The Strength Switch: how the new science of strength-based parenting helps your child and your teen flourish - Softcover

Waters, Lea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191134434X ISBN 13: 9781911344346

Publisher: Scribe UK, 2017

Synopsis

Unlock your child’s potential by helping them build their strengths.

As a strengths-based scientist for more than 20 years, Dr Lea Waters has witnessed first-hand how focusing on our children’s strengths, rather than correcting their weaknesses, can help build resilience and optimism, and offer protection from depression and anxiety.

In this game-changing book, she argues that by throwing the ‘strength switch’ parents can encourage creativity, develop their children’s self-esteem and energy, and enhance achievement ― and she offers easy-to-follow steps to teach parents how.

With specific tips for interacting with your kids and your teens, The Strength Switch offers all the tools parents need to discover talents in their children, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains, and deal with problem behaviours and difficult emotions. This essential book will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Lea Waters is a psychology researcher at the University of Melbourne, where she has worked for over 20 years. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology, holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, and is a registered psychologist and a member of the Australian Psychological Society. She is recognised as a world expert on positive parenting, positive education, and positive organisations, and has affiliate research positions with Cambridge University and the University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribe UK
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191134434X
• ISBN 13: 9781911344346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352