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10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem

How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence & Create a Positive Self-Image

Glenn Schiraldi

Offers quick, easy-to-grasp tips for fostering a positive sense of self. This little book distills the best techniques from the author's successful Self-Esteem Workbook. This book also incorporates techniques that make use of mindfulness practice. With a little patience and practice, readers will discover what wonderful, valuable people they really are.

19x17cm

172 pages

$25.00

7 Habits of Happy Kids

Paperback

Sean Covey

Young readers are introduced to an irresistible cast of characters, in this beautifully illustrated and energetic collection of stories. The stories convey the 7 habits - including responsibility, goal setting, respect, teamwork and balance - the powerful principles that have been enriching lives for generations.

28x22cm

93 pages

$20.00

Asperger's and Self-Esteem

Insight and Hope through Famous Role Models

Norm Ledgin, foreword by Dr Temple Grandin

From composer Amadeus Mozart to astronomer Carl Sagan, Ledgin examines the evidence of Asperger's Syndrome in some of history's most famous men and women and shows how, despite their apparent challenges, each made an immeasurable contribution to the world. A great book to raise the self esteem of those with Asperger's.

16x24cm

186 pages

$40.00

Cool, Calm, and Confident

A Workbook to help kids learn assertiveness skills

Lisa Schwab

Assertiveness is the ability to stand up for yourself and your rights in a healthy and appropriate manner without infringing on the rights of others. This is the healthy middle ground between passiveness-letting others walk all over you-and aggression-forcing your desires on others without any regard for their rights. The easy and effective assertiveness-building games, worksheets, and activities in this book help kids recognize their self-worth, strengths, and right to stand up for themselves when others bully them or try to take advantage of them.
When kids feel good about themselves, it is much easier for them to have the strength and courage to act assertively. For this reason, many of the activities in this workbook help children build self-esteem and learn to believe in themselves. Self-assured, assertive children are less likely to be picked on by their peers and less likely to resort to bullying others to build confidence. Using this workbook is an easy and effective way to teach passive and aggressive children to respect themselves and others-a skill that will prove useful in childhood, in their teenage years, and throughout their lives.

25x20cm

152 pages

$32.00

Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life

Self-Reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing

Graham Ramsay

What you want from life using a series of visual and written exercises. The authors demonstrate techniques for self-exploration and self-expression in order to better understand who you are, where you come from, how you think, and how you define your values and goals. Topics for the exercises, which are illustrated with examples of students' work, include turning points and major influences, family traditions, roles you play, core values, alternative views of yourself, goals for your future, and the impact of gender, race, and ethnicity on identity. The final chapter guides the reader through the process of putting together a "self-portrayal" a personal mixed-media journal-inspired work that ties together all of the elements touched on in the exercises. This book will be of interest to arts therapists, counselors, and anyone looking to understand their own identity

23x15cm

191 pages

$44.95

Discovering Me

A Guide to Teaching Health and Building Adolescents' Self-Esteem

Leslie Herod

The youth of today is somewhat troubled. Many students are worrying about divorce, drugs, peer pressure and violence. It's important they receive the opportunity to develop, emotionally and intellectually, in a safe and structured environment. The author's approach in addressing these issues is non-threatening, introspective and fun. Using an interactive format, the book offers guidance on topics teenagers are most concerned about. The book is an excellent tool for developing essential life skills that can help youth pass through adolescence safely and successfully. For students and teachers.

28x22cm

364 pages

$64.95

Don't Be Afraid to Drop!

Julia Cook, Anita DuFalla

This book is for anyone who is at a transitional point in their life. Boy Raindrop is afraid to let go of his cloud and drop to the ground. He doesn't want to take a risk, he doesn't like change, and he is happy with his comfortable life. His father encourages him to jump out of his comfort zone and see what he is missing. This book provides all who read it with a positive perspective on change, taking risks, and giving back.

23x20cm

32 pages

$17.00

Enhancing Self-Esteem

A Self-Esteem Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities

Nick Hagiliassis & Hrepsime Gulbenkoglu

Maintaining healthy levels of self-esteem is key to leading a positive and fulfilled life, but for many people with a disability it can be difficult when faced with the additional challenges they encounter. Negative messages, low expectations, reduced opportunities and discrimination are all facts of life for a large number of people, and these factors can have a serious impact on the development of self-esteem. Enhancing Self-Esteem is unique in being tailored specifically to meet the needs of adults with disabilities. It is a comprehensive resource that provides relevant, cognitively-suitable and age-appropriate information and exercises to aid trainers working with adults with physical and multiple disabilities, and is suitable for people with mild intellectual disability and severe communication impairment. The material is designed to be used in 10 two-hour sessions that explore skills that will help to develop and maintain self-esteem

30x21cm

125 pages

$71.00

Enhancing Self-Esteem in the Classroom

Denis Lawrence

Raising self-esteem in pupils can lead to the achievement of higher academic results and fewer behavioral problems. Outlining in simple terms what self-esteem is and providing strategies to support it in the classroom, Denis Lawrence offers clear explanations of the terminology and theory behind self-esteem, and many practical examples and useful activities to use with children. Fully updated and including new case study material and activities, this resource also discusses the main issues surrounding the self-esteem of practitioners. It sets out tried-and-tested strategies that teachers can use to recognize and reduce stress and maintain their self-esteem.

24x17cm

203 pages

$64.00

Feeling Good About the Way You Look

A Program for overcoming body image problems

Sabine Wilhelm

If a blemish or "bad hair" can ruin your day and you are ashamed of your body, this compassionate book offers a program, based on cognitive behaviour therapy, that helps you fight the urge to spend hours "fixing" yourself. Once you understand the negative thoughts and feelings that distort your self-image, you'll be able to overcoming the embarrassment that keeps you from enjoying your life.

18x25cm

212 pages

$29.00

Feeling Like Crap

Young People and the Meaning of Self-Esteem

Nick Luxmoore

Explores how a young person's self is constructed, and what might really help that self to feel more valued and confident. Through accounts of his individual and group work with young people, demonstrates how listening to, engaging with and being respectful of young people can provide the support they need to help them repair their sense of self and offer them new possibilities and directions in life.

21x13cm

160 pages

$34.95

Fill a Bucket

A Guide to Daily Happiness for Young Children

Carol McCloud, Katherine Martin, david Messing

This is a version of Have You Filled a Bucket Today? for younger children. The concept of bucket filling is an effective metaphor for encouraging kind and considerate behavior as well as teaching the benefits of positive relationships to children.

18x18cm

32 pages

$17.00

Giraffes Can’t Dance

Andreae & Parker-Rees

Gerald was a tall giraffe. Every year he dreaded the great Jungle Dance. But what Gerald discovers is that when we're different sometimes all we need is a different song to dance to. Illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees.

30x24cm

28 pages

$17.00

Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids

Carol McCloud, David Messing

Through sweet, simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heart-warming book encourages positive behavior as children see how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis. Publisher Marketing: Through sweet, simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heart-warming book encourages positive behavior as children see how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis.

20x27cm

32 pages

$17.00

Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem

A Photocopiable Resource Book

Deborah M Plummer

Filled with simple, practical and innovative ideas for supporting the development and maintenance of healthy self-esteem. Based on the author's clinical experience, the easy-to-use photocopiable activity sheets encourage participants to draw on existing skills and to develop new approaches to building confidence and feelings of self-worth. These exercises are suitable for work with individuals and with groups, and will prove an indispensable aid to building self-esteem in adolescents and adults.

30x21cm

207 pages

$45.00

Hot Stuff to Help Kids Cheer Up

The Depression and Self-Esteem Workbook

Jerry Wilde

Using his experience as a school psychologist, Wilde has created this workbook to help kids work thorough their depression and self-esteem issues.

22x16cm

72 pages

$18.00

How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids

Tom Rath, Mary Reckmeyer, Maurie J Manning

Through the story of a little boy named Felix, this charming book explains to children how being kind not only helps others, it helps them, too. As he goes about his day, Felix interacts with different people -- his sister Anna, his grandfather, other family and friends. Some people are happy, but others are grumpy or sad. Using the metaphor of a bucket and dipper, Felix' grandfather explains why the happy people make Felix feel good, while the others leave him feeling bad -- and how Felix himself is affecting others, whether he means to or not.

26x26cm

32 pages

$32.00

Howard B. Wigglebottom Listens to His Heart (2ND ed.)

Howard Binkow, Susan Cornelison

The story of a little bunny that stops doing what he loves the most because his friends were making fun of him. He wanted to belong, to fit in so desperately that he tried unsuccessfully all kinds of activities. One day, with a little help from his grandfather, the bunny decides to be true to himself. This second book in the "learn how to listen series" is a great tool for helping children 4-8 work with self esteem and acceptance issues.

21x26cm

32 pages

$25.00

I Can Handle It!

50 Confidence-Building Stories to Empower Your Child

Susan Jeffers & Donna Gradstein

A unique book for parents and caretakers to read with their 3 to 7 year old children. It offers the heart-warming stories of 50 children - each handling a difficult situation in life, such as teasing by other children, fear of the dark, or going to the dentist. It provides a refreshingly easy way for parents to engage with and empower their children through the repeated use of the powerful affirmation, No matter what happens, I can handle it.

18x13cm

137 pages

$18.00

Life Skills

225 Ready-to-Use Health Activities for Success and Well-Being (Grades 6-12)

Sandra McTavish

Life Skills is a practical resource that gives teachers 225 ready-to-use worksheets that cover a wide variety of key life skills. The book addresses topics such as drug and alcohol use, sex, relationships, stress, food-related issues, and self-esteem. Life Skills is an easy-to-use, time-saving book that is designed for grades 6-12 and helpful for both new and seasoned teachers. For quick access and easy use, the worksheets are organized into eight sections and are printed in a large 8 1/2” x 11” format that folds flat for photocopying. Here’s an overview of what you’ll find in each section: Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking: Trends in smoking, second-hand smoke, reasons why people smoke and ways to help people quit, facts about drug use, the classification of different drugs, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, as well as drinking and driving. Sex and Sex-Related Issues: Male and female sex organs, why people have sex, facts and myths, birth control, options after getting pregnant, sexually transmitted diseases, homosexuality, infertility options, sexual harassment, and date rape. Love, Relationships, Marriage, and Family: The role of friends in our lives, negative aspects of cliques, dating and love, love and infatuation, qualities in an ideal mate, problems in marriage, why marriages end, family life cycles, and nontraditional families. Life Skills: High and low self-esteem, long and short range goals, learning assertive behavior, dealing with difficult people, conflict resolution, what makes a good leader, effective communication and time management skills, and problems with violence. Stress: What makes you stressed?, reactions to stress, coping with stress, suicide, death, and dying. Food and Food Related Issues: Improving eating habits, the food pyramid, information about calories, water, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, fat, additives, and eating disorders. Know Your Body and Body Image: Body image and type, the functions of differnet organs, body parts, body systems and terminology, viruses and bacteria, basic first aid, diagnosing and solving emergency problems, fitness habits, and four components of fitness. Self Esteem and Knowing Yourself: Favorite things, handwriting, personality type, birth order, highs and lows, and five senses.

22x28cm

228 pages

$49.95

Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions

Christopher K Germer

The psychological benefits of mindfulness are well established. Yet for people who struggle with difficult emotions like anxiety, guilt, anger, loneliness, sadness, or low self-esteem, mindfulness practices can be enhanced by adding a simple yet powerful ingredient: self-compassion. Without it, we all too often respond to emotional suffering with self-criticism, shame, or defensiveness - tough-to-break habits that only make suffering worse. This wise, eloquent, and practical book illuminates the nature of self-compassion and offers easy-to-follow, scientifically grounded steps for incorporating it into daily life. Vivid examples and innovative exercises and techniques make this an ideal resource for readers new to mindfulness or those who want to take their practice to the next level.

22x15cm

306 pages

$33.95

Optimistic Child

A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

Martin E P Seligman

Offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism - dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback - and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health. As Seligman states in his new afterword for this edition, "Teaching children optimism is more, I realized, than just correcting pessimism . . . It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life - not only to fight depression and to come back from failure, but also to be the foundation of success and vitality."

21x14cm

342 pages

$28.00

Rainbows of Success

A Motivational handbook for self-discovery and success

Howard Small

This book is a practical and inspirational handbook for students aged 11 plus and parents of younger children. It will inspire you. It will give you confidence. It will help you set achievable goals.
Increase your self-esteem and self-confidence, Enhance your relationship with family and friends, Develop a more positive attitude, Improve your study and communication skills, Organise your time more effectively, Fulfil your dreams and ambitions, Become self-motivated, Succeed in exams and tests, Prepare for interviews.

21x17cm

112 pages

$24.95

Raising Self-Esteem in Primary Schools

A Whole School Training Programme (With CD-ROM)

Margaret Collins

Children with low self-esteem will have difficulty in partaking in classroom lessons and succeeding. If we want to help children in the primary school to achieve the positive outcomes set out in the Every Child Matters agenda, we need to ensure all children have a healthy self-esteem. This book seeks to give adults in schools tools to look at the way they could enhance self esteem in children.

The book comes with an accompanying CD-Rom which contains: - inset sessions for all adults in the school - workshops specifically aimed at non-teaching personnel, including mid-day supervisors - sessions for teachers and classroom assistants - classroom lessons and activity sheets for the children which can form part of your school's personal, social and health education (PSHE) programme.

24x17cm

186 pages

$79.00

Ready-To-Use Self-Esteem & Conflict Solving Activities for Grades 4-8

Beth Teolis

This practical resource gives busy teachers and counselors of at-risk students a proven, preplanned curriculum for promoting students' self-esteem--from lessons exploring what makes each child unique as a member of his/her family, school, and community to activities focusing on making and sustaining friendships, setting and achieving realistic goals, and solving conflicts where everyone is a winner.

27x20cm

336 pages

$42.95

Ready-to-Use Self-Esteem Activities for Young Children

Jean R. Feldman

Feedback from many who have bought this book assures us that there is good value in the over 220 illustrated activities that help yound children feel good about themselves, develop friendships, celebrate diversity and accept changes. Activities fall into 6 sections - Wonderful Me, Friends, Feelings and Emotions, Same and Different, Changes, and the Parent pack.

21x28cm

277 pages

$39.95

Self-Esteem

McKay & Fanning

Now in its third edition this is a proven program of cognitive techniques for assessing, improving, and maintaining your self-esteem. talk back to the self-critical voice inside you - set and achieve goals that will enrich your life - foster compassion for yourself and others - handle mistakes and respond to ciriticism - ask for what you want use hypnosis and visualization for self-acceptance - and raise children with high self-esteem.

16x23cm

316 pages

$32.00

Self-Esteem Companion

Simple Exercises to Help You Challenge Your Inner Critic & Celebrate Your Personal Strengths

Matthew McKay

Presenting more than 60 simple exercises to overcome a punishing inner critic, this resource includes tips for taking a realistic and empowering inventory of one's abilities, and for finding bold, new ways to celebrate strengths.

18x17cm

169 pages

$28.00

Self-Esteem Games

300 fun activities that make children feel good about themselves.

Sher

Self-esteem games show children how wonderful it can be to be themselves - emotionally, socially, physically, and intellectually. By sharing the upbeat, thoughtful activies in this book you can reinforce children's positive feelings and provide a lasting foundation for learning.

19x23cm

194 pages

$27.95

Self-Esteem Workbook

Glenn Schiraldi

A simple, effetive program for mastery of likeing yourself, conquering self-doubt, seeing your ore worth, rational thinking, body appreciation, affirming thoughts, enlarging possibilities, forgiving yourself, liking the face in the mirror.

22x28cm

183 pages

$38.00

Stick Up for Yourself!

Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem (Revised)

Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael & Pamela Espeland

Discusses problems facing young people such as making choices, learning about and liking oneself, and solving problems. Simple words and real-life examples teach assertiveness, responsibility, relationship skills, choice making, problem solving, goal setting, anger management, and more. Children learn how to stick up for themselves with other kids (including bullies), siblings, even grown-ups.

23x15cm

128 pages

$20.00

Ten Days to Great Self-Esteem

1- easy steps to brighten your moods and discover the joy in everyday living

David Burns

Practical exercises to help combat clinical depression form the basis of this methods for achieving and maintaining self-confidence and an optimistic outlook--in 10 days. Charts and worksheets throughout.

23x19cm

330 pages

$35.00

Walk in the Rain with a Brain

Edward M Hallowell, illus Bill Mayer

Each brain finds its own special way -- that's the message in this delightful, colorful story by Edward Hallowell, MD, a noted psychiatrist, teacher and expert on learning and childhood development.At many of his lectures worldwide he has read a story he wrote for children about how each person's brain is unique -- and it has resonated among the thousands of parents, teachers, and others who have heard it.
A little girl named Lucy is making her way down a rainy sidewalk when she spies, of all things, a brain -- Manfred, called Fred -- sitting forlornly in a puddle. The courtly cerebrum asks Lucy for help getting home, and as they walk along she worries that she's not smart enough. "Everyone's smart!" explains Fred. "You just need to find out at what!" Fred reassures her that each child learns and thinks differently -- and that every child has special talents.
A discussion guide at the end gives parents and educators the background support they need in order to help children understand and discover the sparkling individuality of their minds.

24x24cm

32 pages

$30.00

What Every Therapist Needs To Know About Treating Eating And Weight Issues

Karen R Koenig

Helping therapists treat clients whose eating issues aren't extreme or "disordered." Many books deal with obesity, anorexia, or bulimia. Yet, until now, no book has addressed those who have mild eating issues that do not fall into extreme categories of starvation or gluttony. Here, Koenig explores the ways in which people express emotions through food, and how to balance nutrition with enjoyment and lifestyle.

23x15cm

240 pages

$42.95

What's Eating You?

A Workbook for Teens with Anorexia, Bulimia, and other Eating Disorders

Tammy Nelson

Living in a culture obsessed with body size and shape, it can be hard to feel good about the way you look. But eating disorders caused by unrealistic body image ideals create much larger problems-diminished self-confidence, unhealthy eating and exercising habits, and an inability to see yourself as a person rather than a number on the scale.
This workbook takes aim at the motivations behind your relationship with food and helps you to better understand how your need to control what you eat can end up controlling you. As you complete the worksheets in What's Eating You, you'll learn more about the beliefs and experiences that contribute to your disorder. Each worksheet includes questions and exercises targeting the cultural myths, perfectionism, stress, and lack of self-confidence that are often at the heart of a dysfunctional relationship with food. Once these issues are addressed, you'll be able to gather the strength you need to make peace with your body, exude confidence, and live a healthy life.

25x20cm

128 pages

$28.00

Wrong Stone

Russell Deal

I want you to build me a wall with only perfect stones, the big architect said. All the stones tried to put their best faces forward. They hid their ugly bits. They tried to climb to the top of the pile. But there was one stone that didnt seem to fit...anywhere! He was the Wrong Stone and all the other stones were laughing at him. This 32-page picture book has exquisite, full-colour illustrations throughout. Enjoy the jokes, pranks and celebration of difference in this heart-warming story for kids and bigger kids. This book has an important place in counselling and clinical therapeutic practice where it may just constitute a tipping point - a small but mighty prompt for change and hope.

21x28cm

32 pages

$24.50


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