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Completely updated with the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will help parents understand their preschooler and provide early methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful.Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love your child, there will be moments filled with frustration, anger, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my four-year-old deliberately lie to me? Why is everything a struggle with my three-year-old? Should I ever spank my preschooler when she is disobedient? Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the Positive Discipline series and its common-sense approach to child-rearing.This revised and updated fourth edition includes a new chapter on the importance of play and outdoor experiences on child development, along with new information on school readiness, childhood brain growth, and social/emotional learning.
Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth. In order to grow, we must make use of our suffering in order to find our happiness.Within these pages, you will find an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own life journey. A hero's journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This interactive format calls for journaling and self-reflection, with practices that guide you beyond the pain of your past and help you discover a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. Successful navigation of a hero's journey provides opportunities to discover that you are more powerful than you had previously realized.Written by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, bestselling author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, this healing guide provides a step-by-step approach to trauma recovery that integrates:- Mindfulness & yoga- Somatic psychology- EMDR therapy- Parts work therapy- Relational therapy
From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play. Such play, which is often repetitive and disturbing, may help resolve traumatic experiences--but can also become toxic. The book guides the clinician to determine what is going on with a given child and intervene sensitively and effectively. Evocative case material is interwoven with up-to-date information on the developmental impact of trauma and ways to facilitate children's natural reparative capacities. A reproducible assessment checklist to help clinicians differentiate between useful and dangerous posttraumatic play can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
If you are looking for a free editable potty training chart to motivate your child during the potty training process, then you have come to the right place! We offer a large selection of free potty charts. No registration required to download! You can customize most of the charts. You can also use your text and the terminology that you prefer. If your child uses the toilet and not a potty, then change the text accordingly. You can also add your child’s name to personalize your potty training reward chart.
Repetitive trauma during childhood can impact your emotional development, creating a ripple effect that carries into adulthood. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) is a physical and psychological response to these repeated traumatic events. A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD contains research-based strategies, tools, and support for individuals working to heal from their childhood trauma. You don’t have to be a prisoner of your past.Learn the skills necessary to improve your physical and mental health with practical strategies taken from the most effective therapeutic methods, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and somatic psychology. When appropriately addressed, the wounds of your past no longer need to interfere with your ability to live a meaningful and satisfying life.This book includes:Understand C-PTSD—Get an in-depth explanation of complex PTSD, including its symptoms, its treatment through various therapies, and more.Address the symptoms—Discover evidence-based strategies for healing the symptoms of complex PTSD, like avoidance, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness.Real stories—Relate to others’ experiences with complex PTSD with multiple real-life examples included in each chapter.
There are many pieces to parenting including keeping your kids safe, setting boundaries and providing guidance. It's not easy! Priceless Parenting gives you the tools to do your best parenting. You'll find award-winning parenting classes, over 100 free parenting articles, parenting books, and other resources to help you thrive.
AndNextComesL.com offers over 50 social stories about play behavior, manners, dealing with emotions, verbal communication and more! The social stories include vivid photographs of children managing various situations. Social Stories are available for purchase at a low fee.
Learning how to identify if a problem is small, medium, or big, and then regulating our emotions to ensure our reaction matches the size of the problems presented to us helps us stay calm and strategize more effectively. Keeping our emotions and reactions in check also prevents further problems and conflicts from arising, which is an important life skill for children to learn. If your child has a tendency to overreact to the problems he or she faces each day, these size of the problem activities for kids will help!
Taylor is totally awesome, but he's also totally disorganized, always late for class, and days behind on his homework. He's a chronic procrastinator! Luckily, he gets research-based tools to curb his procrastination from... his future self! GoZen.com offers the Procrastination Relief Program module for purchase as part of their program Suite for Tweens and Teens.
The OT Toolbox.com shares a lot of creative ways to encourage calming strategies, attention building techniques, and creative sensory play ideas. This article provides proprioception sensory activities that are heavy work activities which can be used to help kids address sensory needs and challenge their proprioceptive system.
PsychAlive draws on the contribution of leading psychology experts who specialize in a broad spectrum of subjects related to emotional well-being. The information on PsychAlive is derived from the research of The Glendon Association, a non-profit psychology organization with 30 years of experience studying the roots of many of peoples’ most prevalent emotional struggles. PsychAlive translates a solid base of psychodynamic and existential theory into terms that are understandable and applicable in everyday life.
With a PsychologyToday.com membership therapists create a professional profile that is added to a directory lists of clinical professionals, psychiatrists, and treatment centers. Psychology Today is the #1 source of online referrals for therapists. When you join Psychology Today you won't need to worry about making your own website or understanding SEO. We promote your profile on all the major search engines including Google, Bing and Yahoo. When you're listed, your name will appear high up in the results.
Psychologtools.com provides techniques, procedures, audio downloads, scales/measures, books/chapters, information sheets and more! Our resources are organized intuitively, and are available in a variety of formats because we know that you and your clients learn and work in different ways. Psychology Tools’ mission is twofold: to ensure that therapists worldwide have access to the high-quality evidence-based tools they need to conduct effective therapy, and to be a reliable source of psychological self-help for the public.
Kid tested strategies used by child therapists for calming anxiety, including ideas to calm down, books to read and videos that can help.
The typical symptoms of OCD—in which a child looks to manage unwanted thoughts or impulses through repetitive rituals such as hand washing and touching things in a certain order—normally come on gradually. But with acute-onset OCD, parents report that symptoms appear “overnight.” There is debate in the medical community over what causes acute-onsetOCD and how to treat it. While researchers originally hypothesized that the symptoms were triggered by a strep infection, hence the name PANDAS, it later became linked to other types of infections, such as Lyme disease, mononucleosis and the flu. The more recent name, PANS, doesn’t specifically link the condition to any cause. Child Mind Institute provides quick facts on PANDAS/PANS including facts on symptoms and treatment.
Rabbit enjoys doing rabbity things, but he also loves un-rabbity things! When Rabbit suddenly disappears, no one knows where he has gone. His friends are desolate. But, as it turns out, Rabbit has left behind some very special gifts for them, to help them discover their own unrabbity talents! This is a stunning debut picture book by author/illustrator Jo Empson. Rabbityness celebrates individuality, encourages the creativity in everyone and positively introduces children to dealing with loss of any kind. For ages 3 - 8 years, 24 pages in length, Grade level 1 - 2
Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is—his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and direction—get comfortable with it, and then help them pursue and live a life according to it. Yet parents also want their kids to be independent, but not if they are going to make bad choices. They want to avoid being too overbearing, but not if an apathetic kid is what they have to show for it. They want to have a good relationship with their kids, but not if that means being a pushover. They don’t want to scream, but they do want to be heard. Good parenting is about striking the balance between a child’s characteristics and a parent’s desire to have influence. Through his well-known model of solving problems collaboratively, parents can forgo timeout and sticker charts; stop badgering, berating, threatening, and punishing; allow their kids to feel heard and validated; and have influence.
One frequently observed feature of Aspergers (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) is rigidity in thought and behavior. Rigidity seems to pervade so many areas of the lives of children with the disorder. Novel situations often produce anxiety for them. They may be uncomfortable with change in general. This can result in behavior that may be viewed as oppositional and can lead to emotional meltdowns. This general rigidity is what parents, neighbors, and teachers often label as stubbornness. Mark Hutten, M.A. provides a brief article on understanding the reasons for both cognitive and behavioral rigidity and resistance to change Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism.
A well-planned and organized space is very important especially for distressed and traumatized children. UNT College of Education Center for Play Therapy provides guidance on how to create a therapeutic environment in the play room. Criteria for selecting toys and materials as well as categories of toys to include, are discussed.
This relaxation script is for children or adults who are afraid of the dark. It begins with visualization and calming phrases to bring comfort and relaxation, and ends with passive progressive muscle relaxation. Listen to this relaxation script before bed to fall asleep comfortably.
