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Sexuality Curriculum for Abused Children and Young Adolescents and Their Parents
Toni Cavanagh Johnson

Regular Price: $27.00

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This curriculum of over 50 structured exercises – for use with children six years old up to young adolescents, and their parents – is specifically designed to combat negative effects of abuse and neglect on the sexual development of young people. Thought-provoking exercises engage youth and parents in discussions toward a deeper understanding of abuse, including: sexual values; attitudes, values, and sexual behavior; myths; sexual object choice; boundaries; sexual harassment; puberty; conception and contraception; and STDs. Parents learn how to talk to children and adolescents about sexuality and to respond appropriately to their sexual behaviors. Youth get tips on how to talk to their parents about sex. Parents, young adolescents and children together and separately complete exercises, games and role-plays with eye-catching, appealing, hand drawn graphics. Learn More

Growing Beyond Treatment Manual: A Workbook for Sexually Abusive Teenage Girls
Susan L. Robinson, LCSW

Regular Price: $25.00

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Growing Beyond Treatment Manual (2002) is the therapist’s and clinician’s guide to Susan Robinson’s first-of-its-kind workbook for adolescent females who sexually abuse. This essential companion manual explains the purpose for each chapter in the workbook, provides answers to the self-administered workbook quizzes, lists web sites and other resources for information on working with adolescent females, and includes original experiential exercises to be used with each workbook chapter. Learn More

Strong at the Broken Places: Building Reciliency in Survivors of Trauma
Linda T. Stanford

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Author and therapist Linda Sanford has documented the successes of 20 adults who prevailed over childhoods of sexual and physical abuse, neglect, parental substance abuse and domestic violence. One of the first popular books on resiliency, Strong at the Broken Places was written for every survivor, friend, family member, mentor or helping professional who seeks self-forgiveness and healing.

Linda T. Sanford, LICSW, also wrote The Silent Children and co-authored Women and Self-Esteem. She trains and consults nationwide. Learn More

Paths to Wellness en Español! A Holistic Approach and Guide for Personal Recovery
Robert E. Longo

Regular Price: $35.00

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To reach out to a growing client population that may have difficulty in English, NEARI Press has had this widely used and complete book translated into Spanish.

Paths to Wellness focuses on clients who present with any of three major problem areas: alcohol and substance abuse; violent and assaultive behaviors with anger issues; and inappropriate, abusive, or illegal sexual
behaviors.

Written in language that is easy to read and understand, the book can be used by both adolescent and adult clients and patients in conjunction with inpatient and community-based treatment programs, self-help groups, and in other settings.

This unique guide teaches readers to understand their unhealthy cycles of acting out and how to move into healthy lifestyles. Chapter topics include accepting problems, denial, the four basic needs, the four aspects of self, core values and beliefs, healthy and unhealthy cycles, relapse prevention, interventions, and more, including homework assignments and exercises with each chapter.

If your program has funding for only one treatment resource, this is the book. Learn More

Moving Beyond: Relapse Prevention Student Manual
Thomas F. Leversee

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In Moving Beyond Tom Leversee has upgraded and revised traditional approaches to enhance the teaching of Relapse Prevention to adolescents. Clear goals and strong structure provide a firm grounding for young people dealing with their sexually abusive behaviors. With no sense of being talked down to, adolescents begin learning their relapse chains and what goes into relapse prevention plans from the first page. Learn More

Moving Beyond Sexually Abusive Behavior: A Relapse Prevention Curriculum
Thomas F. Leversee

Regular Price: $25.00

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This curriculum is a comprehensive guide and manual for therapists on how best to teach Relapse Prevention to adolescents. It builds an unambiguous, strong structure for making clear the lesson of permanently stopping sexually abusive behaviors. The curriculum sets a foundation; identifies internal and external factors that increase risk; recognizes new coping skills; and outlines the requirements of external supervision during transition and aftercare. Learn More

Lessons from the Lion's Den: Therapeutic Management of Children in Psychiatric Hospitals and Treatment Centers
Nancy S. Cotton

Regular Price: $34.00

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Lion’s Den (1993) is a compassionate and inspirational guidebook for clinicians working with hard-to-reach emotionally disturbed children that outlines specific actions to apply to daily situations and behavioral crises. Distilling her work with 600 child clients into clinical vignettes, Cotton explains with humor, honesty and wisdom the why behind the what, showing how to involve families and avoid professional burnout. Her updated preface (2004) points the way toward adapting her methods for briefer stays and less restrictive environments. Learn More

New Hope for Youth: Experiential Exercises for Children and Adolescents
Robert E. Longo with Deborah Price Longo

Regular Price: $35.00

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Children and adolescents have many styles of learning and often respond to experiential exercises when sit-down talk therapy does not work. New Hope for Youth offers over 70 experiential exercises that can be used with children and adolescents. Beginning with a brief overview of child development, authors Rob and Deborah Longo review the basics of doing experiential work, offer facilitator guidelines, and provide four levels of exercises for clients.
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Paths to Wellness: A Holistic Approach and Guide for Personal Recovery
Robert E. Longo

Regular Price: $35.00

Special Price: $24.00

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Paths to Wellness (2001) focuses on clients who present with any of three major problem areas: alcohol and substance abuse; violent and assaultive behaviors with anger issues; and inappropriate, abusive, or illegal sexual behaviors. Written in language that is easy to read and understand, the book can be used by both adolescent and adult clients and patients in conjunction with inpatient and community-based treatment programs, self-help groups, and in other settings. This unique guide teaches readers to understand their unhealthy cycles of acting out and how to move into healthy lifestyles. Chapter topics include accepting problems, denial, the four basic needs, the four aspects of self, core values and beliefs, healthy and unhealthy cycles, relapse prevention, interventions, and more, including homework assignments and exercises with each chapter. If your program has funding for only one treatment resource, this is the book. Learn More

Stages of Accomplishment - Clinician's Manual and All 4 Workbooks
Phil Rich

Regular Price: $71.00

Special Price: $49.00

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Stages of Achievement is a set of four inter-related workbooks that assist in the treatment of sexually abusive or sexually troubled adolescents. Building from simpler ideas to more complex and richer concepts, the workbooks take youth through a series of guided exercises that touch on many of the most significant elements of treatment. An “Introduction to Treatment” focuses upon basic concepts and sets the foundation for the workbooks that follow. “Understanding Yourself” helps youth focus upon and understand emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and thinking errors. “Understanding Dysfunctional Behavior” identifies and works through behavioral cycles, safe behavior, and relapse prevention. “Hitting The Target: Making Change Permanent” addresses empathy, victim awareness, community service, communication skills, and healthy relationships.

Augmenting individualized treatment, the workbooks are designed to be used in community-based or residential care settings. The accompanying Clinician’s Guide will help guide therapists in their use of the workbooks, and includes supplemental tests to ensure retention of learning. Designed for use with adolescent boys of average cognitive abilities, the Guide offers concrete ideas for adapting the workbooks to other populations of sexually abusive youth.
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Stages of Accomplishment - Set of All 4 Workbooks
Phil Rich

Regular Price: $56.00

Special Price: $39.00

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Stages of Achievement is a set of four inter-related work- books that assist in the treatment of sexually abusive or sexually troubled adolescents. Building from simpler ideas to more complex and richer concepts, the workbooks take youth through a series of guided exercises that touch on many of the most significant elements of treatment. An “Introduction to Treatment, Stage I” focuses upon basic concepts and sets the foundation for the workbooks that follow.

Understanding Yourself, Stage II helps youth focus upon and understand emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and thinking errors; Understanding Dysfunctional Behavior, Stage III identifies and works through behavioral cycles, safe behavior, and relapse prevention; Hitting The Target: Making Change Permanent, Stage IV addresses empathy, victim awareness, community service, communication skills, and healthy relationships.

Augmenting individualized treatment, the workbooks are designed to be used in community-based or residential care settings. The accompanying Clinician’s Guide will help guide therapists in their use of the workbooks, and includes
supplemental tests to ensure retention of learning. Designed for use with
adolescent boys of average cognitive abilities, the guide offers concrete ideas
for adapting the workbooks to other populations of sexually abusive youth.



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2+ for $36, 6+ for $33, 12+ for $30 Learn More

Using Conscience as a Guide: Enhancing Sex Offender Treatment in the Moral Domain
Niki Delson

Regular Price: $25.00

Special Price: $14.00

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Conscience theory brings together five domains of moral development and functioning: attachment; moral-emotional responsiveness; personal value systems; values in action; and conscience. Niki Delson’s work addresses a major task in treating patients with sexual behavior and sexual aggression problems by teaching therapists and treatment providers how to work with conscience and conscience development with a 16-week curriculum. Learn More

Current Perspectives: Working with Sexually Aggressive Youth and Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems
(Editors) Robert E. Longo & David S. Prescott
$99.00
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Current Perspectives represents the best thinking and practice from leaders and front-line workers who assess and treat sexually aggressive and abusive adolescents and young people with sexual behavior problems. With chapters ranging from considerations of diversity to ethics and developing integrity, from developmental concerns in pre-pubertal clients to girls with sexually abusive behaviors, from research on resilience to an examination of attachment styles, from drama therapy to neurological impacts, Current Perspectives is the best one-volume compendium available.

Drawing on the expertise of contributors including John Hunter, Toni Cavanagh Johnson, Susan Robinson, Tony Morrison, Judith Becker, Lisa Frey, William Friedrich, Jane Gilgun, Barbara Schwartz, Robert Prentky, Joann Schladale, Steve Bengis, Penny Cunninggim, and Martin Calder, among many others, editors Rob Longo and David Prescott offer the equivalent of a three-day seminar in print form. Every juvenile treatment program should make this rich resource available for its administrators, clinicians, protective service workers, and professionals working in the juvenile justice system.
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Responsibliity and Self-Management: Clinicians Manual and Client Workbook
Jack Apsche and Jerry L. Jennings

Regular Price: $40.00

Special Price: $32.00

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This set of Clincian Manual and Client Workbook provides the essential tools for using enhancing the treatment process for both in-patient and out patient settings.

The Clinician’s Manual provides the tools to take a careful measure of how and why a youngster got to this place in life. In conjunction with the Responsibility & Self-Management Client Workbook, it guides therapists to pinpoint the function of the youngster’s problem behavior(s) and to develop a specific intervention for that client. Using methodologies based on Evidenced Based Treatments, the manual focuses and enhances the treatment process, addressing multiple behaviors seen in both in-patient and out-patient treatment placements.

Using principles of Evidenced-Based Treatments, the Client Workbook addresses multiple issues, including aggression, anger, defiance, and sexually inappropriate behaviors. Responsibility & Self-Management looks at how the client’s life brought him to a therapist and provides a functional analytic blueprint to treatment. Learn More

Using Conscience as a Guide: Clinician Manual and Student Workbook
Niki Delson

Regular Price: $35.00

Special Price: $20.00

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This Manual and Workbook set brings the theory and tools for conscience development into traditional treatment practice.

Conscience theory brings together five domains of moral development and functioning: attachment; moral-emotional responsiveness; personal value systems; values in action; and conscience. Niki Delson’s work addresses a major task in treating patients with sexual behavior and sexual aggression problems by teaching therapists and treatment providers how to work with conscience and conscience development with a 16-week curriculum. Learn More

Growing Beyond: Clinician's Manual and Client Workbook
Susan L. Robinson

Regular Price: $45.00

Special Price: $32.00

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This Treatment Manual and Client Workbook is a first-of-its-kind written specifically for adolescent girls.

Growing Beyond Treatment Manual is the therapist’s and clinician’s guide to Susan Robinson’s workbook for adolescent females who sexually abuse. This essential companion manual explains the purpose for each chapter in the workbook, provides answers to the self-administered workbook quizzes, lists web sites and other resources for information on working with adolescent females, and includes original experiential exercises to be used with each workbook chapter. Learn More

Moving Beyond Therapist Manual and Client Workbook
Thomas F. Leversee

Regular Price: $45.00

Special Price: $18.00

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Leversee's Manual and Client Workbook provides a clear strong structure for grounding young people dealing with sexual behavior problems.

This curriculum is a comprehensive guide and manual for therapists on how best to teach Relapse Prevention to adolescents. It builds an unambiguous, strong structure for making clear the lesson of permanently stopping sexually abusive behaviors. The curriculum sets a foundation; identifies internal and external factors that increase risk; recognizes new coping skills; and outlines the requirements of external supervision during transition and aftercare. Learn More

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