Pat Harvey

Libby is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who loves to travel with her best human buddy, Pat. In Libby's Great Adventures, Pat helps Libby tell the story of Libby's adventures as they visit many national monuments in Washington, DC; quaint historic towns in Maryland and national parks. Along the way, Libby presents her point of view and shares interesting historical facts about each place. Even better, there are photos of Libby as she visits each site, becoming a friend to everyone she meets with her positive attitude. She offers an important lesson about the excitement of sharing adventures with a friend and provides helpful information for anyone who wants to get to know the landmarks of the nation's capital. Inspiring and informative, this book describes the adventures of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Libby as she visits famous landmarks around Washington, DC and Maryland.

Libby is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who loves to travel with her best human buddy, Pat. In Libby's Great Adventures, Pat helps Libby tell the story of Libby's adventures as they visit many national monuments in Washington, DC; quaint historic towns in Maryland and national parks. Along the way, Libby presents her point of view and shares interesting historical facts about each place. Even better, there are photos of Libby as she visits each site, becoming a friend to everyone she meets with her positive attitude. She offers an important lesson about the excitement of sharing adventures with a friend and provides helpful information for anyone who wants to get to know the landmarks of the nation's capital. Inspiring and informative, this book describes the adventures of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Libby as she visits famous landmarks around Washington, DC and Maryland.

The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen who lashes out or engages in troubling behavior, you may be unsure of how to respond to your child in a compassionate, constructive way. In this important book, two renowned experts in teen mental health offer you evidence-based skills for dealing with your teen's out-of-control emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).Helping your teen to effectively deal with their feelings now can have a lasting, positive impact on their future. After all, honing skills for emotion regulation will act as a foundation for your teen's overall mental health. This book will help your teen gain awareness of their emotions, and offers tools to help them choose how to respond to these emotions in effective ways.If you're at your wit's end and are looking to end the drama while keeping yourself sane in the process, this book will be your guide. It is a must-read for any parent!

"After many years as a modest, unpretentious wife, at age thirty-seven Karen Black began a journey of self-discovery at her husband's company retreat that took her into the shadowy, secretive realm of erotic power exchange: dominance and submission, bondage and discipline, and the transformation of sensual pain into previously unimaginable ecstasy. Freed of inhibitions through her voluntary surrender to the control of Steven, a man less than half her age, Karen's latent sexuality and saucy personality blossomed. As she bonded more strongly with her master, Karen accepted, and mostly enjoyed, her consensual participation in a variety of sexual and sadomasochistic activities. Four years after that retreat, Karen and Steven met Robert, an older dominant, and she was both challenged and exhilarated in a private session with him. Six months later, Steven faced major life decisions, and he sent Karen to live with Robert while he resolved them. That's the back-story, the prologue. That's where this story really begins. Robert's style is different from Steven's. Both his erotic scenes and his day-to-day interactions with her are more cerebral; he plays with her mind as well as her body. But then their lives take an sudden turn. After exchanging emails with Lisa, a newcomer to BDSM, Robert meets her for a scene. Karen reads what Lisa wrote about her experiences and agrees to be a training aid for Barry, Lisa's husband. Karen highlights for Barry the realities of what Lisa experienced with Robert. During their first learning session, Barry has his eyes opened further, first watching Robert play with Lisa with Karen's explanations and then attempting to perform similar play with Karen while Robert provides coaching. After a few weeks of training, Lisa confesses that she's admitted to her long-time friend, Dorothy, how her relationship with Barry is evolving. Dorothy insists on meeting Robert, then verbally attacks him at a dinner as a man who abuses women. But Robert calmly conducts an extended discussion with her and Tony, her date, about the differences between SM and abuse. Robert invites Dorothy and Tony to witness the scene planned for later in the evening, and he fulfills Tony's fantasies by orchestrating his participation with Karen at the end of the evening's play. Barry comes face-to-face with a woman he believes he's read about in Karen's journal. He conducts a private job-fair interview that not only becomes erotic in nature but takes advantage of his secret knowledge of Barbara's kinky needs and desires. Barry then takes his turn at the computer to describe the event. Lisa and Barry arrange for Barbara to do a scene with Robert. He includes Karen and runs a playful yet highly arousing two-bottom game with Barry and Lisa as voyeurs. The next day, it's Robert's turn to hit the keyboard. On the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, Robert gives Karen an amazing night and morning-after of love-making. But then Steven calls; he's made his life choices and he'll be arriving soon to pick Karen up. Robert and Karen put brave faces on an emotional difficult situation; they recognize and acknowledge that they've had a wonderful year together. More than sixty years ago, the original Kinsey reports established that a significant percentage of the American population participates in or fantasizes about bondage, spanking, or other varieties of power-based sex play. In this educational and erotic story, Karen relates her experiences as a teacher and training partner for a novice dominant. She and the other principal characters reveal the intimate details of their thoughts, feelings, and interactions as Karen continues to embrace her true submissive destiny."

Adolescents are more likely than any other age groups to engage in behaviors that contribute to injuries, violence, unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and reckless alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. At-risk adolescents may also exhibit signs of moodiness, aggression, and even self-injury, and these behaviors often cause parents, teachers, and clinicians to become extremely frustrated. Adolescents themselves may even believe that change is impossible. Drawing on proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents is the first reader-friendly and easily accessible DBT book specifically targeted to mental health professionals treating adolescents who may be dangerous to themselves or others. If you work with adolescents who exhibit at-risk behavior, you know how important it is to take immediate action. However, you may also have trouble “breaking through” the barrier that these young people can build around themselves. This book can help. The DBT skills outlined in this book are evidence-based, and have been clinically proven to help build emotion regulation skills, which are useful for all age groups, though perhaps especially for the millions of at-risk adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, anger, and the myriad behaviors that can result from these emotions. This book also includes practical handouts and exercises that can be used in individual therapy sessions, skills training groups, school settings, and when working with parents and caregivers. Adolescents stand at the precipice of the future, and the decisions they make now can have life-long impacts. By showing them how to manage their emotions and deal with the stresses that are common in day-to-day life, you are arming them with the tools they will need to succeed and thrive.

Children who are unable to manage their emotions are oversensitive, reactive, and prone to defiant behaviour and emotional outbursts. Attempts to soothe these children are often met with further emotional and behavioural outbursts, leaving parents feeling bewildered and helpless. Though children with intense emotions don't necessarily have a diagnosable mental health disorder, their behaviours put them at risk for anxiety, depression, and autism spectrum disorders. "Parenting a Child with Intense Emotions" will help these parents accept, acknowledge, and de-escalate their children's emotions. Children with intense emotions often lack the awareness and verbal abilities to express themselves in coherent, understandable ways. In this book, readers learn a skill called validation that will help them find kernels of truth within a child's emotional outbursts and respond effectively. By learning the skills and strategies in this book, parents will become less defensive when angry feelings are aimed at them and better able to help their child express himself or herself effectively.