Raising Children to Thrive

In this world of information overload and constant distraction, parents are experiencing an urgent need for best practice models on how to raise their children based on the cutting-edge science of child development. New research shows that infants possess considerable social and emotional capacity to engage their parents in ways that run far deeper than ever before realized.
Throughout Dr. Ron Ruff's nearly fifty years of clinical practice as a psychologist, he encountered thousands of parents with only good intentions to help their children. Unfortunately, many did not know where to turn for information, support, and answers related to raising their children in a psychologically healthy manner.
Responsive, sensitive parenting is more than just a childcare model-it is a new paradigm for parents who are ready to reimagine the nature of the parent-infant relationship, significantly boost their children's social and emotional development, and raise their children to thrive.

Ronald Ruff, PhD, began working with children and parents in 1969. He started his private practice in 1974 and continued until 2017. During that time, he worked with a diverse range of age groups; cultural, educational, socioeconomic, and racial backgrounds; and diagnostic classifications, garnering extensive experience in psychological treatment, assessment, and consultation in health care, education, government, judicial systems, training, teaching, and research.Dr. Ruff was awarded a fellowship to the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Cambridge Hospital, Center for Addictive Studies. He served as Clinical Director of a residential treatment center for children, as Chief Psychologist of a community mental health center, on the staff of several psychiatric hospitals, as a juvenile court psychologist, as Director of Clinical Internship Training, and as an adjunct instructor who taught psychology doctoral students. He received a BA in Psychology with French studies from Oberlin College, an MS in Counseling Psychology from George Williams College, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been married for fifty-three years and has three daughters and four grandchildren.