Board-Certified Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist and Trauma-Focused CBT Therapist
PARENTING RESOURCES
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I've curated and compiled several resources you may find helpful as you navigate your family's many ups and downs. These books have been vetted by many parents of children at every age and stage, and I hope they can offer you a new way of listening, understanding, and talking with your child or teen, even when challenges arise. Below you will also find an extended virtual library of parenting resources.
Dr. Becky masterfully gives you the language and the scripts to try when you're stuck on how to set limits, suggestions on how to connect empathically with your child, and provides great insight into childhood development.
Drs. Seigel and Payne provide excellent and accessible psychoeducation on a child's emotional, cognitive, and social development at every stage. When you're equipped with an accurate understanding of how your child experiences the world, you can respond in a healthier way. The Whole Brain Child also comes in the form of a workbook for parents, which can also be helpful.
Another wonderful resource by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne, this text gives you helpful scripts to effectively set limits with your toddler or child.
This text provides you with interventions to support your child at home when they're struggling with anxiety and big feelings of frustration. These methods are backed by research in child psychology and development, and can provide you with further tools in your toolkit to parent, even when you feel stuck!
From the developer of the world-renowned SPACE program, Eli Leibovitz provides a method for parenting children who struggle with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder which blends empathy and understanding with limit setting and encouraging children to face their fears in a safe way!
Expert on childhood and ADHD Russell Barkley provides you with some general guiding principles and education on ADHD and how this disorder can look for children and teens in both home and school settings. He brings clarity to an often-misunderstood disorder.
This text, now in its 6th edition, can be of great insight and support to parents of children who struggle with inflexible thinking, strong feelings of frustration and irritability, and difficulty independently using skills to calm and soothe themselves.
This text, for parents of school-aged children, considers the nuances of communication, and teaches parents how to vary their tone, pitch, and cadence so that kids' attention can be more easily gained, and better listening and true communication can be established.