Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future

by Marcel Lebrun, Kimberly Williams

Overview

Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children. This book provides strategies on how to keep the brain and mind healthy, address challenges to brain and mind health, such as mental illness and substance abuse, and concrete strategies for building a healthy brain and mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610489263
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/09/2014
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Marcel Lebrun is a Distinguished Professor at Plymouth State University. He has 35 years of teaching experience in schools and at the university levels. He is the author of 10 books.

Kimberly Williams is an independent consultant in New York, adjunct faculty member at Plymouth State University, and teaching support specialist at Cornell University with over 20 years of faculty teaching experience. She is the author of several books on child and adolescent safety, and she has worked closely with children and adolescents for over two decades.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Keeping the Brain and Mind Healthy
Chapter 1: Exercise: The Mind on the Move
Chapter 2: Nutrition: Healthy Fuel for the Mind
Chapter 3: Arts: Stimulation for the Developing Mind
Chapter 4: Language Development and Computing for Healthy Mind Development
Part II: Challenges to Brain and Mind Health
Chapter 5: Attention Issues and Problems
Chapter 6: Brain Injuries and Brain Damage (Athletics, Accidents, Toxins)
Chapter 7: Substance Abuse
Chapter 8: Physical Illness and obesity
Chapter 9: Mental Illness and Pathology
Chapter 10: Violence and Abuse
Part III Strategies for Building a Healthy Brain and Mind
Chapter 11: Mindfulness and Meditation
Chapter 12: Purposeful Teaching of Thinking/cognition and Identifying and Building Cognitive Strengths
Chapter 13: Social Relationships and Healthy Emotions
Chapter 14: Strategies for Well-Being (including programs and alternative therapies)
Conclusion