What Children Need to Be Happy, Confident and Successful: Step by Step Positive Psychology to Help Children Flourish

What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference is in your hands – every adult has the tools to help a child achieve psychological wellbeing. This book provides a practical model for helping children flourish and achieve their personal potential in every area of their lives. Drawing on ideas from positive psychology and child development theory, the model explores the five key areas of wellbeing: personal strengths, emotional wellbeing, positive communication, learning strengths, and resilience. Practical activities are included for each area, and a questionnaire provides an assessment to enable you to keep track of progress. Suitable for use with children aged 3–11, this step-by-step guide is an ideal resource for professionals working with children, including counsellors, social workers, teachers, and psychotherapists, as well as parents.

Table of Contents:
Preface. Part 1. Positive Psychology and the Flourishing Programme. Part 2. The 7 Factors for Flourishing. Factor 1. Unique and Personal: Meeting a child's individual needs. Factor 2. Personal Strengths: The inner compass that guides our choices. Factor 3. Emotional Wellbeing: Creating a positive balance. Factor 4. Positive Communication: Building trust and fulfilling relationships. Factor 5. Learning and Creativity: How using strengths develops good learning habits and gets results. Factor 6. Resilience: Avoiding road blocks and bouncing back from setbacks. Factor 7. Developing Independence: The journey through childhood. Index.

About the Author :
Jeni Hooper is a Child Psychologist and Parent Coach who is based in Winchester, England. She has over 30 years' experience working with children in both public and independent settings. She now specialises in applying positive psychology to promoting children's psychological wellbeing as a trainer, coach and consultant.

Review :
This book is insightful, and reading about parenting and children's wellbeing from a positive psychology perspective makes it very interesting, especially to anyone whose work is based upon behavioural theories and practice. It's obvious from the outset that Jeni Hooper really understands children and knows what they need to flourish. Her empathy radiates throughout,.. I think this is a fantastic book for parents, care-givers, and professionals working directly with children. It's full of useful advice based on Jeni Hooper's extensive personal experience of what works and what doesn't work. It is clearly written and easy to read... Whether you're thinking about using the book at home or in a work environment, you will be able to pick it up quickly and help the children in your life become happier, more confident, and more successful. Jeni Hooper's new book is essential reading for all professionals working with children including teachers, counsellors, social workers, as well as parents, and grandparents... What I especially like about Jeni Hooper's book is how the focus is always on the whole child... "How to find the right balance for effective parenting?" Read Ms Hooper's book carefully and keep it handy for future reference. A real achievement. Jeni Hooper has taken the evidence base of positive psychology and turned it into easy-to-use tools to help children to flourish. The book has everything you need to encourage children to develop their individual strengths and realise their potential. It is easy to see why so many of the hundreds of books on how to bring up a child seem to be focused on the challenges and difficulties of this task: the avoidance and management of problems is rightly high on any parenting priority list. However, Jeni Hooper reminds us that there is also another equally important component of good parenting -- helping children and young people to achieve appropriately high levels of personal and social wellbeing and fulfilment. She informs us how to achieve this in a most enticing way in her parent-friendly book. Essential reading for parents and carers, teachers... and grandparents!