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The Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) is described as a social emotional strategy that instills greatness and transforms negative behaviors into positive behaviors, increases interrelatedness and connectivity among family members,〔Easley, Jennifer & Glasser, Howard (2008). “Transforming the Difficult Child: True Stories of Triumph”. Nurtured Heart Publications. ISBN 0-9670507-9-0. ISBN 978-0-9670507-9-9〕 couples,〔Taylor, Janice (2010). "Top Eight To Being Great". HuffingtonPost.com Inc. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janice-taylor/you-are-oprah-top-eight-t_b_209633.html〕 teachers and students and builds “inner wealth” more commonly known as character strengths and virtues.〔"Peterson, Christopher & Seligman, Martin (2004). "Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification" Oxford University Press: USA.〕 The NHA was created and developed by Howard Glasser who was discouraged〔(Genesis of The Nurtured Heart Approach )〕 by the lack of positive results when applying the techniques he had learned in graduate school. Glasser intuitively created this approach by specifically attending to the energy in relationships noticing that more energy and attention went to negative behavior rather than to positive behavior. Howard Glasser continues to expound on his findings for the last two decades resulting in the first Global Summit with topics in research,〔Berge, Angela (2009). "Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach". North Dakota State University: Fargo, ND. http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/impactreports/reports/2010-reports/10area-berge2-hdfs.pdf〕〔Dabhi, Jaishila. "University of Central Lancashire to Deliver Nurtured Heart Approach Workshop". Perpetual Care: Bolton, Lancashire. www.perpetualcare.co.uk. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153347.php〕 policy, foster care, mental health organizations, workplace, education,〔Barkstall Elementary Bulletin (2010). "Positive Behavior Intervention System (PBIS) and Nurtured Heart. Champaign, IL. http://www.champaignschools.org/schools/09/files/school_profile.pdf〕〔(Nurtured Heart Approach in Schools )〕〔Small, Tammy F & Triandis, Louisa T. (2010). "There is Always Something Going Right: Working for Implementing the Nurtured Heart Approach in School Settings". NurturedHeart.net. # ISBN 0-615-33259-5. ISBN 978-0-615-33259-8.〕 diverse cultures and religious affiliation〔West Pidkaminy, Wendy (2010). "Parenting Challenging Children with Power, Love and Sound Mind: The Nurtured Heart Approach from a Biblical Viewpoint". Brigham Distributing. ISBN 0-615-33314-1. ISBN 978-0-615-33314-4.〕 and with specific psychiatric disorders.〔〔Eckhart, Jacey (2001). "Addressing ADHD with Nurtured Heart Approach". The Virginian Pilot: Norfolk, VA〕 == The Ubiquity of the Nurtured Heart Approach == NHA is described as a means to support and nourish relationships whether it is being applied to children, adults〔 or employees. Although its origin was to transform the “difficult child,” NHA has shown its efficacy across various disciplines and industries. When applied in schools〔Bustamante, Mary (2007). "TUSD Tolson Elementary School Puts Emphasis on Positive Reinforcement". Tucson Citizen: Tucson,AZ.〕〔Heckel, Jodi (2006). "Positive Approach: Program Used at Franklin Jefferson Doesn't Dwell on Negative Behavior". The News Gazette, Inc: Champagne, IL〕〔(Nurtured Heart: Rocky River Elementary )〕 and workplaces, qualitative and quantitative data reveal an increased performance output, higher achievement, employee retention and positive workplace relations.〔#Blair, Sherry (2011). "The Positivity Pulse: Transforming Your Workplace". CreateSpace: Seattle, WA. ISBN 1-4564-2517-X ISBN 978-1456425173〕 When practiced in families increased positive behaviors and “inner wealth,” compliance to rules and more loving family relatedness.〔Nichols, Dana M. (2009). "Program Hits Heart of Problem Parenting: Methods Help Families Channel Positive Energy". The Record: Stockton, CA. www.recordnet.com.〕〔Sutton, Terri (2003). "Life Balance: Wild Gift: Is Medication the Only Way To Deal with a Difficult Child? The Nurtured Heart Approach Offers an Empowering Alternative". Experience Life Publications: March/April 2003〕 The results in mental health organizations to include foster care and residential care centers are emerging with positive outcomes regardless of psychiatric disorder or behavioral challenges. When used collaboratively with other interventions it helps the individual to move away from a fragile core and move toward building internal strength and stronger relationships. Couples report experiencing effective communication, improved sexual relations and stronger relationships. NHA is a practice that promotes peaceful and compassionate communication, instills “greatness” in the form of values commonly described across many religious doctrines and spiritual practices thereby embracing a spiritual psychology component. It requires the participant to be in a place of mindfulness and to remain in the moment. It teaches and expects practitioners and participants to cognitively “reset” themselves and to teach “reset” to others as a relentless refusal to energize negativity. In refusing to energize negativity, a focus is on the installation of the approach in the form of energizing success, building inner wealth in the form of character strengths, virtues and values. This teaching has components of physics in that conventional ways of approaching challenging behaviors have shown to be energetically upside down and therefore the reinforcement of those undesired behaviors are instilled escalating responses. By shifting energy in the forms of the response given to undesired behavior the outcomes are controlled. By changing one's view or how thoughts, actions and responses can alter the outcome, a cognitive “reset” of all participants assist with what NHA terms as achieving greatness or transformation. NHA promotes this as a practice that entails speaking from the heart to in a meaningful way that honors the person or child. Communicating and “being” from a place of compassion and to shift from the mind to one's heart is key to applying this intervention. NHA was not creatively designed to be compartmentalized into one psychological theoretical body of knowledge or modality for practice. However for the purpose of collecting data and further supporting this data that is moving toward identifying this approach as an evidence-based practice, emerging research designs are currently in place and compare the approach to the following widely known theoretical bodies of knowledge: * Humanistic Psychology acknowledges the inherent goodness within people. NHA is a way to use language to acknowledge that goodness, or greatness and believes in people's creativity,good will and human potential. * Cognitive behavioral psychological practice known as “reset” and how that transforms negative behavior to positive behavior – NHA uses resets as a pause to unacceptable choices and a way to reconstruct the next moments to furthering positive growth. * Positive psychological practice in the building of “inner wealth” known as character strengths and virtues (Peterson & Seligman)〔Peterson, Christopher & Seligman, Martin (2004). "Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification". Oxford University Press: USA.〕 – NHA works toward radical appreciation of valued traits, qualities and skills in an attempt to take recognition to a soul level of greatness, believing that greatness is in the hardware of all beings and merely needs to be reactivated in order to be propelled forward into an use – resulting in Inner Wealth. * Positive psychological practice that brings optimal experience in the form of “flow” when we are shifted toward higher levels of life satisfaction (Mihaly Csiksentmihaly).〔Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1997). "Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life". Basic Books: USA.〕 NHA recognizes that “intensity” is a life force and when intensity is nurtured in a positive way, people are shifted toward higher levels of greatness and is described as having more meaningful purpose. *Positive psychological practice in the form of saturating with the recognitions of the approach support the positivity ratio of 3:1 whereby it has been proven that it takes 3 positive emotions to outweigh 1 negative. (Barbara Fredrickson)〔Fredrickson, Barbara (2009). "Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity and Thrive". Crown Archetype Publication: USA〕 – NHA posits that no criticism at all is ever warranted. It emulates the architecture of the loving universe that upholds that all lessons can be taught through positive messages tied to real moments when problems and issues are NOT happening. NHA believes that the awakening is not from fear or consequences but rather to “who one really is” as revealed through loving and energized messages of gratitude reflecting actual successes. *Relational psychology in that connection is the key to human nature, rather than individuation. NHA believes that people crave intimacy through energized connection and uses it’s methodology to guide each person to finding that connection in positive rather than negative ways. *Spiritual psychology (non-sectarian) in the form of mindfulness practice and approaching a person/people from the heart rather than the head – NHA practices foster heart-centered appreciation and gratitude as ways of reflecting greatness to self and others. *Energetically shifting one's view and creating positive energy that influences thoughts, feelings, language and posture *Effective and Compassionate Communication through the vessel of speaking from the heart as a gesture of love; not in the romantic sense but rather from a place of caring and compassion. In contrast to several compassionate schools of thought, NHA is exceedingly careful to only communicate such messages at times of greater receptivity – when things are going right and in context of successes – and not accidentally at times when the recipient might perceive that they are getting these heartfelt messages in context of acting out problems or negativity. *Organizational psychology whereby building positive institutions and workplace satisfaction increases peaceful relationships and increased productivity. *Cultural Awareness & Competency. Honoring a person's existence honors who they are and embracing uniqueness as something to be celebrated. NHA assists in outwardly noticing differences among people and is described as launching healthy and informative conversations to that end. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Nurtured Heart Approach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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