“The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions” is an essential resource for parents or caregivers looking to effectively practice therapeutic parenting. This nurturing parenting style is particularly beneficial for children with attachment difficulties or a history of childhood trauma.
This comprehensive book offers a model of intervention that provides a step-by-step process for responding to various issues that may arise with children. Covering 60 common problems, from aggression to sleep difficulties, the book offers insights into potential triggers and offers guidance on how to respond effectively
Contents:
PART 1: THE BASICS
- Why Our Children Do the Things They Do
- A Word About Developmental Trauma and Related Disorders
- The Essential Foundations of Therapeutic Parenting
- The P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Model of Intervention for Therapeutic Parents
- Summary and Explanation of Other Therapeutic Parenting Strategies
- Responses and Strategies to Avoid
- Managing Our Own Feelings – Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care
PART 2: A–Z OF BEHAVIOURS AND CHALLENGES WITH SOLUTIONS
- A – Absconding, Absences, Addiction, Aggression, Alcohol, Anger, Anxiety, Arguing, Avoidant Behaviour
- B – Baby Voice, Banging, Bath Time Issues, Bedtime Issues, Bedwetting, Birthdays, Christmas and Other Celebrations, Biting, Blocked Care, Blocking, Boasting, Bossiness, Bottles, Breaking Things, Brushing Teeth
- C – Car Journeys, Cause and Effect, Changes in Behaviour, Charming, Chewing, Choosing Difficulties, Christmas, Clinging, Compassion Fatigue, Competitiveness, Constant Chatter/Questions, Contact, Controlling Behaviours, Cruelty to Animals
- D – Damaging, Defiance, Destruction, Dirty Clothing, Disorganisation, Disrespecting, Dissociating, Drugs and Alcohol, Dummies
- E – Emotional Age, Empathy, Encopresis, Enuresis, Exaggerating
- F – Fake Illnesses, Fake Personality, Fake Smile, False Allegations, Father’s Day, Fearfulness/Fear Response, Following, Food Issues, Forgetfulness, Friendships
- G – Gratitude, Grief, Goading
- H – Headbanging, Hiding, Hitting Others, Hitting Self, Hoarding, Holidays, Homework, Honeymoon Period, Hostility, Hunger, Hygiene, Hypochondria, Hypervigilance
- I – Ignoring, Immaturity
- J – Joking and Teasing
- K – Kicking
- L – Lateness, Laundry Issues, Life Story, Literalness, Losing Things, Lying
- M – Making Decisions, Manic Laughter, Mealtime Issues, Memory Issues and Disorganisation, Messy Bedrooms, Moaning, Mother’s Day, Mouthing, Moving Slowly
- N – Night Terrors/Nightmares, Nonsense Chatter, Not Listening, Not Getting Up
- O – Obsessions, Overeating, Over Independence, Overreacting, Oversensitivity
- P – Pacifiers, Pee, Pretending Not to Hear, Poo Issues, Potty Training
- Q – Questioning
- R – Refusing Food, Refusing to Follow Instructions, Refusing to Hurry, Refusing to Say Sorry, Rejection, Remorse, Respite, Reward Charts, Rudeness, Running Off
- S – Sabotaging, Sadness, Saying Sorry, School Issues, Screaming, Self-Care, Self-Harm, Sensory Issues, Separation Anxiety Sexualised Behaviour, Shame, Sharing, Shopping Difficulties, Shouting and Screaming, Sibling Rivalry, Sleep Issues, Sleep Walking, Smoking, Sneaky Behaviours, Social Media Issues, Soiling, Spitting, Splitting, Staying in Bed, Stealing, Stealing Food, Sugar Addiction, Swearing
- T – Taking Things Literally, Taking Turns, Tantrums, Taunting, Teasing, Therapy, Tooth Brushing, Transitions, Triangulation, Triggers
- U – Unable to be Alone, Unable to Make Choices/Decisions, Ungratefulness, Untidy Bedrooms, Urinating
- V – Vacations, Vicarious Trauma, Violence
- W – Waking Angry, Waking Early, Wee, Wetting Selves, Whining
- X– Xenophobia
- Y – Yelling
- Z – Zzzz
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