
Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness
Tamar E. Chansky
Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Book Description
A guide for parents trying to manage their child's negative mindset.
During the course of the day every child faces ups and downs that are out of their control-it's the meaning
placed on those joys and challenges that they're able to determine. All parents want their children to be happy, and it's hard to watch them crumble, shut down, or melt in the face of small disappointments or hints of criticism. And negative thinking only "supersizes" problems, making even small obstacles seem impossible.
In Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking, Dr. Tamar Chansky analyzes the underlying causes of children's negative attitudes and provides strategies to help manage negative thoughts, build optimism, and establish emotional resilience. Drawing on her nearly two decade's worth of experience, she shows parents and children how to shrink mistakes back to their manageable size and how to look for solutions by creating "positive psychology," such as:
- Building and Broadening the Strength Vocabulary: identifying your child's strengths
- Separating the Enduring Strengths from the Temporary Struggles
- Strengths Even (Especially) in the Presence of Adversity
- Global Failure or Specific Glitch: what does a lack of self-esteem really mean?
- Encouraging Resilience: out of struggle comes strength
Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking gives parents the tools to teach children how to recognize-and outsmart-the worry traps in their mind.
About the Author:
Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D., founder and director of the Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety, is the author of Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Freeing Your Child from Anxiety. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughters. www.freeingyourchild.com
Buy: Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness
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