The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys, 9781785923258
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Unlock sensitive boys’ strengths: compassion, creativity, and thriving individuality.

The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys

how to nurture children and avoid trauma

$35.83

  • Paperback

    104 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2017

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Summary

What do Pablo Picasso, Prince, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? All have been described as highly sensitive boys and all grew up to be outstanding, sensitive men.

Too often, adults think of sensitive boys as shy, anxious, and inhibited. They are measured against society’s ideas about “manliness” – that all boys are sociable, resilient, and have endless supplies of energy. This highly readable guide is for any adult wanting to know how to understand and celebrate sensitive bo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781785923258
ISBN-10:1785923250
Author:Betsy de Thierry, Emma Reeves, Jane Evans
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:104
Release Date:14 November 2017
Weight:108g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 12mm
Series:Simple Guides
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Informative, helpful, and motivating. It stresses that some things need to be celebrated instead of fixed, and I am in complete support of that. Check it out!

Informative, helpful, and motivating. It stresses that some things need to be celebrated instead of fixed, and I am in complete support of that. Check it out! – Jennifer Castro, mother of a sensitive boy (NetGalley)My hope is that a copy of this book will be everywhere where boys and those raising them can be found, and that it becomes THE gift to a family every time a boy is born. – Jane Evans, speaker, trainer and author specialising in the support of children’s mental health

About The Author

Betsy de Thierry

Betsy de Thierry is a practising psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience and knowledge within the field of Complex Trauma & navigating Trauma Recovery. She is the founder of Trauma Recovery Global, which provides training and consultancy and partnerships with select organisations and practitioners to licence her Trauma Recovery Focused Model (TRFM) in 34 nations. She is also the founder of the Trauma Recovery Centre (TRC), a charity specialising in recovery from complex trauma and the founder of CTRN (Childhood Trauma Recovery Network UK). Betsy is also a qualified primary school teacher and is a mum of four brilliant sons.

Jane Evans is a Trauma Parenting Specialist and Freelance Trainer. This book has grown from her experiences working directly with children, young people and parents over many years as a respite foster carer, a domestic violence parenting worker, a registered child minder and a family support worker. She wrote the book in response to feedback from parents, carers and workers who wanted a sensitive story to support young children who have grown up around family violence.

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