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Exercises that change your
perceptions,
behaviour,
learning and
relationships
To improve another's behaviour of capacity to learn, you will need to change something in you. This reading list is to help you discover what sort of help is out there, and how ideas about learning, behaviour and relationships have changed. Reading is always helpful when undertaking great change. What interests you?
Understanding Bullying
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Bullying: A Complete Guide to the Support Group Method by George Robinson and Barbara Maines
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Understanding School Bullying: Its Nature and Prevention Strategies by Peter K Smith
Understanding empathy, compassion and love
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Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential and Endangered by Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D Perry
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Roots of Empathy by Mary Gordon
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The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
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The Promise That Changes Everything: I Won’t Interrupt You by Nancy Kline
Acts of kindness change your mental health https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/kindness/people
and https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/the-woman-who-was-kind-every-day-for-a-year/p0bt6c4j
Understanding Trauma
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The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D Perry and Maia Szalavitz
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https://www.itv.com/hub/behind-the-rage-americas-domestic-violence/10a1276a0001
Understanding Attachment
Probably the most comprehensive video on Attachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVLJKUrmGg
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Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children by Daniel A Hughes
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Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child by Kim S Golding and Daniel A Hughes
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Why Can't My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families By Dr Amber Elliot
Parenting Without Punishment
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Parentuality: How to Have an Amazing Relationship with Your Child by Dr Linda Mallory
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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
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8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships (8 Keys to Mental Health) by Daniel A Hughes
Forgiveness
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The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age by Marina Cantacuzino
The Experience of Different Ages in Life
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I am Different from You: How Children Experience Themselves by Peter Selg
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Taking Charge: Your Life Patterns and Their Meaning by Gudrun Burkhard
Psychotherapeutic Aspects of Therapy
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A Living Physiology: Lectures and Essays by Karl Konig
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A Psychology of Human Dignity by Ad Dekkers
Sense-able
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Why Cleaning Has Meaning: Bringing Wellbeing Into Your Home by Linda Thomas
