Taming Aggression in Your Child

Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors. Dr. Henri Parens explains what causes aggression to develop in children and how to achieve compliance in children through effective limit-setting, discipline, and punishment. A must read for all parents, whether you are frustrated by your toddler’s temper tantrums or worry that your older child is bullying siblings or classmates.

Henri Parens, MD, FACPsa., is Professor of Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst (Adult and Child), Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Can We Tame Human Destructiveness? Chapter 2: What is Aggression? Chapter 3: On Compliance Chapter 4: Achieving Compliance: by Discipline, Limit Setting and Punishment Chapter 5: Helping Children Learn to Express Hostility in Acceptable Ways-and Reduct Teasing, Taunting, and Bullying! Chapter 6: How to Handle Temper Tantrums and Rage Reactions in Growth-Promoting Ways Chapter 7: Optimizing the Parent-Child Relationship Index