Transforming the Intense Child: An Experiential Guide for Learning and Implementing the Nurtured Heart Approach

by Howard Glasser

This book by best-selling author and child psychotherapist Howard Glasser is about a time-tested, highly effective approach for successful parenting. This approach, also highly effective for educators and therapists, has an evidence base that is building fast. It is being successfully employed in thousands of homes, classrooms, therapy and coaching practices, and a growing number of schools and treatment programs across the U.S. and overseas.
In learning the Nurtured Heart Approach, you will discover that the intensity that has gone awry in the difficult child is an energy source that can be tapped and directed. With a method that works at the level of energy, this intensity can blossom into greatness. The more intense a child is to begin with, the more powerful this force of greatness can be when parents have the right tools. A child who isn't challenging also possesses vast stores of greatness that can be activated.
In this workbook - the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource on the Nurtured Heart Approach - parents, educators, and therapists will learn how
- Transform children's challenging behaviors to success through a simple, powerful and time-efficient approach
- Build positive relationships with children while establishing healthy boundaries and a new ease in consistently enforcing rules
- Support children who aren't challenging in embodying their full greatness and enhancing their self-esteem
- Transform their own attitudes and self-talk in ways that enhance gratitude, mindfulness, and well-being

Parents, educators, and therapists who learn this approach agree that the Nurtured Heart Approach supports every child in thriving and transforms parent/educator/therapist burnout and frustration into confidence and joy. If you're ready to move into a realm of ease in relating to every child in your life - a realm where you can choose to celebrate the greatness in every ordinary moment - you've arrived. This book is for you.

139 pages, Paperback

Published December 23, 2016

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting and insightful take on child behavior. A new philosophy for me to implement and try with students in my classroom. I will definitely benefit from using the strategies with my own, not as intense, children as well.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is pretty 'woo-woo' so if you're skeptical of the approach to begin with, you probably won't be convinced that it will "awaken a sense of one's own intrinsic greatness." I sped-read my way through the book looking for valuable insights - there were a couple: de-energize negative responses and praise positive behavior. But I just couldn't get behind the robotic 'reset' language, particularly because I've seen it in action. The book is too long too. It could have been a quarter of the length and still gotten its points across.

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

So excited by the results I am seeing with NHA for my intense 10-year-old!

[Kathy Mack · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so easy to follow. A great introduction to a transformative approach. It truly helps make the paradigm shift from energizing the negative to energizing the positive feel doable.