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Keeping children bodies, minds, and emotions on task just got easier with this new book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Featuring more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies, and adaptations for helping children gain more control over their lives. Each chapter provides rich background and theoretical material to help the listener better understand the issues our children face.

An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their...

Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to measure how segregation affected Black children's perception of themselves and other Black people, was enlightening—and horrifying.

Even before everything was disrupted by COVID-19 (not to mention by Trump), millions of Americans were already questioning capitalism’s “values”. We were already challenging the idea that your job defines you. We already knew something was wrong. Loneliness, frustration, and alienation were already on the rise. Even the most successful of us felt too busy, too preoccupied, and too distracted to enjoy what we intuitively know are life’s greatest rewards: vibrant relationships, family life, connection to others, involvement in our community, and the thrilling experience of love.

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“A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.” —Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book Review The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and...

""Star Wars is the ultimate mythological tale of our age, a hero's journey that is a tribute to the beauty of human freedom as well as an exploration of its dark complexities. In this gem of a book, the brilliant Cass Sunstein uses the series to explore profound questions about being a parent, a...

With wit, wisdom and uncommon sense, Dr. Harriet Lerner gives readers the tools to solve problems and create joy, meaning and integrity in their relationships. Women will find Life Preservers (more than 40,000 copies sold in hardcover) to be an invaluable motivational guide that covers the...

Look out for Julie's new book, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters. From bestselling author Julie Klam comes a lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important. “When I was young I was convinced...

Psykologen Ida arbejder med et af sin professions mest følsomme og kontroversielle emner: tvangsfjernelse af børn. En dag, da hun er forkølet, giver hun sig til at læse en meget omdiskuteret bog af præsten Søren Krarup. Bogen "Forsvar for familien" maler et billede af den danske familie som et sikkert tilflugtssted for sine medlemmer, hvor man altid er god nok, og hvor alting fungerer. Idas oplevelser fra sit arbejdsliv er imidlertid ganske anderledes.

"Dein Kind ist ja voll das Sensibelchen!" – ja, und?! Was ist daran schlimm? Vielleicht gehört Ihr Kind sogar zu der Personengruppe der hochsensiblen Menschen. Leider wird "sensibel sein" aber oftmals mit einem negativen Unterton ausgesprochen. Möglicherweise ist Ihnen aufgefallen, dass Ihr Kind bestimmte Reize, egal, auf welcher Ebene, besonders intensiv wahrnimmt oder auch eher wahrnimmt, als Sie es tun. Es könnte auch sein, dass Ihr Kind sich öfter einmal zurückzieht, für sich sein will oder aber auch laut schreit und wütet und das von einer Sekunde auf die andere.