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The Nurtured Heart Approach is a method created in 1994 by family therapist Howard Glasser. It is a powerful approach designed to offer the challenging, intense child an opportunity to develop a new behavioral model through a series of successes.

This approach is based on the understanding that intense children (with attention deficits, conduct disorder, autism and oppositional defiant disorder) are unconsciously seeking the emotional energy of parents and other significant adults in their lives. This negative attention-seeking behavior is what nourishes the child’s response and reactionary behavior. Based on their observations and experiences, children are under the impression that they are able to trigger and sustain bigger reactions and emotions from significant adults when they misbehave. Children and teens are out to get our “ emotional energy”. When parents apply the conventional parenting methods, they discover that they often worsen the situation. Parents are doing their best with the strategies they have. They just don’t have the tools to bring out the best in intense children.

Say you were to tally up the number of daily interventions you carry out when rules are broken, as compared to the number of times you invest your energy in supporting positive behaviors. How would that picture look? An obvious consequence of all this is that parents along with teachers, end up feeling inadequate and blamed. They are faced with child defiance and refusal to comply.

The exciting news is that the Nurtured Heart Approach, with its highly effective success rate at home and at school, provides a 180-degree environmental and personal shift for you, your whole family, and other caregivers.

• Greater child selfcontrol.
• Higher flow of “ positive emotional nutrition” from parents to children in terms of appreciation and acknowledgement.
• Positive shift in a child’s behavior and focus.
• Children learn to use their intensity in successful ways regardless of their level of severity and age.
• Parents learn new, empowering skills and increase parenting effectiveness rapidly.
• Healthier family relationships.
• Increased academic achievement.
• Inexpensive emnpowering parenting approach for treatment of anxiety, conduct disorder, oppositional defiance, and communication problems.

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Marc Norris
Certified Coach in ADHD,
for adults, parents with kids, teens.
Professor / trainer in specialized education.