Understanding Myself by Mary C Lamia

Understanding Myself by Mary C Lamia

Gold Medal Winner, Family Choice Awards Understanding Myself will encourage kids to notice just what their emotions are telling them about themselves, their friends, and family. Strong feelings and intense emotions are part of every pre-teens life. Understanding Myself is written especially for kids with intense emotions. This informative and practical guide will help kids know what do when their emotions get to be too much! Understanding Myself is written especially for kids with intense emotions. Chock-full of cool psychology and info on emotions as well as real-life stories, useful quizzes, and fun facts, Understanding Myself will encourage kids to notice just what their emotions are telling them about themselves, their friends, and family. This informative and practical guide will help kids know what do when their emotions get to be too much! Can you feel sad and happy at the same time? Does anger really make you hot? Are you likely to be envious? Why is stuff so embarrassing?

Gold Medal Winner, Family Choice Awards

"An accessible, engaging book for kids and parents, Understanding Myself offers a basic education for families in understanding, managing and discussing strong emotions and feelingsIts tone is respectful as it clearly defines and clarifies 18 feelings, laying out a basic emotional vocabulary. Although its stated audience is youth eight to 13 years old who are experiencing strong emotions, the book's straight forward information makes it also appropriate and useful for older teens, as well as parents who are struggling to understand their children's and their own feelings."—California Society for Clinical Social Work

"Understanding Myself is right on target for what pre-teens and young teens want to know but are too often embarrassed to ask. This insightful and cleverly written guide is all about how to understand and handle key emotional conundrums. Dr. Lamia's language is perfect for them, and her background in helping kids better understand their emotions and gain confidence in themselves is exceptional."—Mardi J. Horowitz, MD, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, president of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and author of A Course in Happiness and others

Mary Lamia, PhD, is a psychologist and is also a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. Extending psychological knowledge to the public has been her endeavor for 3 years. For nearly a decade she hosted a weekly call-in talk show, amp quot KidTalk With Dr. Mary, amp quot on Radio Disney stations, and her opinion has been sought in hundreds of television, radio, and print media interviews and discussions.

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ISBN 13	9781433808890
ISBN 10	1433808897
Titre	Understanding Myself
Auteur	Mary C Lamia
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	American Psychological Association
Année de publication	2010-11-15
Nombre de pages	112
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