Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents

ISBN-13: 9780789012241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 134 str.

Daniel Leifeld Davis

Opis

Presents an introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. This book focuses on practical aspects of anger management, including: attachment issues, and antisocial behavior.

Spis treści

• Preface
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Chapter 1. The Impact of Anger
  
• Aggression and Hostility in Today’s Society
  
• The Effect of Aggression and Hostility on the Family
  
• Resistance and Oppositional Behavior
  
• Chapter 2. The Workings of Anger
  
• Temperament and Anger
  
• Thinking and Anger
  
• The Development and Thought Processes
  
• Moral Reasoning
  
• Appraisal and Expectations: Developing Styles of Angry Thinking
  
• Anger and Attachment
  
• Anger and the Antisocial Child
  
• Chapter 3. Influences on Anger
  
• The Development of Anger
  
• Media and the Development of Violence
  
• Chapter 4. Responses to Anger
  
• The Reaction of Anger
  
• Resilience
  
• Chapter 5. Anger and Emotional Problems
  
• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  
• Conduct Disorders
  
• Mood Disorders
  
• Suicide
  
• Anger and Substance Abuse
  
• Chapter 6. Anger in Children and Preteens
  
• Hot Thoughts and Cool Thoughts
  
• Feelings
  
• Cooling Down
  
• Anger Plans
  
• What If All This Stuff Fails?
  
• Chapter 7. Anger in Teenagers
  
• Adolescents and Behavior Management
  
• Contracts
  
• Grounding
  
• Independence
  
• Choose Your Battles
  
• Talking It Through the Family
  
• It’s Not What Is That Matters . . . It’s What We Believe
  
• Problem Solving
  
• Chapter 8. Building on the Positive
  
• Strength Building and Positive Role Models
  
• Diversity and the Power of Others
  
• Values
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Davis, Daniel L