Books like The art of failure by Jesper Juul

Learn practical communication strategies to strengthen parent‑child relationships, reduce conflict, and support your own well‑being.

An evidence‑based guide for parents seeking to restore calm and freedom in their children’s lives by simplifying home, routines, and media exposure, based on Kim John Payne’s two decades of family counseling experience.

Parents learn how to let go of over‑protectiveness so children can grow independent and resilient—an accessible guide for guiding school‑aged kids toward self‑reliance.

A comprehensive guide to achieving success by understanding and overcoming failure habits.

In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner’s groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the editors of this new volume have often been asked: Where can I find out more about the psyche-world connection? How can I do hands-on work in this area? Ecotherapy was compiled to answer these and other urgent questions. Ecotherapy, or applied ecopsychology, encompasses a broad range of nature-based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the crucial fact that people are inseparable from the rest of nature and nurtured by healthy interaction with the Earth. Leaders in the field, including Robert Greenway, and Mary Watkins, contribute essays that take into account the latest scientific understandings and the deepest indigenous wisdom. Other key thinkers, from Bill McKibben to Richard Louv to Joanna Macy, explore the links among ecotherapy, spiritual development, and restoring community. As mental-health professionals find themselves challenged to provide hard evidence that their practices actually work, and as costs for traditional modes of psychotherapy rise rapidly out of sight, this book offers practitioners and interested lay readers alike a spectrum of safe, effective alternative approaches backed by a growing body of research.

Ulysses and the Sirens by Jon Elster explores the psychological bases of rational and irrational decision‑making, linking philosophy, psychology and the social sciences to illuminate how human reasoning shapes behavior.

"[Offers] parents of children aged 2-13 a ... roadmap to ... discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connection between the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--

The author bases his advice on experience and theory of children's interactions with parents.

Mindful Discipline blends mindfulness and neuroscience to teach parents how to set loving limits, manage emotions, and foster emotional intelligence, resilience, and self‑discipline in children.