CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

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Here are some child-friendly resources for mental health care, including workbooks, stories, and therapy worksheets to support your child or teen as they learn about their feelings, thoughts, and ways to communicate! I update this section frequently as I learn of more child- parent-, and therapist-approved resources for school-aged children and teens.

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Double-Dip Feelings: Stories to Help Children Understand Emotions by Barbara Cain

This text helps school-aged children understand and sit with complex and contrasting feelings in an accessible way.

101 Story Starters for Little Kids by Dena McMurdle

This is a great starting off point for kids about to engage in trauma narration for traumatic experiences, part of trauma-focused CBT. For more on TF-CBT, visit the services page!

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guidebook to Overcoming OCD by Dawn Huber

This is a fantastic resource for kids and young teens who are working to overcome Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

A Little Spot of Feelings by Diane Alber

This comes as an entire series geared towards helping kids name and identify their many feelings!

Cory Helps Kids Cope with Divorce by Liana Lowenstein

Part of the Cory series by Liana Lowenstein, this workbook is excellent to work on in therapy to help school-aged children begin to process big family changes and cope with grief.

Cory Helps Kids Cope with Sexual Abuse by Liana Lowenstein

Part of the Cory series by Liana Lowenstein, this is a great workbook for kids who've experienced sexual abuse to work on in therapy to normalize any posttraumatic responses, and begin to think about how to heal.

Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens by Sharon Hansen

A great resource for helping teens with ADHD or EF concerns plan, organize, and put plans into meaningful action.

Thriving with ADHD Workbook for Kids by Kelli Miller

Includes fun activities and games to support school-aged children develop their executive functions. For more on ADHD and the executive functions, visit my online blog!

DBT Skills Workbook for Teens by Teen Thrive

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment geared towards helping kids and adults identify emotions, work with ambiguity, tolerate distress, and regulate big and complex feelings in a safe way.

Jealous Ninja, by Mary Chin

This book, part of a larger "set-awareness," set, is appropriate for school-aged children, helps kids cope with the feeling of jealousy, and provides a way to normalize and help them talk about this emotion.