TimeSlips Creative Storytelling

TimeSlips is a nonprofit organization headed by Anne Basting, a theater artist and educator in Milwaukee, who has a passion for helping older folks with cognitive impairment. TimeSlips "offers online and in-person training programs and has helped long-term care facilities and caregivers around the world..." The project has been developed into a formal therapy with the idea that stories can be a substitute for the memories that have been lost due to the participants' cognitive impairments.

For more information about this project, a MacArthur Fellows Program, please visit:
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/956/

What's new?

Wondering what's new in the library? Each month, we take a moment to look back at the new items that arrived in the library the previous month. From biographies to accessibility to social skills, check out the new titles at:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/whats-new

Essential play therapy techniques: Time-tested approaches

"Highly practical and user friendly, [Essential play therapy techniques: Time-tested approaches] presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Toca Doctor

"Toca Doctor is a fun and puzzling digital toy for kids. Examine the patients and play puzzles and mini-games that take place in the human body. There are no timers or stress elements so that kids can play in their own time. If they can't finish any certain game it still continues so that they never get stuck. It always works and it's always fun!" -iTunes

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id424209938

Music therapy handbook

Looking for some help with music therapy? Music Therapy Handbook has plenty of case material and provides a comprehensive overview of music therapy, from basic concepts to emerging clinical approaches. Experts review psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and developmental foundations and describe major techniques. An expansive section on clinical applications examines music therapy with children and adults, as well as its role in medical settings.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Constant Therapy

Constant Therapy is an award winning solution that provides personalized therapy tools to people with cognitive, language, communication & learning disorders. People who have Aphasia, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), stroke, dementia, speech problems, reading, language or learning disabilities can access 12,000+ items across 60 categories & 10 difficulty levels.

Constant Therapy was designed by scientists at Boston University and is easy to use. Exercises are specifically customized for each person's unique needs - so the program adapts to your progress every day. -iTunes

Want to learn more about this app? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/constant-therapy/id575764424?mt=8

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD

Looking for a practical book that provides evidence-based strategies for helping adults with ADHD? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD might be just the thing. This guide will provide tools for the therapist to help clients build essential skills for time management, organization, planning, and coping. Leader Notes for therapists, in-session exercises, and reproducible take-home notes and homework assignments are included.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

How Behavioral Optometry Can Unlock Your Child's Potential

Visual dysfunctions can limit children's concentration, self esteem and school success as they struggle to understand fundamentals such as colors, letters and how to judge distance. With the right help, these obstacles can be overcome, allowing children to reach their full potential and see the world clearly. How Behavioral Optometry Can Unlock Your Child's Potential explores how visual problems develop and how they can be reversed through effective and efficient visual therapy.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Looking for information on the theory of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy  will help give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. With practical tips and strategies, it offers readers the ability to personalize the theory to their own situations.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Group Music Activities for Adults

Having trouble finding music therapy resources for adults with disabilities? Group music activities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities can help. This sourcebook contains 100 age-appropriate group music activities with instructions and adaptations to best fit your group. This practical resource also includes an accompanying CD and sheet music for the beginning therapist or the seasoned veteran.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Psychosocial aspects of disability

Psychosocial aspects of disability: Insider perspectives and counseling strategies is a textbook for students and rehabilitation counselors that provides insight into the everyday lives of people with disabilities. Sixteen people with different disabilities give first-hand accounts of their life experiences. With these narratives are guidelines and strategies for counselors, including "do's and don'ts." The book also discusses sociological and societal perspectives toward disability and ongoing treatment issues and ethical dilemmas for counselors.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - iCounselor: OCD

It's Mobile App Monday here at CeDIR, and today we're looking at an app for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. iCounselor: OCD is a useful app for trying to postpone, or even overcome, compulsive behaviors. The app offers many suggestions for preventing responses and changing thoughts. It also offers ideas for participating in calming activities which might help alleviate some of the anxieties associated with OCD behaviors.

Check out the full description at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icounselor-ocd/id338431800?mt=8

Sensory Processing Disorder

Learn to have fun with your senses: The sensory avoider's survival guide introduces kids to the human senses. It also explains what happens when the brain magnifies the senses to the point of having kids avoid sensory experiences. This therapeutic guide suggests many different activities that can help kids begin to enjoy experiencing sensory input slowly, gradually increasing the level of input over time so that they can overcome the avoidance behaviors.

Send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title. Or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Dolphin Human Therapy

Looking for a warm, tropical area to interact with dolphins in a therapeutic environment? One such program is a new one which began in July last year. The Dolphin Human Therapy program is located in the Cayman Islands on Grand Cayman. The program consists of behavioral, speech, occupational, and physical therapies, and interaction with the dolphins is used as motivation and reward. For more information, see http://www.dhtgc.com/