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Mental Health
The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit
25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem Risa Williams
Anxiety can feel like a huge number of different things to a huge variety of people. No matter the experience, they all have one thing in common: feeling anxiety is never fun. If you’re looking to manage your anxious feelings and reduce your stress, this is the book for you. Written by a therapist who specializes in helping people navigate anxiety, the chapters contain 25 creative tools specifically designed to help reduce anxiety in five key areas: stress, social anxiety, anxious thoughts, self-esteem and the future.
JUNE 2021 | TP | 144PP | ISBN-9781787757707 | JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS | RIGHTS SOLD: CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED): GINKGO (SHANGHAI) BOOK CO., LTD; RUSSIAN: OOO ALPINA PUBLISHER; POLISH: PUBLICAT S.A.
The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit
25 Tools to Boost Confidence, Achieve Goals, and Find Happiness Risa Williams
Do you ever struggle with self-confidence? Or find it difficult to speak about yourself kindly? Finding the self-esteem to navigate high-stress situations and achieve your goals can often feel like an impossible feat, but The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit is the perfect aid to change that.
MARCH 2023 | TP | 176PP | ISBN-9781839974748 | JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit
25 Productivity Tools for Adults with ADHD and Chronically Busy People Risa Williams
We all have 24 hours in a day, but sometimes putting them to good use can feel like an impossible task. Focusing on practical methods and strategies, including creative worksheets and easy to use techniques, this book will help you find your motivation, achieve your goals and feel less stressed about organizing your time.
SEPTEMBER 2022 | TP | 224PP | ISBN-9781787751446 | JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
DAWN D’AMICO, LCSW PhD is a psychotherapist who has 22 years of experience working with children affected by various types of trauma in different settings including private practice, hospitals, children’s homes and refugee camps. She has worked internationally in Asia and Africa and has served as a graduate faculty member at the University of Wisconsin. She lives in Wisconsin, USA.
Simple Cognitive and Arts-Based Activities
Dawn D’Amico
Helping children and adolescents who have experienced trauma to feel safe and confident enough to talk, let alone engage in therapeutic work, can be full of challenges - for children and for adults. Conversation-Starters For Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma aims to make this process easier for practitioners, by offering gentle, playful techniques to help children who are closed or withdrawn to start to open up.
With over 80 activities tailored to different styles of communication, all requiring minimal preparation, this flexible resource provides an activity for every situation. From helping a child identify fun things around them to helping them to learn how to control unwanted thoughts, or to understand how feeling states can move from darkness to light, you will wish that you had known about these techniques sooner. Simply choose whether you would like to focus on helping a child with a coping or positive thinking activity, gather the everyday tools you need, and you are all set. Each of the activities can be used in both individual and group formats, and case studies throughout the book serve as a helpful guide on how the activities work in practice. This book is the ultimate toolkit for use with children and adolescents aged between 5 and 17. It is ideal for practitioners working with children who have experienced trauma, physical or sexual abuse, or severe neglect. Those working with children who are experiencing acute depression, anxiety and behavioural difficulties will also find it useful.
NOVEMBER 2022 | TP | 240PP | ISBN-9781839971280 | JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
DR SUE KNOWLES is the Clinical Lead for Changing Minds UK, overseeing their Child and Family Service and Individual Wellbeing Service. She is a Senior Clinical Psychologist who works with young people and those who care for them, specialising in anxiety, attachment, resiliency, risk and complex trauma.
DR BRIDIE GALLAGHER is a Senior Clinical Psychologist working in secure accommodation to ensure the care of the young people is attachment informed. Bridie has special interests in working with anxiety, developmental trauma, resilience and risk.
REGGIE AND JADE are young people with lived experience.
My Life After Trauma Handbook
Surviving and Thriving using Psychological Approaches
Bridie Gallagher, Sue Knowles, Reggie Worthington and Jade Baron
Adversity is a part of life and many of us have experienced trauma that has left us feeling distressed, scared or alone. This book draws on Bridie and Sue’s background in Clinical Psychology to help you identify what trauma is, the effect it can have on your physical and mental health, and how you can cope.
Containing many ideas and strategies to support you with the impact of trauma, including giving yourself a butterfly hug to calm yourself down or sending an email to someone who lives far away to feel more connected, this is a guide that you can dip in and out of, and return to at different stages in your life after trauma.
Co-written with two young people who were brave enough to share their own stories, you will find that you are not alone, that nothing stays the same, and that there’s always hope.
