Nurturing Strangers

Author : Andrew Fitz-Gibbon,Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351383219

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Nurturing Strangers by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon,Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Pdf

Nurturing Strangers focuses on loving nonviolent re-parenting of children in foster care. This book is a jargon-free mix of narrative and real-life case studies, together with the theory and practice of nonviolence. Nurturing Strangers and the authors’ previous book, Welcoming Strangers, are the first books to apply philosophies of nonviolence directly to the care of children in the foster care system. One of their strengths is that the books are not merely theoretical, but rooted in the practice of nonviolence with children for over thirty years. Nurturing Strangers is for foster carers, caseworkers, case managers, social work students, and parents, as well as the general reader interested in children who have been victims of violence in and out of the foster care system.

Author : Vanessa Grotti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734593

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Nurturing the Other by Vanessa Grotti Pdf

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.

Author : Michael C. Nagel
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781927187555

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Nurturing a Healthy Mind by Michael C. Nagel Pdf

The 90's was declared the "Decade of the Brain" and a flurry of research on brain development soon followed. The result: two decades on we now know more about the brain than we did since the first recorded writings 6000 years ago. Advances in technology and science have taught us a great deal and 'Nurturing a Healthy Mind' supports the growing consensus that research on brain development is relevant to parenting. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, parents and teachers are seeing the benefits of this research, with child rearing and education being shaped by new understandings of the human brain. It is becoming wider knowledge that the interactions between our genetic makeup, early experiences and environmental influences shape the architecture of the developing brain. And as such our understanding of the importance of the early years of life have, thankfully, received much greater attention and scrutiny. We are witnessing a tsunami of research, in conjunction with well-informed individuals, looking to ensure that all children receive the attention they need in their earliest days of life. 'Nurturing a Healthy Mind', with its easy-to-understand format, gives parents and early caregivers a great opportunity to tap into this research and provide the best environment possible for healthy child development.

Author : World Health Organization,United Nations Children's Fund
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240058491

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Nurturing care handbook. Strategic action 4 by World Health Organization,United Nations Children's Fund Pdf

Author : Eliana Gil
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781606238929

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Working with Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma by Eliana Gil Pdf

Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what posttraumatic play looks like and how it can foster resilience and coping. Demonstrated are applications of play, art, and other expressive therapies with children who have faced such overwhelming experiences as sexual abuse or chronic neglect. The contributors discuss ways to facilitate forms of expression that promote mastery and growth, as well as how to intervene when play becomes stuck in destructive patterns. They share effective strategies for engaging hard-to-reach children and building trusting therapeutic relationships.

Author : Elizabeth Roberts Baer,Myrna Goldenberg
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0814330630

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Experience and Expression by Elizabeth Roberts Baer,Myrna Goldenberg Pdf

The many powerful accounts of the Holocaust have given rise to women's voices, and yet few researchers have analyzed these perspectives to learn what the horrifying events meant for women in particular and how they related to them. In Experience and Expression, the authors take on this challenge, providing the first book-length gendered analysis of women and the Holocaust, a topic that is emerging as a new field of inquiry in its own right. Accessible to readers on many levels, the essays portray the experiences of women of various religious and ethnic backgrounds, and draw from the fields of English, religion, nursing, history, law, comparative literature, philosophy, French, and German. The collection explores an array of fascinating topics: rescue and resistance, the treatment of Roma and Sinti women, the fate of female forced laborers, Holocaust politics, nurses at so-called euthanasia centers, women's experiences of food and hunger in the camps, the uses and abuses of Anne Frank, and the representations of the Holocaust in art, film, and literature in the postwar era. The introduction provides a thorough overview of the current status of research in the field, and each essay seeks to push the theoretical boundaries that shape our understanding of women's experience and agency during the Holocaust and of the ways in which they have expressed their memories.

Author : James Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137529954

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Familiar Strangers, Juvenile Panic and the British Press by James Morrison Pdf

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society – which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats. It argues the press is a key player in promoting this discourse, which is rooted in a wide-scale breakdown in social trust.

Author : Robert Graetz
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603060691

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A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation by Robert Graetz Pdf

In 1955, when the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, author Bob Graetz was the young white pastor of a black Lutheran Church in Montgomery. His church and his home were in the black community and he and his wife among the few whites who supported the boycott. Their church and home were both bombed; their lives were threatened often. But Graetz never wavered, and his Montgomery experiences, recounted in rich detail here, shaped a long ministerial career that always emphasized equality and justice issues no matter where his call took him. In addition to Graetz’s boycott memoirs, this book includes provocative chapters on white privilege, black forgiveness, and the present-day challenges for human and civil rights.

Author : Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD
Publisher : Balance
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781538709351

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The Nurture Revolution by Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD Pdf

The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which brings to light new realizations about the power of nurture for our children's mental and physical health outcomes. Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD. is a neuroscientist, doula, and parent. Her work began with the goal of developing new treatments for poor mental health; she dreamed of creating a new medication to address conditions like anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic stress. Over time, she realized that science had already uncovered a powerful medicine for alleviating mental health struggles, but the answer wasn’t a pill. It was a preventative approach: when babies' receive nurturing care in the first three years of life, it builds strong, resilient brains -- brains that are less susceptible to poor mental health. How can parents best set their children up for success? In this revelatory book, Dr. Kirshenbaum makes plain that nurture is a preventative medicine against mental health issues. She challenges the idea that the way to cultivate independence is through letting babies cry it out or sleep alone; instead, the way to raise a confident, securely attached child is to lean in to nurture, to hold your infant as much as you want, support their emotions, engage in back-and-forth conversations, be present and compassionate when your baby is stressed, and share sleep. Research has proven that nurturing experiences transform lives. Nurturing is a gift of resilience and health parents can give the next generation simply by following their instincts to care for their young.

Author : Jeff Sharlet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781324003212

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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Jeff Sharlet Pdf

“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self-doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram, writing short, true stories that bloomed into documentary. During those two years, he spent a lot of time on the road: meeting strangers working night shifts as he drove through the mountains to see his father; exploring the life and death of Charley Keunang, a once-aspiring actor shot by the police on LA’s Skid Row; documenting gay pride amidst the violent homophobia of Putin’s Russia; passing time with homeless teen addicts in Dublin; and accompanying a lonely woman, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips. Early readers have called this book “incantatory,” the voice “prophetic,” in “James Agee’s tradition of looking at the reality of American lives.” Defined by insomnia and late-night driving and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers—night bakers and last-call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless, the lost (or merely disoriented), and other people on the margins—This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?

Author : Melinda Blau,Karen L. Fingerman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780393076899

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Consequential Strangers: Turning Everyday Encounters Into Life-Changing Moments by Melinda Blau,Karen L. Fingerman Pdf

“A mind-expanding and heart-opening book” (Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence) that reveals the value of everyday interactions with people in our communities – and what we lose without them. Our barista, our mechanic, our coworker—they populate our days, but we often take them for granted. Yet these are the people who bring novelty and information into our lives, allow us to exercise different parts of ourselves, and open us up to new opportunities. In their unprecedented examination of people on the periphery, psychologist Karen Fingerman, who coined the term “consequential strangers,” collaborates with journalist Melinda Blau to expand on and make her own groundbreaking research come alive. Drawing as well from Blau’s more than two hundred interviews with specialists in psychology, sociology, marketing, and communication, the book presents compelling stories of individuals and institutions, past and present. A rich portrait of our social landscape—on and off the Internet—it presents the science of casual connection and chronicles the surprising impact that consequential strangers have on business, creativity, the work environment, our physical and mental health, and the strength of our communities.

Author : Rodica Malos
Publisher : Siloam Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781629996813

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Find Your Peace by Rodica Malos Pdf

Your best prescription goes beyond science. This book will help transform your way of thinking and give you tools to change your life and even your eternity. It will help you cope with stress and others and change the world around you. Despite health care professionals' constant efforts to educate, entice, advise, convince, indoctrinate, and persuade patients with smooth talk, bribes, guilt, and manipulation to make people understand and follow medical advice, the results are often minimal. People continue to suffer from various diseases and chronic conditions. Many still die prematurely from high levels of stress caused by fear, worry, anxiety, and depression. Even with so much knowledge, the gaps in the way people manage stressors in their daily lives needs to be addressed. In Find Your Peace, Dr. Rodica Malos tackles this universal topic head-on. Brimming with medical research, basic brain chemistry, and scriptural wisdom, this powerful, encouraging book reveals how the divine design of the human body functions most perfectly when a person's thought life aligns with God's instructions (prescriptions beyond science). God's divine prescriptions and timeless truths will transform, comfort, sustain, and heal. Readers will learn to confront their fear, anxiety, and depression with supernatural resources and develop a healthier lifestyle full of blessings and peace.

Author : Kim Golding
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780857006653

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Nurturing Attachments Training Resource by Kim Golding Pdf

Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work programme containing everything you need to run training and support sessions for adoptive parents and foster or kinship carers. Based on attachment theory and developed by expert author and trainer Kim Golding, this rich resource provides an authoritative set of ideas for therapeutically parenting children along with all the guidance you will need to implement the training. The training resource includes theoretical content and process notes for facilitators, and a range of activities supported by online downloadable content with photocopiable reflective diary sheets, activity sheets and handouts. It is structured into 3 modules with 6 sessions per module. Module 1: Provides an understanding of attachment theory, patterns of attachment and an introduction to therapeutic parenting. Module 2: Introduces the House Model of Parenting, providing guidance on how to help the children experience the family as a secure base. Module 3: Continues exploring the House Model of Parenting, with consideration of how parents can both build a relationship with the children and manage their behaviour. This will be an invaluable resource and one-stop guide for any professionals involved in training foster carers and adoptive parents, as well as residential child care workers and kinship carers.

Author : Judith Rich Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9780684857077

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The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris Pdf

Harris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.

Author : Dr. Meena Chintapalli
Publisher : eBooks2go, Inc.
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781545747988

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Raising a Healthy Child: Universal Nurturing Techniques to Overcome Adverse Childhood Experiences, Child Trauma, and Behavior Disorders by Dr. Meena Chintapalli Pdf

The power of brain training through nurture using multisensory integration zero to three years and even up to five years of life is essential to prevent behavior and learning disorders, and youth health-risk behaviors. This book is a humanitarian contribution from the Society for Assistance International (SAI) and the SAI Institute of Educare, with the intention of preventing child trauma and consequent neurodevelopmental and physical disorders. This book is the result of my passion to reach out to all and ensure that every child is born to give something back to society. Every parent loves their progeny and wants to give them the best. I am certain that parents might have read thousands of books filled with suggestions on parenting techniques, regimental reward, and reactive limit-setting techniques. But awareness by parents of giving positive early experiences through nurture will help build holistic, intellectual, and effective personality development extracted from every newborn. A knowledgeable parent will seek an education that explains how to nurture and extract inherent potential from each newborn. They will be happy to move away from old theories on raising an infant and will eagerly self-educate to develop the skills to be an effective parent. There is one universal truth that differentiates humanity from the rest of creation. It is only in human beings that the five senses connect the individual to the world with the executive brain, which sits on the top of the eye sockets—orbits—and helps use discrimination and self-regulation to balance all the emotions.