The Magic Rainbow Hug

The Magic Rainbow Hug

Author: Janet Courtney

Publisher:

Published: 2013-01-07

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780615737041

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The Magic Rainbow Hug is a heartfelt story designed to help children overcome fear and anxiety and learn methods of calming and relaxation. The story is about Sophie and Jesse, two young, curious siblings who, along with their lovable puppy, discover the joyful magic of a calming Rainbow Hug. This book provides an optional activity element where parts of the uplifting story can also be told by drawing it on a child's back. Each page gives simple instructions on how to do the activity motions that follow along with the storyline. It is an innovative form of storytelling that will inspire, entertain and enlighten children of all ages. Positive suggestions are interspersed throughout the book to help children learn methods of relaxation and how to draw upon their inner strengths and abilities. The vibrant illustrations were drawn by two talented siblings, Grace, age 8, and Benjamin, age 10, who were inspired by hearing the creative story, and also by feeling it sketched on thier backs.


Raindrops to Rainbow

Raindrops to Rainbow

Author: John Micklos Jr.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 0593224256

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A gentle rhyming picture book that shows how color can be found all around us, whether there are raindrops falling or a bright rainbow high above. Raindrops are falling outside, but there's still a world of color to experience! Delightful rhymes and brilliant illustrations detail how a gloomy, rainy day might not actually be so gloomy after all when you get to spend time with Mom, Brown Bear, and the colors around you. And when a "beaming rainbow, bold and bright" cuts through the sky, everyone gets to experience the joy of all the colors that can only come after the rain.


While We Can't Hug

While We Can't Hug

Author: Eoin McLaughlin

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0571365388

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The bestselling and heart-warming picture book that shows us ways to be affectionate while social distancing, from the team behind The Hug.Hedgehog and Tortoise were the best of friends. They wanted to give each other a great, big hug. But they weren't allowed to touch. "Don't worry," said Owl. "There are lots of ways to show someone you love them." So the two friends wave to each other, blow kisses, sing songs, dance around and write letters. And even though they can't hug and they can't touch, they both know that they are loved. A gorgeous, uplifting, inspiring picture book that makes social distancing fun!


Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy

Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy

Author: Janet A. Courtney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1317241975

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Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives. Chapters address issues around appropriate and sensitive therapist-initiated touch, therapeutic approaches that use touch as an intervention in child treatment, and both positive and challenging forms of touch that are initiated by children. In these pages, professionals and students alike will find valuable information on ways to address potential ethical dilemmas, including defining boundaries, working with parents and guardians, documentation, consent forms, cultural considerations, countertransference, and much more.


Infant Play Therapy

Infant Play Therapy

Author: Janet A. Courtney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0429841639

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Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three. The impressive list of expert contributors in the fields of play therapy and infant mental health cover a wide range of early intervention play-based models and topics. Chapters explore areas including: neurobiology, developmental trauma, parent-infant attachment relationships, neurosensory play, affective touch, grief and loss, perinatal depression, adoption, autism, domestic violence, sociocultural factors, and more. Chapter case studies highlight leading approaches and offer techniques to provide a comprehensive understanding of both play therapy and the ways we understand and recognize the therapeutic role of play with infants. In these pages professionals and students alike will find valuable clinical resources to bring healing to family systems with young children.


Everything for Fall

Everything for Fall

Author: Kathy Charner

Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780876591857

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Excite fall classrooms with brand new learning environments for September, October and November.


Where the Rainbow Ends

Where the Rainbow Ends

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Materials to be used by public libraries in planning summer library programs for children in 1985.