December 21, 2012―not the end of life as we know it, but the dawn of a powerful new era of enlightenment. This engaging and easy-to-use guide reveals how to use the ancient wisdom of the Mayans to develop your inherent spiritual gifts. The unique self-exploration system uses the twenty Day Signs of the Mayan calendar―symbolized by animals and forces of nature, such as crocodile, wind, and night―to help you identify and activate the greatest treasures of your soul. With quick quizzes and questionnaires, you’ll gain valuable insights into your spirituality type and the energy patterns that motivate and inspire you. Once you discover your true calling, you’ll begin to have deeper and more meaningful spiritual experiences. Along with more fulfilling personal relationships and more satisfaction in your spiritual life, work, and leisure activities, you’ll be contributing to the harmony and well-being of the Earth.

2012: Catalyst for Your Spiritual Awakening: Using the Mayan Tree of Life to Discover Your Higher Purpose

John J. Liptak

Religion & Spirituality

Llewellyn Publications

This workbook helps individuals learn how anger and aggression are impacting their lives, and how to make constructive changes, gain insight and learn anger management strategies. Each section of the book contains self-assessment instruments, activity handouts, reflection questions for journaling, and educational handouts - all reproducible. This book is designed as a practical tool for therapists, counselors, psychologists, teachers, and group leaders. Depending on the role of the professional and the group's needs, each section of the book can be used individually or combined for a more comprehensive approach. The activities can also be self-administered.

The Anger & Aggression Workbook - Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ester R.A. Leutenberg

Mental Health

Whole Person Associates, Inc.

Reproducible Self-Assessments, Substance Abuse Worksheets, Exercises and Educational Handouts The Substance Abuse and Recovery Workbook contains self-assessments, substance abuse worksheets, exploratory mental health group activities, reflective journaling exercises and educational handouts all reproducible to help participants discover their habitual and ineffective methods of managing substance abuse, and to explore new ways for bringing about healing. 
 The book contains five sections:
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Substance abuse helps individuals to determine the level of their addiction. </li>
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Addictive personality helps individuals examine personality traits that predispose them to various addictions. </li>
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Codependency characteristics helps individuals measure how well they fulfill the normal responsibilities of adult life, how they can identify their feelings of inadequacy, and leads them to explore things that are lacking in their life. </li>
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Relapse warning signs helps individuals identify the changes in thinking, feeling, and behavior that accompany relapse. </li>
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Substance abuse cessation helps individuals get a clearer picture of the excuses they may be using to continue their abuse of substances.</li>
</ul> An excellent resource for mental health group activities, including substance abuse worksheets. Addictions come in many shapes and forms. The assessments, substance abuse worksheets, and mental health group activities help participants deal with a wide variety of addictions including: 
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<li>Drug and alcohol </li>
<li>Caffeine </li>
<li>Tobacco products </li>
<li>Computers </li>
<li>Gambling </li>
<li>And more</li>
</ul>
 There are many other types of addictions including sexual, eating, and shopping, to name a few. Although The Substance Abuse and Recovery Workbook is geared toward people suffering from substance abuse issues, many of the pages might be applicable to populations suffering from some of the other addictions.

The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook - Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

This workbook uses two powerful psychological tools designed to enhance communication skills: self-assessment and journaling. Your participants will learn more about themselves as well as the impact of effective and ineffective communication patterns. Each section of the book uses facilitator guided reproducible self-assessments, activities, journaling and educational handouts to explore: Active listening, nonverbal communication, communication skills, awareness and empathy skills, and negotiation skills. Each section begins with a self-assessment that is easy to administer, score and interpret. Follow-up activities, journaling, and educational handouts - all reproducible, help individuals discover their habitual, ineffective methods of communicating with others and explore new ways for enhancing interpersonal communications. The spiral binding makes it easy to place the workbook on a copier to produce your handouts.

The Communication Skills Workbook - Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

Ester Leutenberg

Domestic Violence Worksheets Included Many workbooks, workshops, and self-help systems have been designed to help people explore ways of overcoming abusive relationships. In the past twenty years, research studies have focused on the value of self-reflection and journaling (domestic violence worksheets) as a way of exploring personal characteristics, identifying ineffective behaviors, and examining thoughts and feelings that lead to these ineffective behaviors. The Domestic Violence Survival Workbook is unique in that it combines two powerful psychological tools designed to enhance domestic violence coping skills: self-assessment and journaling. Recently the problems of family violence and domestic abuse have been brought to the forefront of our consciousness. The reality is that domestic violence occurs in families of all races, cultures, and socio-economic levels. Recognizing early warning signs is critical in the reduction of domestic violence. Part of the problem is that domestic violence encompasses many different types of abuse including physical, sexual, psychological, emotional or verbal, financial, and/or any combination. 
 The five sections of the workbook help participants learn skills for recognizing and effectively dealing with abusive relationships, utilizing domestic violence worksheets. 
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<li>Symptoms of abuse helps survivors to explore the extent to which abuse is impacting their physical wellness, emotions, thought patterns, and detachment from others </li>
<li>Types of abuse helps survivors explore and examine their relationship with parents, siblings, grandparents, children, friends, and work colleagues. It includes a comprehensive 10-page safety plan. </li>
<li>Partner behavior helps individuals identify if they are in a potentially abusive relationship. </li>
<li>Elder abuse helps survivors of elder abuse explore, examine, and manage a variety of emotions. </li>
<li>Self-empowerment helps survivors examine if they are successfully moving on from the trauma of abuse and living the life they have dreamed of living.</li>
</ul>
 Domestic Violence Worksheets Each of the five sections contains assessment instruments, activity handouts, domestic violence worksheets, reflective questions for journaling, and educational handouts. They also provide assessment instruments, activity handouts, reflective questions for journaling, and educational handouts. 
 The Domestic Violence Survival Workbook includes instructions for the professional to get the most out of the material. It is a practical tool for helping professionals such as therapists, counselors, psychologists, teachers, group leaders, etc. Depending on the role of the professional using The Domestic Violence Survival Workbook and the specific group s needs, these sections can be used individually, combined, or as part of an integrated curriculum for a more comprehensive approach. The spiral binding makes it easy to place the workbook on a copier to produce your handouts.

The Domestic Violence Survival Workbook - Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

A wellness workbook with reproducible guided self-assessments, exercises, and educational handouts Each chapter in this wellness workbook includes a wellness scale. 
 Wellness and health are interrelated, but distinct concepts. Health is considered free from disease. Wellness is much more complex. Optimum wellness balances five basic dimensions: physical, career, emotional, social, and spiritual. In this wellness workbook you will find a wellness scale in each chapter, and wellness worksheets that are printable and reproducible. This wellness workbook, written for practitioners to use one-on-one or with groups, contains five sections to help participants learn more about themselves and their lifestyles. It also includes a bonus section on life skills. The Wellness Lifestyle Workbook is filled with printable wellness worksheets and printable wellness scales for use by your participants. Participants will learn about a wellness lifestyle that promotes health and well-being by exploring: 
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Coping with stress helps individuals identify their basic style for dealing with stress. </li>
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Physical fitness helps individuals identify how well they are eating, are they getting plenty of relaxation, sleep, and are they exercising regularly in order to be able to cope effectively with stress. </li>
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Creative leisure helps individuals explore their leisure interests and creative ways of implementing these interests in productive activities. </li>
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Healthy relationships helps individuals determine whether they have developed a healthy intimate relationship with their partners and productive relationships with family members. </li>
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Spiritual wellness helps individuals explore how spiritually well they currently are. </li>
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Life skills helps individuals identify major strengths and weaknesses in the life skills they possess. </li>
</ul> These sections, with the help of printable wellness worksheets, and a wellness scale in each chapter, serve as avenues for individual self-reflection, as well as for group experiences revolving around identified topics of importance. Each assessment includes directions for easy administration, scoring, and interpretation. Included are reproducible exploratory activities, reflective journaling activities, and educational handouts to help participants discover their habitual effective and ineffective methods of managing health and wellness and exploring new ways to bring about healing.

The Wellness Lifestyle Workbook - Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

Healthy Relationships - Personal and Intimate Contains healthy relationships worksheets 
Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts Being in an intimate relationship can be one of the most joyful experiences imaginable. Intimate relationships play a critical role in a person's overall health and wellness. An intimate relationship provides an antidote to the worries, tension, depression and the stress of our everyday lives. Intimate relationships can be the best - and the most challenging - part of a person's experience. The goal of this workbook is to help each participant explore personal and partner behaviors.
The workbook's five separate sections help participants learn more about themselves, and the skills that are fundamental to developing and maintaining healthy relationships. They will discover and better understand the importance of these skills in living in harmony with a relationship partner, using a variety of healthy relationships worksheets. 
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<li>Partner communication skills</li> <li>Personality characteristics</li> <li>Relationship needs</li> <li>Relationship intimacy</li> <li>Relationship conflicts</li> </ul> Healthy Relationships Worksheets Each section serves as an avenue for individual self-reflection, as well as for group experiences revolving around identified topics of importance. Each assessment includes directions for easy administration, scoring, and interpretation. Also included are exploratory activities, reflective journaling activities, healthy relationships worksheets, and educational handouts to help participants discover their habitual effective and ineffective relationship skills. Finally, instruction is provided for enhancing participants most critical weaknesses when interacting with their partner.

Personal and Intimate Relationship Workbook - Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

Conflict is a basic fact of life. Because conflicts are disagreements resulting from people or groups having differences in attitudes, beliefs, values, or needs, conflict is inevitable. Conflict itself is not a bad thing, as long as the conflict is managed effectively. The self-assessments, exercises, and journaling activities in this book will take participants through a unique Negotiations Model. This model helps participants learn about their beliefs surrounding conflict, identify their preferred style for managing conflict, examine active listening skills, identify the situtations that trigger conflict, and recognize their negotiation style for wht they want and need. This is an excellent resource for counselors and therapists to use with clients. All of the activities are reproducible.

The Conflict Management Skills Workbook: Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

Self-Help

Relationships

The Building Resiliency Workbook contains five separate sections, each with its own unique resilience scale, to help participants learn more about themselves and how to build resiliency which will enable them to thrive in times of adversity, change and stress. <ul>
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Optimistic outlook helps participants identify how optimistically they view and live life. </li>
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Locus of control helps participants explore the extent to which they believe they have control over what happens in their lives. </li>
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Sense of self helps participants explore the strength of their self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-concept. </li>
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Ability to bounce back helps participants increase their ability to bounce back and recover from a setback. </li>
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Change management helps participants become aware of how well they deal with change, and develop skills necessary to accept change.</li>
</ul>
Effective use of journaling, exploratory activities and a resilience scale These sections serve as avenues for individual self-reflection, as well as participating in group experiences revolving around identified topics of importance. Each resilience scale includes directions for easy administration, scoring, and interpretation. Each section includes reproducible exploratory activities, reflective journaling activities, and educational handouts to help participants discover their level of resiliency and provides reflective exercises and instruction to build personal and professional resiliency. Facilitator Reproducible Guided Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts Resiliency has been defined as the ability to: 
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<li>Manage life's challenges, stresses, changes, and pressures effectively. </li>
<li>Cope and adapt successfully to adversity. </li>
<li>Bounce back to a balanced state after facing a major disruption in life or career.</li>
</ul> People have an innate ability to demonstrate resiliency when they have resiliency skills built into their lives. Resilient people are able to adapt successfully under adverse circumstances such as: poverty, mental illness, disasters, terrorism, physical or psychological trauma, divorce, job loss, prison, loss of a loved one, parent s divorce, prolonged stress, physical or sexual abuse, or a lack of safety. Resiliency, or a positive behavioral adaptation, is critical when people encounter any type of trauma.

The Building Resiliency Workbook - Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series)

Reproducible Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts Conflict is a basic fact of life. As children, teens and adults we all experience conflict in our lives. Because conflicts are disagreements resulting from people or groups having differences in attitudes, beliefs, values or needs, conflict is inevitable. People experience differences in any type of relationship. That conflict exists is not a bad situation, as long as the conflict is managed effectively by resolving them in a calm, respectful way that will lead to growth and maturity. The Teen Conflict Management Skills Workbook contains five separate sections that correlate with the Teen Conflict Model tool presented in the book. Participants will learn new skills and the importance of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts. Included are the following reproducible pages: assessment instruments, activity handouts, role plays, quotations, reflective questions for journaling, and educational handouts. The Teen Conflict Management Skills Workbook is designed to help teens learn more about themselves, identify the primary reasons they get into conflicts, and find better ways to use their newfound conflict management skills to develop and maintain happy, healthy casual, personal, intimate and workplace relationships. The five sections include:
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<li>Conflict Triggers 
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<li>Conflict Management 
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<li>Anger Control 
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<li>Exchange of Information 
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<li>Alternatives to Conflict</li>
</ul>

Teen Conflict Management Workbook - Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Teen Mental Health and Life Skills Workbooks)

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