The Spiritual Child
The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:2nd Jul '15
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Presents the link between spirituality and mental wellness in children, from the foremost psychologist and researcher in the field, Lisa Miller PHD
In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality:
* are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances
* are 60% less likely to be depressed as teenagers
* are 80% less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex
* have significantly more positive markers for thriving including an increased sense of meaning and purpose, and high levels of academic success.
Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work as a clinical psychologist to illustrate just how invaluable spirituality is to a child's mental and physical health, Miller translates these findings into practical advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop and encourage their children's--as well as their own--well-being. In this provocative, conversation-starting book, Dr. Miller presents us with a pioneering new way to think about parenting our modern youth.
Hundreds of books discuss parenting issues, but The Spiritual Child is special resource with a focus on fostering children's spiritual lives. Perceptive, thought-provoking, and heavily researched, this is a valuable book for anyone interested in spiritual development in children, adolescents, and families * Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project *
Who can take the elusive subject of spirituality, subject it to rigorous scientific inquiry, and teach us more about it than we ever imagined? The answer is Lisa Miller. While honoring its depth and complexity, she shows in this important book how and why spirituality nourishes our children's well-being. And most important of all, she shows parents how to help this happen * Carol Dweck, author of Mindset:The New Psychology of Success *
A reassuring and instructive lesson in spiritual parenting . . . nurturing spirituality in your children may save them a world of pain * Kirkus reviews *
Provides thoughtful advice on encouraging the quest for meaning and purpose in a child's life . . . full of teaching moments, plenty of families' stories, and lots of sage advice, this highly readable volume should prove useful for unaffiliated and observant parents alike * Publishers Weekly *
Not since Paul Tough declaimed on the importance of 'grit' in his 2012 best seller How Children Succeed has a book made a bigger argument on behalf of an amorphous personal quality without which children are sunk * New York Magazine *
ISBN: 9781509812127
Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 28mm
Weight: 520g
384 pages