This guide offers parents practical interventions when dealing with children who are easily angered. Discussing the problems and solutions in an empathetic and easy-to-understand manner, this book provides more than just a "standard approach" when dealing with your child.
The Bestselling Parenting Guide is now revised and updated. Rex Forehand, Ph.D., and Nicholas Long, Ph.D., offer more than forty years of collective research in this informative yet easy-to-read manual, giving parents a step-by-step guide to improving their child's behavior as well as their entire family's relationship. "Parenting the Strong ...
The book's comprehensive eight-step program stresses consistency and cooperation, promoting changes through a system of praise, rewards, and mild punishment. Readers learn tools and strategies for establishing clear patterns of discipline.
Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behaviour - such as tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity - becomes chronic, it can cause big problems within the family. In "10 Days to a Less Defiant Child", child and family psychologist Dr. Jeff Bernstein has developed a ground-breaking 10-day program ...
From a noted psychologist and author of the acclaimed "The Explosive Child" comes a thought-provoking and practical new book that examines why kids with behavioral challenges are falling through the cracks, and how parents and educators can help them.
Since 1980, Behavior Management: A Practical Approach for Educators has provided educators, families, and paraprofessionals with a user-friendly, readable, practical guide for applying behavior management techniques that fosters a productive, task-oriented, educational environment for all students. Blending theory with practical "how to" ...
Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley look at both biological and social factors in a child's environment as sources for violence in later life. They present case histories of children who kill and digest current research on the topic. Their conclusions are compelling and enlightening, and they provide a list of resources for concerned parents.
Kids with ADHD need to be loved and shown how to become successful adults. Unfortunately, their lack of attention and restlessness often get in the way. Parents of these kids try so hard to stay connected and remain patient in the face of daily frustration. However, it is an incredible challenge to remain positive and involved when your child does ...
What is it like to grow up with a sibling who is difficult or damaged? Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Jeanne Safer takes us into the ...
The latest edition of this bestselling text,Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems provides practical, immediately-useful strategies for teaching students, managing professional responsibilities, and collaborating with family and other educators. A practical guide for graduate and undergraduate students, this book is ...
Six year old Sheila had been abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation, - except her teacher, Torey ...
A former special education teacher and bestselling author of "One Child" pens this inspirational true story of the victimization and abuse of three severely troubled people and their heartbreaking steps to recovery.
Offering new hope, achievable goals, and a breath of fresh air to families, Tobias explains how the mind of a strong-willed child works--and how to use that information to the child's best advantage.
The long-awaited revision of the bestselling and definitive child care manual from the internationally renowned Gesell Institute of Human Behavior. This insightful guide explores child development, addresses specific behavioral problems, and discusses how to prevent or treat them. Covers eating and sleeping habits, intelligence, family relations, ...
Essential information that parents can implement immediately to help children with ADD/ADHD at home and at school. Includes an array of charts, forms, checklists, letters, activities, and games.
Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities; mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and ADHD, as well as briefer consideration of other mild conditions such as Asperger Syndrome. This text looks first at disability from conventional categorical perspectives, and then focuses on the ...
Three points of view--parent's, therapist's, and child's--make this a most practical guide for raising a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or other behavioral issues. Includes advice on how to engage in proactive parenting, dealing with everyday behavioral problems, and more.
This best-selling collection is filled with creative assessment and treatment interventions to help clients identify feelings, learn coping strategies, enhance social skills, and elevate self-esteem. It offers a wealth of innovative tools for practitioners working with children in individual, group, and family counselling. It is aimed at 4 to 16 ...
This newly revised book is divided into five skill groups: classroom survival skills, friendship-making skills, dealing with feelings, alternatives to aggression, and dealing with stress. Within these skill groups the authors provide strategies for teaching 60 specific prosocial skills, such as asking for help, saying thank you, accepting ...
In "Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child", the author shows frustrated parents that they can learn to cope with and correct the child's misbehavior. This book guides parents through the process of instigating positive discipline and teaching a child to truly understand the consequences of unacceptable behavior.
How do we recognize the 'wounds' caused by outdated schooling policies? How do we heal them? In her provocative new book, education writer and critic Kirsten Olson brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens students' interests, and dampens down differences among learners ...
A guide for parents of children with sensory processing difficulties cites a link between sensory processing problems and numerous childhood psychiatric disorders, sharing step-by-step information on how to recognize and treat sensory-related conditions. 15,000 first printing.
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