Articles and reviews on parenting and children include the perspectives of parents, teens and children, and of therapists who work specifically with teens and children.
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Clearly written, down to Earth and at times humorous, this book is a practical guide to working with teens and adolescents. It is bursting with real life examples of characters who howl, swear, make up fantastic stories and fall asleep throughout their sessions — but whom Bromfield portrays with respect and usually with affection.
The formal diagnosis of childhood autism rests on these symptoms, which can be evaluated by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Also see the separate page on ICD criteria for Atypical Autism.
This is a rigorous scholarly text dedicated to a very real social problem, and it does try to identify successful and unsuccessful community and state-wide attempts to prevent or reduce youth problems. It doesn’t pretend to be a self-help book or parenting manual, or indeed a profound philosophical or political analysis.
This book works well as a manual for parents. It is clearly written, it has plenty of real life examples and regular eye-catching bite-sized summaries, and it convincingly explains the importance and the process of listening to your children’s feelings, thereby defusing arguments before they start. For many parents, it may be a godsend.
Is your child spending too much time on the internet? What counts as too much? While we are pretty skeptical about considering excessive internet use an actual addiction, this 20-question self-test may help you to identify areas of your child’s life which may be impacted by excessive internet use.
Asperger’s as a diagnosis can appear to preclude the existence of fulfilling human relationships for the young people concerned. But Bromfield’s “relationship-based therapy” for his young clients shows that they have the same human needs for relationship as others, they just have trouble expressing them in socially proficient ways.
