Marcel Lebrun, Kimberly Williams

Healthy Children, Healthy Minds

Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children. This book provides strategies on how to keep the brain and mind healthy, address challenges to brain and mind health, such as mental illness and substance abuse, and concrete strategies for building a healthy brain and mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781610489256
• ISBN-10: 161048925X
• Artikelnr.: 40454940

Autorenporträt

By Marcel Lebrun and Kimberly Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Keeping the Brain and Mind Healthy Chapter 1: Exercise: The
Mind on the Move Chapter 2: Nutrition: Healthy Fuel for the Mind Chapter 3:
Arts: Stimulation for the Developing Mind Chapter 4: Language Development
and Computing for Healthy Mind Development Part II: Challenges to Brain and
Mind Health Chapter 5: Attention Issues and Problems Chapter 6: Brain
Injuries and Brain Damage (Athletics, Accidents, Toxins) Chapter 7:
Substance Abuse Chapter 8: Physical Illness and obesity Chapter 9: Mental
Illness and Pathology Chapter 10: Violence and Abuse Part III Strategies
for Building a Healthy Brain and Mind Chapter 11: Mindfulness and
Meditation Chapter 12: Purposeful Teaching of Thinking/cognition and
Identifying and Building Cognitive Strengths Chapter 13: Social
Relationships and Healthy Emotions Chapter 14: Strategies for Well-Being
(including programs and alternative therapies) Conclusion