The Silent Guides
How to understand and develop children's emotions, thinking and behaviours
Will be published approx. on 13. December 2018
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-78870-129-7 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW audiobook from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox.
The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological aspects of the developing mind, unconscious thinking, behaviours, habit formation and related topics in an easy to understand way. It then offers practical ideas and thoughts for the reader to reflect on using 10 helpful habits as examples.
This book has two themes:
- To help adults to consider and understand where some of their unhealthy or destructive learnt behaviours and beliefs might have come from, and then offer ways to replace them with healthy and constructive behaviours and beliefs.
- To offer ideas and support to parents, teachers or carers that could help children to form healthy and constructive habits and prevent unhealthy or destructive habits from developing.
Examples of unhelpful thinking, behaviours and habits that can be changed include:
Being overly self-critical
Fear of failure and unforgiving perfectionism
Worrying excessively or overreacting to situations
Procrastinating
Living with low self-esteem
Examples of helpful thinking, behaviours and habits include:
Smiling
Getting over mistakes
Developing a positive outlook
Being able to talk through your feelings
Seeking appropriate help
Being proactive
Professor Steve Peters explains neuroscience in a straightforward and intuitive way - offering up 10 simple habits that we as adults and children should have in our arsenal to deal with everyday life. These 10 habits should and can be retained for life.
This is an important and another groundbreaking new audiobook from the bestselling author of The Chimp Paradox and the creator of the chimp management mind model.
The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological aspects of the developing mind, unconscious thinking, behaviours, habit formation and related topics in an easy to understand way. It then offers practical ideas and thoughts for the reader to reflect on using 10 helpful habits as examples.
This book has two themes:
- To help adults to consider and understand where some of their unhealthy or destructive learnt behaviours and beliefs might have come from, and then offer ways to replace them with healthy and constructive behaviours and beliefs.
- To offer ideas and support to parents, teachers or carers that could help children to form healthy and constructive habits and prevent unhealthy or destructive habits from developing.
Examples of unhelpful thinking, behaviours and habits that can be changed include:
Being overly self-critical
Fear of failure and unforgiving perfectionism
Worrying excessively or overreacting to situations
Procrastinating
Living with low self-esteem
Examples of helpful thinking, behaviours and habits include:
Smiling
Getting over mistakes
Developing a positive outlook
Being able to talk through your feelings
Seeking appropriate help
Being proactive
Professor Steve Peters explains neuroscience in a straightforward and intuitive way - offering up 10 simple habits that we as adults and children should have in our arsenal to deal with everyday life. These 10 habits should and can be retained for life.
This is an important and another groundbreaking new audiobook from the bestselling author of The Chimp Paradox and the creator of the chimp management mind model.
More details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bonnier Books Ltd
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 126 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Duration
Dauer: 302 min
Weight
90 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78870-129-7 (9781788701297)
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Persons
Prof Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked in the field of psychiatry for over twenty years. He helps people to gain insight into their own unique mind and situation and then attain skills to optimise their performance and quality of life. He works across a range of areas including health, education, corporate, elite sport and with members of the public. He runs the Chimp Management company and is the author of the best-selling personal development book The Chimp Paradox.