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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits

Do you dread parent-teacher conferences? Does your child really know how to push your hot button? Has your child been labeled “defiant” or “rebellious”? Here are proven strategies that have helped millions to tame—not break—a spirited child.

Michael H. Popkin

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Raising The Challenging Child: How to Minimize Meltdowns, Reduce Conflict, and Increase Cooperation

What's the worst you've ever faced as a parent? An all-out tantrum at the mall? A son who won't take out his earbuds to listen to you? A daughter who's failing at school and won't do her homework? A teen who constantly breaks curfew? A call from the police? Whatever you're dealing with, Raising the...

Karen Doyle Buckwalter, Debbie Reed, Wendy Lyons Sunshine

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Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.

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Healing Self-Injury: A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury.

Janis Whitlock, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson

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The Kids In Trance Program: “Tapping Your Child’s Genius with Hypnosis & Meditation!”

"Kids in Trance," is a fantastic book written specifically for parents with young children and teens. It is the only book of its kind that teaches parents how to safely utilize clinical hypnotherapy, meditation, and auto-suggestion with their kids/teens for problem-solving purposes.

John Eric Jacobsen

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Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

Understand the different types of upsets and traumas your child may experience—and learn how to teach them how to be resilient, confident, and even joyful.

Peter Levine, Maggie Kline

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Foster Parenting