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"Every parent wants a kid who can--who can thrive, who can cope, who can stay motivated, adapt, show compassion, be focused. A kid who won't get stuck in a perfectionist loop or become anxious and avoidant every time something negative happens. Written by three mental health professionals who work with families, RAISING A KID WHO CAN delivers neuroscience-based advice and easy-to-implement strategies in a way that's organized for easy skimming and designed to be useful at any stage in a child's life."--Front jacket.
List of contents
Contents
Welcome
What’s Going on in Your Kids’ Brains
Playbook Essential #1: Getting Your 3 Rs: Rest, Recreation, and Routine
Playbook Essential #2: Learning to Focus: Attention and Self-Control
Playbook Essential #3: Feeling Uncomfortable: Tolerating Difficult Emotions
Playbook Essential #4: Avoiding Avoidance: Accepting Anxiety
Playbook Essential #5: Staying Flexible: Psychological Adaptability
Playbook Essential #6: Letting Go: Independence
Playbook Essential #7: Trusting the Spark: Motivation
Playbook Essential #8: Being Human: Compassion and Gratitude
Playbook Essential #9: Bouncing Back: Resilience
Playbook Essential #10: All Together Now: Living the Playbook
Appendixes
Recommended Reading
Endnotes
About the author
Catherine McCarthy, MD, is a Duke-trained child and adolescent psychiatrist with nearly 25 years of clinical experience. Named a “Top Doctor” by the Washingtonian magazine for 15 years running, she has appeared on live television news and is a contributor to popular magazines. With her neuroscience expertise in stress, anxiety, and the developing brain, Dr. McCarthy is a nationally recognized keynote speaker and regularly lectures to parents and students in almost every school system, both public and private, throughout the DC metropolitan area.
Heather Tedesco, PhD, is a licensed Applied Psychologist with a PhD in Social Psychology. She has a private practice where she works exclusively with parents to help them raise kids who can thrive while making parenting less stressful, more effective, and more enjoyable. Her specialty is simplifying the science into strategies parents can use right away and giving parents clarity and confidence in what to do and how to do it. She is the go-to parenting resource for many Washington, DC-area pediatric, psychological testing, and therapy practices and is a sought-after speaker for schools, community organizations, and businesses.
Jennifer Weaver, LCSW, has been rated as one of the “Best Child Therapists” in the area by Washingtonian magazine. Along with her therapy practice, she also provides workshops and training to mental health professionals, schools (faculty, student, and parent groups), and the larger community. She is the founder of two highly effective psychotherapy practices for kids, Weaver and Associates, for outpatient services, and Helix Center, an intensive outpatient program (IOP). Her programs have the direct support of colleagues and mentors at McLean Hospital in Boston, Anna Freud Centre in London, and Yale Child Study Center in New Haven.
Summary
Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to build a child's capacity to thrive where they are planted, in good times and bad.
Foreword
Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to build a child's capacity to thrive where they are planted, in good times and bad.
