Jason Aronson, Inc.
Pages: 234
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7657-0214-2 • Hardback • December 1999 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
Elizabeth Berger, M.D., is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist with more than twenty years' experience treating children and families in community settings, hospitals, and private practice. She has been on the faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Northwestern University Medical School, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine. Dr. Berger has participated in numerous panels, public forums, and radio and television programs addressing parents' concerns about their children. She lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two teenage children.
Chapter 1 Why Character Counts
Chapter 2 Intimacy from Birth through Preschool
Chapter 3 On the Parent's Good Authority
Chapter 4 Building Self-Discipline
Chapter 5 From Collapsing to Coping
Chapter 6 The Struggle to Be Nice
Chapter 7 The Emphasis on People
Chapter 8 Citizenship in School
Chapter 9 The Floundering Student
Chapter 10 The Adolescent's Needs
Chapter 11 Fostering Maturity
Chapter 12 Male and Female
Chapter 13 Romance and Marriage
Chapter 14 Toward the Eternal
Authored by a parent and child psychiatrist, this book is instructive both for parents and educators. It spells out insightfully the 'whys and hows' that lead to healthy child development, self-discovery, good citizenship, and true consideration for others. Richly illustrated with many clinical vignettes, it provides a basic approach to forestall and resolve the growing wave of child violence.
— Ruth F. Lax
Raising Children with Character offers a wise, sensible perspective and pragmatic guidance for parents trying to raise ethical, compassionate children. Dr. Berger focuses on intimacy, relationships, and intelligent, self-confident parental authority. She gives the reader numerous clinical jewels and sensitive wisdom to learn from in this thoughtful, informative book.
— Alvin Rosenfeld
There is hardly a single paragraph in the entire book that isn't worth quoting.
— Suburban Express
Praise for the previous edition: Extremely valuable....this book is full of words of wisdom about parenting and is highly recommended to professionals, parents, educators, and all those interested in the welfare of children.
— Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
In a sea of books on child rearing and development that focus on or blame nature or nurture, it is a joy to welcome Raising Children with Character. It espouses mutuality and interaction and, unashamedly, love as the catalyst to healthy character formation. The text is written in an easygoing style that encourages readers to participate by calling to mind their own vignettes and examples. The case reports are informative and show the working interactions of a sensitive clinician with her patients from all walks of life, without the jargon of the profession. Designed for everyone from therapists to parents, Dr. Berger's text provided me with new insights even after thirty years of my own practice.
— Theodore Shapiro
Praise for the previous edition:"Extremely valuable....this book is full of words of wisdom about parenting and is highly recommended to professionals, parents, educators, and all those interested in the welfare of children."
— Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry