The following interview is part of a cutting-edge series of video interviews called Parenting Today: Raising Strong, Resilient KidsĀ being aired exclusively on Mad in America.
This series has as its aim educating parents about the current mental disorder paradigm as it relates to children. It also offers many useful tips about how to raise more resilient children and how to become a more skillful parent. In this series of more than thirty interviews, we share information about the diverse resources available to parents, including alternative ones.
We hope that youāll follow this important series. Mental health advocate Heather Juergensen hosts the interviews, each of which introduces you to an interesting guest speaking on a subject of importance to parents. We hope that you enjoy this series, benefit from it, and decide to alert other parents to its existence!
Todayās guest is Dr. Dan Siegel. Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of theĀ Mindful Awareness Research CenterĀ at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of theĀ Mindsight InstituteĀ which focuses on the development ofĀ mindsight, which teaches insight, empathy, and integrationĀ in individuals, families and communities. Dr. Siegelās books include Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence,The Whole Brain Child, The Whole Brain Child Workbook, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, No Drama Discipline, and others.
Links of Interest:
Dan Siegelās Books at Amazon
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Can we move on ? Its 2018, the 1990s were the ‘decade of the brain’.
The Decade of the Brain was a designation for 1990ā1999 by U.S. president George H. W. Bush as part of a larger effort involving the Library of Congress and the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health “to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research”
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