Adventures In Parenting: How Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring And Modeling Can Help You Be a Successful Parent

This publication offers strategies on parenting practices that are based on scientific research that can be used by parents and guardians of children of any age. It also includes stories of how some parents have incorporated these strategies into their own day-to-day parenting activities, as well as insights from parenting experts. Rather than giving a… More Adventures In Parenting: How Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring And Modeling Can Help You Be a Successful Parent

Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children

This book presents the techniques and practices that are fundamental to optimal child development and family functioning―how to set limits, provide guidance, and manage the responsibilities and difficulties of daily life, while at the same time communicating safety, fun, joy, and love. Filled with valuable clinical vignettes and sample dialogues, Hughes shows how attachment-focused research… More Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children

Baby & Me: The Essential Guide to Pregnancy and Newborn Care (5th Edition)

Offering solid guidance for mothers-to-be this guide focuses on basics like prenatal care, lifestyle choices, nutritional advice, and baby’s first few months. This fifth edition includes updated and expanded information on mental health issues, including postpartum depression and anxiety, for both moms and partners; hot topics such as immunizations, breastfeeding, and coping with inconsolable crying;… More Baby & Me: The Essential Guide to Pregnancy and Newborn Care (5th Edition)

Breakthrough Parenting For Children With Special Needs: Raising The Bar Of Expectations

This book challenges families and professionals to help children with special needs to reach their full potential by using a proven motivational, how-to approach. This inspiring book provides detailed information on how to let go of the “perfect-baby” dream, face and resolve grief, avoid the no-false-hope syndrome, access early intervention services, and avoid the use… More Breakthrough Parenting For Children With Special Needs: Raising The Bar Of Expectations

Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings (3rd Edition)

This book guides parents and other caring adults how to help kids from the age of 18 months to 18 years build the seven crucial “C’s”–competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control- the critical ingredients young people need to bounce back from life’s challenges and thrive far into the future. It teaches how to… More Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings (3rd Edition)

Building the Bonds of Attachment

Parents and professionals now have the opportunity to join Dr. Hughes, a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of trauma, attachment, foster care and adoption, as he teaches a workshop on the method of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. learn how to understand these children who have lived in traumatic situations. Learn how to parent these… More Building the Bonds of Attachment

Building The Bonds Of Attachment: Awakening Love In Deeply Troubled Children

Book Cover, Building The Bonds Of Attachment: Awakening Love In Deeply Troubled Children

This work is a composite case study of the developmental course of one child following years of abuse and neglect. Building the Bonds of Attachment focuses on both the specialized psychotherapy and parenting that is often necessary in facilitating a child’s psychological development and attachment security. It develops a model for intervention by blending attachment… More Building The Bonds Of Attachment: Awakening Love In Deeply Troubled Children

Can I Go Home with You? Chloe’s Story of Trauma, Disrupted Attachment, and Psychotropic Medication

When four-year-old Chloe Ramsey loses her mother to a drug overdose, her aunt and uncle immediately step in to adopt her. Tamara and Darryl have been fighting for custody of Chloe for years, and while they’re devastated by her mother’s death, they are thrilled to finally give Chloe the love and security she deserves. But… More Can I Go Home with You? Chloe’s Story of Trauma, Disrupted Attachment, and Psychotropic Medication

Caring for Young Children with Special Needs

Book Cover, Caring for Young Children with Special Needs

This easy-to-use guide gives you a quick overview on many topics related to working with young children with special needs. Learn about inclusion in early childhood programs and disability law, as well as typical vs. atypical development. The quick guide also covers several specific disabilities/special needs and provides definitions, common characteristics, and practical strategies for… More Caring for Young Children with Special Needs

Changed By A Child

Raising a child with a disability can often be more isolating and frustrating than any parent ever imagines. This book, written by a Mother, honestly describes the inner needs and range of issues parents with children having a disability face. Changed by a Child invites parents to take a moment for themselves. Each of the brief readings offers… More Changed By A Child

Cybersafe: Protecting and Empowering Kids in the Digital World of Texting, Gaming, and Social Media

Beyond informing readers on the latest trends in technology, Dr. Gwenn provides the tools parents need to help their child navigate the digital world with insight and intelligence. Because, let’s face it, just because kids may be more technologically savvy than their parents doesn’t mean they have the wisdom and understanding to make good decisions… More Cybersafe: Protecting and Empowering Kids in the Digital World of Texting, Gaming, and Social Media

Dads of Disability: Stories for, by, and about fathers of children who experience disability (and the women who love them)

Dads of Disability is a collection of 41 essays and poems that illustrate a father’s perception of and reaction to being a father of a child that experiences disability. It is not a “how-to” book but rather collection to illuminate the emotional lives of these fathers. Written for fathers AND mothers and any caretaker, this… More Dads of Disability: Stories for, by, and about fathers of children who experience disability (and the women who love them)

Do I Have A Daddy? A Story About A Single Parent Child / Yo Tengo Papa: Un Cuento Sobre Un Nino De Madre Soltera

Book Cover, Do I Have A Daddy? A Story About A Single Parent Child / Yo Tengo Papa: Un Cuento Sobre Un Nino De Madre Soltera

A single mother explains to her son that his daddy left soon after he was born. Includes section with suggestions for answering the question, “Do I have a daddy?” This book is also available in Spanish. Una madre soltera le explica a su hijo que su padre se fue poco después de su nacimiento. Incluye… More Do I Have A Daddy? A Story About A Single Parent Child / Yo Tengo Papa: Un Cuento Sobre Un Nino De Madre Soltera