Aggression Replacement Training: a Comprehensive Intervention for Aggressive Youth, 3rd Edition. John Gibbs & Barry Glick, $39.95 (Grades 6-12)

Aggression Replacement Training offers a powerful intervention for teaching at-risk youth to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives. The book provides a coordinated, three-part training approach to Pro-social Skills, Anger Control and Moral Reasoning.

The authors address trainee motivation and resistance, enhancing performance generalization, and recent applications in schools and other settings. Appendixes include guidelines, checklists, moral reasoning problem situations, and summaries of outcome evaluations. The accompanying CD provides PDFs of all the reproducible forms and student handouts.

The Anxiety Workbook for Teens. Lisa Schab, $16.95

About one in four teens suffers from mild to serious problems with anxiety, and many of them get little or no help. This workbook gives teens a collection of tools to help control anxiety and develop insight into their problems as well as offering practical guidance for overcoming them. Professional Version, $36.95 — Includes workbook and a digital copy of workbook on CD-ROM for easy printing.

Group Exercises for Adolescents: a Manual for Therapists, School Counselors & Spiritual Leaders, 3rd Edition. Susan Carrell, $68.95

This updated edition of Susan Carrell's best-seller provides a practical, concise overview of group work with adolescents, including dos and don’ts for group leaders, as well as potential pitfalls and hazards and how to avoid them. Ideal for therapists, school counselors, spiritual leaders, and other helping professionals, the manual addresses a wide range of today's hot issues for adolescents, including sex, alcohol, drugs, values and ethics, family dynamics, self-esteem, management of difficult emotions, peer relationships, and spirituality. Avoiding the usual “psychobabble," this no-nonsense guide discusses both behavioral and cognitive objectives, includes new exercises and is accompanied by a new companion teen journal.

Ideal for anyone who is developing a new program, revitalizing an existing one, or in need of a one-time group experience, this best-selling manual has been used successfully in schools, community settings, church/religious settings, court-ordered programs, and the private sector.

I Bet I Won't Fret: a Workbook to Help Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Timothy Sisemore, $18.95; professional version with CD-ROM, $37.95

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common anxiety disorders in children. It is important to recognize and treat anxiety in kids early, before these problems develop into serious, lifelong conditions. I Bet I Won’t Fret offers parents a range of proven-effective techniques that can support and accelerate any treatment. These activities can be done on their own or as part of a therapy program, and are appropriate for kids between the ages of six and twelve.

Learning to Listen, Learning to Care: a Workbook to Help Kids Learn Self-Control and Empathy. Lawrence Shapiro, $18.95

In Learning to Listen, Learning to Care. children learn why it is important to follow rules and behave considerately toward others. The activities cultivate empathy which contributes not just to good behavior, but to academic and social success. Emotional intelligence and behavioral skills are reinforced by additional thought-provoking questions. These activities can be done on their own or as part of a therapy program, and are appropriate for kids between the ages of six and twelve.

My Feeling Better Workbook: Activities that Help Kids Beat the Blues. Sarah Hamil, $19.95

There are many ways to help children who are sad and depressed, and you might not even realize how much you can do to make your child feel better. By working through this book, guiding your child through just one activity a day, you can empower him or her with the skills necessary to overcome sadness and low self-esteem and live an active, joyful life.

My Lifebook Journal: a Workbook That Helps Kids Adjust to Foster Care. Therese Accinelli, $18.95; Professional Version with CD-ROM, $27.95

Children placed in foster homes face many difficult changes over which they have no control. They must learn to quickly adjust to a different family, a new set of rules, and possibly a new school and community. These changes can be overwhelming for kids, and the sadness, fear, and anger they may feel can prevent them from making a successful transition into foster care.

The simple activities in My Lifebook Journal offer children the tools they need to adjust to their new situation in a healthy way. Using the worksheets in this book, kids can journal about their positive experiences and memories, learn to develop a strong sense of self, identify the people they can rely on, and learn coping skills for dealing with feelings of anger and sadness. Writing down and exploring their thoughts and feelings in just a few minutes each day can help children better understand themselves and their biological and foster families. The resiliency and self-confidence that these activities develop will help children handle not only the transition into foster care, but also the many positive changes in their lives still to come.

No Easy Answers. Deanna Lueder, $22.95 (fiction)

No Easy Answers is a compelling collection of interrelated short stories about the social work profession, told from the perspective of a child-welfare social worker. Though fictional, the tales are based on the author’s many years of experience as a front-line child protection worker. Raw, powerful, and candid in its depiction of an often-misunderstood profession, the collection offers the reader a startling picture of child-protection investigations and case-work, as well as insight into the conflicted emotional life of a social worker.