Deborah J Jones – författare

The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child''s behavior—fully updated and revised

In 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child’s self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully build upon their child’s strengths while effectively managing challenging behavior. Packed with brand-new content, this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to integrate state-of-the-field scientific and clinical advances, providing a timely and thorough response to the current issues facing parents of young children. It addresses important new topics, including:

Understanding parenting and child behavior in context, including effects of the global pandemic, racial disparities, financial strain, and other parenting challengesGreater opportunities for parents to learn proven parenting skills for challenging child behaviors such as noncompliance, whining, and tantrumsHelp for parents to apply new skills to the specific problem behaviors they are facingStrategies for linking the five-week program skills to common parenting challenges, including screen timeUnderstanding how the proven five-week program can help parents of children with ADHD given advances in science and clinical practice in this areaThe importance of parent self-care as they learn the programImprove the life of your child—and yourself—with valuable lessons and science-backed advice that has helped a generation of parents raise happy, healthy children.

Practitioners need to know the evidence behind using digital mental health approaches and tools, including telemental health visits. This accessible book provides that help, as the authors guide the reader through the rationale, options, and strategies for incorporating digital tools into children''s mental health care, drawing on their extensive knowledge of both current research and clinical practice. They outline the leading theoretical approaches that highlight mechanisms involved in digital tools increasing access to, engagement in, and outcomes of evidence-based mental health services for children and families. Through clinical vignettes and hands-on exercises included in this Advances in Psychotherapy series volume, mental health providers will gain insight into how to select a digital tool and identify its various uses. The reader is also given the opportunity to explore their own attitudes and comfort with incorporating digital tools into practice with their young clients and their families. Numerous downloadable handouts and forms for clinical use are provided in the appendix.