Mental Health

Anxiety Management

We offer you some ways to start addressing anxiety and related mental health issues. Click "Read More" -- or browse the books below.

From separation anxiety to general anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobia and panic disorder, Helping Your Anxious Child, 2nd Edition describes the common types of childhood anxiety, how anxiety originates, and options for dealing with the problem -- with or without a therapist's help.

Understanding where an individual lies on the Perspective Taking Spectrum is key to addressing anxiety; therefore, Thinking About You Thinking About Me 2nd Edition is a good book for pinpointing how to effectively address an individual's response to stress.

You are a Social Detective starts building the skills required for the popular Superflex, a Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum  and children's book series that can also help manage behavior by providing a face to the anxiety, such as The Worry Wall Unthinkable or one created by you or your student (Anxious Annie or Andy?). The student recognizes when the Unthinkable character is beginning to "invade his/her brain" and is taught Superflex strategies to help block the Unthinkable from taking over his/her thoughts.

In addition, The Incredible 5 Point Scale, A "5" Could Make Me Lose Control and Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders aid by offering effective communication strategies that can help reduce the confusion and stress that often lead to anxiety and behavioral outbursts.

Depression

For depression, the book Beyond the Blues encourages students to reframe their recent negative experiences or memories in an honest and effective manner. It also prompts parents on how to engage in meaningful discussion with their child about depression, a topic that is so sensitive and pertinent.

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By Leah Kuypers For professionals and parents to use with students elementary school - high school. Book and CD. The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum’s learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called “zones,” with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones.
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For professionals and parents to use with students in elementary school - high school. Poster to reinforce the four "zones" and the related lessons of The Zones of Regulation book/curriculum/CD.
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By: Ronald M Rapee, Ann Wignall, Susan H. Spence, Vanessa Cobham, Heidi Lyneham
For professionals and parents to use with all ages. This expanded and updated version of a best-selling classic guides readers to help a child overcome anxiety and fears. It describes in detail strategies and techniques they can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for a child's particular needs. All of us have experienced anxiety, but few of us have been taught strategies to help manage it. This book is very helpful for teaching the lay person (parent or professional) about the core concepts of anxiety and strategies that can be used to help our students work through it. Anxiety is alive and well in our schools and in our homes; it is time we all learn some basics for how to directly address this topic. This is an excellent starting place.
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by Michelle Garcia Winner For professionals and parents to use with ALL ages! This is where to start to learn more about social interaction and social awareness! Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME 2nd Edition provides Michelle Garcia Winner's core concepts and treatment methods of Social Thinking® and a foundation for using books like Superflex, You Are A Social Detective and more! The 2nd Edition includes extensive curriculum content on perspective-taking, the Social Thinking Dynamic Assessment Protocol® and more. Age-targeted lesson and activity ideas, templates and handouts are throughout the book.
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Winner of a 2012 Mom's Choice Award and a 2012 National Parenting Publications Award! By Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke and illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For parents and professionals to use with students 4 years - 5th grade.

Every one of us is a Social Detective. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and deeds. This entertaining comic book offers different ways that can be reviewed repeatedly with students to teach them how to develop their own social detective skills. Enjoy watching your students and kids blossom day-by-day into successful Social Detectives!


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by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner
Comic Book by Stephanie Madrigal/Illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For professionals and parents to use with students in 3rd - 5th grade.

Superflex®: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents and therapists fun and motivating ways to teach students with social and communication difficulties (undiagnosed or diagnosed, such as Asperger Syndrome, ADHD, high-functioning autism or similar). The three part cognitive behavioral curriculum helps students to develop further awareness of their own thinking and social behaviors and learn strategies to help them develop better self-regulation across a range of these behaviors.


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Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Chana Nichols & Susan Hepburn. Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. Help them conquer their fears—and participate more fully in home, school, and community life—with this innovative group therapy program for children 8–14 years old and their parents.
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By Marci Fox, PhD. & Leslie Sokol, PhD. Think Confident, Be Confident for Teens shows teens how to tap into their self-esteem so they can be themselves in every situation, no matter how awkward it may feel or how scary it may sound. The fun exercises and tips in this confidence-coaching workbook will guide young people through past feelings of self-doubt and encourage them to believe in themselves, strengthen their friendships, and meet every challenge head-on.
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Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses by Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis
For professionals and parents to use with students in kindergarten - high school. In this must-have resource, "two teachers from Minnesota" share their successful use of the simple concept of 5-point scales to help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events that might otherwise set in motion escalating reactions. Whether it is inappropriate touching, obsessions, yelling, hitting or making hurtful statements to other students, this clearly illustrated book shows how to break down a given behavior and, with the student's active participation, develop a unique scale that identifies the problem and suggests alternative positive behaviors at each level of the scale!
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By Kari Dunn Buron
For professionals and parents to use with students in high school to young adults. This unique hands-on activity helps students who are highly anxious cope with their stress by systematizing social and emotional information. Using this self-contained product, the student literally sorts cards describing highly stressful situations into colorful pockets designating stress levels, ranging from 5-1, as a first step in changing the way he or she thinks about and responds to emotions such as anxiety, sadness and anger.
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By Kari Dunn Buron. For professionals and parents to use with students in upper elementary school - young adulthood. Building on the 5-point scale, Kari has written a workbook for adolescents and young adults called A 5 Is Against the Law! The book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for youth who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries.
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by Kari Dunn Buron. For parents and professionals to use with students 4yrs - 5th grade. The thought of "losing control" can cause major problems for children who live with anxiety. Now, parents, teachers and children have a helpful tool that gives young children an opportunity to explore their own feelings with parents or teachers as they react to events in their daily lives.
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For parents and professionals to use with students in preschool - 8th grade. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration-crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help.
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By Jessica Minahan and Nancy Rappaport Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn.
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by Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D.; Carole Kaulitz, M.Ed.; and Mabel Brown, M.A.For professionals and parents to use with ALL ages! Visuals of all kinds are used as supports for individuals on the autism spectrum who tend to think and learn visually. However, not all visuals are created equal! This new and important book explores "The Language of Pictures," showing how to match visual tools with the developmental level of the child or adult you are working with. A great way to learn the science behind the art!
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By: Lisa Schab
For parents and professionals to use with high school students. Talking directly to students about depression, this workbook encourages students to reframe their recent experiences or memories. Each chapter starts with a “you need to know” section and then encourages specific exploration into topics, including the power of perspective, the gift of the moment, believing in yourself, the use of social skills, even food to help your mood...
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By Susan Sprague
For professionals and parents to use with students in middle school - transitioning into adulthood. This book teaches adolescent girls to think more deeply about aspects of their own social world and how cliques tick. Chapters address: Teasing: the good, bad and unintended; the profile of the bully; how to defend yourself online and more. This workbook encourages your child in their process of self-discovery and can help parents think of ways to engage them in discussions related to this under-addressed topic.
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For parents and professionals to use with students preschool - 2nd grade. Welcome to Keeping Calm, an activity and coloring book featuring Playtime with Zeebu friends.
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