Leaf, Caroline
Summary: "Bestselling author and neuroscientist offers simple, scientifically proven steps to help parents show their children how to overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts, so they can replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: Entrepreneur and speaker Jess Ekstrom helps readers let go of cynicism and negativity and start viewing their challenges through the lens of opportunity and optimism, showing us how to start seeing the good in the world so that we can become the good in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 EKSSummary: This new approach to working with children and young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) fosters the characteristics that will be most useful to them in society and in life in general. Children with ASD often have difficulties with communication, emotional regulation, anxiety, executive functioning, and building relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley 2011
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 HOWCliff, Sophie
Summary: "Research tells us that joy has a whole host of health benefits and now using the tools in this book, you can start taking the necessary daily steps toward building a life that lights you up instead of drags you down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Star Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 CLIKashdan, Todd.
Summary: "In The Upside of Your Dark Side, two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness, kindness, and positivity can take us far, they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions such as anger,anxiety, guilt, and sadness might feel uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. For instance: - Anger fuels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 KASDrinko, Clay
Summary: "In Play Your Way Sane, educator Clay Drinko offers over a hundred simple games to help readers feel more present, less anxious, more positive, and more connected to other people. Divided into 10 sections, including Calm the Hell Down, Killing Debbie Downer, and Thou Shalt Not Judge, the book draws on the principles of improve comedy and cognitive-behavioral therapy, in a funny, irreverent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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Summary: Explains the four pillars of well-being--meaning and purpose, positive emotions, relationships, and accomplishment--placing emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important for achieving a life of fulfillment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Psych SeliqmanBurkeman, Oliver.
Summary: Exploring the dark side of the theories put forth by such icons as Norman Vincent Peale and Eckhart Tolle by looking to both ancient philosophy and current business theory, Burkeman--a feature writer for British newspaper The Guardian--offers up the counterintuitive idea that only by embracing and examining failure and loss and unhappiness will we become free of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 ACHPratt, George J.
Summary: This revolutionary approach to happiness, developed by two prominent leaders in the field of psychology, combines six decades of clinical experience with the most up-to-date research to help readers profoundly and positively transform their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 PRAScioli, Anthony.
Summary: Hope in the Age of Anxiety identifies the skills needed to cultivate hope, and offers suggestions for using these capacities to realize your life goals, support health and healing, strengthen relationships, enhance spirituality, and inoculate yourself against the despair that engulfs many individuals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 149.5 SCILomas, Tim
Summary: "A short, reader-friendly treatment of happiness from a leading figure in positive psychology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 LOMEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EHRHaltzman, Scott
Summary: Outlines an approach to a satisfying family life regardless of a family unit's untraditional composition that emphasizes the author's "positive psychology" method of addressing problems in which each member is accepted and included in a network of support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.78 HALBernstein, Jeffrey
Summary: Between school pressures, friends, dating, social media, and planning for the future--is it any wonder today's teens are stressed out? In The Stress Survival Guide for Teens, clinical psychologist Jeffrey Bernstein offers practical and easy-to-learn tips based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and positive psychology to show teens how to keep stress and worry from taking over their life so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books 2019