Encouraging Parents, Courageous Children (NEW!)
by Betty Lou Bettner 

"For those of you wanting to have a parenting expert next to you right when you need it, and in a way that would not make you feel even more discouraged—this book is for you. Get it, keep it, you will never want to let it out of your sight!".

— Marina Bluvshtein, Ph.D. LP; MA LMFT
President of the International Assoc. of Individual Psychology (IAIP)
Director, Center for Adlerian Practice and Scholarship
Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology
AAMFT Clinical Fellow

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Raising Kids Who Care About Others
by Betty Lou Bettner 
($10.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

This is a clear, timely, helpful and encouraging book, and the message is needed by all parents and caregivers.

"I recommend this excellent book.  Betty Lou has an unusual talent of putting Adlerian ideas and guidelines into a special kind of literature.  Her book is both interesting and useful.  People who work with parents and teachers will profit most.."

—Zivit Abramson, Ph.D., Psychologist, Author, Supervisor, School of Adlerian Psychotherapy, Adler Institute, Israel.

"I am very impressed with this delightful book. It is clear, timely, helpful and encouraging with a message needed by everyone who works with children. "

—George W. Linden Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

"With simple, clear prose, the core concept of social interest is illustrated in multiple ways. Bettner also clearly gives strategies to encourage and develop it in children. This is a wonderful little book that parents and caregivers can absorb and put into action. Thank you, Betty Lou"

—Marjie Longshore, M.Ed., Executive Director, Family Leadership Center, Yarmouth ME

This book has been translated into Chinese.

The Six Essential Pieces of the Parenting Puzzle
by Betty Lou Bettner
($10.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

Testimonials:

"This book intrigued me. I love that it is designed to fill a void; to be a much needed tribute to the brilliant thinking and application of the phenomenal understanding and works of Adler and Dreikurs. In my humble opinion, you have accomplished that goal wonderfully well. I am eager to add it to my own library of favorite books. Thanks so much for this major contribution to the field of Adlerian studies, Betty Lou. It’s a treasure."

—Linda E. Jessup, R.N., M.P.H., F.N.P., founder of the Parent Encouragement Program in Maryland

"I recommend it highly."

— Richard E. Watts, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Counseling, Sam Houston State University Texas State University System Regents’ Professor

"This is a book every counselor and therapist should have handy to provide clients with a tested and true method for resolving problems in parent-child relations."

— James R. Bitter, Ph.D., Professor, East Tennessee State Univ., author, President of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology.

This book has been translated into Chinese and Spanish.

The Creative Force - How Children Create Their Personalities
by Betty Lou Bettner
($12.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

"In my opinion there is no book that explains in a better, clearer, more exact way how life style is built.  I tell my students that they should read it, but they shouldn’t just read it, they should study it.  And they shouldn’t just study it once but over and over again and they will get more and more ideas from it.  Thank you, Betty Lou, for this great book."  — Dr. Peter Pollak, Director, Adler-Pollak Institute for Adlerian Psychology, Germany

“This is a special book. . . must reading for parents and teachers.”—Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D., Distinguished Professor, Governors State University, University Park, IL.

“…bright little jewel…deceptively simple way of making “lifestyle” extremely understandable and accessible.”—Linda Jessup, founder of Parent Encouragement Program, Kensington, MD and co-author of Parenting with Courage (2011)

“The experience of reading this book was like peeping into the mind of a child…”—Brinda Jayaraman, Ph.D., co-founder of Chennai Counselors’ Foundation, Chennai, India.

The Creative Force   is now translated into eleven languages including Hebrew,  Greek,  German,  Dutch,  Chinese,  Romanian,  Russian,  Hungarian,  French,  Spanish,  and a most recent request for permission to translate into Ukranian

Raising Kids Who Can
by Betty Lou Bettner & Amy Lew
($15.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

“This book is a little gem that succeeds in a big way. Raising Kids Who Can lays out a readable, doable map for families (and teachers) seeking to develop structure and cooperation in a friendly atmosphere.” The Family Psychologist, American Psychological Association.

“Betty Lou Bettner and Amy Lew have created a fresh, insightful synthesis of strategies for becoming a more functional, responsible, and capable family…This is a book about family meetings, but it is also a book about the bigger picture that makes family meetings (and families) work…The book has a practical approach with a clear writing style.” -- Don Dinkmeyer, Jr., Ph.D., co-author of The New STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting), STEP/Teen,and Early Childhood STEP.

This book has been translated into Chinese and, German

A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Motivating Children
by Amy Lew & Betty Lou Bettner
($10.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

“This is a clear and concise guide for all parents to bring up children to be responsible and caring adults. In a very practical way it helps the parents understand their child’s behavior and misbehavior. It is a very encouraging book. It is a great relief for someone to put into words the worries we all have as parents and to illustrate techniques that will help in the solution of everyday problems. It deals especially well with creating cooperation within families. I believe it could become your constant companion in the struggle that we all have in trying to bring up our children to be responsible, caring, and likable adults. Highly recommended.”

-- Ruth Farrell, Parents’ Network of Ireland.

Responsibility in the Classroom
by Amy Lew & Betty Lou Bettner
($10.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

“In ‘Responsibility in the Classroom’ Amy Lew and Betty Lou Bettner present a theoretical construct and practical, accessible strategies and suggestions for developing caring, respectful relationships between teachers and students, and among students, and a cooperative classroom community. They provide a framework to help teachers understand children’s behavior and develop strategies for achieving the Crucial Cs: feeling connected, capable, and knowing that you count, and developing courage. -- Pamela Seigle, Reach Out to Schools, The Stone Center, Wellesley College

This book has been translated into Korean.

CINDERELLA, THE SEQUEL (a fairy tale for adults!)
For any couple who needs help
by Amy Lew & Betty Lou Bettner
($12.00 -- add $4 postage for the first book,
additional postage for each book is $2)

“When the fairy tale ends and real life begins’ is the subtitle of this enchanting and therapeutic tale. Lew and Bettner astutely realize that falling in love and getting married are only the first ‘comparatively easy’ steps in the process of building a lasting relationship. In Cinderella, the Sequel we see what happened between Cinderella and Prince Charming as they learned to live together and understand one another…Lew and Bettner make very helpful concrete suggestions appropriate for any couple who need help continuing to work on a relationship…This charming metaphor would be invaluable to…couples and individuals who struggle with relationships…” -- Terry Kottman, Ph.D. (author of Adlerian Play Therapy), The Family Journal, International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.

This book has been translated into Greek and Chinese.