The Analog Parent

About the Book The Analog Parent: Raising Your Kids in a Digital World is a guide for parents trying to navigate parenting in the modern age, where the internet, social media, and unlimited information pose a threat to your children. Because the family is the most important social unit in society, learning how to protect yours and raise your children to be happy, healthy, highly-functioning adults is vital. Author Anthony Losacco brings personal anecdotes to the forefront to illustrate how he ran his family in the digital era, recounting the struggles, successes, and fond moments he experienced through it all. About the Author Anthony Losacco studied to be a psychiatrist, threw that away to be a rockstar, and wound up with a successful career in IT. The Analog Parent: Raising Your Kids in a Digital World is his sixth book. When he is not writing, Losacco is spending time with his family.

About the Book The Analog Parent: Raising Your Kids in a Digital World is a guide for parents trying to navigate parenting in the modern age, where the internet, social media, and unlimited information pose a threat to your children. Because the family is the most important social unit in society, learning how to protect yours and raise your children to be happy, healthy, highly-functioning adults is vital. Author Anthony Losacco brings personal anecdotes to the forefront to illustrate how he ran his family in the digital era, recounting the struggles, successes, and fond moments he experienced through it all. About the Author Anthony Losacco studied to be a psychiatrist, threw that away to be a rockstar, and wound up with a successful career in IT. The Analog Parent: Raising Your Kids in a Digital World is his sixth book. When he is not writing, Losacco is spending time with his family.

Wifi kids & Analogue Parents addresses the changes in the dynamics of parenting in this age and how to handle those changes, Written in a down-to-earth and fun manner, it provides the much needed guide for raising children in the digital age. It is so all-encompassing and highlights the pros and cons of the digital age, sex education for kids, understanding and communicating with children in the digital age, constructing boundaries, creating effective sleep patterns, among other salient issues bordering on parenting in the digital age.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This authoritative reference brings together leading experts for up-to-date theory, findings, and guidelines on the core aspects of child custody evaluations. Contributors offer steps for gathering more accurate family data through home observations, interviews, and collateral information. Chapters examine psychological assessment tools commonly used in evaluations, including measures relating to parenting competencies, mental illness, domestic violence, and substance abuse, and consider increasingly salient issues such as relocation and families in therapy. The section on case studies shows best practices applied in real-life custody situations, and a chapter authored by a family court judge offers rarely-seen perspective from the bench. Featured in the Handbook: · A survey of ethical and professional issues. · Observing and interviewing children, adolescents, and adults. · Psychological assessment and personality testing. · A detailed review of the Bricklin scales. · Specialized issues, including parental alienation, attachment, cults, and more. · Illustrative case studies and psychological reports. Mental health professionals who conduct child custody evaluations, including psychiatrists, clinical psychologists clinical social workers, family and marriage counselors, and licensed clinical professional counselors, will appreciate the Handbook of Child Custody. Family law attorneys will also find the Handbook useful in assisting them in child custody litigation. Its thorough coverage will aid evaluators in making recommendations that are professional, ethical, and impartial, and family lawyers in understanding the evaluation process and preparing for expert testimony.

This book helps readers with real-world situations. It is easy and user-friendly, this book provides strategies and tools to aid in communicating with parents.

Handbook of Parent Training is a practical, comprehensive guide for professionals who work with troubled children and their parents. The text uses an innovative approach, drawing upon elements of behavior modification and relationship enhancement with the aim of training parents to be co-therapists. It examines all the skills necessary to make parents agents of positive change in their children's lives, such as didactic instructions, training models, and role playing. Various child disorders are examined and discussed, as well as practical methods of establishing a successful parent-therapist partnership.

Appropriate for students and practitioners alike, this book teaches readers how to perform assessments on patients in the absence of the instruments and assistants that many standard procedures assume.