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Description for Pride and Joy
Paperback. Pride and Joy provides guidance to parents on how they can preserve and strengthen feelings of joyfulness and pride in their relationships with their children, while also nurturing their children's optimism and resilience in the face of life's inevitable disappointments. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: VFV; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 208 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Pride and Joy provides guidance to parents on how they can preserve and strengthen feelings of joyfulness and pride in their relationships with their children, while also nurturing their children's optimism and resilience in the face of life's inevitable disappointments. Kenneth Barish, a child psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience, begins with a discussion of the importance of the child's emotions - and our own - in optimal child development. In Part I, he presents a child therapist's understanding, supported by scientific research, of healthy and unhealthy emotional development in childhood - what goes right and what goes ... Read more
Pride and Joy provides guidance to parents on how they can preserve and strengthen feelings of joyfulness and pride in their relationships with their children, while also nurturing their children's optimism and resilience in the face of life's inevitable disappointments. Kenneth Barish, a child psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience, begins with a discussion of the importance of the child's emotions - and our own - in optimal child development. In Part I, he presents a child therapist's understanding, supported by scientific research, of healthy and unhealthy emotional development in childhood - what goes right and what goes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199896240
SKU
V9780199896240
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Kenneth Barish
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Reviews for Pride and Joy
Barish's book is geared toward understanding family issues, solving family difficulties, and increasing family cohesion. Parents, parent educators, clinicians, and teachers would be well served in reading Pride and Joy and using the resources listed topically at the end of the book as follow-up as well.
PsycCRITIQUES, Feb 2013
PsycCRITIQUES, Feb 2013