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THE SCAFFOLD EFFECT

Howard Koplewicz

Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety

Dr. Harold Koplewicz, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist, explains the most effective way to fend off the general anxiety and emotional fragility that is so prevalent in children and teenagers today. Backed by scientifically proven strategies, Dr. Koplewicz gives parents the tools to help raise emotionally healthy children so they can flourish on their own.
Just as sturdy scaffolding is necessary when erecting a building but will come down as the structure grows stable, good parenting provides children with steady, warm, emotional nourishment on the path toward independence. Never-ending parental problem-solving and involvement can have the opposite effect, enabling fragility and anxiety over time.

In THE SCAFFOLD EFFECT, world-renowned child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz introduces the powerful new and clinically tested idea that this deliberate build-up and then gradual loosening of parental support is the single most effective way to encourage kids to climb higher, try new things and grow from mistakes, and to develop character and strength. Offering the ten building blocks or "planks" of an effective scaffold--from laying a solid foundation to setting limits and minimizing cracks--he expertly guides parents through the strategies they need to raise empowered, capable kids while building parent-child bonds that will survive adolescence and grow stronger into adulthood.

Harold Koplewicz, MD is one of the nation's leading child and adolescent psychiatrists. The founding president and director of the Child Mind Institute in New York City and San Mateo, California, he has been repeatedly named in America's Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America, and New York magazine's "Best Doctors in New York." He has appeared on Today, CBS News, CNN, Oprah, and Anderson Cooper 360 and he is quoted regularly in the New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York City.
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Published 2021-01-26 by Harmony

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In this era of searing fear and uncertainty, and out of the turbulent sea of contradictory parenting advice, emerges, blessedly, Harold Koplewicz's authoritative counsel. A true giant of child psychiatry, Koplewicz has condensed his immense knowledge, wisdom, and experience into a practical and actionable plan. The Scaffold Effect is an instant classic, a godsend for us all.

This compassionate, witty and street-smart guide to helping kids become independent young adults is a gift to parents everywhere. Harold Koplewicz gives us the tools to build strong, safe support around our children, and then trust that they will launch all the better for it and grow into their own destiny.

At no time in history have parents been more in need of clear, actionable, straightforward advice about how to instill resilience and self-sufficiency in their children. These are skills that are certain to be more valuable than ever in our uncertain world. Drawing on decades of clinical expertise and an organization that does some of the most compelling research on kids and mental health in this country, Dr. Koplewicz has written a practical, engrossing, and singularly useful book. Healthy adults don't "just happen." They happen because we give them a robust foundation of safety and confidence. Step-by-step Dr. Koplewicz illustrates how this foundation is best built.

Parenting advice tends to swing like a pendulum--from one extreme, trendy position to another--every few years. The steady, deeply sensible, dependable position is The Scaffold Effect. Full of vivid examples of the evergreen effectiveness of scaffolding--the best way to support children as they grow (and grow away from us)--it's a book for the ages.

In this era of searing fear and uncertainty, and out of the turbulent sea of contradictory parenting advice, emerges, blessedly, Harold Koplewicz's authoritative counsel. A true giant of child psychiatry, Koplewicz has condensed his immense knowledge, wisdom, and experience into a practical and actionable plan. The Scaffold Effect is an instant classic, a godsend for us all.

The Scaffold Effect is an engaging, practical, and even humorous guide through the challenges and opportunities of parenting. A master synthesizer of attachment science, medical practice, and his own experience as a father, Harold Koplewicz capably and compassionately leads us through the art of scaffolding, from early childhood through the important adolescent period, and then finally to the moment in our own parenting journey when we will let the scaffold down and see our kids move out into the larger world with kindness, strength, and security.

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The Scaffold Effect is written with so much understanding and so much sympathy, for both children and their parents. Harold Koplewicz brings science and clinical experience together with his own family experiences to create a book which is always practical and compassionate, and manages to be firm, gentle, and encouraging in all the right ways.