Benjamin D Garber

Holding Tight-Letting Go

Raising Healthy Kids in Anxioustimes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An insightful, honest guide for parents and professionals regarding children on roles, boundaries, child growth and staying connected through life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: High Conflict Institute Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781936268900
• ISBN-10: 1936268906
• Artikelnr.: 42610053

Autorenporträt

Ben Garber is a husband, son and the father of two. He is a New Hampshire licensed psychologist, a former Guardian ad litem and a Parenting Coordinator. He is an invited speaker and professional trainer across the United States and Canada, a prolific writer and a closet cartoonist. Dr. Garber has advanced degrees in child and family development, clinical psychology, and psycholinguistics from the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan. He has lived and worked in New Hampshire since 1988, opening his present practice in clinical child, family, forensic and consulting psychology in 1999. When not engaged in professional activities or involved with family matters, Dr. Garber can often be found kayaking and fishing on the remote lakes and rivers of Northern New England and occasionally scuba diving in warmer waters to the south. Dr. Garber is a nationally renowned speaker, researcher and an award winning freelance journalist, writing in the areas of child and family development for popular press publications appearing around the world and in juried professional publications in both law and psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction On the Survival of the Species; Inter-generational Dominoes
Chapter 2 Where Do You Get Your Emotional Fuel? People are like Cars:
What's Your MPG? Are You Ready to Become Another Person's Gas Station?
Chapter 3 The Oceanic Self The Newborn Experiences Everything as Self; The
"Drip" Metaphor
Chapter 4 Me v. Not Me Childhood as Emergence; The Anchor Metaphor;
Tantrums, Practice and Faux Separations
Chapter 5 Healthy Anger Anger is Part of a Loving Relationship, Not the End
of Love; How Do You Express Your Anger?
Chapter 6 "NOT ME!" Adolescence and Rejection; Rageful Separations;
Launching and Re-entry; Tough-Love
Chapter 7 Accessorizing Self Boyfriends and Girlfriends, Peer Groups, Gang
Colors, Team Members, Religion and Identity
Chapter 8 Fractured Self Trauma Can Create Fault Lines That Lay Dormant,
Like a Mine, Until Your Partner or Your Child Steps on It
Chapter 9 Becoming a Parent Redefining Self for Mothers ... and Fathers?
Three's Company?
Chapter 10 Letting Go From the Moment of Birth On; Two Steps Forward, One
Step Back; "But Billy's Parents Let Him!"
Chapter 11 Holding Tight The Healthy Parent, Limits, Boundaries and
Follow-Through
Chapter 12 Transitional Objects Helping Our Kids Internalize the Security
We Provide
Chapter 13 Technology and Holding Tight Baby Monitors, GPS Trackers and
Text Messaging as Umbilical Cords
Chapter 14 Divorce Divorce With or Without Marriage Letting Go of an
Intimate Partner Can Be like Losing a Limb; How Do You Compensate?
Chapter 15 When Needy Parents Hold Too Tight: Adultified, Parentified and
Infantitized Children Sometimes the Dominoes Fall Backwards: Fractured
Parents Seek Their Children's Love
Chapter 16 When Needy Parents Can't Share: Parental Alienation Selfishly
Undermining the Child's Opportunity to Love Her Other Parent
Chapter 17 Repairing Self "In Case of a Sudden Loss of Cabin Pressure...";
Psychotherapy, Meds, Exercise, Spirituality
Chapter 18 Adult Children as Our Caregivers? The Harsh Realities of Aging
Chapter 19 Death and Loss and Grieving Letting Go for Good
Chapter 20 Letting Go and Holding Tight Giving Our Children Permission to
Become Healthy Parents Themselves