Teresa Barker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher’s landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys.
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country’s leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years...
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country’s leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality: *are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances *are 60% less likely to be depressed as teenagers *are 80% less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex *have...
8) Self-reg: how to help your child (and you) break the stress cycle and successfully engage with life
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Self-regulation is the nervous system's way of responding to stress. Many of the new generation of children and teens face excessively high levels of stress and the result is an explosion of emotional, social, learning, behavior, and physical health problems. Shanker shows how helping children learn self-regulation techniques can improve concentration and help children feel empathy, which can result in profound and lasting transformation.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the...