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Start here: A parent's guide to helping children and teens through mental health challenges
This book helps break down the stigma of mental health illness and walk parents and caregivers through the warning signs, risk factors, prevention strategies, and the process of diagnosis and treatment for mental health challenges.
Tomorrow's hope [and] Strength of the sash : Suicide prevention
This graphic novel includes two short suicide prevention stories, from the perspective of First Nations youth.
The transgender child: A handbook for parents and professionals supporting transgender and nonbinary children
A source of information for families wanting to understand and affirm their transgender, gender-expansive, or nonbinary child.
Nourished: Connection, food, and caring for our kids (and everyone else we love)
This book gives parents and caregivers the keys to transform the everyday act of feeding children (and other loved ones) into a most fulfilling and nourishing dance of attachment.
Secrets of feeding a healthy family: How to eat, how to raise good eaters, how to cook
This book encourages families to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well.
You are a social detective! Explaining social thinking to kids
This book teaches children and students (ages 5-10) how to recognize and develop social skills, a skill set they can use at home, school, or within the community.
Nowmaps Jr: Adventure stories to help young kids navigate everyday challenges and grow in caring and kind ways
A delightful, rhyming story that introduces kids ages 3-6 to the neuroscience of early childhood social and emotional learning (SEL) in a captivating, interactive way.
Neon the ninja activity book for children who struggle with sleep and nightmares: A therapeutic story with creative activities for children aged 5 - 10
This book shows children how they can reduce their nightmares and night worries, and make night times feel safer and more relaxed.
Sleep better: A guide to improving sleep for children with special needs
This down-to-earth, nonjudgmental guide is packed with widely tested, easy-to-use techniques that work for all children — with and without disabilities.
Stuff That's Loud: A Teen's Guide to Unspiraling when OCD Gets Noisy
Full of powerful tools and engaging illustrations to help you live the life you want to live, instead of being controlled by OCD.
The family guide to getting over OCD: reclaim your life and help your loved one
This compassionate guide helps you change your own behavior to support your loved one's recovery.
Self-compassion for parents: Nurture your child by caring for yourself
This empathic resource will help you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself with the same kindness and caring you strive to offer your kids.
Let's play outdoors: Exploring nature for children
A book that encourages children to go and play outside and discover what nature has to offer.
Expected loss: Coping with anticipatory grief
This process of anticipatory grief is normal, but it can also be confusing and painful. Life is change, and change is hard. This book will help see you through.
How to nourish your child through an eating disorder : A simple, plate-by-plate approach to rebuilding a healthy relationship with food
The plate-by-plate method is rooted in family-based treatment (FBT), which supports parents & caregivers to treat their child at home.
If your adolescent has an eating disorder: An essential resource for parents
This book is an authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID and other eating disorders.
Anorexia and other eating disorders: How to help your child eat and be well: Practical skills for family-based treatment, compassionate communication and emotional support for parents of children and teenagers
This book guides you through each stage of your child's recovery. The practical and emotional strategies in every chapter come from research, families, and therapists worldwide.
Binnie the baboon anxiety and stress activity book: A therapeutic story with creative and CBT activities to help children aged 5-10 who worry
A therapeutic story with creative activities and worksheets to support children ages 5-10 who experience challenges related to anxiety, worry, fears and stress.
No-drama discipline: The whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind
This book shows you how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience in everyone in the family.
Brain-body parenting: How to stop managing behavior and start raising joyful, resilient kids
Brain-Body Parenting empowers parents with tools to help their children develop self-regulation skills while also encouraging parental self-care.
High School Hacks: A No-nonsense Guide to High School, for Kids on the Autism Spectrum/A Collection of Short, to the Point Truth Bombs, Useful for Both Students and Teachers
This book explains high school's often mysterious and confusing world for autistic students. It can help teachers, parents, and caregivers better understand their young people's challenges.
10 Steps to Reducing Your Child's Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum: The CBT-Based 'Fun with Feelings' Parent Manual
The stepping stones for parents of young children with autism to better understand their child's emotional skill set and empower them to understand and articulate their feelings.
Developing differently: A guide for parents of young children with global developmental delay, intellectual disability, or autism
A step-by-step plan that will support you to embed good practices at home when parenting a child with a global developmental delay, intellectual disability or autism.
ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know
This guide offers parents balanced, reassuring information to help them understand and manage ADHD. Topics include evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions and behavior therapy.
How we grow through what we go through: Self-compassion practices for post-traumatic growth
Turn your everyday experiences into a source of strength with the easy-to-learn practices in this uplifting guide to post-traumatic growth.
The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
Showing up means offering a quality of presence. And it’s simple to provide once you understand the four building blocks of a child’s healthy development which you'll learn in this book.
Taming Worry Dragons Guides
A creative approach to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that is designed to help anxious children learn how to cope with their worries.
Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents)
Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions.
Alphabreaths: the ABCs of mindful breathing
Children will learn their ABCs and the basics of mindfulness through playful breathing exercises.
A Terrible Thing Happened
This gently told story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, or natural disasters. An afterword offers parents and caregivers suggestions for helping traumatized children.
Bed time for Kieran [Ojibwe]
Find out how Keely sets a bedtime routine for Kieran to get a good night’s sleep. A SayItFirst book for children in English, Ojibwe and Inuktut translation and syllabics.
Beyond Behaviors
This book describes behaviors as important signals. It offers tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.
Breaking free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A scientifically proven program for parents
This book includes guidance and practical suggestions for parents and caregivers to understand childhood anxiety and OCD, learn how to talk with an anxious child, and avoid common traps and pitfalls.
The Incredible Years: A Troubleshooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 3-8 Years
This book covers research-based parenting strategies for all families.
The tech solution : Creating healthy habits for kids growing up in a digital world
This books supports parents, caregivers and educators who want the best approach for raising kids in our digital world. It outlines short-term and potential long-term consequences of tech use.
Helping your child with extreme picky eating
A step-by-step guide for overcoming selective eating, food aversion, and feeding disorders.
What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers
This book offers parents and caregivers a step-by-step guide to some of the most common struggles for kids aged 5–12. It includes a framework to explore new ways of responding to your child.
The Quest for Rest
Looking for simple techniques to revamp your family's bedtime routine and wake up to a happy, healthy child? Discover sleep tips that will benefit your entire family.
Superflex: A superhero social thinking curriculum (2008)
This comic book is aimed at elementary school children to teach them how they can use strategies to self-regulate some of their own wayward, not quite so flexible thoughts and behaviours.
Managing Tourette Syndrome: A behavioral intervention: Parent workbook
This 11-session program uses Behaviour Therapy to help your child become aware of their tics and what makes them worse. The program includes relaxation techniques and relapse prevention strategies.
The Whole-Brain Child
This book is full of strategies and tips to help parents guide the growth of their children's emotional intelligence.
Sam's Journey: A Story of Somatization
Sam's Journey was developed with patients, families and mental health professionals from medical psychology and the integrative health team at BC Children's Hospital.
Chef Fromage Cookbook
The Chef Fromage Cookbook is an interactive healthy eating resource that includes lessons on food and safety skills, nutrition, and a variety of recipes and activities to facilitate for youth.
Chef Fromage Facilitator's Manual
The Chef Fromage Facilitator’s Manual was developed to help care providers facilitate the healthy eating lessons and activities for youth found in the Chef Fromage Cookbook.
The explosive child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children
Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding "explosive children" who are lacking some crucial skills and require a different approach to parenting.
Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter
This book includes concepts, principles and practical advice for parents and caregivers to satisfy their children’s inborn need to find direction by turning towards a source of authority, contact and warmth.
Forgetful Frankie: The World's Greatest Rock Skipper
Frankie has Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). In this illustrated book for kids, he shares the challenges and joys of living with FASD.
Taking charge of ADHD: the complete, authoritative guide for parents
A comprehensive resource for parents and caregivers that provides the knowledge, expert guidance and confidence to ensure that their children with ADHD get the care they deserve.