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Managing Diabetes: Tools for Nurses and Patients with Diabetes
Free printable tools to help manage diabetes
Mary Ann Rosa, MSN, GNP-BC, CDE, DNP-S, offers printable infographics and worksheets to help patients improve their diabetes management skills and avoid complications and hospitalizations.
Five lifestyle factors that can help clients make progress faster
How the acronym “SEEDS” can improve emotional stability, cognitive function, and resilience.
Are you missing the big picture? Learn how five simple lifestyle changes can help treat trauma, anxiety, and depression.
A Guide to Understanding ABGs
What You Need To Know About Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Tests
A simple cheat sheet to reference when reading Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) test results.
Straight Talk: Understanding Antidepressant Selection Medications for Depression
What’s important when initiating antidepressant selection
By Joseph Wegmann – With medication management playing an increasingly pivotal role in the treatment of mental health disorders, the challenges faced by clinicians are increasing.
It's more critical than ever for mental health professionals to understand how to effectively collaborate with practioners prescribing medication. Here's what you need to know...
The Importance of Mental Stretching
FREE printable worksheet!
Warm-ups can be considered “mental stretching.” They are usually five to ten minutes in length and help clients become familiar with drawing, self-expression and communicating with others
Calm & Alert
Yoga and mindfulness practices to teach self-regulation and social skills to children.
Calm and Alert is an innovative approach to teaching self-regulation and social skills to children by utilizing their bodies, minds, and breath through yoga and mindfulness practices. Get started with three basic practices available for FREE here.
Free Yourself from Feeling Boxed in By Anger
Free strategy from the Letting Go of Anger Card Deck
The following, easy to visualize, empowering metaphor can quickly help clients free themselves from feeling trapped in by anger.
The Problem With Diet Culture
Free CE: What every therapist, health professional, educator, and parent needs to know.
Therapists should not only be aware of their potential prejudices toward higher-weight clients, but should commit themselves to challenge those attitudes as well.
Shaping the Conversations of Love: 2 Simple Techniques for Working with Distressed Couples
In this free, short video, Dr. Sue Johnson will show you two simple EFT techniques to help partners have conversations that redefine a distressed relationship and ensure you're shaping a more secure bond.
Self-Regulation and Mindfulness
Simple techniques for teaching all ages
Looking for an easy way to teach young clients about self-regulation and mindfulness? Try this simple, short story from my new book, “Self-Regulation and Mindfulness: Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, & Autism Spectrum Disorder.”