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Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds

Generation Next
Series: Generation Next
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Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds by Ramesh Manocha offers parents practical advice on nurturing and developing their children's mental well-being. The book combines research with real-life examples to provide strategies for fostering resilience, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness in young people. By focusing on effective communication and supportive environments, it aims to help parents raise children who are emotionally and mentally healthy.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in practical strategies to support children's mental well-being and development. It offers insights from scientific research to help parents nurture resilience and emotional health in young minds. Parents seeking ways to foster a positive environment for their children will find this guide particularly useful.

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This is the most authoritative and up-to-date collection of information about a range of issues affecting young people today, including drugs and alcohol, bullying, mental health and eating disorders.

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The world is getting harder for young people, and for the people who care about them: parents, teachers, school counsellors, and concerned relatives. Generation Next is an organisation that gathers experts in several fields to provide information for professionals — now that expertise is gathered in this volume for everyone else. Each chapter contains easily accessible information, along with more detail and resources for those who wish to find out more.

In this comprehensive volume, there will be the latest information on many topics, including:

  • Helping young people get help for mental health problems
  • Bullying
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Understanding self-harm
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Alcohol and Drugs and how to communicate with young people about them
  • Teens, Parties and Alcohol: A practical guide to keeping them safe
  • Eating Disorders
  • Body Image
  • Resilience and Positive Psychology
  • Understanding the Teenage Brain
  • Online Time Management

Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds by Ramesh Manocha offers valuable insights and solutions, making it an essential guide for anyone concerned about the well-being of young individuals.

Series: Generation Next

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  • Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds
    The world is getting harder for young people, and for the people who care about them: parents, teachers, school counsellors, and concerned relatives. Generation Next is an organisation that gathers experts in several fields to provide information for professionals — now that expertise is gathered in this volume for everyone else. Each chapter contains easily accessible information, along with more...
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    Being a teenager has never been easy, but the digital age has brought with it unique challenges for young people and the adults in their lives. Nurturing Young Minds: Mental Wellbeing for the 21st Century collects expert advice on how to tackle the terrors of the twenty-first century and is a companion to Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds. A comprehensive...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780733638336

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 June 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hachette Australia

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 233.0mm

Height: 154.0mm

Weight: 488g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Dr Ramesh Manocha is an Australian GP and researcher based at the Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, Sydney University, where he coordinates the Meditation Research Programme. For the past 15 years he has conducted clinical trials and scientific investigations into the practical applications of meditation. As a result he is now recognised as a leading authority in this field. Recently, Dr Manocha founded Generation Next a national education programme aimed at educating professionals and parents about the mental health crisis facing our young people and how it to deal with it. He is also recognised as a leading developer of professional education resources in the field of women's and children's health, mental health and adolescent medicine.

He is the editor of two previous collections: Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds (2017) and Nurturing Young Minds (2017).

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