Resources at The Kid's Therapy Center
Childhood Resources
Parenting books:
Five Love Languages
Positive Parenting with a Plan
Child Abuse
Stop It Now: Child abuse prevention
Darkness to Light: Child abuse prevention
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Valerie Meyers is a trained facilitator in Stewards of Children
Childhood Disorders
Self Injury
Self Mutilators Anonymous - www.selfmutilatorsanonymous.org - "Self Mutilators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other, that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from physical self-mutilation."
Nonverbal Learning Disorder:
Grief and Loss:
Books for Grief and Loss:
The Next Place by Warren Hanson
An inspirational journey of light and hope. Beautifully poetic and heart warming illustrations.
When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief by Marge Heegaard
An activity book designed to teach basic concepts of death and help children understand and express feeling when someone special dies.
Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups by William C Kroen Ph.D LMHC
This book helps caregivers understand how their child may respond to a death and how they may preceive it. Also, suggestions and strategies are shared when responding to children from infancy to age 18 when they experience a death.
When Dinosaurs Die: A guide to Understanding Death * by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Question and answer book about death honestly told with delightful illustrations.