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Your Child and Self-Control: Job or Jail?

…tween getting a good job or going to jail — and we learn it in preschool. “Children who had the greatest self-control in primary school and preschool ages were most likely to have fewer health problems when they reached their 30s,” says Terrie Moffitt, a professor of psychology at Duke University and King’s College London. Moffitt and a team of researchers studied a group of 1,000 people born in New Zealand in 1972 and 1973, tracking them from bir…

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Are You Hardy Enough?

…ople can become hardier with training. In childhood, parents who encourage children to feel capable to solve problems and who offer them support contribute to a child’s development of hardiness traits. For those who were not as fortunate in terms of the parenting they received, there is also hope that hardiness can be learned. Hardiness training has been found to improve people’s ability to deal with crises and the stress of everyday life. Similar…

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Child Abuse: Introduction, Assessment, Treatment

…ssment, reporting and treatment of child abuse. Topics covered include the development of child abuse reporting laws, the nature of abuse and neglect, definitions of child abuse, reporting requirements, identification and assessment guidelines, and treatment issues with children, families and adult survivors of child abuse and neglect. . . . . . . . . Daniel Taube, PhD, JD, is an associate professor at Alliant International University, specializin…

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Compassionate Child Rearing

…The way we treat our children in moments of stress is what stays with them throughout their development….

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What Every Baby Knows

…T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. – Explore the inner workings of your child’s mind in this book by Harvard Professor of Pediatrics and renowned child development expert T. Berry Brazelton. Looking deep into the experiences of five families, this book helps make sense of children’s unique and universal experiences, exploring why they feel how they feel and how we can best respond as parents….

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Self-Reflective Approach to Becoming a Better Parent

…Becoming a better parent doesn’t only involve our present actions. To truly develop ourselves as parents, it is important to look at our own past . Child development expert Joyce Catlett talks about how making sense of our own childhood experiences can help us to become better parents to our children….

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on Therapeutic Alliance and Emotional Communication

…o that would be in a relationship. At the same time, the movement in early development is showing that the growth facilitating environment — the attachment — is essentially the same kind of a situation whereby the personality of the mother at deeper levels – not her left hemisphere – but at deeper levels, are interacting and resonating with the baby. Actually, you’re looking at her autonomic nervous system regulating the other autonomic nervous sy…

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Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

…ative thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that are barriers to one’s personal development, sabotage relationships, and interfere with career success. This book provides insights gleaned from 25 years of investigations into the destructive thought process, or “critical inner voice.” It offers the general reader, as well as therapists, the means for dealing effectively with negative thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that are barriers to one’s personal d…

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The Space Around Thoughts

…e fickle mindstream might take it. Mindful awareness meditation focuses on development of an attitude of calm abiding, and then, in the space of that clearing, the cultivation of insight (shamatha-vipassana), helping to clean out long-collected mental cobwebs and outdated emotional stockpiles, revealing to the meditator a natural luminosity of mind that would have been otherwise overlooked, or missed in plain sight in the speediness of the “natura…

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The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

…management theory (TMT). An important addition to the area of personality development theory, The Self under Siege offers a new perspective on differentiation and the battle to separate ourselves from the chains of the past. It provides psychotherapists and other mental health professionals with the tools needed to help clients differentiate from the dysfunctional attitudes and toxic personality traits of their parents, other family members, and…

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