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Teens Talk About Cutting

By D'Arcy Lyness (Reviewer) — 2016

We get lots of emails, especially about our articles on cutting. Sometimes people tell us about the feelings and emotions that surround cutting. Others share their ideas on how they stopped. We decided to put some of these suggestions and comments on our site.

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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s

In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It’s true.

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Jennifer Mcilwee Myers, Temple Grandin
2025
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Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum

International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.

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Temple Grandin, Debra Moore
2025
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8 Keys to Parenting Children with ADHD (8 Keys to Mental Health)

This book, rich with optimism, tips, tools, and action plans, offers science-based insights and systems for parents to help cultivate these skills.

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Cindy Goldrich
2025
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it.

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Steve Silberman, Oliver Sacks (foreword)
2025
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My Kid Is Not Crazy: A Search for Hope in the Face of Misdiagnosis

My Kid Is Not Crazy tracks the journey of six children and their families as they become tangled in the nightmare of a medical system heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry.

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2021
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Helping Parents Recognize Mental Illness in Our Children

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2019
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Treating ADHD/ADD in Children and Adolescents

“One of the best ADHD books of all time” —BookAuthority “Treating ADHD/ADD” provides the information and tools for readers to feel empowered to address and overcome ADHD challenges for greater success.

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Gene Carroccia
2019
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The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder

Does your child exhibit... Over-responsivity—or under-responsivity—to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a “sensory avoider,” withdrawing from touch, refusing to wear certain clothing, avoiding active games--or he may be a “sensory disregarder,” needing a jump start to get moving.

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Carol Kranowitz
2006
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Differently Wired: A Parent’s Guide to Raising an Atypical Child with Confidence and Hope

A how-to, a manifesto, and a wise and reassuring companion for parents of neuroatypical children, who often feel that they have no place to turn, Differently Wired offers 18 paradigm-shifting ideas—what the author calls “tilts”—that will change everything, including how to Get Out of Isolation...

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Deborah Reber
2025
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The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds

Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson speak to audiences all over the world about their immensely popular best-sellers, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline.

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Daniel J Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
2025
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