Download or read book Mindful Parenting written by Susan Bögels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents' inner resources, often undoing the best intentions and parenting courses. Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners offers an evidence-based, eight week structured mindfulness training program for parents with lasting benefits for parents and their children. Designed for use in mental health contexts, its methods are effective whether parents or children have behavioral or emotional issues. The program's eight sessions focus on mindfulness-oriented skills for parents, such as responding to (as opposed to reacting to) parenting stress, handling conflict with children or partners, fostering empathy, and setting limits. The book dovetails with other clinical mindfulness approaches, and is written clearly and accessibly so that professionals can learn the material easily and impart it to clients. Featured in the text: Detailed theoretical, clinical, and empirical foundations of the program. The complete Mindful Parenting manual with guidelines for eight sessions and a follow-up. Handouts and assignments for each session. Findings from clinical trials of the Mindful Parenting program. Perspectives from parents who have finished the course. Its clinical focus and empirical support make Mindful Parenting an invaluable tool for practitioners and clinicians in child, school, and family psychology, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, and developmental psychology.

Download or read book Your Mindful Compass written by Andrea Maloney Schara and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.

Download or read book Mindful Medical Practice written by Patricia Lynn Dobkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about being mindful in clinical practice and how mindfulness enhances the quality of patient care while adding depth and meaning to a clinicians’ work. Chapters include narratives from clinicians who consciously apply mindfulness in real life settings. Authors from various settings provide examples that capture how emergent mindfulness is. Mindful Medical Practice demonstrates to physicians, residents and students how mindfulness enriches both their practices and lives.

Download or read book Visible Learning written by John Hattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions of students and represents the largest ever evidence based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Areas covered include the influence of the student, home, school, curricula, teacher, and teaching strategies. A model of teaching and learning is developed based on the notion of visible teaching and visible learning. A major message is that what works best for students is similar to what works best for teachers – an attention to setting challenging learning intentions, being clear about what success means, and an attention to learning strategies for developing conceptual understanding about what teachers and students know and understand. Although the current evidence based fad has turned into a debate about test scores, this book is about using evidence to build and defend a model of teaching and learning. A major contribution is a fascinating benchmark/dashboard for comparing many innovations in teaching and schools.

Download or read book Visible Learning for Teachers written by John Hattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world. The author offers concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful interventions and offers practical step-by-step guidance to the successful implementation of visible learning and visible teaching in the classroom. This book: links the biggest ever research project on teaching strategies to practical classroom implementation champions both teacher and student perspectives and contains step by step guidance including lesson preparation, interpreting learning and feedback during the lesson and post lesson follow up offers checklists, exercises, case studies and best practice scenarios to assist in raising achievement includes whole school checklists and advice for school leaders on facilitating visible learning in their institution now includes additional meta-analyses bringing the total cited within the research to over 900 comprehensively covers numerous areas of learning activity including pupil motivation, curriculum, meta-cognitive strategies, behaviour, teaching strategies, and classroom management Visible Learning for Teachers is a must read for any student or teacher who wants an evidence based answer to the question; ‘how do we maximise achievement in our schools?’

Download or read book Tout est l juste l written by Jeanne Siaud-Facchin and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « La méditation de pleine conscience, c’est apprendre à être vraiment présent. Être présent à ce que l’on vit. Au moment où on le vit. Juste maintenant. C’est cela qui change tout. Pour chacun d’entre nous, pour les enfants et les ados aussi ! J’ai aimé écrire ce livre, ce livre pour vous, parents, enseignants, thérapeutes... Pour aider nos enfants à grandir, à s’épanouir, à vivre mieux, à résister à la dispersion, à être moins stressés, plus concentrés. Pour leur permettre de se relier, à chaque instant, à toutes leurs ressources. Tout est là, juste là, pour ne pas se faire engloutir par le flot de ce monde. Ainsi pourront-ils devenir des adultes bien dans leur tête, dans leur cœur, dans leur vie, en accord profond avec ce qu’ils sont... Dans ce livre, vous trouverez mille et un exercices, une panoplie d’idées et de ressources, pour pratiquer avec eux, à la maison, à l’école, à chaque instant de vie. Et bien sûr les programmes détaillés de pleine conscience pour les enfants et les adolescents, et un CD, pour guider les méditations. » J. S.-F. Jeanne Siaud-Facchin est psychologue clinicienne, psychothérapeute, fondatrice des centres Cogito’Z. Elle pratique et enseigne la méditation de pleine conscience à Paris et à Marseille. Spécialiste reconnue des surdoués, elle est l’auteur notamment de L’Enfant surdoué, Aider l’enfant en difficulté scolaire, Trop intelligent pour être heureux ? et Comment la méditation a changé ma vie... qui ont tous été d’immenses succès.

Download or read book Mindfulness and Meditation for Adolescents written by Betsy L. Wisner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes mindfulness and meditation practices and programs for adolescents by situating the topic in a bio-psychosocial-cultural approach. Using this framework, the benefits of these practices and programs for adolescents— with an emphasis on evidence-based practices—are explored. In addition to programs based on mindfulness, meditation programs using Transcendental Meditation, Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response, and the Center for Mind Body Medicine’s group programs are discussed. The book is targeted toward educators, mental health professionals, researchers, and graduate students interested in the application, development, and study of mindfulness and meditation practices and programs for adolescents.

Download or read book La pleine conscience chez l enfant et l adolescent written by Sandrine Deplus and published by Mardaga. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un guide pour les professionnels de l’enfance ou pour les parents qui souhaitent intégrer la pleine conscience dans le quotidien de leur enfant Les approches psychologiques basées sur la pleine conscience connaissent actuellement un succès important. Il n’a donc pas fallu attendre longtemps pour que des programmes d’entraînement à la pleine conscience, initialement développés pour l’adulte, soient proposés à des plus jeunes. Ces nouvelles approches fondées sur l’expérience sont séduisantes. Cependant, éveiller les jeunes à la pleine conscience confronte les praticiens à des défis spécifiques – défis relevés par les auteures dans cet ouvrage. La pleine conscience chez l’enfant et l’adolescent donne des pistes concrètes pour soutenir les jeunes dans leur découverte de la pleine conscience, en tenant compte de leur niveau de développement. Plus précisément, la première partie du livre présente une revue approfondie de la littérature scientifique afin d’appréhender la pleine conscience et ses liens avec la régulation émotionnelle chez les jeunes. Quant à la deuxième partie, elle fournit deux programmes de gestion des émotions par la pleine conscience, l’un pour l’enfant et l’autre pour l’adolescent. Cet ouvrage de référence propose deux programmes d’entraînement à la pleine conscience : l’un pour l’adolescent, l’autre pour l’enfant et un site Internet compagnon du livre, fournissant des exercices audio à télécharger gratuitement ! CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE "Le livre propose un programme d’entraînement à la pleine conscience qui demande aux enfants de porter leur attention sur l’instant présent un état quasi naturel chez la plupart d’entre eux tout en donnant des pistes concrètes aux professionnels de l’enfance." - Le Métro "Destiné aux professionnels de la santé, le guide fourmille d’idées, d’exercices pour les parents et les enseignants qui souhaitent recommander la pleine conscience." - Daily Science "Intégrée à une intervention préventive, la "pleine conscience" présente un effet bénéfique sur la gestion des émotions et de la dépression chez les adolescents. Telle est la conclusion majeure d’une étude menée par le Pr Pierre Philippot, spécialiste des troubles dépressifs à l’UCL. Pierre Philippot a également dirigé l’ouvrage La pleine conscience chez l’enfant et l’adolescent." - Luc Ruidant, Le Journal du Médecin À PROPOS DES AUTEURES Sandrine Deplus est docteure en psychologie et psychothérapeute auprès d’enfants présentant des difficultés de régulation émotionnelle. Elle anime régulièrement des ateliers basés sur la pleine conscience auprès d’enfants et d’adolescents, mais aussi d’adultes. Magali Lahaye est docteure en psychologie. Elle exerce en tant que psychologue avec des enfants, des adolescents et leurs familles aux cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (Bruxelles). Elle travaille également à la Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l’éducation de l’Université de Louvain (UCL). Depuis plusieurs années, Sandrine Deplus et Magali Lahaye développent des approches basées sur la pleine conscience auprès de l’enfant et de l’adolescent ; elles sont responsables d’un certificat universitaire portant sur les interventions psychologiques dans ce domaine.

Download or read book Trouver son refuge int rieur Apaiser stress et motions chez les enfants et ados gr ce la pleine conscience written by Saki Santorelli and published by De Boeck Supérieur. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans un monde toujours plus dur au quotidien, il est nécessaire de donner à nos enfants et ados les ressources qui leur permettront de gérer le stress et de devenir des adultes heureux et sains. En effet, la pression qu'ils doivent affronter chaque jour à l'école, dans les cours de récréation, dans leurs activités extrascolaires ou à la maison les submergent parfois. La question qui nous interpelle alors tous, c'est : comment les aider ? Comment leur donner les bases nécessaires pour s'épanouir ? Ce livre est un guide progressif qui aidera les professionnels à construire et développer les ressources vitales dont tout enfant a besoin telles que la gentillesse, la résilience, l'attention et la gestion du stress. Il nous présente un programme de pleine conscience en 8 semaines, éprouvé depuis de nombreuses années.

Download or read book Yoga for Life written by Colleen Saidman Yee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a rebellious young woman with a dangerous heroin habit to a globe-trotting fashion model to “First Lady of Yoga” (The New York Times), Colleen Saidman Yee tells the remarkable story of how she found herself through the healing power of yoga—and then inspired others to do the same. I’ve learned how to extract the beauty of an ordinary day. I’ve learned that the best high exists in the joy—or the sadness—of the present moment. Yoga allows me to surf the ripples and sit with the mud, while catching glimpses of the clarity of my home at the bottom of the lake: my true self. The very first time Saidman Yee took a yoga class, she left feeling inexplicably different—something inside had shifted. She felt alive—so alive that yoga became the center of her life, helping her come to terms with her insecurities and find her true identity and voice. From learning to cope with a frightening seizure disorder to navigating marriages and divorces to becoming a mother, finding the right life partner, and grieving a beloved parent, Saidman Yee has been through it all—and has found that yoga holds the answers to life’s greatest challenges. Approachable, sympathetic, funny, and candid, Saidman Yee shares personal anecdotes along with her compassionate insights and practical instructions for applying yoga to everyday issues and anxieties. Specific yoga sequences accompany each chapter and address everything from hormonal mood swings to detoxing, depression, stress, and increased confidence and energy. Step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate her signature flow of poses so you can follow them effortlessly. Yoga for Life offers techniques to bring awareness to every part of your physical and spiritual being, allowing you to feel truly alive and to embody the peace of the present moment.

Download or read book Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Connor M. Kerns and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment begins with a general overview of the history of research on anxiety in ASD and the path towards evidence-based assessment and treatment methods. Thereafter, chapters focus on the nature of ASD and anxiety comorbidity, the assessment of anxiety in ASD, and its treatment. Later chapters are devoted to future directions for research on this topic, including a discussion of anxiety assessment and treatment for adults and minimally verbal individuals. Anxiety disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can cause substantial distress and impairment over and above that caused by ASD alone. Emerging research on genetic, psychological, psychophysiological, and psychometric aspects of ASD establish anxiety as a valid and necessary treatment target in this population. This book is designed to help a broad array of providers who work with children with ASD understand cutting-edge, empirically supported treatments for anxiety, including specific treatment plans and strategies. - Presents a balanced discussion of the scientific literature on anxiety in ASD - Provides a pragmatic, clinically applied focus that gives readers a 'how-to' guide for the treatment of anxiety in ASD - Considers the distinct ways in which anxiety presents in children and adolescents with ASD and the challenges this presents to assessment and treatment - Examines emerging areas of anxiety assessment and treatment research in ASD

Download or read book International Water Law written by Charles B. Bourne and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[When] great issues were coming to the fore ... that would determine the future of the mighty Columbia River & the international water relations of those two neighbors, who stand astride most of the North American Continent, Canada & the United States ... Charles Bourne established himself as a preeminent figure in the developing stages of the law.' (from the Biographical Note by Professor Albert E. Utton). One of the drafters of the ILA Helsinki Rules, Professor Charles Bourne is an authority in the field of international water law. He has edited & written widely in respected journals & has served on the noted committees of recognized scholars that have helped shape & interpret the state of the law. This collection compiles a selection of Professor Bourne's definitive articles with a forward by the editor surveying recent developments in the field & an introduction by Professor Lucius Caflisch (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva). Its comprehensive coverage & Professor Bourne's own stature in the law of international water systems make this essential reading for all specialists & students involved with water, & a tribute to a foremost expert in the field. '... the present volume is a must for anyone seriously interested in the law of international waterways. It evidences a constant scholarly preoccupation with almost all aspects of that law. Above all, it reflects standards of conciseness, clarity, elegance & scholarship which rightly are the envy of Professor Bourne's colleagues.' (From the Preface by Professor Lucius Caflisch).

Download or read book The Soul of Narcissism written by Christian Fierens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of narcissism introduced by Sigmund Freud has become a victim of its own success. On the one hand, with its emphasis on self-love and new forms of well-being, it can take the form of a celebration of the self. On the other, with its range of negatively associated character traits, it has given rise to a burgeoning field of narcissistic pathologies. The Soul of Narcissism argues that both perspectives represent impoverished and superfluous forms of narcissism, obscuring the vibrant notion that Freud put in place in order to question the very heart of psychoanalytic practice. This book proceeds by examining Freud’s introduction of narcissism in its historical context as a movement of reflexion on the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, putting forward a close reading of Freud’s writings that led up to his seminal paper "On Narcissism: An Introduction". Against the trend of current perceptions, it re-establishes narcissism as a methodology of reflexion upon clinical practice and theory, whose very motor is the unconscious. In this way narcissism is restored to its fundamental place in psychoanalysis, rich with all of the life of the drives. This reinvigorated notion of narcissism will be of interest not just to students and practitioners of psychoanalysis, but also to all those who draw upon Freud’s study of narcissism.

Download or read book PISA 21st Century Readers Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacing traditional formats of usually more carefully curated information such as encyclopaedias and newspapers.

Download or read book Flesh and Body written by Didier Franck and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenological approach to questions of the body, ego, temporality and intersubjective relations with the 'other' by a leading French thinker and Husserl scholar.

Download or read book Psychology and Buddhism written by Kathleen H. Dockett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a serious consideration of how the goals and practices of psychology can be informed and enriched by Buddhist traditions that transcend the individual to consider the interconnectedness of all things, and the responsibility we have towards the other. Individualistic and psychotherapeutic applications of Buddhism in psychology are examined, followed by a bold step into the community arena, with consideration given to the intersection between community psychology and Buddhist approaches to empowerment, social change, and prevention.

Download or read book Aider son ado gr ce la m ditation written by David Dewulf and published by De Boeck Superieur. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comment aider son ado à faire face à ses problèmes ? Cet ouvrage propose des exercices de pleine conscience - une des méthodes les plus utilisées contre le stress - spécialement conçus pour les jeunes. Il leur donne les clés pour cesser de ruminer... et vivre en profitant de chaque instant !