New Releases by Nicholas Long

A 30-Day Scriptural Guide for High-Conflict Relationships

The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child''s behavior—fully updated and revised In 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child’s self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully build upon their child’s strengths while effectively managing challenging behavior. Packed with brand-new content, this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to integrate state-of-the-field scientific and clinical advances, providing a timely and thorough response to the current issues facing parents of young children. It addresses important new topics, including: Understanding parenting and child behavior in context, including effects of the global pandemic, racial disparities, financial strain, and other parenting challenges Greater opportunities for parents to learn proven parenting skills for challenging child behaviors such as noncompliance, whining, and tantrums Help for parents to apply new skills to the specific problem behaviors they are facing Strategies for linking the five-week program skills to common parenting challenges, including screen time Understanding how the proven five-week program can help parents of children with ADHD given advances in science and clinical practice in this area The importance of parent self-care as they learn the program Improve the life of your child—and yourself—with valuable lessons and science-backed advice that has helped a generation of parents raise happy, healthy children.

The actinide series is of great importance, possessing applications in clean energy, space travel, medicinal use, and even household smoke detectors. Despite everyday applications, our knowledge of the actinides is severely limited compared to the rest of the periodic table. Low available quantities of these elements, in addition to hazardous radiotoxicity, presents a unique set of challenges when studying them. Nuclear energy presents grand opportunities for clean energy and is a leading source adopted by many countries; however, difficulties in recycling and separating these elements from nuclear waste proves to be a pervasive task. Furthering the limited understanding of bonding and electronic properties characteristic of the actinide series will present new opportunities for recycling and waste separation techniques. Historically, f-electrons were thought to be chemically inert, only participating in electrostatic interactions and displaying heavily localized behavior. Actinides were thought to act like their lanthanide counterparts; however, this is now known to be false. Actinide−carbon bonding showed the first evidence of covalency in the actinide series, differentiating their bonding properties from the lanthanides. Furthermore, recent studies have demonstrated how the greater radial extension of the 5f orbitals beyond the 4f orbitals results in greater reactivity and a lower degree of localization of the 5f electrons. Chapter 1 will provide background information on the actinide series, as well as its historical importance and applications. Information regarding the importance of organometallic actinide chemistry, intervalence charge transfer, and challenges in working with these elements is discussed. Chapters 2 and 3 build a baseline for intervalence charge transfer studies within the actinide series, presenting a series of dinuclear systems with neptunium, plutonium, and various lanthanide analogues. These complexes allow for flexible redox studies and will be applied for the synthesis of mixed-valent systems displaying the delocalization of f-electrons, pushing the boundary on our understanding of these fundamental properties. Chapter 3 transitions from the localized properties of f-electrons to their unique bonding properties by introducing an organometallic synthetic precursor. Metal−carbon bonding is a nearly untouched field in transplutonium elements, which is surprising considering the reported differences in covalency between the actinide−carbon and lanthanide−carbon bonding, as well as the prevalence of americium and curium in nuclear waste. Chapters 5 demonstrates how the addition of azine bridging ligands to these organometallic systems allows for the tuning of covalency in actinide−nitrogen bonding, a common target in improving separations techniques. Chapter 6 presents the first reported structural characterization of a curium−carbon bond, opening doorways to a new field of actinide chemistry: organocurium chemistry. In addition to unexpected bonding differences between curium and its samarium analogue, organometallic curium demonstrates never before seen optical properties, including significantly redshifted emission in a putative Cp''3Cm, as well as the quenched photoluminescence of (Cp''3Cm)2([mu]−4,4''−bpy). This work introduces actinide systems that serve as a baseline for intervalence charge transfer experiments and the delocalization of f-electrons, as well as a series of transplutonium complexes possessing actinide−carbon bonding, possessing bonding and electronic properties never before observed with these elements.

Molecular imaging is primarily about the chemistry of novel biological probes, yet the vast majority of practitioners are not chemists or biochemists. This is the first book, written from a chemist''s point of view, to address the nature of the chemical interaction between probe and environment to help elucidate biochemical detail instead of bulk anatomy. Covers all of the fundamentals of modern imaging methodologies, including their techniques and application within medicine and industry Focuses primarily on the chemistry of probes and imaging agents, and chemical methodology for labelling and bioconjugation First book to investigate the chemistry of molecular imaging Aimed at students as well as researchers involved in the area of molecular imaging

A clinically proven, five-week program for improving your child''s behavior Rex Forehand, Ph.D. and Nicholas Long Ph.D. have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child''s self-esteem. Their clinically proven, five-week program gives you the tools you need to successfully manage your child’s behavior, giving specific factors that cause or contribute to disruptive behavior; ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home; and strategies for managing specific behavior problems. The completely revised and updated edition includes: new information, based on research, about child temperament; new chapter on the hot topic of play as a means of strengthening parent-child relationship; new section on collaborative disciplining with preschool teachers; expanded section about depression and stress linked to parenting; new research findings about ADHD and its treatment. Uncover the specific factors that contribute to your child''s disruptive behavior. Identify with real-life parent testimonials and discover strategies for managing specific behavior problems. Authors Rex Forehand, Ph.D., and Nicholas Long, Ph.D., are experts in the field of child psychology. New research highlights the scientific foundation behind the program. Topics include: Understanding Your Strong-Willed Child''s Behavior; Strong-Willed Behavior and How It All Begins; Why Is My Child Becoming Even More Strong-Willed?; It Takes More than Just Good Parenting; Does My Child Have ADHD?; Addressing Strong-Willed Behavior: A Five-Week Program; Does My Child’s Behavior Really Need to Change?; Week 1: Attending; Week 2: Rewarding; Week 3: Ignoring; Week 4: Giving Directions; Week 5: Using Time-Outs; Integrating Your Parenting Skills; Creating a Positive Climate for Behavior Change; Creating a More Positive Home; Improving Your Communication Skills; Developing More Patience; Building Positive Self-Esteem; Helping Your Child Solve Problems with Peers; Solving Some Common Behavior Problems: Additional Recommendations; Specific Problem Behaviors

The bestselling five-week program to improving the disruptive child''s behavior--now updated and revised Based on more than 40 years of collective research, parents and longtime child behavior experts Dr. Rex Forehand and Dr. Nicholas Long have devised a program to help you find positive and manageable solutions to your child''s difficult behavior. Now in a revised and updated edition, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child is a self-guided program for managing disruptive young children based on a clinical treatment program. This hands-on guide provides you with a step-by-step, five-week program toward improving your child''s behavior as well as the entire family''s relationship. Providing you with the necessary tools for successfully managing the difficult child, the book covers specific factors that cause or contribute to a child''s disruptive behavior; ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home; actual reports by parents of difficult children; strategies for managing specific behavior problems; how to tell if your child might have ADHD; and more.

From the bestselling authors of Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, expert strategies and action steps for divorcing parents While there are many trade books on children and divorce, most tend to be filled with extensive discussions of the psychological impact on children, with little effective advice. You want immediate answers and quick access to expert strategies you can use to help your kids today and in the future. Making Divorce Easier on Your Child arms you with 50 effective strategies and action steps for helping your kids cope with divorce, packaged in a convenient, quick-bite format. It is based on the authors'' years of clinical experience dealing with the children of divorce, as well as their extensive research into the causes and cures of divorce-related emotional problems. "Informative and sensible, offering realistic, clear-cut recommendations." Robert Brooks, Ph.D., Faculty, Harvard Medical School, and coauthor of Raising Resilient Children