Parenting Styles Unleashed: A Modern Guide for Improved Family Dynamics

Parenting conflict and co-parenting stress shroud many troubled families in a jungle of dead ends and deep tangles. With a map, a companion dog breed, and your heart as a compass, Paul Buckley guides readers on a journey out of the wilderness.

Steeped in attachment and emotion-focused therapy, applied by the author during decades of clinical practice, Parenting Styles Unleashed strikes a faceted balance of confidence, humor, and pragmatic outcomes. Quick Quizzes and Parenting Tip cards sprinkle the path and hint toward sunnier days ahead.

Whether your parenting style is the compassionate golden retriever, attentive border collie, principled German shepherd, or easy-going Afghan hound, you'll enjoy this romp in the park of improved family dynamics.

Paul Buckley delivers therapy and parenting & marital workshops in the Minneapolis area. He is known for his pragmatic and playful style, one that echoes throughout Parenting Styles Unleashed: a modern guide to improved family dynamics. Paul came to this vocation on a winding academic path - a Chemistry degree, a year of Dental School, substance abuse certification, and a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.Within his practice, Attachment and Emotion Focus theory frame his therapeutics, while Piaget's stages and Jaak Panksep's affective neuroscience illuminate the personal features of clients' stories; their wounds, healing, and transcendence. With attuned compassion, his work transforms vulnerable emotions of sadness, fear, and loneliness into elevated sentiments ofmoral belonging.In his off hours, you can find Paul gliding along local ski trails or wading in trout streams of the Western Rockies. Please greet him if you see him!