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    Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child: Making Sense of Meltdowns
    Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child: Making Sense of Meltdowns
    Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child: Making Sense of Meltdowns
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    Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child: Making Sense of Meltdowns

    By James Williams

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    It's not easy to be a highly sensitive child. Nor is it always easy to raise, care for, guide and teach a highly sensitive child. Because the highly sensitive child experiences the world a little differently, and that can be difficult to understand.
    This simple, concise book steps beyond a basic understanding of high sensitivity, looking at the challenges and distress that meltdowns can cause for highly sensitive children. And for you. A meltdown can be a terrifying experience for a highly sensitive child and for people witnessing it. This guide gives you the confidence to understand what having a meltdown means, and the knowledge to provide support and comfort.
    We help you to navigate the reasons why meltdowns happen and how to prevent them where possible, as well as the vital need to be compassionate and caring with yourself and others when they do occur.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Williams
    Release dateJan 24, 2017
    ISBN9781507880029
    Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child: Making Sense of Meltdowns
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    James Williams

    James Williams (Cabo Cañaveral, Florida, 1982) trabajó durante diez años en Google, donde destacó como uno de los estrategas más talentosos, y obtuvo el Founder’s Award, el máximo reconocimiento de la compañía. Al igual que su amigo Tristan Harris, Williams abandonó Google tras tomar conciencia del impacto negativo de la tecnología digital en los usuarios, y se fue a estudiar a la Universidad de Oxford. Allí obtuvo un doctorado, centrando su investigación en la filosofía y la ética de la tecnología. Es cofundador de la organización Time Well Spent (el actual Center for Humane Technology), una organización que aboga por una tecnología menos invasiva y más respetuosa con las personas. Actualmente es investigador del Centro Uehiro de Ética Práctica de Oxford y consultor tecnológico. Escribe regularmente sobre tecnología en medios como The Observery Wired"".""

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      Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child - James Williams

      Introduction

      Welcome to this short guide to making sense of meltdowns for the highly sensitive child. This book will give you a brief overview of meltdowns, how and why they occur, and how you can support them. This will help you to better understand yourself and highly sensitive children.

      In each chapter you will find story scenarios (written in italics). These are based on our and others experiences, and you may be able to relate to some or many of them.

      Parts of this book may feel hard to read at times. Don’t be critical of yourself if you need to go through and process it over several sittings; meltdowns can be an emotive subject.

      If you want more information about understanding highly sensitive children in general, you might want to start by reading the first book in this series, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child.

      A little about us

      James:

      I am privileged to be the primary carer for my two daughters and have been for over ten years. I feel passionately about the role of being a parent and truly believe it’s the best job in the world. I am also acutely aware of how incredibly difficult and challenging it can be at times.

      High sensitivity has a massive impact on my family’s life, and coming to understand it has transformed our lives – for the better. Before we understood high sensitivity we were bumbling about in the dark; now we’re in the light. I wish the entire world knew all about high sensitivity. What a wonderful world it would be if highly sensitive children and people were understood, accepted and truly valued for who they are.

      All I can do is keep spreading the word, and hope that eventually everyone connected with children –teachers, health and medical professionals, care workers, parents etc. – recognise without judgement, value and nurture highly sensitive children.

      During my Daddy years I have developed mindfulness practices through art, meditation and as a way of being. More recently I have started to train to be an Integrative Counsellor.

      Lucy:

      I have spent fifteen years supporting and working with children and families with different disabilities and needs. For the last six I have worked for a national autism charity and am hugely enthusiastic about improving awareness of hidden needs such as anxiety, sensory sensitivities and social communication, and supporting good mental health. I try to raise understanding of the impact of these needs on the wider family, particularly on siblings.

      I am the author of a fiction book for children, The Adventure of Maisie Voyager. This won the Gold Medal at the Moonbeam Book Awards in 2012, and features a quirky protagonist with a range of high sensitivities, none of which stop her from getting fully involved in an exciting mystery. In most of my spare time I can be found either writing or running. Rarely both at once

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