Fostering Connection

Build Relationships Despite Challenging Behaviors Fostering Connection teaches self-awareness around noncompliant, argumentative, and inflexible behaviors. It is an innovative approach to interpersonal skills and outlines adaptive and coping responses to challenging behaviors. This book is meant to build and improve relationships within families and between individuals. The concepts are easy to understand and apply within different settings. It is helpful for parents, children, teens, educators, and mental health clinicians. Dr. Tish Taylor, child psychologist, shares her Who Is Showing Up? System with you to help you identify both positive and challenging behaviors and how to best respond to each. Reviews/Endorsements: "Fostering Connection provides creative and practical tools to understand the importance of connection and attachment, paying specific attention to overall child development, and the parent-child relationship. Ultimately, this book is a wonderful guide providing insightful tips to improve familial interpersonal dynamics and improved social emotional outcomes for children and adolescents." --Teresa Paterson Bartch, LCPC, RPT-S, Founder of Embark Counseling Services, LLC "With this insightful book, Dr. Tish Taylor provides a meaningful gift: connection. Thanks to the characters and situations in Fostering Connections my children and I are learning new skills to better engage with each other. I'm grateful to Dr. Taylor for playing a critical role in strengthening my family." --Rod Wallace, PhD