"Dreamcatching" is the first and only dream work guide for parents who want to teach their children how to understand and learn from their dreams, with wonderful anecdotes, practical advice, exercises, and a dreamcatcher's workbook to encourage children's emotional and spiritual development.

“This book will help you value dreams—and maybe set the stage for a child’s receptivity to God’s truths.” --Diane Jackson Wife of John Paul Jackson, founder of Streams Ministries and creator of the TV program Dreams & Mysteries A child with regular nightmares can easily be dismissed by professionals as just overly imaginative or too sensitive. But for any parent at their wits' end over their child's suffering from dreams and nightmares, a deeper understanding is needed. Is it possible that a spiritual dimension is at play? // A Parents' Guide to Understanding Dreams and Nightmares by Recie Saunders offers help to concerned parents. With a clear, easy-to-read style, it is an invaluable resource for all parents who want to help their kids know whether a dream is from God, interpret their nightmares, find security in God’s control, and hear God’s voice in the night season as well as the day. // Drawing on his extensive research on the prophetic, visions, and dreams, Recie differentiates between dreams and visions, provides creative ideas for encouraging kids’ faith, explains lucid dreaming, and lists the most common images and symbols that come through dreams. Throughout this approachable book is Recie’s tender, fatherly passion that the kingdom of heaven belongs to the “little children.” Includes a Dream Dictionary and a Dream Journal.

Children’s Dreams teaches readers how to understand and appreciate memorable “big dreams” of childhood. The book introduces readers to the basic psychology and neuroscience of dreaming, then discusses dreams from early childhood through adolescence, exploring why we dream and how dreams can help us enhance creativity and make sense of our lives.

For both students and practicing counselors, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioner’s needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations. Its main focus is on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she interacts. Readers will first learn how to understand and use their own dreams, and then how to apply this in order to facilitate their clients’ interpretations of dreams. They will be amazed and fascinated by the issues, emotions, and problem-solving suggestions that are often revealed as they guide their clients' use of a personalized dream interpretation method developed by the author. Through the use of a detailed case example of a client and her dreams, the author shows how each step of this method can be applied and carried out in practice and is easily integrated with contemporary psychotherapies, especially cognitive behavior therapies.

In this unique book, you will find stories about children with emotional and behavior problems, stories that come to life. For example, meet Ellen in the essay The Whirling Girl. Ellen is a cute girl who cannot sit still or focus well. As Dr. Manalis speaks to Ellen and her parents, it becomes clear to the reader how the diagnosis and plan of treatment evolves. Integrated within Ellens story is information about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In Silence Takes Its Toll, you will meet Ann, who has become depressed for mysterious reasons. You will come along on her journey to discover why she is so unhappy and whether she can be helped. In The Teen with Mild Autism, you will meet Carl, with whom Dr. Manalis worked for nearly four years. When they first met, Carl sadly stated that no girl would ever love him because of his autism. Over the years, he worked on improving his eye contact and social skills, attended high school, and in the summers, worked for the park department. Carl was seventeen at their final meeting. Showing his improved eye contact and self-confidence, Carl excitedly shares that his friends are looking for a girlfriend for him and that he is confident he is lovable. What a change from their first meeting! Dr. Manalis looks forward to word of Carls wedding in a few years!

Examines, in a question and answer format, the scientific and cultural aspects of dreams, including such topics as the physiological reasons for dreams, the connection between dreams and religion, and the dream life of animals.

Arlo discovers that he can stop his dreams from being scary by becoming the Dream Director! Watch as Arlo's dreams go from frightening to funny. What kind of dreams could you direct?