The Strength Switch

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ebury Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 342 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This game-changing book reveals the extraordinary results of focusing on our childrens strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. By showing us how to throw the strength switch, Dr Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism and achievement. As a strength-based scientist for more than 20 years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers - and how parents find it an exciting and rewarding way to raise them. With many suggestions for specific techniques to interact with your children, Waters demonstrates how to discover their strengths and talents, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains, and even how to deal with problem behaviour and talk about difficult situations and emotions. The Strength Switch will show parents that a small shift can yield enormous results. Practical tips for parents from the wise and wonderful Lea Waters! So many parents, including me, struggle to translate scientific research into real-world strategies. This terrific book not only helps us understand ourselves and our children better but also makes that understanding actionable! - Angela Duckworth, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Grit. Author BiographyDr 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 with the AHPRA 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. Dr Waters is the President-Elect of the International Positive Psychology Association and has been listed in the Marquis Whos Who in the World since 2009. She was

ISBN: 9781925324426