Description
Growing Up Strong and Raising Healthy Kids
Power Source Parenting is a practical and accessible book written for teen and young adult parents and the professionals who support them. It equips teen parents with social-emotional competencies and regulatory skills to become emotionally available and nurturing parents, and to raise their children in a healthy way. The book can be read by young parents on their own, introduced and explored in parenting groups, integrated into individual therapy sessions, or read together with a clinician during home visits. PSP is filled with relevant first-person stories by other young parents that engage participants and bring key issues and concepts to life.
Among the topics included are:
- The importance of healthy parent-child attachment
- Coping with the stress of parenting in adaptive ways
- The benefits of mindfulness practices
- Positive discipline practices including how discipline makes parents’ lives easier
- Managing three-generational living
- Establishing healthy relationships with partners
- Breaking cycles of intimate partner violence
- Understanding the effect of high-risk behavior on one’s children
- Sections written for young fathers and grandparents
- Material for mothers whose children have been removed from their custody
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