How to use this workbook This workbook helps you learn the basics of Positive Attitude Development (PAD). You can use it on your own or use it as a tool in a PAD group. The introduction gives you an overall sense of our perspective on Positive Attitude Development. The chapters are designed to be read [...]
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GriefWork ~ Healing from Loss
We intend to provide therapists and other mental health professionals with resources that will elevate conversations about loss, and aid in the grieving process. Through our work with people who are grieving, and drawing from our personal experiences, we have become fully aware of the complexities associated with grieving. We live in a death-denying society [...]
Discovering Your Spiritual Path Workbook
Our goal Our goal for Discovering Your Spiritual Path’s assessments, activities, journaling pages, quotations and educational handouts is to open participants to the possibilities of spirituality and its benefits. We believe people on a spiritual path lead more healing, enriching, enlightening, peace-filled lives. We interviewed over one hundred people of many different faiths and economic [...]
The Personal and Intimate Relationship Workbook
Introduction for the Participant Relationships are an important aspect of everyone’s lives, but with today’s fast-paced electronic society, maintaining healthy, personal and intimate relationships are becoming more difficult. Like most successful things in life, relationships need care and work. For most of us, learning how to develop and nurture our relationships was not included in [...]
Welcome Them Home – Help Them Heal
Upon returning home, many veterans face the biggest challenge of their lifetime and begin fighting a personal, hidden war in earnest. Often well concealed at first, for many the signs and symptoms of post-war trauma and stress—depression, anxiety, domestic problems, substance abuse, isolation, suicide, and homelessness— eventually appear. According to the U.S. Defense Department, of [...]
The Essential Work Skills Workbook
The need for educational reform and restructuring, to address the issue of the gap between the skill requirements for work and the skill levels of work applicants, are the topics of many management discussions. Business and industry representatives have expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the general level of preparedness of prospective workers. This lack of work [...]
The Wellness Lifestyle Workbook
Wellness practitioners and researchers believe that your health lies on a continuum and is an ever-changing balance between your physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions. Jesse Williams, one of the pioneers of the health education movement, suggested that health as freedom from disease was not a sufficient description, and that health should be seen [...]
The Successful Team-Building Workbook
Why are some people excellent members of a team while others are unable to work effectively as members of a team? Over the last century many different workbooks, workshops, and self-help systems have been designed to help people develop teams, choose team members and work effectively as members of a team. In the past twenty [...]
The Practical Life Skills Workbook
Have you ever been frustrated because you keep reliving negative events in your life? Do you feel like you are losing at the game we call life? Do you want to be living a more extraordinary and successful life? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this workbook is for you. Most of [...]
The Communication Skills Workbook
It is very important for our physical and psychological well-being that we maintain interpersonal relationships with other people in our life. These relationships are a necessity, not a luxury, and we need to be prepared in order to develop and maintain these critical relationships. Positive, supportive relationships can help us cope with difficult times in [...]
The Domestic Violence Survival Workbook
Domestic violence is the number one cause of injury to women and men in the United States. Domestic violence is a crime that cuts across all racial, cultural, age and socio-economic lines. Violence at home between partners can take many forms including physical, sexual, financial, verbal and emotional abuse. Most men and women who abuse [...]
The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook
Substance abuse refers to an over-indulgence in, and a dependence on, a variety of addictive substances including cigarettes, alcohol, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, and smokeless tobacco. People abuse these types of substances for a variety of complicated reasons, but primarily because they like the way they feel when they are using them. Pleasure can be [...]
The Anger & Aggression Workbook
What is the best way to learn to control feelings of anger and aggression? Over the last century many different workbooks, workshops and self-help systems have been designed to help people develop anger management abilities. In the past twenty years, many research studies have focused on the value of self-reflection and journaling as a way [...]