It can be quite difficult to recognize the difference between an emotional or stubborn child and a child with ODD….
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Optimistic Parenting: Hope and Help for You and Your Challenging Child
Written for parents, and caregivers of challenging children, this book shows how to develop more positive thoughts and perceptions when…
Our Friendship Rules
Alexandra learns a good lesson about friendship when she tells her best friend Jenny’s secret to the new cool girl…
Owl Babies
A tender tale to remind the youngest of children that Mommy always comes back. “I want my mommy!” Three baby…
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors
When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there’s no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from…
Parenting Pandora: Understanding Your Child With Reactive Attachment Disorder
Parenting Pandora explores what motivates children with RAD, and how to use it to gain positive changes. It explains why…
Parenting Your Powerful Child
For all the parents out there at their wits’ end, author Dr. Kevin Leman offers the fail-safe action plan to…
Pathways: A Guided Workbook For Youth Beginning Treatment
A workbook designed primarily for teens (12-18) who have sexual behavior problems, Pathways reflects current research and clinical experience with…
Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good?
Perfectionism is a problem for many teenagers today. Here’s help for Superkids, workaholics, type A’s, straight A’s, procrastinators, overachievers and…
Personal Space Camp
Louis loves outer space, but doesn’t understand personal space. His principal invites him to “personal space camp”, where he learns…
Positive Discipline for children with Special Needs: Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful
This book addresses the specific challenges that parents and teachers of children with special needs face, and offers them straightforward…
Prevent-Teach-Reinforce
Solve serious behavior challenges in K–8 classrooms with this easy-to-use book, the first practical guide to the research-proven Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR)…
Raising Human Beings
Renowned child psychologist and bestselling author explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience,…
Recognize, Respond, Report: Preventing and Addressing Bullying of Students with Special Needs
Using a simple framework of 3 Rs (Recognize, Respond, and Report), you’ll master the core components of preventing and addressing…
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means…
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation
More than a tool to correct bad behavior, this handbook urges parents to move beyond typical discipline techniques by creating an…
Sally Sore Loser: A Story About Winning and Losing
Sally loves to be first at everything! She is first in line at school. She is first out the door…
Sam Feels Better Now: An Interactive Story for Children
How should a parent react when a child is so scared by something that he’s having trouble sleeping, isn’t eating…
Say Something
The girl in this story sees it happening, but she would never do these mean things herself. Then one day…
Sea Otter Cove
Children will love to practice “Belly Breathing” with the playful sea otters and a mermaid. Belly breathing is an effective…
Self and Social Regulation: Social Interaction and the Development of Social Understanding and Executive Functions
A very technical book on theories of children’s executive functioning, self-regulation and the connection to social understanding and emotional competence….
Self-regulation in Everyday Life A How-to Guide for Parents
This guide helps parents shift from teaching specific behaviors to working on foundation skills in body, cognitive and emotional self-regulation….
Separation Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: An Individualized Approach to Assessment and Treatment
This book presents a research-based approach to understanding the challenges of separation anxiety and helping children, adolescents, and their parents…
Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries
Disruptive misbehavior, constant power struggles, manipulative or aggressive behavior–the challenges facing parents and teachers of strong-willed children can seem overwhelming…