyvagal-Informed Approach to Recognizing and Treating Child Traumatic Stress
Our Price: €23.71 (with free UK delivery)
Filled with kid-friendly activities, case studies, and sample scripts, this transformative treatment guide will allow you to harness the power of “polyvagal play” so you can: – Build rapport with children who struggle to trust others, particularly adults – Move past outdated and punitive behavioral management approaches – Reframe “problem” behaviors as adaptive nervous system responses – Use a playful approach to support kids in learning about their nervous system – Create feelings of safety and connection by simply being with your client in session.
A Professional’s Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle
Our Price: €28.46 (with free UK delivery)
The circle is a holistic and comprehensive framework for professionals working to create safety for children against violence and abuse. It takes into consideration a child’s individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma also assessing their risk and protection factors and using different tools to regulate the nervous system and promote healing.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Children: Applications and Strategies for Anxiety, Depression, Autism, ADHD, OCD and More
Our Price: €28.46 (with free UK delivery)
Built from the author’s extensive experience in child psychology, this guide offers ways to tailor ACT for effective work with children. It includes specific and detailed guidance on tailoring ACT to specific presentations, including OCD and neurodivergent populations, as well as parenting.
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EMDR with Kids Flip Chart: A Play-Based Tool for Trauma Processing, Nervous System Regulation, and the Transformation of Adaptive Behaviors
Our Price: €34.34 (with free UK delivery)
How can I deliver EMDR to kids and teens in a developmentally appropriate way? That is what you’ll find in EMDR with Kids Flip Chart – an interactive therapeutic tool that blends play therapy techniques with the wisdom of polyvagal theory, all while staying true to the eight-phase framework of EMDR.
Working with Relational Trauma in Children’s Residential Care: A Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice
Our Price: €24.90 (with free UK delivery)
From integrating the PACE model into conversations – both with children and colleagues – to balancing physical safety with relational safety in secure care situations, this book offers a way to build a culture of support throughout the whole structure of residential care settings.
Creative Ways to Help Children Regulate and Manage Anger: Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation
Our Price: €26.69 (with free UK delivery)
This is the ultimate tool for therapists looking to develop their clinical practice with creative ways to help children manage their anger.
Healing Relational Trauma Workbook: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy in Practice
Our Price: €32.62 (with free UK delivery)
A resource for practitioners implementing attachment-focused treatment for young people.
Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide
Our Price: €17.78 (with free UK delivery)
This guidebook is an essential companion to the Pilgrim’s Bumpy Flight story and is designed to be read by professionals to ensure the effective and safe use of the storybook.
My Blob Feelings Workbook: A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions! (Blobs)
Our Price: €27.27 (with free UK delivery)
My Blob Feelings Workbook provides the reader with a series of unique visual reflective exercises that help to reveal one’s own emotional portrait.
Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families: Creative Tools and Resources for Practice
Our Price: €33.21 (with free UK delivery)
Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families is the practical go-to resource for practitioners looking to build effective relationships and engage meaningfully with vulnerable children and their families.
Counselling Young People: A Handbook for Trainees and Practitioners
Our Price: €40.32 (with free UK delivery)
Practical and clearly written, this new book from best-selling author Louise Porter equips mental health professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to provide insightful guidance and support to children and adolescents.
Here We Go Again! A story about bullying
Our Price: €9.48 (with free UK delivery)
Here We Go Again! – A Story About Bullying highlights the importance of seeking help at a difficult time. Bullying can be a complicated and painful experience, and sadly something that many children struggle with.
Mentalization with Neglected and Traumatized Children
Our Price: €32.02 (with free UK delivery)
Mentalization with Neglected and Traumatized Children provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the impact on child development as a result of neglect and trauma, and how theories of mentalization can help.
The Great Pram Escape: Finding a Forever Family for Baby James
Our Price: €10.67 (with free UK delivery)
When Baby James is in need of a home, his loyal and determined Pram takes him along a hopeful journey in search of a loving family. The road gets rocky along the way, but will Pram find Baby James a forever home?
Canine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Children with Trauma-Induced Dysregulation
Our Price: €41.51 (with free UK delivery)
This book provides mental health researchers and clinicians with valuable insight into the pathway that leads from developmental trauma to dysregulation and psychopathology.
Trauma in Children and Young People: Reaching the Heart of the Matter
Our Price: €27.27 (with free UK delivery)
This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
Creativity in Counseling Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Experiential Activities
Our Price: €32.02 (with free UK delivery)
Creativity in Counseling Children and Adolescents shows counselors and other mental health professionals how to use a wide variety of creative and experiential activities that emphasize strengths and skills-focused work.
Group Psychotherapy with Children: Core Principles for Effective Practice
Our Price: €32.62 (with free UK delivery)
This book guides the reader through the process of creating evidence-based therapy groups for children.
The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect: What It Is and How to Help
Our Price: €12.46 (with free UK delivery)
In The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect, Betsy de Thierry provides clarity and guidance on the complex subject of emotional neglect, including how it impacts emotional connection and behaviour in the children who experience it.
A Young Person’s Guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders
Our Price: €21.34 (with free UK delivery)
A Young Person’s Guide to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders is a state-of-the-art guide for young patients struggling with disordered eating based on enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E).
Interaction in Psychotherapy: Managing Relationships in Emotion-focused Treatments of Depression
Our Price: €32.02 (with free UK delivery)
The therapist-client relationship in psychotherapy is considered one of the most important factors in promoting well-being and facilitating change in clients. This pioneering book provides a novel perspective on relationships by focusing on how they are accomplished through client-therapist interactions.
Rewilding Children’s Imaginations: 99 Creative Activities Inspired by Nature and Folktales from Around the World
Our Price: €27.27 (with free UK delivery)
Rewilding Children’s Imaginations is a practical and creative resource designed to engage children in the natural world through folktales, storytelling, and artmaking.