Howard Glasser - The Nurtured Heart Approach

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Mental Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 212 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This episode of "Mad in the Family" focuses on a non-drug method to bringing out the best in challenging children, particularly those diagnosed with "ADHD." It is called the Nurtured Heart Approach® and its essence is that, in the words of our guest, "the same intensity that drives people crazy is actually the source of a child's greatness." He is the approach's creator, family therapist Howard Glasser. Glasser has been called "one of the most influential living persons working to reduce children's reliance on psychiatric medications" and is the author of the bestselling book, Transforming the Difficult Child and more than a dozen other books.

Glasser is also the Founder of the Children's Success Foundation, whose mission is to advance the work of the Nurtured Heart Approach by conducting training programs to support parents in building Inner Wealth® in their children, educators in formally implementing the approach in school systems, and therapeutic professionals to meet the unique mental health needs of "intense" children. A frequent keynote speaker at conferences on treatment and education, he currently teaches certification trainings on his method, as well as in Dr. Andrew Weil's program at the University of Arizona's School of Integrative Medicine.

http://www.howardglasser.com/

https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:12.0	This episode of Mad in the Family focuses on a non-drug method to bring out the best in challenging children, particularly those with
0:22.4	the diagnosis of ADHD. It is called the nurtured heart approach, and our guest is the approach's
0:29.3	creator, family therapist Howard Glasser M.A. Howard has been called one of the most influential
0:36.4	living persons working to reduce children's
0:38.7	reliance on psychiatric medications, and is the author of the best-selling book, Transforming
0:43.8	the Difficult Child.
0:46.0	Howard is also the founder of the Children's Success Foundation, whose mission is to advance
0:51.1	the work of the nurtured heart approach by conducting training programs
0:54.7	to support parents in building inner wealth in their children, educators in formally implementing
0:59.9	the approach in school systems, and therapeutic professionals to meet the unique mental health
1:04.9	needs of intense children. A frequent keynote speaker at conferences on treatment and education, Howard Glasser currently teaches certification trainings on his method, as well as in Dr. Andrew Wiles program at the University of Arizona School of Integrated Medicine.
1:21.4	Welcome.
1:22.5	Can you give us a bit of background on your life and career trajectory as a family therapist and how the nurtured
1:28.7	heart approach evolved out of this work? When and why did you develop?
1:33.4	Absolutely. So I was a student of clinical psychology and probably the best way I could explain how this evolved in my life
1:48.9	because I wasn't planning on developing an approach to or working, even working with children.
1:55.6	I dropped out of a great grad program and at the point of dissertation to do my childhood dream of woodworking.
2:07.6	I did that. I thought I would do it for a year. It turned into 15 years. And when I went back, I got a job as a family therapist in a family clinic with families who were right in the middle of struggles with children.
2:29.6	And they were looking for answers.
2:33.6	And I was looking to help them.
2:35.8	I was earnest, and I was dusting off everything I had studied in grad school.
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