Books published by PESI, Inc

"Dr. Laura Markham's book is an extremely useful guide for parents in connecting with their children's emotions. It is highly gratifying to finally see a research-based guide for parents. Every parent will want a copy of this book." -- Dr. John Gottman, Author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child Experience a happier family life, with a lot less drama and a lot more love! In her ground breaking guide Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids, Dr. Laura Markham helped millions of parents better understand their children and their own emotions, so they could parent in a more empathetic and emotionally connected way. Now, parents can take Dr. Markham's simple yet transformative approach even deeper -- with this personalized, interactive and practice-filled companion workbook. Research-based, and parent-tested, the Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook will help parents: - Use games and exercises to increase laughter and play, while decreasing tantrums and fights. - Teach your brain new skills so you don't get upset so often and can calm down faster. - Practice discipline strategies that teach kids self-management and emotional intelligence. - Strengthen your bond with your child so they want to cooperate. - Discover simple mindfulness and meditation exercises to find peace in a busy home.

"Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups!

xpressive arts therapies can help children communicate problems, process emotions, and develop solutions, in a comfortable, non-threatening way. Expressive Therapies for Kids contains over 85 art, music, play and drama directives to use in school or a therapy office.Licensed educational psychologist and registered art therapist Dr. Kimberley Palmiotto has pulled together creative and engaging activities that can be used with children and teens to help manage symptoms and behaviors associated with: Autism Spectrum Disorder Anxiety Selective Mutism ADHD Emotional Dysregulation Intellectual Disabilities

Unique and creative warm-up exercises that facilitate communication, connection and creative expressionExpanding upon art therapist Susan Buchalter's celebrated 250 Brief, Creative& Practical Art Therapy Techniques, this follow-up book provides 200 more art exercises clinicians can use in art therapy and psychotherapy groups.With just a few simple materials, Buchalter provides endless opportunities for clients to create meaningful images, share their experiences, and become more focused and open in therapy. To make it easier for therapists, teachers, psychologists, counselors, and individuals, the exercises are categorized into beneficial themes: Self- Care Self-Compassion Mindfulness Stress & Anxiety Happiness Self-Awareness Self-Esteem & Self-Acceptance

65+ Ready-to-Use CBT worksheets that you can reproduce and use immediately with your clients.With step-by-step directions and therapeutic explanations for each worksheet, these simple, yet effective tools give clients more clarity, meaning, and beneficial feedback, plus tracks progress in a concrete way. Help clients get the most out of therapy by adapting these tools to their specific needs, symptoms, and goals.Improve Symptoms Associated with: Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Grief, Stress, Social Isolation, PTSD, Eating Disorders

This workbook will give you proven tools and techniques to help your clients overcome the debilitating negative thought patterns and feelings of never being good-enough that often result from core shame.

Unlock your client's innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativityFrom Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child, No-Drama Discipline, and The Power of Showing Up, comes the latest resource for parents, clinicians, and educators to nurture the positive potential in children. Expanding upon their acclaimed book The Yes Brain, this workbook companion continues to build on the skills needed to cultivate courage and emotion regulation in kids. The Yes Brain Workbook teaches caregivers how to cultivate a mindset in their children (and themselves!) that will encourage them to approach life with a "yes" state of mind. With an interactive format that includes worksheets, activities, self-reflections, and fun illustrations, parents will learn how to: Put into practice the fundamentals of a Yes Brain - balance, resilience, insight, and empathy - and how to strengthen them in real-world scenarios Recognize when kids need a gentle push out of a comfort zone vs. needing the "cushion" of safety and familiarity Develop strategies to reduce negative behavioral and emotional states (aggression and withdrawal) and expand their child's capacity for positivityThe Yes Brain Approach Teaches: Flexibility and adaptability Sound decision making and planning Regulation of emotions and body Personal insight Empathy Morality

Drs. Sokol and Fox have the knowledge base to bring you the most comprehensive and up-to-date information regarding CBT.Written for mental health professionals, students, trainers, supervisors, teachers, and clinicians of all levels, this workbook is filled with practical, easy-to-understand tools to help you put theory into practice.Filled with worksheets, coping cards, step-by-step plans and activities, this accessible guide will help you teach clients effective coping skills, which builds their confidence, and eliminates self-doubt-the most crucial part of treatment. These tools will help clients become their own therapist and sustain recovery across a variety of issues, including: Depression Bipolar Disorder Anxiety Anger Substance Abuse Personality Disorders PTSD Self-Harm and Suicidality Psychosis

In this comprehensive toolbox, Dr. David Pratt shares essential cognitive and behavioral skill building activities created and honed over his 40 year career.Each worksheet and handout is accompanied by straight-forward explanations, highlighted as "Therapist Tips" to guide the clinician in presenting the material to children and adolescents in an empathic and effective style. The highly practical interventions are structured activities that are reproducible and ready-to-go for sessions.Help your young clients get the most out of therapy, and start improving the challenges in their lives with: Tools for mood management Mindfulness practices Cognitive processing and cognitive restructuring Teaching essential social skills Game plans to face and fight anxiety Managing self-harm and suicidal urges Motivation counseling and goal setting Strategies to improve parent involvement

Bestselling author Judy Belmont has created another treasure chest of hands-on and easy-to-use handouts, activities, worksheets, mini-lessons and quizzes that help clients develop effective life skills.150 More Group Therapy Activities & TIPS, the fourth in her Therapeutic Toolbox series, provides a wealth of psycho-educational ideas with Belmont's signature T.I.P.s format ( Theory, Implementation, and Processing ).Ready-to-use tools include: Interactive strategies for leading successful group experiences DBT, CBT, ACT and positive psychology-inspired resources Communication skills-building activities Coping skills using mindfulness and stress resiliency practices Self-esteem and self-compassion guides for changing thoughts Fun team building exercises and icebreakers Practical resources for adults, adolescents & children

Get Kids to Listen, Stay Focused and OrganizedDealing with problem behaviors starts at home. The Parenting Toolbox is filled with easy-to-use strategies, backed by science, to overcome challenges and strengthen parent-child interactions - one worksheet, activity and exercise at a time. Help kids cope with their stressful moments and anxious thoughts Improve social skills with siblings, friends and peers at school Reduce tantrums and meltdowns to create a more peaceful home Diminish the daily fight over screen timeThe Therapists' Secret to Changing BehaviorsCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing negative thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. Brief, targeted exercises can teach ways to recognize and replace unhealthy thoughts, improving emotions and behaviors.

Do you feel misunderstood? Do mood swings hit you quickly and intensely? Are you susceptible to getting your "buttons pushed" more often than others? Can you love your partner with all your heart and passionate intensity one moment, and hate them just as much only an hour later? Do you constantly have a nagging voice in the back of your mind telling you someone you care about is going to leave you, and that you will never be able to make it in life without them?If the answer to the majority of these questions is "yes," it is likely that you have borderline personality disorder, or BPD.But there is hope. And good news -- BPD is a highly treatable disorder.Drawing from a variety of evidence-based approaches, the Borderline Personality Disorder Toolbox is a real-world self-help workbook. Escaping generalizations and stereotypes, this complete guide is filled with practical explanations, along with over 100 worksheets and activities to improve behavior. Highlights include: Empower yourself so others can't push your buttons Tips to cope with intense feelings Retrain your brain to constructively deal with distorted thoughts Take control of your emotions before they take control of you Tools to create a happier, healthier and more productive life!

Take advantage of the latest brain research and evidence-based best practices to get kids motivated, focused, organized, and performing closer to their real potential. ADHD and executive function expert Cindy Goldrich and Special Education teacher Carly Goldrich combined efforts to create this powerful resource to help teachers and professionals understand and connect with students. These practical tools and worksheets are designed to help students become resourceful, accountable, optimistic, and perseverant. Included for easy reproduction are resources and worksheets to address issues related to: Practical, non-distracting movement Improving task initiation, planning, and time-management Strengthen emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and frustration tolerance Teach effective communication and collaboration skills Manage stress and anxiety in school and at home Create a Growth Mindset temperament and improve perseverance Use goal-setting techniques to improve performance and confidence

The Acceptance and Mindfulness Toolbox for Children & Adolescents gives you the resources to help the children and adolescents better manage their behaviors and emotions. After years of clinical experience using these practical, evidence-based tools with young clients, the authors have put together over 75 worksheets, activities, exercises, and scripts to engage kids and keep therapy moving forward. Every page is dedicated to helping children, adolescents, and caregivers practice acceptance, mindfulness, values and commitment to build skills and cope with: Attachment and relational issues Trauma-related problems Stress, worry and OCD Depression and sadness Hostile or antisocial behaviors Gender and sexual identity concerns Life changes and transitions Self-harm and suicidal ideation Substance abuse and impulsivity

Dealing with ADHD-related difficulties is tough, especially for young people balancing school, friends, family and thinking about their futures.Author Dr. Melissa Springstead Cahill developed the mindfulness-based ANCHORED approach, to help teens become more focused, functional and happy, and make every day struggles easier to deal with.A: Attention and AcceptanceN: Natural AwarenessC: Concentrate on PurposeH: Happy HomeworkO: Open and OrganizedR: Recognize, Relax, and ReflectE: EmotionsD: DeterminationLook inside and find: - Mindfulness exercises - Worksheets - Meditation scriptsImprove: - Executive function skills - Attention & memory - Emotions - Interpersonal relationships - Ability to cope with stress

Independence is something all teens seek. They hope and dream they will someday maximize all they can do on their own. This is no less true for teenagers with autism. Autism & Independence is a new clinical resource to help teens and young adults with autism become their own person. Focusing on a population often overlooked, autism expert Dr. Daniel Marston wrote this game-changing guide, filled with strategies and skill building exercises. Proven strategies for finding employment, using public transportation and living on their own Tools to improve self-confidence in friendships and professional relationships Interventions to overcome challenges in the workplace Coping skills for anger, frustration and sadness Over 20 assessments for counseling sessions and moving therapy forward

Boost the power of mindfulness by making it fun and entertaining for kids! Learning verbal mindfulness strategies can be difficult for children and adolescents, let alone when kids have autism, anxiety, ADHD or other emotional regulation issues. That's why play therapist and counselor, Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS, has created 75 simple, playful and on-point interventions that combines mindfulness, expressive arts and play to help kids achieve greater self-regulation, focus more and stress less. Choose from a variety of playful, mindful, and art-based interventions: Breathing Drawing Coloring Mandala Nature Multi-Media Three-Dimensional Movement Games Storytelling Puppet Sensory Improvisational

In a society that values independence, self-preservation and individualistic thinking, we are missing the key to fulfillment: Connection through Attachment. Simply, attachment is the way that we connect to each other. Without attachment, people feel alone to deal with challenges they face, which leads to distress, dysfunction and mental health disorders. It is possible to repair dysfunctional attachment, but first it is necessary to recognize attachment style, unhealthy relationship patterns, and the impact they are having. Improve your client's relationships by teaching them strategies to feel more connected, reestablish trust, and restore positive emotions. Dr. Christina Reese, a recognized attachment and trauma professional, has created a comprehensive guide that explains attachment over a lifetime, and offers trauma-informed approaches to treat attachment at any age. Clinical examples, handouts and worksheets to use with clients of all ages Recognize attachment styles Identify key symptoms of attachment difficulties and their inception Interventions that repair attachment traumas to heal stress, shame, and anxiety Techniques to help clients improve their relationships (children, parents, friends, and significant others)

Overdoses have lowered the life expectancy in the United States for two years in a row. The leading cause -- opioids. This epidemic has spread through every sector of our country, destroying lives as parents, friends, families, and those entrapped by opioids struggle to find help.The opioids epidemic is dire, but there are answers -- and recovery is real.Dr. Charles Atkins, well-known opioids addiction expert, brings together current research, emerging therapies, and non-drug and integrative strategies in a practical guide for both professionals and the public. Why a "one-size-fits-all approach" to addiction doesn't work for opioid use disorders Recognizing the signs - when chronic-pain management turns into addiction Whole-person treatment plans to help manage craving, cope with stress, and avoid relapse How Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) can save lives Treatment from infants to older adults Real stories of recovery, and at times, loss

Invaluable tools you need to treat clients on the narcissistic spectrum, AND help their partners and children grow beyond the hurt and pain.Narcissism is a treatable condition, but working with these clients is no easy task. Developed from years of experience, Daniel Fox, PhD has created a three-sectioned approach, filled with unique worksheets, checklists and impactful exercises to help: Section 1: Clients on the Narcissistic Spectrum Diagnose resistant clients Reduce challenging symptoms and negative behaviors Move toward the final steps of successful treatmentSection 2: Partners in Relationship with an Individual on the Narcissistic Spectrum Help partners cope with and understand their significant other Evaluate the costs and benefits of their relationshipSection 3: Children of Individuals on the Narcissistic Spectrum Avoid and break free of the narcissistic family habits Raise their own children in a healthier environment

"Dealing with stress, anxiety and anger are important skills to learn, but not all kids learn those strategies naturally. The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook can help teach children to calm down, balance their energy and emotions, and process challenging feelings.