Update: The Connected Parent will be published on July 7, 2020. Read more about the book here or pre-order here.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new book for parents of children from hard places, co-authored by Dr. Karyn Purvis, the Institute’s late Founder and Director.
This book is Dr. Purvis’s last written work, and we at the Institute are overjoyed that families will continue to benefit from her words and wisdom.
The press release below describes the book’s format and content:
Announcing the release of a new book for parents of children from hard places written by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Lisa Qualls with Emmelie Pickett.
Dr. Karyn Purvis, best-selling author and world-renowned developmental psychologist, shares insights from decades of research and explains the changes in the brains and bodies of children from “hard places” of abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. She provides parenting tools that promote attachment and healing from her evidence-based therapeutic model, Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®). These science-based, practical methods can be adapted by anyone who loves and serves vulnerable children.
Lisa Qualls, author of the blog One Thankful Mom and co-founder of The Adoption Connection resource site, shares her experiences as a therapeutic parent who strives daily to build trust and connection with her children. As the mother of twelve children by birth and adoption, Lisa draws from her wealth of real-life stories – the successes and the failures – of using these techniques to parent her children.
In a story-rich format, each chapter includes Lisa’s personal experiences coupled with Dr. Purvis’s research-based findings. Together the authors give concrete tools to parents desiring to build trust-based relationships with their children.
Dr. Purvis and Lisa collaborated for many years on writing the book and finished much of its content in the months leading up to Dr. Purvis’s death in 2016. In 2017, Dr. Purvis’s longtime colleague, Emmelie Pickett, joined the project to finish the manuscript. Emmelie is the Media Specialist at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University, where Dr. Purvis’s work continues to flourish.
The book is due to be released by Harvest House in May 2020.
We look forward to sharing more information as the book nears publication.
I look forward to the book!
Can’t wait!!! I’d love to help with launch if you do a launch team!
I’ll be looking for a pre-order date!!!
Can’t wait for this book! I would love to be on the launch team if you do one!!
My family has been blessed/saved by TBRI! I can’t wait to read this book! Everyone needs to read it!
I look forward to the book launch and would love to explore having an event in Des Moines, Iowa
Can’t wait!
I look forward to the pre-order date.
I’ve heard Dr. Karyn Purvis cited as explaining that takes over 400 repetitions to create a synapse in the brain (true learning) without playful engagement OR about 12 repetitions to create a synapse when you use play to teach.
Could anybody provide me a reference for the study that demonstrated this phenomenon?
Here to ask the same question Sarah posted – is there a citation for the study that found “[it] takes over 400 repetitions to create a synapse in the brain (true learning) without playful engagement OR about 12 repetitions to create a synapse when you use play to teach” ?
Hi Anthony, thanks for your question. Since Dr. Purvis’s passing we have been unable to find the source for this specific statistic. We think she must have read it in a book, but it’s been difficult to track down since there isn’t a searchable database for the contents of most books. Unfortunately she isn’t here so we can ask her for more details, but our research team has gathered some articles that support the benefits of play in learning and memory. We’ll be posting a blog with reference to these studies soon.
Hi, Sara, thanks for your question. Since Dr. Purvis’s passing we have been unable to find the source for this specific statistic. We think she must have read it in a book, but it’s been difficult to track down since there isn’t a searchable database for the contents of most books. Unfortunately she isn’t here so we can ask her for more details, but our research team has gathered some articles that support the benefits of play in learning and memory. We’ll be posting a blog with reference to these studies soon.
Outstanding. I cannot wait to get this book. How much joy to see Dr. Purvis legacy still in print. Thank you TCU team for making this happen!
Emmelie Pickett, do you have an update regarding the research source of the synapse phenomenon? That in which a new synapse is formed after 400 repetitions or after 10-20 repetitions done playing. This so new… I must be on every major educational website… yet, nobody is speaking of it… I think many people want to know if this is real or not.
Hi, George, thank you for your comment. Since Dr. Purvis’s passing we have been unable to find the source for this specific statistic. We think she must have read it in a book, but it’s been difficult to track down since there isn’t a searchable database for the contents of most books. Unfortunately she isn’t here so we can ask her for more details, but our research team has gathered some articles that support the benefits of play in learning and memory. This blog post summarizes this research: https://child.tcu.edu/play