How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess: A Guide to Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health

by Caroline Leaf

Publisher:

Baker

, 2023

Every Parent's Guide to Supporting Their Child's Mental Health

Increasingly, children ages 3-10 are struggling with anxiety, depression, and mental health challenges. These can be brought on by many factors--stress at home, upheavals in society, breaks in routine, isolation from friends, bullying or social pressure--and if left unaddressed, they follow kids into their teens and adulthood, causing mental, emotional, and relational problems that will steal their peace and joy.

But there is hope. Bestselling author Dr. Caroline Leaf helps you teach your kids how to
· recognize negative feelings and respond in a healthy way
· navigate a world that can feel scary and overwhelming
· manage uncomfortable or challenging situations
· replace toxic thoughts with brain-building practices that produce better outcomes
· develop resilience and emotional strength

Based on up-to-date research, clearly illustrated with case studies, and practically applied to the problems kids are facing today, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess is what parents, caretakers, teachers, and counselors have been waiting for. Dr. Leaf shares a clear and effective five-step plan to teach your child how to manage their mind so they can live a life with greater resilience, health, and happiness.

From the Back Cover

Every Parent's Guide to Supporting a Child's Mental Health

Is your child struggling with toxic thoughts or mental health challenges brought on by stress, breaks in routine, isolation from friends, bullying, or social pressure? If left unaddressed, these mental messes can follow your child into their teens and adulthood, causing mental, emotional, relational, and physical problems that will steal their peace and joy in life.

If you're seeing the signs of a mental mess, there's hope. With deep understanding and compassion, bestselling author Dr. Caroline Leaf teaches you how to help your child

· recognize negative feelings and respond in a healthy way
· navigate a world that can feel scary and overwhelming
· manage uncomfortable or challenging situations
· replace toxic thoughts with brain-building practices that produce better outcomes
· develop resilience and emotional strength

Backed by clinical research, easy-to-understand mind-management skills, and practical application for the problems kids are facing today, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess provides a clear and effective five-step plan to teach your child how to manage their mind so they can live a life with greater resilience, health, and happiness.

Product Details

• Title: How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess: A Guide to Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health
• Author: Caroline Leaf
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781493423408, 9780801093418, 0801093414, 1493423401
• Resource ID: LLS:9781493423408
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-18T20:25:38Z

About Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf is the author of Switch On Your Brain, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, and The Perfect You, amongst many other books and journal articles. Since 1981, she has researched the science of thought and the mind-brain connection as it relates to thinking, learning, renewing the mind, gifting, and potential. Dr. Leaf practiced clinically for 25 years and is an international and national conference speaker on topics relating to optimal brain performance such as learning, mindful thinking, stress, toxic thoughts, male/female brain differences, mindful eating and much more. She is frequently interviewed on TV stations around the globe, has published many books and scientific journal articles, and has her own TV show, The Dr. Leaf Show. Leaf and her husband, Mac, live with their four children in Dallas and Los Angeles.