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

£20.00 GBP

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

Overview

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.

Details

Format
Paperback
Size
234mm x 153mm
Extent
352 pages
ISBN
9781911344346
RRP
GBP£20.00
Pub date
10 August 2017

Praise

‘Waters comes off as a thoughtful parenting realist … [her] clearly presented, easily implemented ideas will make sense to parents looking to escape the corrective mind-set that can make both them and their children feel defective or broken, especially in the children’s teen years.’

Publishers Weekly

‘As parents, we often obsess about fixing our children’s weaknesses and neglect the importance of developing their strengths.  This book is full of concrete ideas on how to change that.’

Adam Grant, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take
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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.
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