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Brain-Body Parenting

How to Stop Managing Behaviour and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
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Brain-Body Parenting by Mona Delahooke explores how understanding a child's neurological and physiological responses can improve parenting strategies. The book provides insight into how children's brains and bodies interact, emphasising the importance of nurturing emotional and physiological regulation. Parents are guided in fostering resilience and effective communication with their children.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in a science-backed approach to parenting that emphasises understanding your child's behaviour through both neurological and physical responses. It offers insights into nurturing emotional development and fostering a more connected and compassionate family dynamic. If you're seeking practical strategies to better respond to children's needs, this might be a valuable read for you.

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A groundbreaking new understanding of children's behaviour, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children.

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'I will be recommending this book to every parent' Dr Laura Markham

'I adore this book!' Dr Tina Payne Bryson

Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr Mona Delahooke has helped countless distraught parents who struggle to manage their children's challenging behaviours. These families are understandably focused on correcting or improving a child's lack of compliance, emotional outbursts, tantrums, and other 'out of control' behaviour. But behaviour, no matter how challenging, is not the problem but a symptom; a clue about what is happening in a child's unique physiological makeup.

In Brain-Body Parenting, Dr Delahooke offers a radical new approach to parenting based on an approach that considers the essential role of the entire nervous system, which produces children's feelings and behaviours.

When we begin to understand the biology beneath the behaviour, suggests Dr Delahooke, we give our children the resources they need to grow and thrive, and we give ourselves the gift of a happier, more connected relationship with them. Brain-Body Parenting empowers parents with tools to help their children develop self-regulation skills, while also encouraging parental self-care. The result is a deeper understanding of your child, encouraging calmer behaviour, more harmonious family dynamics, and increased resilience.

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Brain-Body Parenting by Mona Delahooke is praised for updating traditional parenting views by integrating insights from neuroscience and addressing the child’s nervous system needs. Reviewers describe the book as transformative, providing practical strategies for decoding and responding to children's behaviours with compassion. The book stands out for its combination of research and empathy, aiming to support a child's emotional and behavioural development while guiding parents to become more attuned to their child's needs.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529398854

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sheldon Press

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Mona Delahooke, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. She is a senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults.

Dr. Delahooke holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in the state of California, as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). She is a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies. Dr. Delahooke has dedicated her career to promoting compassionate, relationship-based neurodevelopmental interventions for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional, and learning differences.

She is the author of Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children (PESI, 2017) and of the bestselling Beyond Behaviours (Sheldon press, 2020)

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