Courage to Change

What a Nice Guy Perfect Relationships, Secret Abuse by Susan Pines Divided into sections that end with questions for thought and for journaling, this new booklet explores the reasons why women stay in abusive relationships and provides the information they need to move from the abusive situation to safety. Helps the abused: learn the signs of abuse, recognize abuse is becoming dangerous, learn how to be safe during a violent incident, learn how to get away, learn how to stay safe after they leave. (Ages 16 & Up) ©2007 Click for ordering information		100 Interactive Activities for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery by Carol A. Butler, MS Ed, RN,C, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” With 100 plus activities, groups work through Anger Management, Assertion, Stress, Esteem, Sobriety, Problem Solving, and much more to learn self-sufficient survival skills. Spiral bound for easy reproduction. 100 Interactive Question Cards helps participants think, communicate, and interact on important, relevant topics. Each card supplies a succinct therapeutic concept from the book with a related question. Each card also has an optional interactive component in a box at the bottom, to be used at the leader’s discretion. (Ages 8 to 80.) Click for ordering information

The Bipolar Workbook Tools for Controling Your Mood Swings by Monica Ramirez Basco, PhD Delivers a hands-on resource that gives sufferers the edge they need to control their moods. Based on proven cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, the book offers a variety of tools that enable readers to recognize the early warning signs of an oncoming episode, develop plans for withstanding the seductive pull of manic episodes, and escape the paralysis of depression. Addresses overcoming denial of the initial diagnosis to fine-tuning treatments and maintaining gains. ©2006 Click for ordering information		Common Sense Parenting Learn-At-Home Video & DVD Kit Allows parents to learn effective parenting skills in their own homes, at their own pace. Addresses the needs of those who lack the time or resources to attend evening classes or workshops. Two videos with three hours content and workbook. A guide to confident parenting with techniques proven successful worldwide in thousands of homes. Click for ordering information

Cognitive Therapy Techniques A Practitioner’s Guide by Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Details the full variety of evidence-based techniques for specific client problems and therapeutic challenges. Effective ways to identify and challenge thoughts and core beliefs; modify patterns of worry, self-criticism and approval-seeking; evaluate personal schemas; intervene in emotional processes; and activate new experiences for the client. Over 80 reproducible client forms and handouts. Click for ordering information		Brainwave Symphony by Dr. Jeffery Thompson BRAINWAVE SYMPHONY combines carefully selected music from the baroque, classical, romantic, impressionistic, and twentieth-century eras with breakthrough audio technology to give you the best of classical wisdom and modern science. We all experience many states of consciousness, from ordinary waking and sleeping states to extraordinary states in which we are more at peace, particularly aware, or unusually creative. Each state has a unique pattern of brainwaves that can be mapped and measured. Brainwave Symphony uses of inaudible pulses of sound, based on these brain maps, to trigger your brain to produce the state you want to experience. CD1 Alpha Relax & Let Go CD2 Beta Energize & Focus CD3 Delta Unwind & Sleep CD4 Theta Meditate & Create Click for ordering information