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A CHILD UNHEARD
A Child Unheard, one mans journey to healing, dealing with childhood hurts/truma and generational traits passed down. Truly the reason for todays breakdown in soceity
Preview Website - 9-Sep-2007 - Hits: 38 - Rate This | Details

Better Behavior Wheel
Why spank when you can spin? The Better Behavior Wheel is an upbeat, fun, and totally unique approach to child behavior management that actually works.

The Wheel comes with several blank disks and 64 different consequences and rewards, all on peel and stick paper. Sit down with your child and mutually agree on which consequences should be placed on the disks. Use those provided or make up your own. When your child misbehaves, it's time to step up to the Wheel. Wherever the spinner lands is the consequence that must be followed.
Preview Website - 10-Oct-2004 - Hits: 192 - Rate This | Details

Beyond the Blues, A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
Beyond the Blues contains the most up-to-date information about risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mood disorders in pregnancy and postpartum. Straightforward yet compassionate, it is required reading for all who work with pregnant and postpartum women, as well as for those suffering before or after the baby is born.

"Refreshingly easy to read and understand. Informative, concise and truly user friendly. A valuable tool for clinicians and consumers alike."
- Joyce A. Venis, R.N.C.

You can also visit their website at http://www.beyondtheblues.com/.
Preview Website - 13-Apr-2003 - Hits: 263 - Rate This | Details

Don't Feed the Animals - Vlasto Publishing ^{Top Rated}
We teach our children the ins and outs of the physical world; now there is a book, "Don't Feed the Animals" that guides a child to an even greater understanding of their inner world.

In "Don't Feed The Animals", mesmerizing images guide the reader through a young girls challenges in a weird and wonderful zoo.

With each obstacle in her path, her negative thoughts magically turn into "thought" animals that hug, grab, and hold on tightly to her. Will she free herself of the burden of the animals? ...only if she sees the signs and learns hot to "not feed the animals," i.e. her negative thoughts.

This book gives parents, teachers and counsellors the opportunity to help children realize that they have the power within them to choose their thoughts, change negative thoughts to positive thoughts, no matter what is happening to them in the outer world.

Tima Vlasto’s playful and intriguing illustrations invoke us to truly experience a journey through her “Zoo of Life” integrating emotion, intellect and spirit in “Don’t Feed The Animals”. The subtle narrative of the story with an empowering underlying message of self-efficacy awakens our awareness that we can choose how to relate to life events and that we can have an impact upon about how we “travel” through the journeys of our own lives… I am looking forward to exploring “Don’t Feed The Animals” with my clients…

Ronald R. Rein, Ph.D.
- Clinical Psychologist, Licensed By The State of New York
- Member, American Psychological Association
Preview Website - 20-Jan-2005 - Hits: 83 - Rate This | Details

Online Paradigm
The basic purpose for publishing this online magazine is to inform and enlighten all those who see their purpose in life as helping families and children to grow and mature through difficult times.
Preview Website - 14-Jun-2002 - Hits: 118 - Rate This | Details

Parenting Children and Adolescents with Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D. ^{Top Rated}
Dr. Phelan's best-selling, award-winning parenting books, videos and DVDs offer easy-to-learn methods for parenting and disciplining children and adolescents. Used by millions of parents and professionals worldwide, research shows that the Dr. Phelan’s 1-2-3 Magic parenting program can not only improve children's cooperation and reduce misbehavior, but it can also reduce parental stress, hostility and depression.
Preview Website - 1-Jan-2005 - Hits: 450 - Rate This | Details

Pediatrics for Parents
This is a great newsletter for anyone who cares for a child. Each issue includes updates on medical research, discussion of childhood diseases, in-depth articles by pediatric specialists, product recall news, and a special column, PediaTricks.

It does cost $20.00 a year to subscribe, but readers of Psych Central can get a free, 3 month subscription just by e-mailing the owner and giving them the subscription code JG3. I encourage you to check it out.
Preview Website - 20-Feb-2000 - Hits: 160 - Rate This | Details

Preventing Misbehavior in Children - 2nd Edition
by Dewey J. Moore
Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd (ISBN: Paperback: 0398066728/Hardcover: 039806671X)

With easy-to-read text, this book is also written in an easy-to-read style which down-to-Earth suggestions and strategies for helping parents cope with raising children in today's ever-changing society. Divided into seven well-organized chapters, topics range from helping your child build his world, helping him or her learn who he or she is, and concrete examples of how to deal with problems at home. Other chapters include understanding the motivations and thoughts behind the child's behaviors, some basic facts about child development and child rearing in general, a chapter devoted to special problems and misbehavior (e.g., speech difficulties, deafness, vision problems) and finishes with a chapter entitled "When Parents Goof," describing a number of general parenting styles and personalities.

Except for the referral of the child as a "he" throughout the book (very non-PC!), most of what Dr. Moore writes is common sensical advice, no doubt taken from his decades worth of knowledge and experience in the field of working with children in practice. The strategies are based upon research and generally a behavioral/cognitive-behavioral point of view, so there's no need to worry about finger-pointing in this book. This isn't a book so much about why a child is the way they are, but rather seeks to help parents understand useful methods to change the child's behavior. It could be a useful and invaluable guide for any parent nowadays and is definitely recommended. 148 pages, paperback and hardcover editions available.
Preview Website - 4-May-2000 - Hits: 300 - Rate This | Details

The Depressed Child: A Parent's Guide for Rescuing Kids
By emphasizing how parents can talk to their children about thoughts and feelings, exploring how children develop negative beliefs about themselves, and teaching parents how to help their children change those hopeless self-perceptions, this book outlines practical methods that parents and children together can use to find solutions to the dark thoughts that plague so many young people today.

Ten brief but thorough chapters cover the most common negative beliefs that trigger depression and such companion problems as substance abuse, prematurely intense relationships (what he calls "miniature marriages") that blindside adolescents when they come to an end, and suicide. Riley illustrates each point with case studies that offer readers a chance to learn from his dialogues with his patients. He suggests strategies for everything from closing "the physical distance between you and your child" in order to soothe and encourage them, to some particular lines of questioning for uncovering negative beliefs, to the crucial, often overlooked act of listening ("your ears cannot be fully open until your mouth is fully shut"). He also discusses when to seek professional help and how to step in swiftly and effectively in the case of a suicidal child. Riley's advice is commonsensical and sound, and the concrete tools he offers in this slim, practical volume provide a lifeline to parents of any child struggling with depression.

This is a must-have book for any parent with a depressed child or teen.
Preview Website - 29-Mar-2005 - Hits: 193 - Rate This | Details

The Problem Kid Problem-Solver
Counselors and youth workers can get hundreds of creative interventions for difficult and problem children and teens. Books, conferences, posters, workshops and many freebies. Clock hours offered as well as college credit for live and distance classes.
Preview Website - 8-Sep-2005 - Hits: 78 - Rate This | Details