Talking To Your Highly Sensitive Child: A Path To Self Regulation - Softcover

Strange-Dell, Gillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1038352207 ISBN 13: 9781038352200

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2026

Synopsis

Drawing on the work of renowned American psychologist and author, Dr. Elaine Aron, and her theory of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), and in particular, the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC), psychotherapist Gillian Strange-Dell dives into the neurobiology and behaviour of children with heightened sensitivity to the world around them
Talking to Your Highly Sensitive Child: A Path to Self-Regulation offers a practical guide for parents and teachers on how they might assist children who may be struggling with excessive stimulation and sensory overload to manage their anxiety and self-regulate their behaviour. The book includes three age-appropriate stories designed to be read with children aged two to twelve to facilitate discussion about their feelings and actions.

About this title

About the Author

Gillian Strange-Dell is a registered psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and a member in good standing with the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT). In her clinical practice, she specializes in working with Highly Sensitive People and parents of Highly Sensitive Children. She lives in Courtice, Ontario, with her husband and daughter and family pets, Roscoe, a Shorkie Poo, and Pearl, a crested gecko.

Edition details

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1038352207
• ISBN 13: 9781038352200
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Favereau Beatrice
• Number of pages: 80