Feel Good: Little Changes to Simplify Your Complicated Life
Author: Pamela Allardic
Acknowledging that women all over the world lead busy lives and feel too stressed to relax, this book offers small ideas for doing something about the chaos. Combining practical suggestions with mind-boosting tips and good commonsense advice, it guides women through the process of streamlining their complicated lives, one day at a time. This collection of feel-good ideas includes mini-essays, recipes, remedies, quick fixes, and mantras and covers such topics as finding the inner artist, taking a mental bath, eating chocolate to increase euphoria, accepting imperfections, putting an end to the phrase “I'm so tired,” and much more. The overarching message is that feeling good has less to do with what happens to a person and more to do with what she thinks and does about it, so even little changes can make a big difference to how one deals with life's irritations. Finally here is a book that says no matter how busy women are, they're never too busy to feel good.
New interesting textbook: Healing Ministry or New Bach Flower Therapies
Is it "Just a Phase"?
Author: Susan Anderson Swedo
Is It "Just a Phase"? examines the challenges a child faces from toddlerhood through adolescence and provides guidelines for determining when a behavior is a cause for concern and when it is merely a developmental phase. Part I covers the problem phases of development - thumb sucking, bed-wetting, and sleep problems - and offers parents practical guidelines to implement at home as well as information on how to use the help of the child's teacher or pediatrician. Part II considers the medical and psychiatric disorders - anxiety, depression, and school problems - that affect a child's behavior when it's more than "just a phase." It includes diagnostic checklists so that parents can accurately assess the nature and severity of their child's symptoms. Is It "Just a Phase"? also prepares parents to make well-informed decisions about difficult choices - such as whether or not to treat their child's hyperactivity with medication and when to hospitalize a depressed adolescent. It provides accurate explanations of why behavior problems occur, shares the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood disorders, and helps readers cope with the many challenges of raising a school-aged child. Because when parents are concerned about their child, it's never "just a phase."
Publishers Weekly
Parents concerned by the behavior of an overactive, shy or disobedient child, or troubled by their child's bedwetting or eating problems, can find reassuring, practical advice in this accessible handbook. Swedo, head of behavioral pediatrics at the National Institutes of Mental Health, and Leonard, a child psychiatrist and professor at Brown University School of Medicine, combine their expertise to aid parents in helping their toddler or teen through difficult stages in development. Each chapter in Part 1 includes brief stories that illustrate particular behaviors, such as eating problems, thumb-sucking or moodiness, in both a normal child and a problem child. The stories are followed by suggestions on what parents can do to help, and what help they can expect from teachers and doctors. Part 2 focuses on those problem behaviors that are not merely passing phases but symptoms of psychiatric disorders requiring therapeutic intervention. Such conditions as anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder are explained in clear language. Brief sets of questions assist parents in deciding whether their child fits the description or may have some related condition; the authors then discuss therapy options and offer a resource list of professional organizations. (Oct.)
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | "My Son Is Always 'On the Go' - He Exhausts Me!": Excessive activity during childhood | |
| Ch. 2 | "My Daughter Is Such a Picky Eater": Feeding difficulties and obesity | |
| Ch. 3 | "My Son Is So Naughty - He Never Does What I Ask Him to Do": Disobedience, stubbornness, and other behavior difficulties | |
| Ch. 4 | "My Daughter Refuses to Go to School": Fear of leaving home and fear of attending school | |
| Ch. 5 | "My Six-Year-Old Still Sucks His Thumb - Is It Really Just a Bad Habit?": Thumb-sucking, nail-biting, knuckle-cracking ... | |
| Ch. 6 | "My Eight-Year-Old Still Wets the Bed": Bed-wetting (enuresis) | |
| Ch. 7 | "My Daughter Is Afraid of the Dark": Childhood fears | |
| Ch. 8 | "My Son Worries Too Much": Childhood anxieties | |
| Ch. 9 | "My Daughter Is Too Shy": Shyness and introversion | |
| Ch. 10 | "My Son Won't Have Anything to Do with Me": Social isolation and withdrawal, particularly during adolescence | |
| Ch. 11 | "My Daughter Is in Such a Bad Mood These Days": Excessive moodiness | |
| Ch. 12 | "I'm So Worried About My Child's Behavior - This Can't Be 'Just a Phase'": Introduction to part II | |
| Ch. 13 | "I Know My Son is Hyper - But Is He Hyperactive?": Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | |
| Ch. 14 | "My Daughter Studies All the Time, But She Still Gets Failing Grades": Attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities | |
| Ch. 15 | "My Son Has So Many Little Nervous Habits - Like Blinking Too Much and Clearing His Throat": Tic disorders and Tourette disorder | |
| Ch. 16 | "My Child Is Plagued by Scary Thoughts and Silly Rituals": Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders | |
| Ch. 17 | "My Son's Never Been a Problem Before, But Over the Past Week, He's Become Impossible": PANDAS | |
| Ch. 18 | "My Daughter Is Terrified to Let Me Go Out at Night, or Even to Go into Another Room Without Her": Separation anxiety disorder | |
| Ch. 19 | "My Son Is So Nervous and Tense That He's Making Me Anxious": Generalized anxiety disorder | |
| Ch. 20 | "My Daughter Is So Painfully Shy, She Won't Even Order Her Own Ice Cream": Selective mutism and social phobia | |
| Ch. 21 | "My Daughter Is So Sad and Blue - She Never Smiles or Laughs Anymore": Depression and bipolar disorder | |
| Ch. 22 | "My Son Sleeps All Weekend and Still Can't Wake Up on Time on Monday Morning": Sleep disorders and seasonal affective disorder | |
| Ch. 23 | "My Daughter Is Obsessed with Her Weight": Eating disorders: obesity, anorexia, and bulimia | |
| Ch. 24 | "My Son Is Drinking and Using Drugs": Alcoholism and drug abuse | |
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Index | ||
| About the Authors |
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