Owie-Cadabra's Verbal First Aid for Kids: A somewhat magical way to help heal yourself and your friends
Judith Simon Prager, PhD is a hypnotherapist with a private practice in Los Angeles, CA. She teaches in the UCLA Ext. Writers' Program with her husband, Harry Youtt, where they were recognized as "Outstanding Instructors" of 2004. Co-author with Judith Acosta of The Worst Is Over: What To Say When Every Moment Counts, named "The 'bible' for crisis communications," by The International Journal of Emergency Medicine, and co-author of Verbal First Aid: Help Your Kids Heal From Fear and Pain-And Come Out Strong, she has trained doctors, nurses, and first responders in the Verbal First Aid protocol at medical centers across the United States, in England, and in China after the devastating 2008 earthquake. She is the mother of two, step-mother of two, and grandmother of four wonderful children, and she wrote this book in the hopes that all children learn how to speak to themselves and each other in a way that is self-healing and empowering, helping themselves and blessing the future in the process.