Promoting Wellness and Resilience in Youth
On this portion of my website you will find resources for parents who wish to promote psychological health in
their children. There are three varieties of resources here: (1) information about a parenting book I am writing on this topic
(2) articles I have written on an assortment of related topics for parents and (3) links to quality information on resilience and wellness.


Like modern businesses, we parents are pressured to do more with less. Attending to work, home, kids, spouse, friends and self-care seems to require more and more from us each year. We run-and-gun just to get the required stuff done, and so often find that we don’t have the time to complete everything that we want to. When reflective we wonder: am I doing right by my kid(s)? How can I and him and her and us thrive given how crazy busy we are?

Our pressured state also facilitates confusion about how to respond to an overwhelming array of rapidly developing cultural forces (e.g., the internet, the increasing frequency of traumatic events around the world, the overexposure of sex in the media, the pounding of a 24-hour news cycle, etc). How do we find the balance between protecting our children and letting them learn how to be effective in the world?

Allow me to be your parenting efficiency manager. In this book I will give you 10 specific strategies for making the most of your time and efforts with your child. These step-by-step strategies will allow you to maximize the positive impact of your parenting efforts, provide you with strategies for coping with confusing cultural forces and reduce the guilt that you’re not doing enough for your child. Each of the 10 strategies I am recommending in this book are deeply rooted in the best scientific evidence on how to promote child wellness; I will also try to share these strategies with you in a way that will make you laugh, touch you and leave you knowing that I live and understand your concerns as a parent.

See below for more information about this book.



Who is this book for? Parents or guardians of children ages 4-12, though there is information that is
relevant for parents of older and younger children.


Excerpt #1: Does this woman's day sound like yours? Excerpt #1
If so, maybe this parenting book will work for you.


Excert #2: Does this man's day sound like yours? Excerpt #2
Who cares. Either way, you'll score points if you buy it.


Table of contents Table of contents


Want to know when the book is available?
click here (your email will not be shared with others)>>> david@resilientyouth.com


Interested in my qualifications? Click here>>> resume


What follows are some brief articles I have written, or served as a source for, on an assortment of mental health topics.

(Keep in mind that the articles below make no effort to be entertaining, just helpful.)

Childhood Stress ChildhoodStress.pdf
Helping Children Cope with Divorce Children Cope With Divorce.pdf
Helping Children Cope with Terrorism Helping kids with terrorism.pdf
A Chore list for kids (appeared in the 4/07 edition Chores.pdf
Womens Day)
Co-sleeping with children (appeared in the 10/07 co-sleeping.pdf
edition of Parenting)
Oppositional Defiant Disorder ODD.pdf
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD.pdf
School Interventions for an AD/HD Child School ADHD Interventions.pdf
Conduct Disorder Conduct Disorder.pdf
On Being a Parent (unknown author) On Being a parent.pdf
Myths About Counseling Myths About Counseling.pdf
Adult AD/HD Adult ADHD.pdf
Coping with Divorce Coping with Divorce.pdf
Blended Families Blended Families.pdf
Couple's Communication Couples Communication.pdf
12 Ways to Keep a Romantic Relationship Well 12 Tips for Romantic Relationships
Alcoholism Alcoholdependence.pdf
Infertility Infertility.pdf
Dyslexia Dyslexia.pdf


What follows are some of the internet's best resources for promoting wellness and resilience in youth.
A free, online resouce, from the University of Signature Strengths Survey
Pennsylvania for assessing character strengths


Websites for promoting good health habits
Diet USDA's site for planning a diet
Physicial activity CDC's site for getting active
Sleep CDD's tip sheet for sleep hygiene
National Sleep Foundation


The American Psychological Association's (APA) APA's resilience resources
resources for promoting resilience


Free online articles on mental health topics from APA's self-help articles
APA


Free online articles on mental health topics from Division of Independent Practitioners self-help articles
APA's Division 42


Free online articles on mental health topics from PPA's self-help articles
the Pennsylvania Psychological Association (PPA)


PBS Montana's wonderful DVD on positive PBS Montana's DVD
psychology


PPA publishes a quarterly electronic newsletter Psychology News You Can Use sign up
for lay people on an assortment of practical
topics. Click to the right to subscribe for free.


Created 2/21/08; Modified 3/18/08
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