BIOGRAPHY  Dr. Andrea Weiner began her career as a child and family therapist at a community mental health center, where she worked with children of all ages and their families. While there, she created an early intervention program which focused on developing and honing interpersonal and social interaction skills for young children whose parents or siblings were undergoing treatment. Dr. Weiner's experience with these families ignited an ongoing interest in the lifelong benefits people derive when they are taught interpersonal skills as children.To help her own daughter's emotional intelligence grow, Dr. Weiner created and practiced certain social and emotional strategies with her. These approaches proved to be extremely successful with her daughter and other children, and Dr. Weiner incorporated these valuable strategies into her new book, "The Best Investment: Unlocking the Secrets of Social Success for Your Child". The book includes the wisdom she has gained from her multiple careers as a child and family therapist, business executive, entrepreneur, mother and grandmother and will enable parents to easily institute the simple, yet powerful approaches to create socially successful children. Dr. Weiner's research concentrated on various modes of intelligences, in particular emotional intelligence, which she found most fascinating. Dr. Weiner was also the co-founder and President of Educcomm, LLC, which developed educational toys, books, and a musical CD to teach young children, their families and early childhood educators the important skills of emotional and social intelligence.
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