Hey Warrior
Kids can do amazing things with the right information. Understanding why anxiety feels the way it does and where the physical symptoms come from is a powerful step in turning anxiety around. Anxiety explained, kids empowered.
Purchase in the Clinic – $28.50 (hardcover)
Hey Awesome
If kids with anxiety could see their strengths, they would feel so much bigger than their anxiety. They would feel bigger than everything – as though a tiny, tip-toed stretch could have them touching the top of the world from where they are. This book is a reminder for all kids that everything they need to be brave, strong and brilliant is already in them.
Purchase in the Clinic – $28.50 (hardcover)
The Brain Forest
The Brain Forest is a celebration of neurodiversity for children! This book introduces young and old readers alike to the concept of neurodiversity and different neurotypes in the world.
Brains that go fast, brains that go slow, brains that do what they’re told, brains that say NO!
Whilst there are many ways brains can be, here are some brain types that get a mention:
- Neurotypical
- Autism
- ADHD
- Dyslexia
- OCD
- Pervasive Drive for Autonomy (PDA)
- Intellectual Disability
- Giftedness
- Dual Diagnosis
With vivid illustrations and stories, The Brain Forest serves as an engaging conversation starter and an introduction to the idea of accommodations, inclusion, and understanding for all. This must-have book for classrooms is the perfect way to introduce young minds to the concept of neurodiversity
Purchase in the Clinic – $29.95 (hardcover)
The Prince Boofhead Syndrome
The long awaited, highly anticipated companion volume to The Princess Bitchface Syndrome – the must-have manual for all parents of teenage boys.
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes that too many Australian boys have got it too easy – and the result is a generation of ‘boofheads’: boys with huge egos who think they are too good to stack the dishwasher or turn up to school. They expect the world and give little in return. But things are about to change.
From the author of the ground-breaking Australian bestseller The Princess Bitchface Syndrome and researcher Elly Robinson comes this essential companion book for boys. It serves as both a warning and a rescue manual for all desperate parents – why have some boys today become such egotistical and lazy creatures, what can you do to prevent it, and how do you deal with the situation if you’re caught up in the crisis?
This book will ask the tough questions and deliver straightforward advice so that the parents of today can take back control. It is essential reading for everyone living with a teenage boy.
Purchase in the Clinic – $23.00
The Princess Bitchface Syndrome
In this hard-hitting book, Michael Carr-Gregg focuses on the special trails of raising adolescent girls today: what to do when your previously quiet, loving daughter becomes a restless, rebellious stranger who behaves like a responsible adult one day and a vampish brat the next.
Part of the problem is that girls are becoming sexualised earlier and their physical development is shooting ahead of their cognitive capacities. By the time they turn 13 they look like they’re ready for anything – but they’re not. Yet, argues Carr-Gregg, many parents are surrendering their authority and allowing their daughters to be fast-tracked into pseudo-adulthood. We appear to be losing it when it comes to parenting our girls and its time to grab back the reins.
This book is must-read for every parent with an adolescent daughter.
Purchase in the Clinic – $23.00
The Whole-Brain Child
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your eleven-year-old sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No – it’s just their developing brain calling the shots.
In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling book Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids can seem-and feel-so out of control. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth. Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies.
Complete with clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles, and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.
Purchase in the Clinic – $35.00
Burnout: Solve your stress cycle
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men – and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions and live a more joyful life.
The gap between what it’s really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout, because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space between the two. How can you ‘love your body’ when everything around you tells you you’re inadequate? How do you ‘lean in’ at work when you’re already giving 110% and aren’t recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that is constantly telling you you’re too fat, too needy, too noisy and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., the bestselling author of Come as You Are, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion, and confront the obstacles that stand between women and well-being. With insights from the latest science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises.
Purchase in the Clinic – $25.00
The Happiness Trap
A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment.
Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And, unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse!
In this controversial but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harris reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in ‘The Happiness Trap’! He then provides an effective means to escape, through a revolutionary new approach which is shaking the very foundations of western psychology. This book is for everyone, from CEOs to sales staff, from astronauts to housewives. Whether you’re lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, suffering from anxiety or depression, or preparing for the performance of your life – within these pages you will learn scientifically proven techniques to:
- Reduce stress and worry
- Rise above fear, doubt and insecurity
- Handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively
- Break self-defeating habits
- Improve performance and find fulfilment in your work
- Build more satisfying relationships and, above all,
- Create a rich, full and meaningful life
Purchase in the Clinic – $35.00
Reinventing Your Life
Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviors that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough program.
Do you…
- Put the needs of others above your own?
- Start to panic when someone you love leaves–or threatens to?
- Often feel anxious about natural disasters, losing all your money, or getting seriously ill?
- Find that no matter how successful you are, you still feel unhappy, unfulfilled, or undeserving?
Unsatisfactory relationships, irrational lack of self-esteem, feelings of being unfulfilled–these are all problems that can be solved by changing the types of messages that people internalize. These self-defeating behavior patterns are called “lifetraps,” and Reinventing Your Life shows you how to stop the cycle that keeps you from attaining happiness.
Two of America’s leading psychologists, Jeffrey E. Young, Ph.D., and Janet S. Klosko, Ph.D., draw on the breakthrough principles of cognitive therapy to help you recognize and change negative thought patterns, without the aid of drugs or long-term traditional therapy. They describe eleven of the most common lifetraps, provide a diagnostic test for each, and offer step-by-step suggestions to help you break free of the traps. Thousands of men and women have seen the immediate and long-term results of the extraordinary program outlines in this clear, compassionate, liberating book. Its innovative approach to solving ongoing emotional problems will help you create a more fulfilling, productive life.
Purchase in the Clinic – $30.00
The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer
For: People experiencing pain
The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer is a key element in the Explain Pain toolkit. An easily accessible book for people experiencing pain, it introduces the ‘Protectometer’ – a ground breaking pain treatment tool. This handbook – your personal workbook – helps you understand your personal pain formula, identify your DIMs (Danger in Me) and SIMs (Safety in Me) and provides six clear strategies for recovery from pain. Discover more about DIMs and SIMs and the Protectometer on the noijam blog.
The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer is a stand-alone resource but if you want to delve deeper, Explain Pain Second Edition is the ideal companion with clear links provided throughout.
Purchase in the Clinic – $50.00
Running on Empty
Running on Empty is the first self-help book about Emotional Neglect: an invisible force from your childhood which you can’t see, but may be affecting you profoundly to this day. It is about what didn’t happen in your childhood, what wasn’t said, and what cannot be remembered.
Do you sometimes feel as if you’re just going through the motions in life? Are you good at looking and acting as if you’re fine, but secretly feel lonely and disconnected? Perhaps you have a fine life and are good at your work, but somehow it’s just not enough to make you happy.
If so, you are not alone. The world is full of people who have an innate sense that something is wrong with them. Who feel they live on the outside looking in, but have no explanation for their feeling and no way to put it into words. Who blame themselves for not being happier.
If you are one of these people, you may fear that you are not connected enough to your spouse, or that you don’t feel pleasure or love as profoundly as others do. Perhaps when you do experience strong emotions, you have difficulty understanding or tolerating them. You may drink too much, or eat too much, or risk too much, in an attempt to feel something good.
In over twenty years of practicing psychology, many people have arrived in Jonice Webb’s office, driven by the threat of divorce or the onset of depression, or by loneliness, and said, “Something is missing in me.”
Running on Empty will give you clear strategies for how to heal, and offers a special chapter for mental health professionals. In the world of human suffering, this book is an Emotional Smart Bomb meant to eradicate the effects of an invisible enemy.
Purchase in the Clinic – $30.00
Keep Sane and Parent On
Are you feeling overwhelmed by parenting?
Are you surprised by your reactions to your own children?
Do you struggle to experience the joy in parenthood?
Do you even have doubts that you’re a good enough parent?
In the haze of nappies, sleep deprivation, school drop off and pick up, washing and the vacuuming that never seems to be finished, have you forgotten who YOU used to be?
Parenting is so delightful sometimes right? But it’s equally, bone shatteringly, exhausting. To cope with the endless challenges, you DO need to have time out (even though it might not be how it was in your pre-parenting days). But honestly, how are you going with that?
In this book, clinical psychologist and mum Sarah Purvey shares her knowledge and personal experience to help you find balance. By learning to trust your parenting instinct, you can tune out from the judgement and endless serves of conflicting advice, and discover how the relationship and connection you have with yourself and your children is the key to successfully navigating the ride (without tearing your hair out).
So, read a page or two whenever you can – even if you only have a few minutes before your cherubs interrupt you!
You owe it to your kids, and you owe it to yourself…
Purchase in the Clinic – $35.00
The Invisible String
Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they’re all connected by an invisible string. “That’s impossible!” the children insist, but still they want to know more: “What kind of string?” The answer is the simple truth that binds us all: An Invisible String made of love. Even though you can’t see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love. Does everybody have an Invisible String? How far does it reach? Does it ever go away? This heartwarming picture book for all ages explores questions about the intangible yet unbreakable connections between us, and opens up deeper conversations about love.
Recommended and adopted by parenting blogs, bereavement support groups, hospice centers, foster care and social service agencies, military library services, church groups, and educators, The Invisible String offers a very simple approach to overcoming loneliness, separation, or loss with an imaginative twist that children easily understand and embrace, and delivers a particularly compelling message in today’s uncertain times. This special paperback edition includes includes vibrant new illustrations and an introduction from the author.
Purchase in the Clinic – $35.00
Coming Home to Autism
What does an autism diagnosis mean for everyday family life? Explore different rooms in the home to better understand how children with autism experience daily activities, and what you can do to support their development. Head to the bathroom for guidance on toilet training and introducing a calming bath time ritual. Discover how to create a safe haven for your child in the bedroom chapter, with tips to try before bedtime to help ease anxiety. Learn how to transform any corner of your home into a special place for sensory play, fun and learning. Settle down in the parents’ corner for top advice on remaining cool, calm and collected in the face of obstacles. Co-written by a mum and a speech-language therapist, and with many more rooms to visit, this book breaks down the information that you need to know to support children with autism at home.
Purchase in the Clinic – $32.00
Rainbow Brain: Mindset Matters
Rainbow Brain: Mindset Matters takes today’s youth and young adults on a whimsical journey to unlock the ultimate superpower – a growth mindset. With 42-pages of illustrations and text art, while still being an under 10 minute read, Rainbow Brain: Mindset Matters is a versatile tool for any classroom or private practice. The message fosters resilience, coping skills, and self-love. The outcome? Youth and teenagers who are healthier, happier, and action oriented to maximize their social-emotional wellbeing. Developmentally appropriate, with adult support, for upper elementary, yet complex enough for tweens and teens to enjoy, this book is the perfect compliment to every family, school, and counselor’s library. Written by a master’s level social worker and certified K-12 school counselor with 10-years experience in both community-based mental health and public education, Rainbow Brain: Mindset Matters offers a versatile road map for readers to reach their limitless potential. Rainbow Brain takes an often hard topic and makes it easy to explore. Words matter, therefore Rainbow Brain: Mindset Matters ensures every reader receives the message of unconditional positive regard as they pursue their dreams.
Purchase in the Clinic – $25.00
Stress Brain
CQ Psych Services stress balls are excellent for building hand strength and a range of fine motor exercises, as well as calming fidgety hands.
- Squeeze one for a quick pick me up or toss a few to your neighbouring co-workers.
- These stress balls are fun, cute, cool and squeezable foam stress relievers.
- They’re great for personal use, kids, meetings, training sessions, or as a random gift.
Purchase in the Clinic – $4.95