Product Description
STRESSED FAMILY, STRONG FAMILY: Cope with Problems Build Resilience Handle Crises
is an e-book for concerned parents, teachers, counselors, nurses
and anyone else who wants to help kids cope from about age 6 through 21.
Your kids, pupils or clients can learn to handle such stresses such as divorce, school problems, and any of over 100 other crises and challenges
all described in STRESSED FAMILY, STRONG FAMILY.
Better still, one part of this new book will enable a child, teen, or even young adult to tell YOU what THEY need in order to cope better. They do that by answering some items on the quiz in Chapter 4: Help Me Cope.
You might have a surprise or two waiting for you.
That’s what happened in my friend, Marie’s family. Marie’s one of the most competent, caring parents I’ve ever known,
But her when 9 year old, Callie, filled out Help Me Cope, she revealed some stresses she had never mentioned before. Marie was able to change her schedule and spend more time with her bright, but quietly-worrying little girl.
What else can Stressed Family, Strong Family help with?
I don’t want to promise too much.
But in forty years as a child and family psychiatrist I’ve learned
that each family develops a unique mix of strengths and vulnerabilities.
Only you can decide how to harness those strengths to overcome problems.
One thing I firmly believe:
You’ll get farther by supporting strengths than by focusing only on problems.
And if you need some help recognizing strengths, I discuss some 370 different abilities (that’s right, three hundred seventy.)
Everything from expressing feelings, to leadership, to assertiveness, to faith and beyond.
I include ideas you can use to strengthen these abilities
to make kids more resilient.
Remember; if youths don’t know what their strengths are, they can’t use them when they need to cope.
CONTENTS of Stressed Family, Strong Family
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3
The Resilience Checklists
These three chapters suggest ways you can help your son, daughter, or pupil increase their resilience. You will be helping them to cope better with stress, as you look at key ideas from around the globe.
Chapter 4
Help Me Cope: A Quiz for Kids and Teens
A youth from 10 to 21 can answer the questions on Help Me Cope. You and the youth can then read suggestions about ways to increase their coping abilities. (Adults can also answer the questions for themselves.)
Chapter 5
How Families or Schools Cope with a Crisis
A family or a class needs different skills when a crisis affects everybody. Learn about those skills in this chapter.
Chapter 6
Recycle Your Family
Here you'll find some ideas for getting free of vicious cycles like arguing, nagging, shirking chores, avoiding homework, fighting, scapegoating.
Chapter 7
370 Strengths
Scan this list of 370 different strengths to identify good qualities you may have lost sight of, or never noticed, in your kids, pupils, or family.
Chapter 8
Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
These serious conditions afflict kids or adults when they have had stress or trauma that upset them deeply. This chapter could help you understand someone who suffers from PTSD.
The Appendix
You’ll find a list of about 130 kinds of stress, on the List Of Bad Things Or Stresses. Chapter 7 suggests strengths that could be useful in coping with particular stresses listed in the Appendix.
You’ll also find a list of websites and other information in the Appendix.
is an e-book for concerned parents, teachers, counselors, nurses
and anyone else who wants to help kids cope from about age 6 through 21.
Your kids, pupils or clients can learn to handle such stresses such as divorce, school problems, and any of over 100 other crises and challenges
all described in STRESSED FAMILY, STRONG FAMILY.
Better still, one part of this new book will enable a child, teen, or even young adult to tell YOU what THEY need in order to cope better. They do that by answering some items on the quiz in Chapter 4: Help Me Cope.
You might have a surprise or two waiting for you.
That’s what happened in my friend, Marie’s family. Marie’s one of the most competent, caring parents I’ve ever known,
But her when 9 year old, Callie, filled out Help Me Cope, she revealed some stresses she had never mentioned before. Marie was able to change her schedule and spend more time with her bright, but quietly-worrying little girl.
What else can Stressed Family, Strong Family help with?
I don’t want to promise too much.
But in forty years as a child and family psychiatrist I’ve learned
that each family develops a unique mix of strengths and vulnerabilities.
Only you can decide how to harness those strengths to overcome problems.
One thing I firmly believe:
You’ll get farther by supporting strengths than by focusing only on problems.
And if you need some help recognizing strengths, I discuss some 370 different abilities (that’s right, three hundred seventy.)
Everything from expressing feelings, to leadership, to assertiveness, to faith and beyond.
I include ideas you can use to strengthen these abilities
to make kids more resilient.
Remember; if youths don’t know what their strengths are, they can’t use them when they need to cope.
CONTENTS of Stressed Family, Strong Family
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3
The Resilience Checklists
These three chapters suggest ways you can help your son, daughter, or pupil increase their resilience. You will be helping them to cope better with stress, as you look at key ideas from around the globe.
Chapter 4
Help Me Cope: A Quiz for Kids and Teens
A youth from 10 to 21 can answer the questions on Help Me Cope. You and the youth can then read suggestions about ways to increase their coping abilities. (Adults can also answer the questions for themselves.)
Chapter 5
How Families or Schools Cope with a Crisis
A family or a class needs different skills when a crisis affects everybody. Learn about those skills in this chapter.
Chapter 6
Recycle Your Family
Here you'll find some ideas for getting free of vicious cycles like arguing, nagging, shirking chores, avoiding homework, fighting, scapegoating.
Chapter 7
370 Strengths
Scan this list of 370 different strengths to identify good qualities you may have lost sight of, or never noticed, in your kids, pupils, or family.
Chapter 8
Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
These serious conditions afflict kids or adults when they have had stress or trauma that upset them deeply. This chapter could help you understand someone who suffers from PTSD.
The Appendix
You’ll find a list of about 130 kinds of stress, on the List Of Bad Things Or Stresses. Chapter 7 suggests strengths that could be useful in coping with particular stresses listed in the Appendix.
You’ll also find a list of websites and other information in the Appendix.
