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Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience

by Sissy, Lpc-Mhsp Goff

Building children’s confidence and resilience

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Building children’s confidence and resilience

Capable frames resilience as a belief children can develop: that they can face difficulty, work through challenges, manage stress, and keep going. Sissy Goff and David Thomas draw on their counseling experience to offer parents practical guidance informed by research and faith. The book connects children’s confidence with their ability to respond to setbacks and find longer-term ways through problems, addressing emotional and external pressures as part of that picture. Its approach brings together counseling perspectives, strategies for parents, and a faith-informed view of children’s sense of self.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents seeking practical guidance on helping children handle setbacks and stress.
  • Readers interested in a faith-informed approach to parenting and resilience.
  • Parents looking for counseling-based perspectives on children’s confidence and emotional wellbeing.

Themes

Child resilienceConfidence and capabilityParenting strategiesManaging stressFaith-informed parenting

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Book overview

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

Discover the Missing Piece of Your Child's Ability to Thrive

- Helps parents raise confident, capable children who believe they can do hard things, work to find long-term solutions to problems, and don't give up when faced with complications
- Comprehensive guide from renowned counselors and parenting experts
- Backed by up-to-date research and filled with practical strategies that actually work

Today's kids face unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and emotional distress. Despite our best efforts, our children continue to struggle with internal and external pressures that impact their mental health. If we're doing all we can to make sure our kids are happy, why aren't they?

Beloved therapists, speakers, and authors Sissy Goff and David Thomas have discovered the key is found in one word: capable. Capable kids are confident kids who don't shrink from challenges. They're resilient kids who get back up when life knocks them down. They're thriving kids because they have a deep belief in their ability to do hard things, overcome roadblocks, and keep moving forward.

In Capable, Sissy and David draw on their more than fifty years of combined counseling experience to offer a clinically sound, emotionally attuned, faith-informed approach to help kids build the resilience they need in today's world. Through evidence-based insight and practical guidance, Sissy and David equip you to nurture capability--the internalized belief that a child can face adversity, navigate challenges, manage stress, and build confidence in who they are and who God has made them to be.
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