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It’s Attachment

How do we make sense of our relationships -- successes and failures, preferences and challenges, past and present. And after we make sense of them all -- what do we do to increase the successes that we are striving to attain.

In It's Attachment, Kussin offers us a comprehensive overview of this dominant theory of human development and relationships in a way that gives us both understanding and practical ideas for constructive changes. She shows us the central features of the main attachment patterns that are present throughout childhood and adulthood as well as clear suggestions for how we might identify what pattern characterizes our own life. From there, her book provides practical insights into how our attachment pattern is central in our choosing a partner and being a parent.

It also explores how we might change our pattern toward one that provides the greatest likelihood for developing an autonomous sense of self and satisfying reciprocal relationships.

This book can be purchased online at:

https://www.amazon.ca/Its-Attachment-Understanding-Yourself-Relationships/dp/1771835184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AAWL78ULLH8Z&keywords=its+attachment&qid=1688050077&sprefix=its+attachment%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-1

Secure Parent, Secure Child

This book continues the ideas set forth in It’s Attachment, A New Way of Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships published by Guernica Editions.

The last chapter in the book focused on how one’s adult attachment influences his/her parenting of children. This book will expand on the topic, exploring the four categories of adult attachment and how each category influences one’s parenting.

The book will help a parent determine his or her Adult Attachment, understand the challenges for parenting based on their particular attachment and then offer guidelines on how to change parenting patterns, again based on the category of attachment of the parent.

This book can be purchased online at:

https://www.cavershambooksellers.com/search/9781771837750

Children Come First: Mediation, Not Litigation. When Marriage Ends

For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children from the bitter legacy of legal wrangling and winner-takes-all custody battles. Now, calling on his vast experience mediating more than 2,000 cases, Irving has written Children Come First directly for couples contemplating or undergoing divorce.

In this book the author takes a tripartite approach that points out:

  • the dangers of the adversarial approach to divorce,

  • the benefits of divorce mediation, and

  • how parents can put their children first during and after their divorce.

Children Come First is written in a reader-friendly style with case studies, charts, and diagrams, as well as illustrations from the author’s renowned practice. Ultimately, this book takes parents through the process of building a shared parenting plan that places their children’s interests uppermost while still addressing the parents’ unique situations and needs.

This book can be purchased online at:

https://www.amazon.ca/Children-Come-First-Mediation-Litigation/dp/155488795X

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chances are that your persistent obsessive thoughts and time-consuming compulsions keep you from enjoying life to the fullest. But when you are in the habit of avoiding the things you fear, the idea of facing them head-on can feel frightening and overwhelming. This book can help.

The OCD Workbook has helped thousands of people with OCD break the bonds of troubling OCD symptoms and regain the hope of a productive life. Endorsed and used in hospitals and clinics the world over, this valuable resource is now fully revised and updated with the latest evidence-based approaches to understanding and managing OCD.

It offers day-to-day coping strategies you can start using right away, along with proven-effective self-help techniques that can help you maintain your progress. The book also includes information for family members seeking to understand and support loved ones who suffer from this often baffling and frustrating disorder. Whether you suffer with OCD or a related disorder, such as body dysmorphic disorder or trichotillomania, let this new edition of The OCD Workbook be your guide on the path to recovery.

This new edition will help you:

  1. Use self-assessment tools to identify your symptoms and their severity

  2. Create and implement a recovery strategy using cognitive behavioral self-help tools and techniques

  3. Learn about the most effective medications and medical treatments

  4. Find the right professional help and access needed support for your recovery

  5. Maintain your progress and prevent future relapse.

This book can be purchased online at: https://www.cavershambooksellers.com/search/9781572249219

The OCD Workbook

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