Lea Waters

The Strength Switch

how the new science of strength-based parenting helps your child and your teen flourish

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Produktbeschreibung

Unlock your children's potential by helping them build their strengths. This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than correcting their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias. By showing us how to throw the 'strength switch', Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism, and achievement, and protect them from depression and anxiety. As a strengths-based scientist for more than twenty years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in children and teenagers, and how exciting and rewarding it can be for parents. With tips for specific ways to interact with your kids, Waters demonstrates how to discover talents in our children, how to use positive emotions as a resource, how to build strong brains, and how to deal with problem behaviours and difficult emotions. The Strength Switch will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781911344346
• ISBN-10: 191134434X
• Artikelnr.: 47792784

Autorenporträt

Professor Lea Waters is a psychology researcher at the University of Melbourne, where she has worked for over 20 years. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology, holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, and is a registered psychologist and a member of the Australian Psychological Society. She is recognised as a world expert on positive parenting, positive education, and positive organisations, and has affiliate research positions with Cambridge University and the University of Michigan.