The Safe Child Handbook
How to Protect Your Family and Cope with Anxiety in a Threat-Filled World
Published on 11. October 2006
240 pages
978-0-7879-8710-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Safe Child Handbook is a practical guide for protecting your family in a way that reduces the stress that can so often sabotage such well-intentioned efforts. Step-by-step, the book shows how to prepare and protect your family from realistic threats and, at the same time, alleviate fearfulness and anxiety in you and your children. The Safe Child Handbook outlines the top eight threats to children and parents--weather emergencies, kidnapping, terrorism, inappropriate media influence, drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, school violence, and home safety--and shows how to be ready to face the most drastic situations with confidence. The Safe Child Handbook is filled with practical advice, activities for children, and techniques that will empower your whole family.
Reviews / Votes
"The National Partnership for Women and Families is committed topromoting an environment that is safe for our constituents, bothphysically and psychologically. This book has the same two goals,and I believe the authors have succeeded admirably, providingmothers with an array of extremely valuable techniques, stories,checklists, and advice." --Debra L. Ness, president, National Partnership for Women andFamilies "This book does a fine job of explaining the crucial role ofparents in keeping children safe in these challenging times,including how to work with local law enforcement agencies." --Kathleen O'Toole, commissioner, Boston PoliceDepartment "This handbook has wonderfully addressed the question, How canparents acknowledge real contemporary fears and help assure theirchildren's safety, and at the same time promote theirchildren's independence?" --Timothy F. Dugan, M.D., senior consultant in education,Cambridge Hospital, Division of Child and Adult Psychiatry "This guide offers many useful ideas about keeping childrensafe, but its chief contributions are the two chapters on howyou and your children can cope with fear most effectively. Theactivities described there will prove invaluable inmaintaining your family's mental health in these troubling times.These are helpful methods for reducing anxiety in parents andchildren." --Gordon L. Ulrey, Ph.D., associate clinical professor ofpsychology, School of Medicine, University of California atDavis "As a pediatrician, I have dealt with the fears and phobias ofchildren. When these are compounded by parental anxieties, thechallenges of addressing the problems are magnified. The world isfull of potential dangers, many of which are captured by the mediawho bring distant problems into our homes. The Safe ChildHandbook offers a practical and insightful approach and is avaluable guide to both parents and professionals." --Carol Berkowitz, M.D., executive vice chair and professor,Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, David GeffenSchool of Medicine at UCLA "As a parent, teacher, and community activist, I am acutelyaware of the dangers that are both unavoidable and, at times, outof our control. This book provides accurate information and simplestrategies to encourage people to be proactive, and promotescommunication between those who care for children and the childrenwho put their trust in us." --Joan Davidson, M.A., past president, Palos Verdes PeninsulaUnified Schol District; art educator, Torrance Unified SchoolDistrictMore details
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John S. Dacey | Lisa B. Fiore
The Safe Child Handbook
How to Protect Your Family and Cope with Anxiety in a Threat-Filled World
Book
09/2006
Jossey-Bass
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John S. Dacey, Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist and hasbeen a professor at Boston College for forty years. He has appearedon Today and National Public Radio and has been interviewed fornumerous radio programs, magazines, and newspapers.
Lisa B. Fiore, Ph.D., is a professor of development andeducational psychology at Lesley University. Her current researchfocuses on how teachers can assist anxious children in theclassroom context.
Dacey and Fiore are the coauthors of the best-selling book YourAnxious Child from Jossey-Bass.
Content
Acknowledgments.
1. "Doing Too Much Is as Risky as Doing TooLittle."
Part One: Ensuring Your Child's Safety.
2. Weather Emergencies: "What's Going On with MotherNature?"
3. Kidnapping: "Don't Go Anywhere WithoutMe!"
4. Terrorism: "How Are We Supposed to Know What toDo?"
5. Inappropriate Media Influence: "Why Do They KeepShowing That Same Awful Scene?"
6. Drug and Alcohol Abuse: "Do You Want to Wind Up in theGutter?"
7. Child Abuse: "Whom Can You Trust These Days?"
8. School Violence: "You Won't Put My Son by theWindows, Will You?"
9. Making Your House Safe: "Where Are the DangerousPlaces?"
Part Two: Ensuring Your Family's Serenity.
10. How Can Your Children Cope with Their Fears?
11. How Can You Cope with Your Own and Your Family'sFears?
Appendix: Lists of Internet Sites, by Type of Threat.
References and Further Reading.
About the Authors.
Index.
