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Authors: Chaya Feuerman CSW, Chaya Feuerman
ISBN-13: 9780765761743, ISBN-10: 0765761742
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Chaya Feuerman CSW

Book Synopsis

How to Have Fun without Getting into Trouble provides insights into the many complex issues that modern Jews face today. The essays are drawn from the authors' experiences as religious Jews, parents, and psychotherapists.

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Relationships
	When You Can't Forgive	3
	How to Have a Fight with Your Spouse	9
	Helping Someone Who is Self-Destructive	15
	Living with a "Control Freak" and How Not to Be a Controlling Person	23
	Doubts in Dating and Marriage	31
	The Psychology of In-law Conflicts	39
	Being Smart Isn't Everything	47
	How to Change Your Spouse	53
	Boundaries for Healthy Relationships	59
	The Use of Silence	67
Pt. 2	Parenting
	Making the Most out of Playtime with Your Child	75
	Whining Versus Expressing Feelings	79
	Using Halachic Obligations to Promote Maturity and Character Development in Children	87
	Teens and the Torah Home	91
	Working with Conflicts about Religious Matters Between Husband and Wife	97
	Financial Limitations and Parenting	103
	Adjusting to a New Sibling	107
	Good Habits for Back to School Time	111
	Loving an Unlovable Child	117
	Report Cards Dos and Don'ts	121
	Self-Destructiveness in Children	125
	My Child is Unpopular in School	129
	Avoiding Tantrums	133
	Peer Pressure and Family Values	137
	How to Praise Children	141
	Blowing Up at Your Kids	145
	The Teeter-Totter Syndrome	149
	Children, Shul, and Davening	155
	When a Yeshiva Bochur and His Family Disagree Over Frumkeit	165
Pt. 3	The Self
	Feelings Versus Actions: Torah and Psychological Perspectives	175
	Guilt, Teshuva, and Psychology	183
	Personal Autonomy and Kibbud Av v'Em	189
	The Stigma of Psychotherapy	197
	The Psychological Aspects of Questions of Faith	205
	Can Psychotherapy Be Self-Administered?	209
	The Psychological Dynamics of the Shaala (Halachic Question)	215
	When you get the "Blues"	219
	A Midrashic Metaphor on Mental Illness	223
	The Psychological Meaning of Boredom	229
	A Kollel Survival Guide	233
	Accidents, Torah, and Psychology	241
	Afterword	249

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