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Francis Tabone
The ASD Independence Workbook offers powerful skills to help teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) successfully navigate the skills required for daily living and integration into their communities.
Teens and young adults with ASD face many unique challenges on the road to growing up. Daily interactions that we often take for granted—yet are imperative for living independently—can be particularly difficult. People with ASD require practice with simple activities and interactions in school, in the community, and on the job site. So how can you help the teen in your life gain the skills needed to successfully transition into adulthood?
This easy-to-follow and engaging workbook is designed to help young adults ages fourteen and up develop invaluable communication skills and practice with interactions they would encounter in everyday life. Teens will also find information on topics that are imperative for a successful transition into adulthood—including health and safety, self-care, and more. This unique book not only focuses on what adaptive skills are needed in the real world, but also gives teens with ASD the ability to practice these skills, either independently or with a teacher/caregiver.
Give the teen in your life the gift of independence. With this workbook, they will be one step closer to leading full, productive, and meaningful lives.
Kristin L. Dempsey
Is it time for a change? This evidence-based workbook will help you reevaluate your relationship with addictive substances, and offers a powerful alternative to “abstinence-only” approaches.
Do you feel like you’re drinking too much or using too much, but you don’t necessarily want to give it up for good? A powerful alternative to “abstinence-only” approaches, the “harm reduction” model outlined in this evidence-based workbook draws on practices from motivational interviewing (MI) to help you explore your relationship with substance abuse, and find the motivation needed to create an individualized recovery plan.
In The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction, you’ll find skills-based exercises to help you focus on self-reflection; identify your strengths; discover common “life themes,” values, and goals; and explore different reasons you may have for change. Most importantly, you’ll find the tools needed to create your own “action plan” for moving forward and changing your relationship to substances.
This workbook will help you:
Explore your relationship to substance abuse
Identify your strengths, values, and goals
Find your own motivations to change
Change doesn’t have to happen overnight—it can happen at your own pace. If you’re ready to transform your relationship with addictive substances and change your life for the better, this workbook can help you get started now.
Jill S. Levenson, Ph.D. & John W. Morin, Ph.D.
The Road to Freedom has been a staple of adult sexual offender treatment for two decades. In this fourth edition, the authors have incorporated contemporary theories, models, and evidence-informed best practices for prevention of sexual re-offending, while keeping the structure of the previous edition to allow for easy transition from old to new.
The Road to Freedom is solidly grounded in the latest best practices in the field. It is informed by literature about the neuroscience of trauma, developmental psychopathology, principles of effective psychotherapy, strengths-based and client-centered practices, the risk-need-responsivity model, relapse prevention, cognitive schema theory, self-regulation, self-efficacy, relationships and communication skills, and criminal desistance.
Framing sexual offending within a larger context of relational patterns, this workbook helps each client learn to meet needs in healthy ways. A strengths-based focus on healthy sexuality and self-regulation avoids confrontational and shaming language.
In a conversational tone, the authors provide a foundation of knowledge for clients, with case scenarios illustrating concepts through examples based on real life.
Janine Halloran, Robyn Silverman (Foreword by)
Welcome to the modern world, where if you’re not feeling stressed and overwhelmed, you’re not paying attention. Anxiety levels have increased exponentially as we scramble to cope with the demands and distractions of a society addicted to perpetual striving. From the author of the best-selling self-help guide, Coping Skills for Kids and Teens, this comprehensive book invites everyone experiencing stress, burnout, and overwhelm to cultivate a personalized set of coping skills to master the hectic pace of life, stay focused, and find balance.
Powerful skills and strategies to relax, regulate, and thrive in a fast-paced, anxious world.
Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher, Julianna Gorder
Anxiety is often driven by an intense desire to control one’s life, surroundings, and relationships. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and pioneering research, this workbook illuminates how maladaptive overcontrol fuels anxiety—and how to break free. Grounded in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), this skills-based, evidence-based guide empowers readers to let go of rigid control and perfectionism, embrace openness, and cultivate authentic connection with others for lasting calm and well-being.
What if the key to easing your anxiety isn’t more control, but learning to let go?
2023 International Book Award Recipient
Joe Conrad, Matthew McKay (Contributions by), Stan Tatkin (Contributions by), Edmund J. Bourne (Contributions by), Glenn R. Schiraldi (Contributions by), Randy J. Paterson (Contributions by), Michael Barnett (Contributions by)
Powered by the hugely popular Man Therapy® brand, this everyman’s guide combines humor, evidence-based skills, and real-world advice to help men manage stress, depression, anger, and loneliness while building resilience and stronger relationships. Built for the men who might never pick up a traditional self-help book, this guide delivers real tools in a voice they can trust.
Practical tools for men’s mental health, no couch required.
Speaker Recommended
This compelling story, based on true events, is written from the victim’s point of view and depicts how manipulation, intimidation, and cruelty of violence against women can be devastating and lasting. 19-year-old Lacey Lockwood, a beautiful, smart college student, is murdered by her possessive, controlling ex-boyfriend. After her death, she becomes trapped inside the body of Lisette La Tour, a straight-talking, no-nonsense stripper, who has been wounded by an abusive childhood and who dances under the name of “Attila the Hunny.” Lacey and Lisette share the spotlight on stage as well as on an urgent journey to avenge what has happened to them, move beyond the abuse in their lives, and discover that living well is, indeed, the best revenge. This inspirational story shows how anyone can triumph if they have forgiveness, courage, and strength.
This compelling story, based on true events, is written from the victim's point of view and depicts how manipulation, intimidation, and cruelty of violence against women can be devastating and lasting. This is the second in the three-book, national award-winning The Best Revenge Series. Ten years after the murder of her friend Lacey Lockhart, Lisette LaTour revisits the college town where Lacey was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend, Ari. Surprised by the changes in the campus and how well Lacey’s friends are doing, Lisette feels lost in her own life. No longer dancing under the name of Attila the Hunny and adrift as to her career goals, she longs to connect with something bigger and deeper in her life. But when Ambrose, the angry, homeless man from a decade ago, finds her and proposes a scheme, she senses danger. Yet she can’t help wanting to open up to feelings she hasn’t experienced since her mother Marie’s death when she was a child. Can Lisette risk everything to find the unconditional love she has always wanted or is that too much to ask? This inspirational story shows how anyone can triumph if they have forgiveness, courage, and strength.
Azim Khamisa
“Bust him, Bone!“ A single shot from the 9mm handgun exploded in the night air. Tariq Khamisa, 20-year-old college student and part-time pizza deliverer, lay dead in the front seat of his car. The killer: eighth-grader Tony Hicks. So began the bardo of Azim Khamisa, Tariq’s father. ”Bardo” is a Tibetan Buddhist concept Azim came upon shortly after the murder. It is a gap between the end of one life state and the onset of another. The loss of his only son ended forever the life Azim had known. He was thrown into a nightmarish bardo through which he had to find his way. But his strong Islamic Ismaili faith and his determination to make his son’s death meaningful transformed Azim’s bardo into a remarkable journey. A spiritual teacher started his path by telling him that compassionate acts, undertaken in the name of the departed, are ”spiritual currency” that speed the soul’s journey. Azim searched his heart. He found no desire for vengeance there. “From the beginning, I saw victims at both ends of that gun,” he said. In an extraordinary act, he reached out to the family of his son’s killer. “We both carry a burden of loss. Help me carry mine. Let me help you carry yours,” was the message he conveyed to Ples Felix, Tony’s grandfather. He discovered in Ples a faith as strong as his own, and a similar burning desire to end the plague of youth violence. Azim established the Tariq Khamisa Foundation to do this work. Its award winning programs in the San Diego schools use powerful, real-life dramas to teach kids that they have the ability—and the responsibility—to choose nonviolent solutions to problems. Ples is vice chairman of the Foundation and serves on the Board of Trustees. Azim’s journey also led him to discover an approach to criminal justice that he believes is a model for the future. Restorative justice seeks to restore wholeness to victims and communities when crimes are committed. Importantly, it also offers perpetrators an opportunity to redeem themselves as contributing, responsible members of society. This is a win-win process and is especially valuable in cases involving juvenile criminals. From Murder to Forgiveness is a powerful and inspiring story that offers hope for the restoration of lives brutalized by acts of violence.
Azim Khamisa
From Forgiveness to Fulfillment – a sequel to Azim’s first book, From Murder to Forgiveness – beautifully illustrates how Azim has found fulfillment through forgiveness, detailing the evolution of a father dedicated to healing not only his heart, but also the wounds of our society.
Azim Khamisa
From Fulfillment to Peace, a third book in a trilogy, is the culmination of a powerfully transforming journey that began on the morning of January 22, 1995. That was when Azim Khamisa received a devastating call informing him that his only son Tariq had been shot and killed. Along the path of healing, forgiveness and also redemption, Azim created a peace formula that would guide his life and be a backbone for this book, which weaves nuggets of spiritual wisdom to create a road-map with detailed directions. Join Azim on this road-map that guides you to continually return to the high vibratory emotions that are essential to maintaining peace – no matter what happens in your life.
Written by one of the nation’s leading practitioners in the field of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation, this comprehensive resource fills a void in the literature to provide indepth knowledge of current interventions for treating dissociation in youth. It describes a detailed, careful assessment process and creative, evidence-supported techniques for helping children and their families to heal from chaotic, traumatizing experiences. With both a theoretical and practical focus, the book offers proven strategies for successfully treating children and adolescents with varying degrees ofdisissociation and comorbid symptoms. It also integrates adjunct therapies in environments beyond those of traditional psychotherapy, such as school, and describes howtheir strategies can be used effectively to augment therapy and understand dissociative children.
Based on a model integrating five prominent therapeutic modalities, and underscoring the importance of attachment style, the book focuses on the neurobiology of trauma, a high comorbidity of symptoms, specialized clinical interventions, psychopharmacology, and family intervention techniques. Also addressed are adjunct therapies in art and EMDR. In addition, the book provides a window into the effects of traumatic events such as medical illness that may be overlooked, and safe techniques with dissociative youth who are exhibiting dangerous behaviors. Rich clinical examples demonstrate the various phases of treatment and offer a window into the internal world of dissociative children.
Key Features:
Integrates psychotherapy with EMDR, art therapy, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology
Distills current research on neurobiology of trauma and how to intervene with specially designed treatment strategies
Provides in-depth knowledge of the latest creative interventions for treatment of childhood dissociation and comorbid symptoms
Sensitizes the therapist to often overlooked traumatic events, such as medical illness, that can exacerbate symptoms
Maralee McLean
Prosecuted But Not Silenced is a powerful documentary about a mother and daughter's tragic involvement with the judicial system when there were allegations of child sexual abuse―a human rights and civil rights issue for women and children. It is an important educational tool for judges, lawyers, social workers, therapists, politicians, and the general public so that people realize what still occurs today. A National Health Crisis, Maralee’s story reveals the last taboo and a crime that needs the public's attention, and emphasizes the need for training in the dynamics of maltreatment so that no more mothers have to suffer what happened to Maralee and her daughter.
This guide, the second book in the 3-book Thriver Zone series offers a road map for the journey to the real you to assist victims of abuse on their journey from victim to survivor to thriver. With deliberate intention readers can now …
• Get positive energy and emotion.
• Focus your desires.
• Overcome your fears and limiting beliefs about yourself.
• Find the Real YOU, a part of you untouched by all that has happened.
Stay in the Thriver Zone where infinite possibilities lie and discover your passion and authentic self.
The innovative material in this guide is valuable not only for victims of abuse but also for their families, friends, counselors, therapists, crisis center staffs, and attorneys. It is a resource for these helpers and supporters, offering a process for the journey to thriving for those caught in this web of abuse.
Michele Koonin, Irean Hilt