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- Introduces tenacity as a new guiding concept in parenting and preparing children for lifelong happiness and success
- Offers a novel way to understand the processes by which parents help children thrive, strive, and survive
- Breaks new ground by using a research-supported model within a practical framework
- Examines ways in which seven genetic traits intertwine and can be leveraged to prepare children for lifelong success
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow’s successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts – intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness – as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts.
Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ these instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life. This book also serves as a rich resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in mental health and public health disciplines as well as many interrelated fields as we all strive to promote the well-being of children.
The collaboration of these two esteemed psychologists has been impacting on our field for decades. This new book continues that tradition.
– Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed.
Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend:
Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
Tenacity in Children is the perfect balance between concepts, knowledge, scientific discourse, practical ideas and touching stories thattruly illustrate the principles shared in the book. This book should reach the hands of every person dedicated to working with children.
– Encarni Gallardo, MBA, CBM
Executive Director, Children’s Service Society of Utah
Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Drs. Goldstein and Brooks impart their innovative concept of Tenacity in Children along with its seven essential instincts by using heartwarming stories, personal and professional insights, research, and wisdom.
– Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.
Co-author of Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within
Visit our website at www.tenacityinchildren.com
Keywords
- Acceptance, friendship, and resilience
- Child development and tenacity
- Compassionate empathy in children
- Cooperative sharing and tenacity
- Emotional well-being, tenacity, and children
- Genetic traits and resilience
- Genuine altruism and tenacity
- Instinctual optimism and resilience in children
- Intrinsic motivation and tenacity in children
- Measured fairness, prosocial behavior, and resilience
- Patience, endurance, and tenacity in childhood
- Perseverance, tenacity, resilience in children
- Physical well-being, resilience, and children
- Practical intelligence and problem solving
- Resilience and human development
- Self-discipline and resilient children
- Self-reinforcement and tenacity
- Survival and tenacity
- Virtuous responsibility and a tenacious mindset
- Virtuous responsibility, tenacity, and childhood
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA
Sam Goldstein
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Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Needham, USA
Robert B. Brooks
About the authors
Robert Brooks is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School (part-time) and is the former Director of the Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital. He is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology, as well as listed in the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He has authored, co-edited or co-authored 18 books and, in addition, authored or co-authored almost three dozen book chapters and more than three dozen peer reviewed scientific articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tenacity in Children
Book Subtitle: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
Authors: Sam Goldstein, Robert B. Brooks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65089-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65088-9Published: 10 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65089-6Published: 10 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 151
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Public Health, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology