BookRelational Intelligence
The Whole Brain Child
Dan Siegel
About this book
Twelve practical strategies for helping children integrate their brains, regulate emotion, and build the neural architecture for resilience — told through accessible stories from clinical practice.
Key themes
- Left vs. right brain integration: logic and narrative with emotion and images
- Upstairs vs. downstairs brain: prefrontal cortex vs. limbic reactivity
- Connect first, then redirect: the order of effective response to distress
- Memory integration: how children make sense of difficult experiences
- Moving kids from reactive to reflective through storytelling
About the author
Daniel J. Siegel, MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. Tina Payne Bryson, PhD is a psychotherapist and child development specialist.
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