Finding a Home for Memories and Emotions After Losing a Loved One
The loss of a loved one can be overwhelming. How do we endure grief? Can we simply forget, or "get over it?" This book explains the science behind bereavement, from emotion to the persistence of memory, and shows readers how to understand and adapt to death as a part of life. Responses to loss are typically associated with negative emotions, ......
What to Do When Your Young Adult Is in Psychological Distress
This book provides information, guidance, and above all hope for parents struggling to support their young adult children in psychological distress. The period of emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 29) is a psychologically vulnerable time. Many emerging adults are anxious, depressed, or otherwise distressed and may turn to unhealthy coping ......
How to Build a Relationship With Your Child to Weather any Storm
As parents, we often worry we're making the wrong decisions. The good news is, having a strong relationship with your child means you can make a parenting blunder from time to time, and exercise grace and patience to try again. Written for parents of children from birth to young adulthood (ages 0-24), this book helps you examine your role as a ......
Science-Based Strategies to Boost Motivation in Yourself and Others
What does science tell us about motivation? This book challenges common myths about motivation and offers readers strategies for successfully motivating themselves and others. Many unscientific and inaccurate ideas about motivation persist because they seem so logical, simple, or appealing.
A Tired Caregiver's Workbook for Every Age and Stage
Sleep is one of the most essential parts of children's health--and getting adequate sleep is often one of the most difficult challenges parents and caregivers face. In this book, clinicians Andrea C. Roth, Allison Shale, and Shelby F. Harris use their experiences as developmental sleep specialists and parents to create a hands-on, user-friendly ......
How to Have Honest Conversations With Young Children
Serves as a guide for parents with children from infancy through six years of age, to help parents recognize how their behaviour influences their child's sexuality. The goal of Sex Ed, Strollers, and Sippy Cups is to give parents practical tools to proactively teach young children about sexuality, and the confidence to use these tools.
A Guide for Advocates and Activists on Staying Healthy, Inspired, and Driven
Being the Change is written for activists who work in organizations with social missions, and those who are involved in social change outside of their jobs. It provides empirically supported strategies from cognitive behavior therapies and other psychological interventions for coping with the challenges of difficult, yet meaningful work.
Navigating the Challenges and Celebrating Your Child's Strengths
This book will help parents understand and work more effectively with their young child's temperament. Effective parenting isn't one-size-fits-all. Every child comes with an innate temperament, which includes a unique set of emotional reactions and personal strengths, a motivational style, and needs that demand attention. And every family has ......
This book draws from cutting-edge psychological research to provide advice for people who are undergoing religious change. Americans today are leaving religion in record numbers. For many, the faith, practices, and institutions that once provided comfort and guidance no longer fit their beliefs and values. This shift often comes with a price, ......
