Sadness, Depression

New Title- Coming Fall 2025! A scary health crisis puts Han on a journey that will test his resiliency, strain his relationships, and reveal who his true and supportive friends really are. First comes the cancer diagnosis. The treatment requires hospital...

New Title- Available Now, exclusively at Boys Town Press! Dawson feels lots of emotions and knows each one has an important job, including keeping him safe, resilient, and prepared.   But what happens when his emotions take their jobs too seriously?...

Lesson plans pulled from the popular More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School and separated into four categories based on skill type. Use these downloadable lesson plans with your students to improve social emotional skill development, as well as...

The Middle School Years are their own special category. Lots of transitions. New beginnings. Friendship changes. Body changes. New procedures. And for many students, in creeps self-doubt.Designed to accompany the Middle School Misfits: The Stained Glass...

Thirty hands-on lessons provide students opportunities to learn and practice self-regulation strategies.Students today face many challenges that did not exist a generation or two ago, and rates of emotional disorders (including anxiety and depression)...

This teacher and counselor activity guide supplements the Faking Happiness, Feeling Sadness chapter book, a revealing and empowering tale about coping with and overcoming sadness and lost hope.The guide pairs text from the story with...

An uplifting story about facing sadness and loss while rediscovering hope and self-acceptance!  Managing Sadness is a fresh, revised edition of the popular When I Couldn’t Get Over It, I Learned to Start Acting Differently storybook, by...

Purchase the chapter book and activity guide together and SAVE! Faking Happiness, Feeling Sadness is the seventh title in Jennifer Licate's Navigating Friendships book series. This bundle includes: The quick-read chapter book for students in grades 4...

Use these engaging downloadable activities to reinforce the lessons taught in the storybook, When Sophie’s Sorry Wasn’t Enough.The activities are best suited for children ages 5-11.  The Six Downloadable Activities...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Will Anika ever feel happy again? She has her doubts.     Sadness is a feeling Anika cannot shake. She feels as if her life has no purpose or passion. Her unhappiness has been with her for so long,...

*2024 Counselor's Choice Award Winner!**2024 Autism Live! Best Book Award Winner!* Who’s the boss? Awesome Dawson or his BIG emotions? When Dawson is told to turn off the TV and go to bed, he huffs and puffs and kicks the couch. He’s not...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Sophie says sorry – a lot. She says it so much, her schoolmates call her Sorry Sophie. It doesn’t matter what mistake, mayhem, or misery she creates, Sophie blurts out a quick sorry and thinks...

Purchase all three downloadable activity guides as a bundle and save 20%!! This bundle includes all downloadable activities from The Pirate and The Inkblot, Reed's Rant, and Middle Ground. With a total of 29 activities, this bundle will help students...

Includes 10 activities that complement lessons learned in Middle Ground, the final story in The Adventures of Jeff and Reed Anthology. Each activity follows the GANAG lesson structure: Goal (Share the lesson goal/objective.)Access...

Includes 13 activities that complement lessons learned in Reed’s Rant, the second story in The Adventures of Jeff and Reed Anthology. Each activity follows the GANAG lesson structure: Goal (Share the lesson goal/objective.)Access prior knowledge...

Includes 6 activities that complement lessons learned in The Pirate and The Ink Blot, the first story in The Adventures of Jeff and Reed Anthology. Each activity follows the GANAG lesson structure: Goal (Share the lesson goal/objective.)Access prior...