The Strength Switch by Lea Waters - ISBN: 9781925324426
Paperback
Unlock your child’s potential: strengths, resilience, and a rewarding upbringing.

The Strength Switch

How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Helps Your Child and Teen to Flourish

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    29 May 2017

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Summary

This game-changing book reveals the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. By showing us how to throw the ‘strength switch’, Dr Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism and achievement.

As a strength-based scientist for more than 20 years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers - and how parents find it an exciti…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781925324426
ISBN-10:1925324427
Author:Lea Waters
Publisher:Random House Australia
Imprint:Ebury Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:29 May 2017
Weight:436g
Dimensions:234mm x 155mm x 28mm
About The Author

Lea Waters

Dr. Lea Waters is a psychology researcher at the University of Melbourne, where she has worked for over 20 years. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology, holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, and is a registered psychologist with the AHPRA and a member of the Australian Psychological Society. She is recognised as a world expert on positive parenting, positive education and positive organisations and has affiliate research positions with Cambridge University and the University of Michigan. Dr. Waters is the President-Elect of the International Positive Psychology Association and has been listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World since 2009. She was listed as one of Australia’s Top 100 Women of Influence by the Financial Review and Westpac Bank. Dr. Waters is on the Board of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Board and is the Ambassador for Australia’s Positive Education Schools Association. She featured in the ABC TV documentary Revolution School and is regularly featured in newspapers and on radio. Her Positive Detective school program is being used in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Finland, Ghana, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Her Visible Wellbeing program is being run in schools across Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland and Victoria in both the state and independent education systems.

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