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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

By Erin Clabough — 2019

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health

Science tells us that the foundations of sound mental health are built early in life. Early experiences—including children’s relationships with parents, caregivers, relatives, teachers, and peers—interact with genes to shape the architecture of the developing brain.

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Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life

Self-Reg is a groundbreaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child’s emotions and behavior and a practical guide for parents to help their kids engage calmly and successfully in learning and life. Grounded in decades of research and working with children and parents by Dr.

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The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Is your child extremely irritable most of the time? Do they have difficulty interpreting social cues? Are they impulsive and prone to outbursts or explosive rages? Parenting a child who has emotional dysregulation can be a bumpy ride.

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The Disintegrating Student: Struggling but Smart, Falling Apart, and How to Turn It Around

The truth is that many smart students reach a point where they feel overwhelmed and stressed out. As their grades drop, so does their self-esteem, and this combination of external and internal pressures can seem insurmountable. To make matters worse, students feel unable to ask for or accept help.

Jeannine Jannot

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Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis.

Enrico Gnaulati

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Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges

The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen who lashes out or engages in troubling behavior, you may be unsure of how to respond to your child in a compassionate, constructive way.

Pat Harvey, Britt H. Rathbone

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The Truth About Yelling At Kids - Gordon Neufeld, PhD

Psychologist and author Gordon Neufeld, PhD, shares advice for parents on how yelling or screaming at your children really affects them, and why it is better to handle your frustration with your child in a more constructive manner.

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Self Control: The Secrets to Teach Kids Self Control | Erin Clabough

It is my pleasure to introduce you all to the amazing Erin Clabough In this interview we discuss 1. The Science of how kids Learn 2. What the research shows about punishment and the development of self-control. 3. 3 Core Skills Your Kids Need to Thrive in a new fast-paced world. 4.

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Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors

Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions provides dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) strategies and skills to parents of children with explosive emotions.

Pat Harvey, Jeanine A. Penzo

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Dr. Shefali Tsabary: Children Don't Need Fixing | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent, says that no matter how out of control a child may seem, they don't need fixing. Watch as she explains a hands-on, fully present approach to parenting that can create conditions in which any child can thrive.

Shefali Tsabary

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