Family Psychology

Dr. Wes Crenshaw offers thirteen principles for successful living with ADD and ADHD drawn from twenty-two years of experience and 23,000 hours of clinical discussions with hundreds of interesting clients. Written in an entertaining, conversational style for readers aged fifteen to thirty, Dr. Wes pulls no punches in confronting the cognitive, social, emotional, and academic pitfalls people with ADD face every day.

With few exceptions, parenting books, websites, and podcasts emphasize the critical role of the parent in shaping a child’s destiny. But the obsession with parenting ignores a fundamental biological fact: that genetics affect every aspect of human behavior, and every child is uniquely “coded” with predispositions that affect everything from fearfulness, to impulsivity, to happiness.

This book is a valuable resource for parents commencing FBT and for parents struggling during treatment. It offers clear, practical advice and empowers parents to confront whatever the illness throws at them. It is also an important resource for clinicians and will help them guide their families through treatment.

Strong as a Mother is a practical and compassionate guide to preparing for a smooth start to motherhood. Everyone knows the secret to having “the Happiest Baby on the Block”. This is your guide to being the Sanest Mommy on the Block. It will prepare you with humor and grace for what lies ahead and give you the tools you need to take care of yourself, permission to struggle at times, and professional advice on how to move through it when you do.

You're a caring mother of boys, part of the "boy mom" phenomenon - now learn how to raise your son to be compassionate, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent with this parenting guide made just for you.

Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes - family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.

Ready or Not explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future - and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health, and happiness.

For trauma survivors struggling with intense memories and emotions, it often feels like life won't ever be "normal" again. Effective treatments are out there, but the needs of family members are often overlooked. Will the person you love ever get better? What can you do to promote healing? Where can you turn when you just can't cope? From experienced trauma specialists Claudia Zayfert, PhD, and Jason C. DeViva, PhD, this compassionate guide is packed with information, support, vivid stories, and specific advice.

The issue of diagnosing children with behavioral diseases that do not conform to a scientific definition of disease, and then medicating them is a scandal ready to erupt. In The Diseasing of America's Children, popular family psychologist, speaker, and best-selling author John Rosemond joins pediatrician Dr. Bose Ravenel to uncover the fiction and fallacy behind attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), early-onset bipolar disorder (EOBD), and the drugs prescribed to treat them.

Spirited infants are the outliers—the exceptions to the “rules,” the extraordinary ones. They arrive in this world genetically wired to be alert and intense. Spirited babies put parents to the test and raising them takes special skills and patient perseverance. In this groundbreaking new book, beloved parenting expert Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D., offers her findings in the fields of neuroscience, sleep, temperament, self-regulation, attachment, and parent-child interactions, and shares what she has learned from hands-on experiences with families.

Mucho se ha hablado sobre Alienación Parental y, afortunadamente, cada vez hay más estudios y libros que tratan el tema de una forma rigurosa. Entender cómo se origina, cómo funciona y los efectos que produce para saber detectarlo y diagnosticarlo a tiempo es fundamental. Pero, una vez que ya hemos hecho esto ¿qué hacer? ¿Cómo tratar, hablar, vivir, llevar una visita o comunicarse por teléfono con un hijo que sabemos que está manipulado por el otro progenitor?

As your self-absorbed parent grows older and becomes more dependent on you, hurtful relationships may resurface and become further strained. In the tradition of Children of the Self-Absorbed, author Nina Brown offers the first book for adult children of aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parents. You will learn practical, powerful strategies for navigating the intense negative feelings that your parents can incite as well as tips to protect your children from the criticism, blame, or hostility that may exist between you and their grandparent.

When it comes to relationships, theres no shortage of advice from self-help experts, pick-up artists, and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths of attraction often have no basis in fact or worse are rooted in little more than misogyny. In Attraction Explained, psychologist Viren Swami debunks these myths and draws on cutting-edge research to provide a ground-breaking and evidence-based account of relationship formation.

Why don't our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the blame for misbehavior, but this obscures a broader trend: in our modern, highly connected age, children have less self-control than ever. About half of the current generation of children will develop a mood or behavioral disorder or a substance addiction by age 18. Contemporary kids need to learn independence and responsibility, yet our old ideas of punishments and rewards are preventing this from happening.

Every parent will have to discipline a child at some stage. No matter how well behaved they are, they all have a moment when behavior lapses and falls below what is expected. In years gone by, it was the custom to use physical force to chastise children, but this has been shown to be ineffective and now parents look for other ways to deal with problems.

For every family secret, Elsie Finch covets the truth. Consequences for being an heir of the Finch family estate are psychologically punishing. Neither parent comprehended how these punishments would circle back to them. In their personal chaos, Richard and Gail Finch design their estate with ramifications for misplaced loyalties, but when a third generation aims for the cache, someone is expendable. Who wins this long game? There is a price to being the chosen child, one who becomes the object of sibling jealousy. It is a price that is not comprehended until the very end. Untying the ...

In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: A woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with more than 3,000 prostitutes - because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman's pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her.

If you’re single, this book will give you clarity and the confidence to choose a better partner. If you’re in a relationship, it will help you to work out if you should stay or go. Either way, this book will empower you to take charge of your relationship destiny.

Should you get a puppy or an adult dog? Should you go through a breeder, shelter, rescue or private party, and what are some red flags and warning signs? How do you pick out the perfect dog for your lifestyle and needs? In "Let's Get a Dog!", the second book in her empowering series "Secrets of a Lazy Dog Trainer," Kendall Brown addresses all these questions and more, inspiring both new and seasoned dog owners to embark on a fulfilling journey of pet ownership. This essential guide is crafted for anyone excited to add a dog to their family, ensuring a harmonious transition into this ...

Mary Brown notices the man watching her. There's something familiar about him. Who is he? He seems to be following her. What does he want? He knows things he shouldn't know. Mary Brown is concerned and confused. Then her baby is stolen... While a police team search for her missing girl and reporters gather outside the hospital, Mary and Ted must confront the unthinkable: their baby girl is missing, and they have no idea who took her or why. With each passing hour, Mary grows more desperate to find her baby while navigating the exhausting challenges of postpartum life. The book is a ...