Books and resources created by CMHRC
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These books support accurate diagnosis and effective treatment for both families and mental health providers. Each book contains details on symptom presentation and treatment recommendations that are backed by research and clinical practice.
They also contain practical checklists and questionnaires based on decades of research as well as on years of community sourced reports of symptom presentation in children and teens. Parents, patients, and providers can use these checklists, medication histories, family histories, and symptom charts to help facilitate access to effective treatment.
You may have heard that kids can’t have bipolar disorder. Well, that not the case. It’s just that most people, providers included, haven’t been taught what to look for. This book contains details about how to identify bipolar symptoms in children ages 5-15, and includes research backed treatment recommendations. With symptom checklists and information on how they present in real life, families and providers have never been better equipped to work together to understand and identify bipolar disorder in children, tweens, and teens.
Nearly 20 years ago, a new phenotype of bipolar disorder was identified by researchers at the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation. They called it Fear of Harm, or FOH, after one of its core symptoms. They’ve been studying its causes and treatments ever since. CMHRC’s book on FOH contains details about the diagnosis, how to identify its symptoms, and research-backed treatment recommendations. FOH’s biomarker of temperature dysregulation, makes our book Managing Temperature and Sleep Disruptions an essential companion read.
It can be extremely challenging to tell the difference between ADHD and bipolar disorder in children since so many of their symptoms overlap. This book contains detailed practical information outlining how healthcare practitioners and families can accurately identify symptoms and determine which disorder they likely correspond to. It also contains checklists and templates to help families and providers communicate around symptom history, medication trials, and family history to support accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.
Sleep disruptions are a common feature of mood disorders. Not everyone realizes the impact heat and temperature changes can have on mental health. This book contains detailed practical information on how to understand temperature dysregulation and sleep disruptions that are hallmarks of the FOH diagnosis, but can also impact anyone with a mood disorder. It also contains checklists and templates to help families develop and put into place cooling plans, sleep plans, and at school interventions to support stabilization of sleep, mood, and temperature.
We often hear parents, teachers, and other adults use words like, “chose,” “refused,” and “decided” when talking about the behavior of kids and teens: “The child decided to misbehave.” But, in many cases, the child is dealing with involuntary symptoms that make it impossible to access coping skills.
This book takes deep dive into differentiating misbehavior from symptoms of mental health conditions. The Myth of Misbehavior will help shift your perspective and help you see through a new lens everything you thought you knew about children’s behaviors.
This one of a kind workbook is a companion to CMHRC’s Palliative ParentingTM course. A digital copy of the workbook is included in the fee for the face-to-face Palliative ParentingTM course. It can also be purchased in paper form through Amazon, or in digital form as desired.
Those taking CMHRC’s self-guided video course of Palliative ParentingTM can also purchase a paper copy through Amazon, or purchase digital copies here.
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Sometimes, when our kids are dysregulated, we need to communicate a lot of information quickly to those around us. Perhaps it’s a stranger who wants to help when our children are distressed in public. Or maybe it’s a healthcare provider who doesn’t know your child’s history.
These polite and succinct cards can help in times of trouble when we might not have the capacity to answer folks directly.
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