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In the past, mental health was rarely discussed. It was seen as a private or even embarrassing issue, and anyone with a mental illness was generally expected to keep it a secret. Today, however, many people have recognized the benefits of being open and honest about mental health. Through informative fact boxes, helpful graphic organizers, and engaging text, readers learn the basics about what mental health means. This allows them to become cognizant...
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Panic attacks can strike at any time, making a person feel a strong physical response to stress and anxiety. This book helps readers understand what a panic attack is and how they can deal with an attack if it arises. They'll learn about the mental and physical symptoms of panic attacks and gain various coping strategies. This book provides readers with the tools to get help for their panic attacks and ways to help others who might be suffering from...
123) Why Is Sam So Sad?
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Sam has seasonal affective disorder or SAD. He will tell you all about it from a child's view. Sam feels the winters are long and dark. The weather saps your energy.
What causes it? Lack of sunlight.
What season is the worst for people with SAD?
What happens when you are SAD? You become lonely.
Who do you talk to when you are SAD? No one.
Are there things to do when SAD takes over? You bet!
Come and learn what you can do during the SAD season.
After...
124) A Book About Anxiety
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Anxiety can affect people of all ages, both children and adults. It can be a difficult thing to deal with and understand. This helpful guide offers a wealth of information about the topic. Readers will learn about signs and symptoms of anxiety, read personal accounts from those who have experienced it, and find out about treatments. This complex topic is made manageable through the use of straightforward text, full-color photographs, and helpful diagrams....
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Raves for the Raven Who is a Therapist This book grabs you from the outset and takes you on a hopeful journey: A colorful, spunky raven (with a Ph.D.) travels to Australia to meet a quokka who has lost his true smile, finds it hard to move and isn't hanging out with friends anymore. Dr. G knows that depression is the culprit, and extends a listening ear and helping hand, all the while reassuring the quokka that lots of adults and kids feel depression,...
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Le 31 décembre à minuit, ma meilleure amie Stéphanie et moi, on a formulé le souhait de trouver l'amour avant la fin de l'année scolaire. En fait, on s'est promis de sortir avec les jumeaux Perron, les plus beaux gars de l'école, pour qu'ils soient nos cavaliers au bal de fin d'études.
Mon amie ne croyait pas que c'était possible, mais, maintenant qu'elle fréquente Jeff Perron, elle se met à penser que les rêves peuvent devenir réalité....
127) Blue Bear
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Children can often use help in understanding and verbalizing their feelings in safe, simple, comforting, and encouraging ways. They must know they are not alone and that things will change and get better. Blue Bear: A Children's Book about Depression addresses the experience of the child with the hurt, but also helps a child know how to help someone who may be hurting. Children will see how Blue Bear starts changing and healing, through the power...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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The growing mental health crisis cannot be ignored. Medical experts warn that doing so would cost countries trillions of dollars and more importantly, millions of lives. Showcasing activists and leaders who are fighting to address mental health issues and overcome the stigmas associated with them, this informative book explains what the mental health crisis is and what can be done about it. Young readers will gain a deeper understanding of mental...
129) Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that affects children, adolescents, and adults. Also called manic-depressive illness, people with this disorder experience unusually intense mood changes called mood episodes, which can be dangerous. This book describes the risk factors that contribute to bipolar disorder, including genetics and abnormal brain structure and function. It also clearly explains how the illness is diagnosed and treated. An...
130) Fen's Drop of Gray
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Little Fen loves all of the beautiful colors in the world and loves capturing them with her treasured set of paints. One day, Fen notices a little drop of gray in her paints and can't seem to stop it from spreading. Before long the gray is everywhere, and Fen no longer enjoys doing what she loves the most. With a little encouragement from her mother, Fen finds a way to put the colors back in her world and begin enjoying life again. Fen's Drop of Gray...
131) Phobias
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Phobias are excessive, irrational fears that can be severe and debilitating. With descriptions of the symptoms of specific phobias and other anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and social phobia, this book is a helpful resource. The text explains multiple theories about the cause of phobias. It also explains what recent brain research has revealed about the neurobiological processes underlying fear and phobia. Additional chapters describe...
132) A Book About OCD
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Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, affects millions of Americans. Readers of this informative volume will learn all about the symptoms and signs of this condition, as well as possible treatments. Additionally, they'll read accounts from people who have experienced OCD themselves. Colorful photographs and eye-catching fact boxes hold readers' attention, while engaging text aids in the comprehension of key concepts. This supportive guide is perfect...
133) Henry's Hope
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Henry's mind is the birthplace of Hope, a little thought who goes around looking for reasons to stay. On Hope's journey, it encounters other thoughts, making friends and making enemies. Even in the darkest times, Hope is able to find a reason to stay, which eventually leads to a complete change within the mindscape.
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Based on true events that happened in Jessica's life, this story details how she survived being molested, abused, raped, hated, neglected, and held hostage and her fight to protect her children from a cycle of abuse that began during her childhood.
After years of sexual abuse from her stepfather, allowed by her mother, Jessica eventually escaped by marrying an older man at just fifteen. When they moved to Costa Rica, that relationship spiraled...
135) Estado mental
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Estado Mental es un emocionante drama sobrenatural y una exploración de la dinámica social adolescente que te romperá el corazón.
-D. J. Butler, autor de Witchy Eye
Steven y Lindsay peleaban constantemente. Pero no siempre fue así.
En un giro trágico de su historia de amor, Lindsay dice que las voces la obligan. Cuando ella es incapaz de resistir el canto de sirena del olvido, Steven se queda con los jirones que era su vida juntos.
Todos...
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Depression and stress effect close to 30 percent of all teens; a staggering statistic. Stress and anxiety can exhibit in teens by feeling overwhelmed, sad or depressed and tired. This book provides teens with the tools and vocabulary they need to express how they are feeling and when to seek help. Personal interviews with teens coping with depression and stress are revealed as well as warning signs, treatment options, and most importantly, solutions....
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Martin's sister worries about big things, and little things, and everything in between. Martin comes up with a plan to help, but will it stop her worrying?Do Fruit Worry About Getting Fat? is the third picture book from writer-illustrator duo Helen Vivienne Fletcher and Ian Garmonsway. If you like quirky stories, gorgeous illustrations and a good dash of humour, then you'll love Helen and Ian's touching new book.
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Pour ma dernière année au secondaire, j'ai droit à une nouvelle école. Encore une. Mais j'ai l'habitude. Mes parents déménagent souvent. Au début, c'était difficile; toutefois, au fil du temps, je me suis réglée.
Je suis une horloge qui fonctionne selon son propre rythme: régulier, fixe, immuable. La clé de ma stabilité? Je n'ai besoin de personne. Je n'ai pas d'amis. Ça pourrait sembler triste, mais, pour moi, c'est reposant. Avoir...
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Max's parents give him a very special gift: a tiny, magical box that will hold everything, from his toys to his feelings. Max learns, however, that feelings can't be put away as easily as toys. Each negative emotion he feels-anger, embarrassment, sadness, loneliness-gets added to the box, which grows and grows. Eventually it is so large that it keeps him from doing what he loves, like riding his bike and climbing trees. With some help from his friends...
140) Purge
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From acclaimed author Sarah Darer Littman, a striking story about a girl's recovery from bulimia in the tradition of CUT, PERFECT, and GIRL INTERRUPTED.
Janie Ryman hates throwing up. So why does she binge eat and then stick her fingers down her throat several times a day? That's what the doctors and psychiatrists at Golden Slopes hope to help her discover. But first Janie must survive everyday conflicts between the Barfers and the Starvers, attempts...
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