Learn how skillfully prizing kids (rather than mindlessly praising) can be a game changer in your relationship as a parent, teacher, or helper.
He has been the executive director of the Institution for Meditation and Psychotherapy and was the clinical director for eleven years at the Manville School at Judge Baker Children\'s Center at Harvard University..
He speaks and trains nationally and internationally on the applications of mindfulness for enhancing professional and personal communication patterns.
He is the author of The Five Hurdles to Happiness .
About author(s): MITCH ABBLETT, PHD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and consultant with a private practice.
He offers a host of scientifically-sound mindfulness and positive psychology-based practices for cultivating prizing at home, and in educational and therapeutic settings.
Abblett also shares stories of how prizing has made a real difference in the lives of young people, parents, and professionals.
For example, techniques like SNAPPing Out of Delusions of Outcome Control with Your Children or Light-Touch Goal-Setting with Your Kids add an important layer of validation, compassionate presence, and skillful action to your relationships.
In Prizeworthy , clinical psychologist Mitch Abblett introduces us to the skills of prizing and shows us what it looks like and how to do it in real-life situations.
Prizing brings kids and adults together into a shared space in the present moment where conflict can dissolve, connection can thrive, and needed changes arise.
By contrast, prizing is a game-changing mindset and set of specific skills that can help kids convert moments of emotional pain or stuckness into opportunities and possibilities for healthy change and growth.
Praise can put too much emphasis on controlling results, and kids can experience it as pressure and learn to fear failing in adults\' eyes.
However, research shows that generic praise is insufficient and sometimes even backfires in nudging them toward their Potential or helping kids navigate challenging moments.
Our culture is addicted to good job!--our all-purpose, feel-good, non-specific, or high-bar-setting verbal praise--especially when we talk to our kids.
Learn how skillfully prizing kids (rather than mindlessly praising) can be a game changer in your relationship as a parent, teacher, or helper
