Child Counselling

Children and families burdened with attachment disruption, emotional distress, or psychological disorders need effective and immediate assistance. They do not have the time to wait for long-term interventions or developmental changes to improve the parent-child relationship. Here, psychologists Elizabeth A. Sylvester and Kat Scherer provide the most effective approach in such situations: interventions that impact the entire family at relational, emotional, and cognitive-behavioral levels.

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an integrated mind-body framework that focuses on relational, attachment, developmental, cultural, and intergenerational trauma. NARM helps clients resolve C-PTSD, recover from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and facilitate post-traumatic growth.

The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned interventions from skilled helpers. Unplugging from technology and reconnecting with the web of life is a powerful antidote to the highly technological and fast-paced realities of so many.

Most people don't realize how much unresolved emotional pain they carry around. They don't know why they always feel depressed, anxious, victimized, or disappointed. They wonder why they keep making the same self-sabotaging impulsive decisions. These patterns often stem from their lost inner child, which carries a false narrative that has been on repeat since childhood.

Building the Bonds of Attachment is the third edition of a critically acclaimed book for social workers, therapists, and parents who strive to assist children with reactive attachment disorder. This work is a composite case study of the developmental course of one child following years of abuse and neglect.

Questioning thousands of parents and educators, Dr. Wayne Dyer learned firsthand what people really want for their children. They don't particularly want their kids to go to fancy schools, acquire riches, or live "the good life". They do want them to have personal integrity and high self-esteem, and to grow up with love and peace in their hearts. Children raised the Wayne Dyer way feel useful and needed. They are inner- rather than outer-directed. They live a stress-free life naturally, without resorting to drugs.

Raising empathetic and unselfish young people in today’s “all about me” world might seem impossible, but parents can take meaningful action to protect children from these harmful influences. Written by a psychologist with decades of clinical experience, Childhood Narcissism: Strategies to Raise Unselfish, Unentitled, and Empathetic Children explains how selfish, entitled behavior can take root in a child and shows parents how to stop it before it’s too late.

Just as parents can expect their children to encounter physical bumps, bruises, and injuries along the road to adulthood, emotional distress is also an unavoidable part of growing up. The sources of this distress range from toddlerhood to young adulthood, from the frustration of toilet training to the uncertainty of leaving home for the first time. This second edition of The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid brings together an array of experts to offer parental guidance in helping your child navigate and recover from the everyday stresses they will encounter growing up.

The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams.

Featuring a wealth of clinical examples, this audiobook facilitates implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in a range of contexts. It demonstrates how assessment strategies and treatment components can be tailored to optimally serve clients' needs while maintaining overall fidelity to the TF-CBT model. Coverage includes ways to overcome barriers to implementation in residential settings, foster placements, and low-resource countries.

Childhood sexual abuse (or child sexual abuse/CSA) is not only an assault on the body—it is an assault on the mind and on the spirit. It is an insult to the victim’s integrity, her self-esteem, his very being. Besides imposing a significantly higher risk of conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, substance abuse, and learning & educational difficulties, the most devastating consequence of childhood sexual abuse is shame.

Adult children of narcissists have been conditioned to downplay, dismiss, and ignore their experiences. This survival skill of staying below the radar can cause even very skilled clinicians to miss subtle opportunities to connect. It is paramount that clinicians understand the scope of these clients' experiences in order to support their healing—and to avoid the common clinical mistakes and pitfalls that often lead to inadvertently repeating harmful cycles.

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse can begin a recovery journey informed by accurate understandings, not myths, and empowered by processes that help them thrive. Written for men and women by an author who is herself a survivor, this guide tells the truth about what complex trauma means for your physical and mental health. Listeners will learn how to build key recovery processes into their lives, including grieving, meaning-making, forging healthy connections with others, and finding hope. This guidance is scientifically-based, in findings from positive psychology.

The book links traits of complex post-traumatic stress disorder to childhood trauma real-life examples and researched evidence of both subjects. Weaved into chapters one to nine are techniques I found to help me in my recovery. Chapter 10 and 11 are final instructions to the listener for further recovery.

Through her uniquely personal approach, Moira Dadd guides the listener on a deeply intimate journey. Narrated by the author, Cherishing Me serves as a testament to the power of the human soul to overcome adversity, heal all wounds, and experience the joy of being alive. In this captivating and emotionally powered memoir, Moira guides her listener on an intimate journey that invites them to identify their own pain and connect with the joyful healing that comes from within their soul.

Child psychiatrist and NAMI’s Associate Medical Director Dr. Christine M. Crawford provides a compassionate and practical resource for anyone concerned about a child’s mental health. Drawing on her own clinical experience and guidance from leading experts, Dr. Crawford provides a lens through which to understand the many complex factors affecting children’s mental health. Analyzing young people from preschool to high school, she shares insights into how mental health conditions may manifest at different ages, what kind of interventions may be necessary, and what to do to help kids thrive.

Written by licensed mental health counselor and wellness advocate Jill Sylvester, Trust Your Intuition: 100 Ways to Support Social, Emotional, and Mental Wellness in Children provides 100 simple techniques and strategies designed to help you, right now, guide and support your child. Written for caregivers of children ages twelve and under, this book offers immediate takeaways for you to create harmony at home or in your classroom.

»Nur wenn du dich genug mit deiner Psyche beschäftigst, kannst du glücklich sein!«, so eine weit verbreitete Annahme. Das stimmt nicht, widerspricht die renommierte Schematherapeutin Gitta Jacob. Es ist gut und wichtig, dass Menschen ihre Verhaltensmuster, Verletzungen und schwierigen Gefühle verstehen. Auf Dauer kann die Selbstbeschau jedoch daran hindern, Verantwortung für das eigene Handeln zu übernehmen. In ihrem neuen Buch benennt Jacob die Grenzen der Psychotherapie und die Gefahren, die das permanente Kreisen um das innere Kind erzeugen können.

Du fühlst dich oft in deinem Leben überfordert, weißt nicht mit komplizierten Situationen umzugehen und findest, dass die anderen sowieso alles besser können als du? Die Vergangenheit hat dich im Griff und du bereust Dinge, die du getan oder nicht getan hast? Dann ist es an der Zeit, deinen inneren Fokus auf deine Persönlichkeitsentwicklung zu lenken.