What is the Nurtured Heart approach?
The Nurtured Heart Approach is an amazing set of strategies developed specifically for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviours to facilitate parenting and classroom success. These methods have helped thousands of families to transform their child from using their intensity in primarily negative ways to using their intensity in beautifully creative and constructive ways. This approach has also helped teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on all children. The Nurtured Heart Approach is a powerful and quick way to create a new scenario of success.
Channelling Change
Parents and teachers can find themselves struggling with the intensity of a challenging child and are often advised to moderate that intensity by medication. As a result many children wind up clinically restrained simply because they have not received help that enables them to channel their intensity into creative or cognitive pursuits. Seventy-five percent of all children evaluated for conditions such as ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder receive medication on the very first visit. The unfortunate underlying message is “You need a pill to manage your feelings”. Glasser’s approach has been proven to bring about change quickly and in an enduring way, without medication. Research has shown that Glasser’s approach dramatically reduces difficult behaviour in the classroom, school exclusion, and youth crime.
Case Studies
It really works!
"I am filled with hope for my seven year old grandson who has been diagnosed as having ADHD. I am also filled with remorse that no such approach was available for me to pursue with my eldest daughter who is now almost 40"
"As a parent of a difficult child and as a school psychologist who consults with frustrated teachers and distraught parents I found the Nurtured Heart approach to be sensible, doable and effective."
Judy Fulda, School Psychologist and mother
"As a mother of a growing family, I had been searching for a parenting approach that spoke to me and actually worked. After trying many avenues, I was introduced to the Nurtured Heart Approach by a relative. The approach really resonated with me. I feel that it has changed me and the way I react to my children, I am calmer and so is my household. I feel empowered to raise my children with lots of love, positivity and still maintain a handle on rules and structure."
