Assertive Parenting How to Build Secure Attachment and Care for Children's Mental Health

1. Introduction 2. Let's talk about children's mental health 2.1 What is mental health and how has it been affected in recent years? 2.2 Social crises as a possible traumatic factor for the mental health of children and families 2.3 Children's fear and anxiety in difficult situations 2.4 How can we help children in difficult situations that cause them concern, fear, or anxiety? 3. Assertive parenting as the basis for protecting for children's mental health 3.1 What is assertive parenting? 3.2 Myths about assertive parenting 3.3 What to do when your extended family criticizes your parenting style of assertive parenting? 3.4 "Bad behavior" is a cry for help 3.5 Understanding the emotional and rational brain to comprehend child behavior 3.6 Raising children "without spoiling them"? 4. The child and the gaze of their caregivers 4.1 From persecutors, saviors, or victims to guardians of resilience 4.2 How does a child build a belief about himself? And how can we help them? 4.3 I'm OK, you're OK 5. Attachment and its relationship to mental health 5.1 Why secure attachment is important for children 5.2 Adult attachment. My own attachment style 5.3 Does being attached mean having a secure attachment? 5.4 The five keys to being a secure base 6. Understanding psychological trauma 6.1 The physiological response in optimal and traumatic conditions 6.2 Physical punishment, the brain, and trauma 6.3 What makes an experience traumatic? 6.4 The four elements for contingent communication contingent communication: 3 Cs and an E 7. Emotions, the great unknowns 7.1 All emotions "have their talent"; there are no good or bad emotions 7.2 Basic emotions and the two major psychobiological systems psychobiological systems: approach and defense 7.3 Emotions explained to adults and children 7.4 Integrating emotion and behavior with the MAC method 8. Anxiety and mental health 8.1 Anxiety and the brain 8.2 Anxiety and the car metaphor 8.3 Help your child cope with anxiety and emotions defense mechanisms, talking about it, and thinking about it 8.4 Five essential actions to reduce anxiety and stress in childhood caregiving techniques 9. References

Biography

Milena González is a psychologist specializing in Trauma, Attachment, and Emotional Education. She completed a Master's Degree in Emotional Intelligence at the University of Valencia. An expert in brief psychotherapy with children and adolescents, clinical and trauma intervention with EMDR. Certified as a Positive Discipline Educator for Families and in the Classroom by the Positive Discipline Association and the Spanish Association of Positive Discipline. In addition to her private practice, she teaches training courses in centers dedicated to promoting treatment of children and assertive parenting workshops for Spanish-speaking families and teachers. She also promotes assertive parenting through her social media accounts: @unamamapsicologa_.