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Your child's DNA is not destiny; you are at the helm, guiding their course.
The truth is, nature and nurture are in a delicate dance-if one goes too fast, the other one falls. Science tells us that early childhood experiences have the capacity to structure and alter the brain. That means you didn't just supply your child's DNA-you're still shaping it. And it's only by wielding this power that your child will activate their full potential. You are...
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With over four million children now on behavior modifying medications, some starting as young as two years old, FRONTLINE continues its investigation into the controversial practice of medicating kids. Are the drugs safe? How young can you detect mental illness in a child? Is medication really the answer? As the debate grows more intense, FRONTLINE investigates the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.
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"From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health--a book that fully explores a revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success. In Tom Boyce's extraordinary new book, he writes of his acclaimed and pathfinding work as a developmental pediatrician working with troubled children in child-development research for almost four decades, and explores...
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Autism in America: Putting the puzzle together, one beautiful piece at a time, is a genuine and straightforward look into the Autism Spectrum Disorder as told by the families and individuals living with Autism daily. Many parents are interviewed including Ruth Sullivan, Ph.D., the mother of a man named Joe who was the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s autistic character in the movie “Rain Man.” We also hear from a young woman named Alexis, the...
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After her mother's death, Karen returns home to take care of her older sister, Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability. Karen gradually discovers the true aspect of her mother's relationship with Trevor, one of Kelli's support workers, and starts to experience for herself the suffocating nature of Trevor's care.
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Acaso cabe imaginar un ser humano carente de sentimientos, emociones, afectos o estados de ánimo, en su relación con el mundo y con otros seres humanos? ¿Acaso el carácter, el curso o el destino de una relación social pueden entenderse al margen de lo sentido por los actores? Este libro pone de relieve el papel que juegan las emociones en la vida social, mostrando así la necesidad de incorporar el estudio de la dimensión afectiva en toda investigación...
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En México habitan más de 30 millones de niños en contextos urbanos, rurales o indígenas, con niveles socieconómicos diferentes, que comparten múltiples aspectos de una historia milenaria que dio fruto a un país que es una rica mezcla de culturas, etnias y lenguas. Su situación solo se puede estudiar a partir de esta realidad multifacética.
Este libro aspira a mejorar la comprensión de los diversos aspectos socioculturales que afectan el...
9) Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul
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What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place over a long time? It's happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That's why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people looking for a sane and healthy spiritual pathway in our increasingly confusing world. Traditional spiritual models are giving seekers...
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This book is to wake us up. How we treat one another, even down to our verbiage, is crucial and can affect someone's life drastically. In this book, you see how someone is affected through nature, nurture, society, upbringing, and all our associations and how that leads people in certain directions.
This book shows we are all human and we need to be mindful of how we treat one another.
It further extends to how we can heal the world internally,...
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If you're a therapist, counselor, coach, or other healing professional, you can make a quantum leap in your ability to assess, clarify, clear blocks and encourage transformative change by learning to use your client's internal metaphors to full advantage with Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling. Used as a self-study tool or a course text, this workbook will empower you with effective and flexible new tools to use alone or integrate with what you...
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If you've completed Campbell's first workbook of this pair, you know without a doubt that personal metaphors matter. Resourceful ones can empower and sustain clients. Problematic ones can prevent clients from making the internal shifts they desire. Is there more you can do to help your clients when they want to change such metaphors? Absolutely!
As a helping or healing professional, you will find this second workbook a welcome continuation of what...
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Las luces y sombras que nos acompañan a lo largo de nuestra vida nos convierten en ocasiones en seres indefensos necesitados de amor y protección.
Tras caer en las garras de ese gran monstruo que es la ansiedad y sintiendo que estaba sola decidí emprender un viaje desconocido que al final resultó mágico para entender lo que le sucedía a mi cuerpo y a mi mente. Un cuerpo que se quedaba sin vida y una mente que se quedaba colapsada sin espacio...
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This book has evolved from my many years of practicing Systemic Psychotherapy and Homeopathy to help people create a wider lens through which they view their lives. I believe the integration of these two powerful disciplines, plus years of teaching, provides a large enough sample for a scientific qualitative study, the results of which inform this book. Each commentary in A Wider Lens is followed by suggestions to help you see and experience your...
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From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic by...
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Technological advances and changes in society have led to the growth of individuality and the impoverishment of conventional love-which nonetheless prevails in the collective imagination as an ideal. This slow transformation, according to Flávio Gikovate, is excellent news. He believes that adults today have two options, both of which are much better than the possessive conventional relationships of old: to live alone, establishing more superficial...
17) Pebbles
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Pebbles is a bracing stroll along the shore, where your discoveries unearth personal possibilities, where you look, think and wade in deeply, or just laugh at the breeze. Through Pebbles, Author Julie Ann Smith brings together a wide-ranging selection of topics, delivered through a diversity of messages: practical, thought-provoking, humorous and even poetic. As we tackle daily life, the stumbling blocks of Procrastination, Despair and even Communication...
18) Dare to Dream
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Dare to Dream is a manual for soaring high in life. It analyses the condition of our present society. Growth is slowed down by corruption and violence which is the upshot of our trite and hackneyed system of education that has underscored so much on 'being smart' rather than 'being good'. Amidst this situation, we need a new generation of people, who will dare to dream and change the status quo. The crème de la crème of this book can be put in one...
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¿Se pasaría todo el tiempo delante del televisor o los videojuegos? ¿Dice mentiras? ¿Sigue haciéndose pipí en la cama? ¿Parece perezoso o apático? ¿Es bueno darle una «paga»? Estas preguntas, y otras muchas que se plantean y responden en esta obra, son las que con mayor frecuencia los padres hacen al psicólogo que se ocupa de los niños que están en edad escolar. Un manual práctico y de fácil consulta; un instrumento que le ayudará...
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