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Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism, or other disorders, but don't respond well to treatment. They are then medicated, often with poor results and unwanted side effects. Based on emerging scientific research and extensive clinical experience, integrative child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley has pioneered a four-week program to treat the frequent underlying cause, Electronic Screen Syndrome (ESS).

A must-have guide for helping your child conquer worry, fear, and overwhelm AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Kids today are more susceptible than ever to anxiety and stress. As a parent, you want to shield your child from these overwhelming feelings, but it can be daunting in an...

As your self-absorbed parent grows older and becomes more dependent on you, hurtful relationships may resurface and become further strained. In the tradition of Children of the Self-Absorbed, author Nina Brown offers the first book for adult children of aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parents. You will learn practical, powerful strategies for navigating the intense negative feelings that your parents can incite as well as tips to protect your children from the criticism, blame, or hostility that may exist between you and their grandparent.

While growing up has never been easy, today's world undeniably presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges. The upside, cites Maureen Healy, is a widespread acknowledgment that emotional health, resilience, and equilibrium can be learned and strengthened. Healy, who was a "wild child," the kind, she writes who left babysitters "wondering if they wanted children" knows her subject. She has become an expert on teaching skills that address the high sensitivity, big emotions, and hyper energy she herself experienced.

An intersectional guide to building resilience and reclaiming joy With so much information available on how to build resilience--from meditation, exercise, and time in nature, to the latest neuroscience-backed studies--have you ever wondered what's holding you back? If you commit to self-care...

Few of us are immune to the ideas we absorbed as children. We learned how to get approval or disapproval by creating the kinds of selves who would fit in and succeed with the "right" jobs, relationships, possessions, and so on. Even if we rebel against these ingrained notions by going in the opposite direction, we are still controlled by them. Either way, as adults we are often left feeling anxious or depressed because who we really are has been ignored.

Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from zero to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional and behavioral outbursts that leave parents feeling bewildered and helpless. Other parents may have told you that it's just a phase or that your child needs discipline.

Diagnosis Human offers a compelling alternative to the biomedical model of mental health as it's been promoted over the last thirty years—a model which says that mental distress is a problem of chemical imbalance, or brain chemistry. Biological psychiatry focuses on quantifying the "illness" by an almost exclusive focus on symptoms. In this model, symptoms are never good. They are always seen as a sign that something is wrong with that person, a sign of pathology that must be changed. People now have a name for what they "have" and receive a prescription for it.

Entdecke den ultimativen Ratgeber für ADHS bei Erwachsenen! Dir fällt es schwer, deinen Fokus für längere Zeit zu behalten und du leidest an innerer Unruhe? Du vermutest, dass ADHS dahinterstecken könnte, bist dir aber über die Bedeutung deiner Symptome noch nicht im klaren? Wurde bei dir oder einem Angehörigen sogar schon ADS oder ADHS diagnostiziert und du möchtest dir einen Überblick über die Störung sowie über schnelle, unkomplizierte Möglichkeiten zur Selbsthilfe machen? Der Alltag mit ADHS ist für dich sehr kräfteraubend und du willst endlich Strategien erlernen, die dir zu mehr Erfolg im Berufsleben und in der Partnerschaft verhelfen.

Hochsensible Menschen - Ursachen, Eigenheiten und Chancen der Hochsensibilität - Den Alltag erfolgreich meistern ohne Erschöpfungserscheinungen. Beruf, Partnerschaft und Alltag problemlos meistern - das ist für einige Menschen scheinbar selbstverständlich. Bei hochsensiblen Menschen ist dies jedoch keineswegs der Fall. Hochsensible nehmen erheblich mehr äußere Reize auf und können diese weniger gut filtern als andere Menschen. Durch diese Reizüberflutung treten relativ schnell Erschöpfungserscheinungen und Überforderung auf, die den Alltag negativ beeinflussen können.