Comments
Comments from parents and others:
"We had lost hope. This approach has saved our family. We were spinning our wheels. Everything we tried in the past was making the problems worse. Now our intense child is intensely wonderful…without medications."
"My child was diagnosed with ADHD. I thought it was a death sentence. We couldn't go an hour without an argument or some horrendous incident. Now I know peace and pleasure for the first time in many years."
"This is absolutely the most worthwhile information I have ever learned. My hyperactive child is now my amazing child."
"After treating countless families where parents were readying to foster place or otherwise relinquish their children because of the severe behavior problems, I turned to this model of treatment as a therapist. It was the most intensive intervention series I had ever encountered and, frankly, it was the clearest, most sensible model I had seen or used to treat difficult and high-needs children. It provided the missing link, strategically designed to teach parents while treating their children."
Jennifer Easley, MA, co-author of, Transforming the Difficult Child.
"Learning to nurture children's hearts can be a daily habit. Howard Glasser provides us with tools to nurture a child's heart even when the child seems not to want nurturing or acts in a way that makes us want to withdraw or even be angry."
Dennis D. Embry, PhD., Co-Founders, PeaceBuilders Founder, Paxus Institute.
And also:
- "This is an approach that I recommend…." Patch Adams, MD
- The NHA has been practiced at Tucson's Center of the Difficult Child (CDC) between 1994-2001 with amazing results.
- This approach is now used in hundreds of classrooms nationally, and its strategies have been adopted with substantial success as the school-wide discipline plan in several Tucson schools.
- Many Head Start programs around the country use NHA. The city of Tucson adopted the approach in the year 1999 and has used it successfully every since.
The Nurtured Heart Approach, which was developed by Howard Glasser, was introduced in 1994 and a number of studies have been undertaken and several positive outcomes have emerged-such as:
School Outcomes
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Tolson elementary School in Tucson Arizona, a title 1 of over 500 children (80% free or reduced lunch) has shown remarkable progress since beginning a school-wide NHA intervention in 1999. Prior to that many children were referred for ADHD assessments and were put on medications. They had eight times the normal number of school suspensions per year as other schools in the district and teacher attrition was well over 50% per year. Since that time there has only been one child suspended, no children diagnosed as ADHD and no new children on medication. Teacher attrition has dropped to less than 5% and special education utilization has dropped from 15% to 5%. Best of all the school has gone from the worst in the district as measured on standardized test scores to having dramatic and continuing positive progress.
There are many more research testimonials that can be found on Howard.Glasser's website - www.difficultchild.com