Unleash the power of exercise for seniors with "Energized Golden Years: The Ultimate Guide to Regular Exercise for Seniors"!This groundbreaking book will transform your golden years through regular physical activity, ensuring a happier, healthier life for seniors and their families.Are you a senior or the child of an aging parent, seeking a path towards an energized and fulfilling life? Look no further! In "Energized Golden Years," we dive into the incredib...

Teaching children how to navigate the complex social universe, this everyday strategy guide helps them to develop healthy social skills. Informed by current research on character development, this handbook helps parents, educators, and health-care workers understand which critical social skills determine future success and how to incorporate the teaching of those skills into everyday life. Practical advice emphasizes building children's resilience and the management of social conflicts whi...

This guide for parents offers practical strategies to help teach children relaxation techniques, correct ways of thinking to combat worry and anxiety, and empowering behavioral interventions. Parents are encouraged to understand why children worry and to recognize if a child needs help with excessive worry. Explained are how to create a plan to help a child, effective strategies to reduce worry, and how to build a child's self-esteem and confidence so he or she can become more resilient. A...

Written in a Seussian style, this delightful story explains why children suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) react differently to simple situations in their daily lives. Explaining the symptoms of ADHD in an entertaining way, this tale helps children understand their differences, accept treatment, and retain positive self-esteem. Parents, teachers, and doctors will welcome this dialogue concerning how they can help children with ADHD.

This book is a comprehensive guide designed to empower autistic adults by fostering resilience in their daily lives. It details autistic adults’ encounters with unique social, emotional, and professional challenges and details strategies for developing and maintaining resilience to ensure personal growth and fulfillment. The book takes a strengths-based approach, focusing on practical strategies to navigate stress, anxiety, communication difficulties, and the fear of failure, all issues co...

In the intricate landscape of childhood emotional and behavioral challenges, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) stands as one of the most daunting. Characterized by intense irritability and explosive outbursts, DMDD can transform the journey of parenting and teaching into a relentless storm, leaving families and educators searching for guidance and support. This bookoffers a beacon of hope as well as a comprehensive resource crafted for those dedicated to nurturing children with...

This book examines disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) during childhood and adolescence. It explores the ways in which explosive anger outbursts and persistent irritability are among the most problematic symptoms in child and adolescent mental health. and may present as a feature of many different psychiatric illnesses. The volume addresses the myriad challenges that youth with a focus on the DMDD diagnosis experience. Chapters focus on key issues of development, behavior, achiev...

Impairment and disability are widely used terms, yet considerable disagreement exists as to their relationship—especially when impairment means different things to different professionals in the fields of mental health, medicine, and education. Although diagnostic criteria for various disorders are clearly detailed in the DSM-IV and elsewhere, criteria for impairment remain elusive. And patients with severe limitations but minimal symptoms, or the reverse, furthe...

The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to happier and healthier lives as well as improved functionality across the lifespan. In this edition,...

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing c...

Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with – and survive in – challenging new environments.The Handbook of Intelligence addresses a broad range of issues relating to our cognitive and linguistic past. It is the first full-len...

Why do students in Grades K–12 struggle with social and academic skills, and how can teachers help them develop the competence and confidence they need to succeed? Get practical answers in the new edition of this bestselling book, a staple of teacher training since 2001. It's structured like the popular previous editions: a detailed questionnaire pinpoints each student's individual strengths and needs, and an updated version of the highly effective Building Blocks ...