Depression can have many harmful and even devastating effects on the lives of children and adolescents. It can derail school performance and lead to social and family troubles. It can also have harmful effects on a young person's physical health. This book is a practical resource that includes a variety of strategies (including reproducible worksheets) designed to use with elementary, middle &amp; high school youth. An ""At-A-Glance"" chart is included to help you quickly locate strategies suitable for particular age groups. Topics include: 
<ul>Relaxation Nutrition Spirituality Exercise Cognitive &amp; Behavioral Strategies</ul>
 Other sections include information for parents, youth, teachers, &amp; counselors. This is a practical resource guide that will help any professional affectively identify and hel pyoung people in school, family, or private practice setting.

102 Creative Strategies for Working with Depressed Children and Adolescents

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kaye Randall

Susan Bowman

Donna Strom

Mental Health

YouthLight, Inc.

This book tells the story of Shyanne, a third grader, who is very shy. After meeting with the school counselor, she learns some creative techniques to overcome her shyness and make friends with other students.Her mother surprises her one day with a trip to the local animal shelter where she chooses a cute little chihuahua that seems very shy and frightened like her. Together they learn to overcome shyness and eventually make friends with others at the doggy park. After the story, students can enjoy the follow up activities that teach skills for reaching and helping others.

Shyanne

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Many children can relate to others stirring up drama or being overly dramatic themselves. In this story, Drama Llama always stirred up trouble among her animal friends. She liked to spread rumors and gossip and start trouble between the other animals. Eventually the other animals catch on to who is starting all the rumors and they stop talking to the Drama Llama. She then becomes very sad and lonely until some of her former friends confront her about her behavior. They let her know how she can become their friend again and Drama Llama learns that to gain friends you don't need to try to get their attention by sharing rumors or drama, but by being genuine and kind. This book includes discussion questions and reproducible activity pages. For grades PK-4.

The Drama Llama

This book provides a collection of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. When workingwith youth who self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approaches at your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/ adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives. The book provides a description of self-injury in young people and its underlying causes. Then, an overview of therapeutic approaches is presented along with suggestions for the professional counselor/ social worker/ psychologist, teachers and parents. Sample assessment questions and activities are included.

See My Pain!: Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure

Youthlight

Recent research has shown that an average of 8% of children as young as 3rd graders are engaging in self-injuring behaviors. This book provides a firs-of-its-kind, story-based tool for helping these young people. Elisa, a sixth grader, has started purposely hurting herself. No one understands why she wants to do these things, not even her mother. When her self-injuring becomes more noticeable, a teacher takes her to peak with the school counselor. Elisa eventually is helped by the counselor and by a therapist, with her mother involved. With support, Elisa learns about self-injury and how to use more healthy ways to deal with her sad feelings and negative thinking. Included is Elisa's story, discussion questions, tips for parents, and the following 8 hands-on activities: Self-Alarm Comfort Kit My Butterfly My Feelings Wall Healthy Coping Chart Hope Floats I Am Able Re-Frame

Why Do I Hurt Myself

Children's Books

The Drama Llama Activity Guide offers 12 thought-provoking and skill-based activities that compliment the storybook, The Drama Llama. These activities can help students understand how stirring up drama can hurt relationships with others. It also provides practice in skills and strategies for preventing and coping with overly-dramatic situations. Each activity includes discussion questions, checklists, games, role plays reproducible worksheets and suggestions for the entire school. Topics include: 
<ul>
<li>Toxic Friendships</li> <li>Taking Positive Action</li> <li>Good Friends/Bad Friends</li> <li>What Would You Do?</li> <li>Don't be a Drama Llama</li> <li>The Drama Scale</li> <li>True Friends</li> <li>Building Personal Strengths</li> <li>Friends Are Upstanders</li> <li>Lasting Friendships</li> <li>Animal Drama</li> <li>Spreading Kindness</li>
</ul>

The Drama Llama Activity Guide

Good Choices or Bad Choices and How to Know the Difference

"Everyone will at some point experience challenging situations where coping skills are necessary for reducing the stress or anxiety and enacting helpful solutions. Children may react to stress or anxiety in different ways than adults. For example, an adult might be able to handle a betrayal of a friend quite differently than a pre-teen. Children urgently need to learn healthy coping skills. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry states that suicide is currently the second leading cause of death for children and young adults, ages 15-24 (AACAP, 2018). Suicide frequently results from an inability to cope or manage emotions. Other dangerous behaviors may result from the inability to cope such as, depression, risk- taking, sexual promiscuity, drug/alcohol abuse, or non-suicidal self-injury. When children and teens learn how to effectively cope with their strong emotions, it can more likely lead to a healthy adulthood. GOALS FOR THIS BOOK ARE: to help children learn to recognize the differences between healthy and unhealthy ways of coping to increase childrens ability to effectively use healthy coping skills in situations they may face"--

Healthy or Unhealthy Coping and How to Know the Difference Coping and How to Know the Difference

Ed.S. & Stephanie Lerner

Youth Light

Proverbs 4:23 warns us to guard the heart with all diligence because the springs of life flow from it. But what is this heart the Bible speaks of? How can it be guarded? What are springs of life? Recent developments in the fields of neurocardiology and psychology are supplying answers to these questions. And, as unlikely as it may seem, the latest scientific developments support what the Bible has long proclaimed - that whatever is believed within the human heart determines the course of a person’s life. 
Weaving together science, psychology and scripture, The Quiet A Foundational Guide to Inner Healing, explains how God designed the human heart and how that design has been hijacked as a result of the fall. The author, a seasoned prayer minister, offers field-tested tools and strategies to help you discover what is hidden in your heart. It teaches how to recover your heart and train it to align with God’s truth so that you may enjoy a healthy and meaningful relationship with Him. 
Topics include the human spirit, soul and heart; the fall and deliverance; spiritual warfare; generational considerations; learning to hear from God and more. 
This gentle and practical guide to inner healing and deliverance offers step-by-step instructions along with written prayers. Thoughtful research, combined with years of experience, makes The Quiet Heart a must read for those seeking peace with God, themselves and others.

The Quiet Heart: A Foundational Guide to Inner Healing and Deliverance

Borgo Publishing

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