The Angry Child: Regaining Control When Your Child Is Out of Control - Hardcover

Murphy, Timothy; Oberlin, Loriann Hoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 060960676X ISBN 13: 9780609606766

Verlag: Clarkson Potter, 2001

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Book by Dr Tim Murphy Loriann Hoff Oberlin

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A clinical psychologist explains how parents can recognize excessive anger, unhappiness, and potential violence in their children and offers helpful advice on how to change their own and their child's behavior in order to defuse such situations. 25,000 first printing.

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has an off day when nothing seems to go right, but for some, angry outbursts, frustration, and resentment are the norm. When a child's anger threatens to jeopardize his school and social life and introduces an element of strain into the family dynamics that affects every member, it's time for a parent to ask: When is angry too angry?

Child psychologist Dr. Tim Murphy has addressed this very question with hundreds of families, helping them to understand both the causes and the repercussions of childhood anger and to devise effective strategies for defusing the time bomb in their midst. Whether it's a toddler staging a tantrum, a grade-schooler unable to make friends, or a sulking preteen who greets every adult request with antagonism, parents of angry children are baffled by both the depth and the root of their child's unhappiness. And when small social problems and household disputes regularly escalate into full-fledged battles, it's nearly impossible for parents to distance themselves e

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Clarkson Potter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 060960676X
• ISBN 13: 9780609606766
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256