Practical Psychology

Discover how to redefine your family dynamics by tackling Oppositional Defiant Disorder head-on, even if it feels overwhelming. Here’s the good news: ODD doesn’t have to derail your family’s happiness. You can manage it effectively and create a better home environment. This book offers practical tips for communication, emotional support, and behavior management to help you restore balance.

How can I control my emotions? Am I a bad person for getting angry? How do I stop these thoughts that keep me down in the dumps? The answers to these questions and so many more lie in improving your emotional intelligence. If you’ve asked these questions or questions like them, it’s time to learn about what emotions are, how they’re created, and how to use them to your advantage in life. Mastering Your Emotions is the book that will give you what you need to bring your emotions under your complete control.

There are an estimated 6.5 million people in the US who suffer from dementia—a statistic that is only anticipated to increase as time goes on. As their condition worsens, patients become increasingly unable to care for themselves and have to rely on someone else, usually a loved one, to look after them.

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures. Combining research-informed advice and the experience of parents raising children as speakers of a wide range of languages in every populated continent in the world, this book and its associated web material will answer questions and provide material to enlist support.

The notion of planning for one's death is intrinsically at odds with our human instinct to avoid considering our own mortality. Although we may contemplate the grief that our life's impermanence would cause to our loved ones, we seldom consider the myriad of emotional and legal issues that can arise afterward.

The intention of this book is to open up a space for reflection and awareness of some aspects of the vast topic of female psychology, romantic relationships, and regaining your personal power by opening your heart to yourself. The central focus is the subconscious dynamics of female spirituality and the basic male and female archetypes, along with their strengths, fears, and possibilities. This understanding is valuable in order for every partner to become a complete personality who can accept their strengths, as well as their shadow aspects—those that we hide from ourselves.

Speed-read people, decipher body language, detect deception, and get to the truth. We live in a world where dishonesty and lies are seemingly everywhere. From fake news and problematic media outlets to corrupt management in our workplaces and selfish friends, there’s no doubt that as you grow older, you become more cynical and more distrusting of the world and the people in it. What if there was a way to spot the lies and take yourself closer to the truth? Well, there is, and it’s all detailed in this very audiobook.

Trauma-Informed Children’s Ministry: A Practical Guide to Reaching Hurting Kids helps children’s ministry leaders understand trauma and strengthen their ministries to serve and disciple hurting kids.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: The 21 Day Step-by-Step Guide to Overcome Depression, Anxiety, Anger and Negative Thoughts provides practical solutions for dealing with your emotions. As a result, you will gain a deeper insight into who you are as an individual and why you probably act the way you do.

Do you suffer from anxiety and panic? So did Joshua Fletcher, the author of the self-published best seller Anxiety: Panicking About Panic - but he treated his own condition successfully, went back to school, became a counsellor and emerged as one of the country's leading experts. Anxiety: Practical About Panic is a complete, hugely practical audiobook about anxiety from someone who knows how to recover and live your life to the full - and will show you how.

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD is a self-help guide to overcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with DBT techniques and practical exercises. It offers an explanation of what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is, how to use it yourself or with your therapist, and much, much more! DBT teaches you how to identify and acknowledge your emotions so that you can then control them and their associated behaviors. It provides a change in habits and behavior to put an end to self-destructive decisions and choosing healthier actions.

Introverts are powerful observers and creators. If you are an introvert, this book will show you how to tap in to your inherent introvert strengths and awaken your potential using mindfulness meditations and cognitive behavioral techniques. In a world that favors the outgoing, gregarious extrovert, being an introvert can be difficult. But the truth is that introverts have distinct advantages - as long as they know how to use them.

Managing anger can be very complicated without the right guidelines. This book will help you understand the origins of your anger, giving you the skills to identify its triggers. All is written with a very clear language and a step-by-step description of the most effective and suitable management techniques for men.

How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Shyness is your practical, compassionate guide to building real confidence, reducing fear, and feeling at ease in any situation. Whether you avoid eye contact, panic before presentations, or feel invisible in group settings, this book provides research-backed techniques to help you take control—without pretending to be someone you’re not.

What if you discovered that there is nothing you need to change about you or your brain to overcome the obstacles in your life? What if you already have everything you need to live your fullest potential, just waiting to be uncovered? ADHD Brain Powers will help you to uncover the incredible potential within you and to reveal your hidden strength and abilities that will help you to overcome everyday obstacles.

Are you tired of letting your fear of flying hold you back from exploring the world, connecting with loved ones, or advancing your career? If you've tried other solutions with little success, it’s time to take a different approach. How to Overcome Your Fear of Flying: Practical Tips to Help You Board That Next Flight, by Tony Brenner, is your comprehensive guide to confronting and conquering your flying anxieties.

Too often, therapists and other helping professionals feel paralyzed by the fear that they don't know enough about other cultural groups to counsel clients different than themselves. Lambers Fisher sets out to mitigate these fears by providing a framework for professionals to better understand the experiences of cultural groups with whom they are not familiar. Lambers will challenge you to learn more about other cultures, accept what you do not yet know in the process, and utilize strategies that can help you become an increasingly culturally competent professional.

Do you feel like your life is spiraling out of control? No matter how hard you try, do anxiety, anger, depression, or even general feelings of stress constantly derail any progress you make? Do you wish you could seek therapy, but find it impossible due to some extenuating circumstances? CBT will teach you how to take control of your mind at a fundamental level, granting you the power to overcome any of the thoughts of depression, anger, or anxiety that may be plaguing your mind and making life difficult.

Do you feel that your moods and feelings are out of control? Do you unintentionally hurt your loved ones with your unpredictable behavior? Do you, sometimes, make regrettable decisions because you're blinded by your emotions? Uncontrollable mood swings and erratic behaviors don't make you a bad person. Most probably, you simply need to take care of your mental health. And, last but not least, you're not alone.

Getting an adult diagnosis for ADHD can be VERY tough. It can be very challenging to know what to do next, or to even be sure that you definitely have ADHD even if you got your diagnosis. (Especially with how many ‘ADHD symptoms’ are shared online these days!) But, once you’ve confirmed the diagnosis, it's common to then think ‘What Now?’ Luckily, you can start by using this audiobook to help you learn how to work with your ADHD instead of against it, and begin to actually understand the ways ADHD can benefit your life, once you know your strengths.