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The Unofficial Guide to Therapeutic Parenting for Childhood Aggression

and Violence
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"Parenting a distressed child puts us in an extraordinary situation, which demands extraordinary parenting." The reasons why distressed children may behave violently can be complex; this book sets out the biological, psychological, and environmental reasons as to why your child may be displaying violent behaviours and helps you develop strategies to reduce the incidence of violence, de-escalate violent situations and repair relationships following incidents. With the aid of this guide, develop a language to enable children to understand their emotional states in a safe environment. Expertly written by award-winning author, columnist and adoptive parent Sally Donovan and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist Carly Kingswood; learn how to care for yourself and the children in your lives.

Sally Donovan OBE, is an award-winning writer and adoptive parent. Her bestselling books include No Matter What: An Adoptive Familys Story of Love, Hope and Healing and The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting. She is also author of Billy Bramble and the Great Big Cook Off, a story for children of 8-13 who struggle with their feelings. Carly Kingswood has years of experience as a child protection social worker, and is also a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist, DDP. She currently runs a therapy practice and is an experienced foster carer.

A practical guide to parenting children or teens who exhibit violent or aggressive behaviour children in response to trauma and toxic stress

•At least 40% of CPV incidents are unreported (The Guardian, 2022) and 69% of practitioners saw an increase in referrals for families experiencing child/adolescent-parent violence since Covid lockdowns (Universities of Oxford and Manchester, 2020)

•Authors bring their personal experience of child to parent violence, therapeutic parenting training and child social work to the book.

•Sally Donovan is a successful author of books on therapeutic parenting and has a significant platform within the UK adoption community.

•There are very few books on parenting violent children, this book would sit as a market leader in this field.

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