Aletha Solter
Encyclopedia
Aletha Jauch Solter, PhD (born 1945) is a Swiss
/American
developmental psychologist
who studied with Jean Piaget
. Her specialist areas are attachment, psychological trauma
, and non-punitive discipline
.
What differentiates her work is that it combines attachment parenting
principles with an understanding of the impact of stress
and trauma, and thus her work is apparently able to help families who are struggling with sleep, discipline and emotional health issues that other approaches have been unable to resolve.
Her first book The Aware Baby has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Subsequent publications are Helping Young Children Flourish, Tears and Tantrums and Raising Drug-Free Kids.
In 1990 she founded The Aware Parenting Institute, an international organization with certified instructors in many countries.
She is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) and the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
/American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
developmental psychologist
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to...
who studied with Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....
. Her specialist areas are attachment, psychological trauma
Psychological trauma
Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event...
, and non-punitive discipline
Child discipline
Child discipline is the set of rules, rewards and punishments administered to teach self control, increase desirable behaviors and decrease undesirable behaviors in children. In its most general sense, discipline refers to systematic instruction given to a disciple. To discipline thus means to...
.
What differentiates her work is that it combines attachment parenting
Attachment parenting
Attachment parenting, a phrase coined by pediatrician William Sears, is a parenting philosophy based on the principles of the attachment theory in developmental psychology. According to attachment theory, the child forms a strong emotional bond with caregivers during childhood with lifelong...
principles with an understanding of the impact of stress
Stress (medicine)
Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become commonly used in popular parlance...
and trauma, and thus her work is apparently able to help families who are struggling with sleep, discipline and emotional health issues that other approaches have been unable to resolve.
Her first book The Aware Baby has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Subsequent publications are Helping Young Children Flourish, Tears and Tantrums and Raising Drug-Free Kids.
In 1990 she founded The Aware Parenting Institute, an international organization with certified instructors in many countries.
She is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) and the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).