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Children’s Mental Health Disorders—A Journey for Parents and Children

2014

Meet two families and hear about their experiences living with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Tourette Syndrome.

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The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries

In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children's difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more.

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Michele Borba
2025
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How Can I Stay Positive for My Kids When I’m So Overwhelmed?

Even for a psychologist who studies how kids understand racism and violence, talking to her own children about it is difficult.

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Allison Briscoe-Smith
2020
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How to Talk with Your Kids About Donald Trump

The GOP candidate is creating fear and confusion in children, especially kids of color. Here are three suggestions for talking with kids about race and racism in the media.

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Allison Briscoe-Smith
2016
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By Mollycoddling Our Children, We’re Fueling Mental Illness In Teenagers

Of course we want to keep children safe. But exposure to normal stresses and strains is vital for their future wellbeing.

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Jonathan Haidt, Pamela Paresky
2019
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Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum

International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.

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Temple Grandin, Debra Moore
2025
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How To Land Your Kid In Therapy

Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.

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Lori Gottlieb
2011
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The Importance of Child Mental Health and Happiness

“What can I do to positively affect the mental health of the children I encounter?”

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Kori D. Miller
2021
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Complete Guide to Getting Good Care

When a child is struggling, or his behavior worries you, it can be hard to know whether you need to reach out to a professional. And if you do seek help, what kind of professional, and what kind of treatment, are right for your child? This guide is also offered in Spanish.

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Child Mind Institute Content Team
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is—his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and direction—get comfortable with it, and then help them pursue and live a life according to it.

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Ross W. Greene
2025
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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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Stuart Shanker
2017
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