Behaviour
Anger, anxiety and stress can be the root cause of some of the most difficult meltdowns and blocks for everyone, and that is particularly true for adults and children with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (formerly called Apserger’s). These are some of our favourite resources offering practical help dealing with challenging behaviour.
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The Parents’ Guide to Managing Anxiety in Children with Autism
This book draws on the author’s clinical experience working with children with autism and their families to provide parents and carers with an explanation of what anxiety is, what behaviours may indicate high levels of anxiety, and practical advice on how they can help children with autism manage their anxiety effectively.
$25.95Product Details »2 in stock
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The Reflective Journey – A Practitioner’s Guide to the Low Arousal Approach
This book is an essential handbook for professionals and family members supporting an individual who can be challenging, be that in the form of physical aggression, self-harm, or other behaviours of concern. Containing many real-life examples and personal experiences of the author’s, The Reflective Journey is the first step towards applying the low arousal approach in real-world settings.
$31.95Product Details »4 in stock
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The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens
Today’s teens are totally stressed. Based on the self-help classic, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, this evidence-based guide will help you develop a game plan for reducing stress so you can focus on reaching your goals.
$24.95Product Details »2 in stock
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The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens – Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress Second Edition
Between school, friends, and planning for the future, it’s easy to feel stressed out. Written by a psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and featuring brand new exercises, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, Second Edition shows how mindfulness skills can help you relax, prioritize, and keep calm during stressful times.
$24.95Product Details »2 in stock
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The Worry Workbook for Teens – Effective CBT Strategies to Break the Cycle of Chronic Worry and Anxiety
Written by a Harvard University faculty member and expert in teen anxiety, this is the first book to target chronic, debilitating worry with proven-effective skills to help you alleviate worry symptoms and prevent them from escalating into anxiety.
$24.95Product Details »4 in stock
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Totally Chill: My Complete Guide to Staying Cool – A Stress Management Workbook for Kids With Social, Emotional, or Sensory Sensitivities
When parenting, teaching and working with children who have social, emotional, and/or sensory sensitivities, we often put the emphasis on learning new skills. Countless hours are spent working on social skills, fine- and gross-motor skills, language skills, and academic skills, but stress management skills are often left unaddressed.
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Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Autism
A complete guide to understanding and treating self-injury in autism (ASD). With contributions by top experts, the book explains various causes and forms of self-injury, discusses the treatment options available, including medical, psychiatric and nutritional treatments, and considers the effectiveness of multidisciplinary approaches.
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Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) is a developmental disorder that is being increasingly recognised as part of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is a continued resistance to the ordinary demands of life through strategies of social manipulation, which originates from an anxiety-driven need to be in control.
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Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Autism is usually portrayed as a checklist of deficits, including difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This perspective leads to therapies focused on ridding individuals of “autistic” symptoms. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant, an internationally renowned autism expert, offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don’t aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual’s experience and what underlies the behavior.
$23Product Details »2 in stock
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What to Do about Smearing – A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers of People with Autism, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
With practical advice and examples of interventions, this supportive book presents positive ways to manage fecal smearing in children and adults with autism and developmental disabilities. Explaining the root causes of smearing for better understanding, this is a reassuring resource for families and professionals who experience smearing behaviour.
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What to Do When Fear Interferes: A Kid’s Guide to Dealing with Phobias
What to Do When Fear Interferes guides children and their parents through overcoming phobias using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles.
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What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety
This hands-on workbook features information and exercises for kids who are coping with excessive stress, anxiety, fears, and worry. It includes writing and drawing activities along with practical, proactive exercises and techniques to reduce anxiety and worry. Illustrations. Suitable for ages 6 – 12.
$23.95Product Details »5 in stock
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What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems With Anger
guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with anger. Engaging examples, lively illustrations, and step-by-step instructions teach children a set of “anger dousing” methods aimed at cooling angry thoughts and controlling angry actions, resulting in calmer, more effective kids.
$23.95Product Details »2 in stock
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When My Worries Get Too Big! – A Relaxation Book for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
More than any other issue, “losing control” can cause major problems for children with ASD.
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Worries Are Not Forever
This book assures children that lots of kids—and grown-ups—feel worried, and that they can learn to make their worries “smaller and smaller and smaller.”
$17.95Product Details »3 in stock
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You Can’t Make Me: Proactive Strategies for Positive Behavior Change
Behavior isn’t an isolated event. All behavior is communication, and when it comes to figuring out what your child is trying to say, Dr. Jim Ball has the answers.
$25.95Product Details »2 in stock
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Zones of Regulation Poster
This poster reinforces the teachings of The Zones of Regulation book/curriculum. 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 the four color-coded and “road sign” oriented for clear recognition and reinforcement.
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