Above All, Be Kind teaches parents how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense -- to become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect for the environment, other species, and all people. The book includes chapters for early, middle, teenage, and young adult years, as well as activities, issue sidebars, cases, tips, and profiles.

A compendium from 95 contributing professionals, this book will assist those working in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, and law enforcement. Guidelines focus on the broad range of child abuse and neglect, risk factors, intervention, child fatalities, prevention, and administrative issues.

More and more children are expressing spiritual qualities, and parents, caregivers, pediatricians, teachers, and therapists are increasingly taking notice of children's spiritual lives.

Mollie Painton, Psy.D., a well-known child therapist, helps parents understand this phenomenon in the framework of spiritual intelligence. By understanding this concept, we can honor our children's gifts and develop our own spiritual intelligence along the way.

“The staff of Volcano Press has done a monumental job. Many of us are familiar with the topic, but the genius of this book is in its attention to multicultural religious tradition and diversity…one-stop pastor’s library of information, insight, and ministry tools. The collection is a bottom line race through the annals of treatment issues—will make the reader smart in a hurry.”

Author Felton tells us, "...This novel is about Domestic Violence in the Marine Corps. Although the characters and events contained in the novel are fictitious, the situations and the consequences are not. We are not immune because we are a part of an elite existence. We are civilians who have chosen a career to defend our country. Our homelife is much like that of everyone else. The good, the bad and the ugly--the ugly being domestic violence."

Relatively recent research has shown that birth to age three is a critical time in child brain development. Now that research is reaching back even farther, all the way to conception. Conception to birth is when the brain neurons are forming, so only will more research allow us to say what the effects of emotional health or other things that more subtly alter the mother's body chemistry will have on the developing child.

This new curriculum for students in grades 6 through 9 integrates with the Making the Peace program but also stands on its own. More than 30 innovative classroom sessions address diversity and violence issues that middle-schoolers face, and can be adapted to many different school environments.

A school-based curriculum for teachers, administrators, and other adults who want to help young people break away from violence, develop self-esteem, and regain a sense of community. Drawing from years of experience in violence prevention training and community work, the authors outline a 15-session program (flexible enough to use during consecutive days or throughout a semester) to help young people.

In recent years, the plight of children exposed to domestic violence has received increasing attention, but awareness of the problem has not always translated into public action. This forward-thinking volume brings together leading mental health, legal, education, and human service professionals from the United States and Canada to demonstrate how domestic violence and its effects on everyone involved can best be mitigated through community collaboration.

Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships. Overall it aims for participants to realize that they can control their behavior and develop practical skills and strategies to manage their feelings which, in turn, will increase their self-esteem. These objectives are achieved through role playing common situations, identifying associated feelings, doing problem solving, recognizing negative behaviors, and anticipating consequences.

The first book to explore the issue of abuse in adolescents--both the residual effects of earlier child abuse and current or cumulative abuse--this volume provides a sensitive account of how to optimize the value of therapeutic contact with this challenging and compelling population. Illustrated with case examples from her own extensive work experience, the author shows when and how to address the abuse to help adolescents move ahead in their development.

This powerful novella reveals the impact of witnessing violence even as it affirms the luminous power of love. A moving, visceral dramatization of violence in the home, told not from the point of view of a victim, but as witnessed by a nine-year-old boy. Drawing on his mother's desperate strength, his own determination, and help from an unexpected friend, Jamie confronts his fear and anxiety--learning, adapting, and triumphing.

A book of poetry about my journey of recovery from child abuse. One section is titled "Writing the Wrongs." Flip the book over to read the other section, titled "Righting the Wrongs."

Al Johnson