Showing results for "Family Science" in Psychology & Mental Health

We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: Can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all?

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a...

Some people are so stressful to be around they can actually make us ill. This book looks at the relationships that may drag us down and drain our energy. It gives us the tools to recognise toxic people and places so that we never need give in to them again. It explains that our freedom lies in our own hands and has to do with making choices and decisions, setting proper boundaries and drawing back from situations in which we tend to feel like victims. This may mean weeding out our address book and going lonely for a while - but never fear, says Dr Cantopher, givers will turn up once we eliminate the takers from our lives.

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom.

When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.

Exploring the process of recovery from addiction as it affects the entire family, this audiobook presents an innovative model for understanding and treating families navigating this difficult period. The authors draw upon extensive clinical and research experience to demonstrate how families can be helped to regroup after abstinence, weather periods of emotional upheaval, and find their way to establishing a more stable, yet flexible, family system.

Realistic advice from Zoë Kim, author of the popular minimalism blog The Minimalist Plate, offers guidance and support based on her continued experience of incorporating the principles of minimalism into her family life. With Minimalism for Families you’ll find everything you need to begin incorporating the principles of minimalism today.  

Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and those interested in becoming couple therapists can expect to ask.

Less than three months after retiring from a 30-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their work brings. And this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being.

Beneath the Behavior is a podcast for parents of neurodivergent kids who want understanding instead of blame.Hosted by pediatric psychologist Dr. Mark Bowers, each episode explores what’s really going on beneath a child’s behavior—from a brain and nervous system perspective—so parents can respond with more clarity and less self-doubt.This podcast isn’t about quick fixes or perfect parenting. It’s about slowing things down, making sense of hard moments, and supporting neurodivergent kids with science, not shame.Episodes are short, focused, and grounded in real clinical experience. ...

Beneath the Behavior is a podcast for parents of neurodivergent kids who want understanding instead of blame.Hosted by pediatric psychologist Dr. Mark Bowers, each episode explores what’s really going on beneath a child’s behavior—from a brain and nervous system perspective—so parents can respond with more clarity and less self-doubt.This podcast isn’t about quick fixes or perfect parenting. It’s about slowing things down, making sense of hard moments, and supporting neurodivergent kids with science, not shame.Episodes are short, focused, and grounded in real clinical experience. ...

Psyched2Parent turns brain science into Tiny Wins for parents raising big-feeling, strong-willed, big-hearted kids, especially the ones who hold it together at school and unravel at home. I'm Dr. Amy Patenaude, a school psychologist and parent coach. We live in the real-life intersection of nervous system regulation, executive function, learning, and school supports. If you're stuck in the loop of meltdown, guilt, over-accommodating, try again tomorrow, you're in the right place. If you're wondering, "Is this ADHD? Anxiety? Autism? A learning difference? Or temperament?" you're in the right ...

Step into the living voice of history.This podcast presents complete, unabridged audiobooks from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries—an era that shaped theology, philosophy, literature, and the moral imagination of the modern world. Each episode features a full classical work, faithfully narrated and preserved for modern listeners.From early modern theology and devotional writings to foundational works of philosophy, history, and moral reflection, these recordings restore the original cadence, gravity, and depth of texts too often reduced to excerpts or summaries.🎧 What you’ll find here:...

Whether you're looking to align more closely with your family, refine your perspectives, or simply invest in your collective growth, this is your gateway to connecting in ways you never imagined possible. Every episode features discussions on modern, non-fiction books. These carefully selected works bring relevant and transformative ideas, fostering improved communication and a shared language within families. Each book is a tool to enhance social fitness, with every discussion accompanied by a bespoke guide to help deepen understanding and provoke thoughtful conversation.

Hosted by Alliant University Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) faculty members Dr. Tabitha Webster and Dr. Gita Seshadri, The House of Family Therapy illuminates their colleagues' personal stories and professional journeys. Through their authentic, unapologetic personalities and bespoke blend of rapid-fire and in-depth questions, Drs. Webster and Seshadri help their guests (and listeners) feel right at home.

For 12 months the Family Empowerment Program was run as a pilot by the Charles Sturt University’s Rural Health Research Institute. The program was offered across rural Australia for 12 months with practitioners trained to provide online therapy for people supporting their loved ones struggling with substance use. In this podcast, you'll meet the research team along with some clinicians and participants who were part of the trial to hear their stories, their reflections and their hopes for a support program like this. Please be aware, this podcast features conversations about drug, ...

Monica Price is a business leader, broadcaster, writer and a go-to health and wellbeing expert, working with BBC, ITV, Sky News, GB News, TalkTV, Times Radio and many other national television and radio stations across the UK. She is a regular health contributor for Great British Life magazines, ABC Early Years magazines, and more recently Desert Health USA, where she has a regular nutritional column for the readers offering her expertise in health and nutrition.

Addiction and the Family is a podcast by and for family members of anyone with an addiction. We are working to bring experience, strength, and realistic hope so that you and your family can find recovery together. We do this through interviews with family members, people in recovery, and professionals who work with addiction every day. We also bring you research-backed information and practical ideas born of real-life experience. We are currently publishing on a monthly basis, with new episodes released near the end of each month. We are excited to present Casey's book "Realistic Hope: The ...

Come hang out with a couple of nerdy, dorky, and badass women who aren't afraid of using flowery, colorful, and more accurate language to discuss mental health. Psychologist and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Dr. Mary Bowles and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Jennifer Newell talk about Mental Health by looking at it through a different lens; the lens of not only marriage and family therapy (systems therapy), but also applied neuroscience, other new alternatives that oppose pathologizing through diagnosis and those that more effectively inform mainstream mental health care. Learn ...

Rastest du im Familienalltag manchmal aus, obwohl du es eigentlich besser weißt? Verlierst du die Gelassenheit – ganz egal, wie viel Selbstfürsorge, Achtsamkeitsübungen oder Mantras du kennst? Fragst du dich, warum all dein Wissen über Bindung, Nervensystem & eigene Kindheitswunden im Alltag plötzlich einfach… verdampft? Dann willkommen bei deiner Familienpsychologin next door, Nina Grimm – Psychologin, Mama und zweifache Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin. Hier bekommst du wissenschaftlich fundiertes Wissen zu Elternsein und Paarbeziehung, übersetzt in wirklich alltagstaugliche Schritte ...