Education Books
The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children
The Difficult Child
Keys to Effective Discipline: A Parent's Guide for Managing Difficult Behavior
Parenting The Difficult Child
Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: Research and Treatment
Difficult Teens: A Parent's Guide for Coping
Learning to Like the Kid in the Mirror
Try and Make Me!: Simple Strategies That Turn off the Tantrums and Create Cooperation
All the Best Answers for the Worst Kid Problems: Anti Social Youth and Conduct Disorders
The Quickest Kid Fixer-Uppers Volume 1
Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth: Coping Skills Sampler
Temper and Tantrum Tamers
Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, Revised and Updated Edition: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two -to Six Year Olds
Helping Children with Aggression and Conduct Disorders: Best Practices for Intervention
Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence
Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
The Men They Will Become: The Nature and Nurture of Male Character
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Stop Negotiating With Your Teen
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Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach
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Playing a Poor Hand Well
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The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling
Defiant Teens
Learning Outside Da Lines
The Teenagers Guide To the Real World
By Stanley Greenspan, Jacqueline Salmon
ISBN: 0201441934
Ingram
Described by Publisher's Weekly as "a rope with a life preserver at the end," The Challenging Child offers calm, reassuring advice to parents. Stanley I. Greenspan is a practicing child psychiatrist and helps parents dealing with all types of difficult children. He reveals the parenting patterns to avoid and helps adults tailor their approach to a child's particular needs.
By Stanley Turecki and Leslie Tonner
ISBN: 0553380362
Book Description
How to help--and cope with--the difficult child
Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.
Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. This landmark book has been completely revised to include the latest information on ADHD, medications, and a reassuring approach to all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders.
In this parenting classic, Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline--and himself the father of a once difficult child--offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children.
By David Kilpatrick
ISBN: 0964690306
About the Author
Dr. David Kilpatrick is a school psychologist with the East Syracuse-Minoa School District and a Lecturer in Psychology at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. He consults with parents regarding behavior problems and conducts seminars on the topic of managing behavior. David and his wife Andrea have five children. David received his Ph.D. in psychology from Syracuse University.
Book Description
Keys to Effective Discipline is a practical resource for parents with children ages 4 to 12. It presents dozens of useful insights and suggestions to help you improve your child's behavior. . . Keys to Effective Discipline uses some of the most practical insights taken from the field of psychology and applies them directly to the kinds of issues parents face each day. Whether it's arguing with parents, fighting with siblings, not doing chores, lying, or whining, Keys to Effective Discipline provides answers that you can easily put to work in your home. (from back cover)
By Grace Ketterman
ISBN: 0840791305
A respected family psychiatrist offers advice on understanding the troubled child, exploring the causes of such problems as rebellion, deceit, indifference, laziness, and violent behavior, and taking practical steps toward healing. An excellent resource for grandparents, teachers, and therapists, as well as parensts.
By Daniel Connor
ISBN: 1572307382
Book Info
Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester. Written from a clinical-developmental perspective and includes a description of the types and subtypes of aggressive behaviors. Key dimensions of aggression are identified, and the limitations of diagnostic categories are discussed. Presents findings on how and why some children 'grow out of' early-onset aggression.
About the Author
Daniel F. Connor, MD, is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also Director of Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care. A clinician and clinical researcher in child and adolescent psychiatry, Dr. Connor is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in the specialty of Psychiatry and the subspecialty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He evaluates and treats a wide variety of youth with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances. Dr. Connor is the author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters, and serves as Director of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinical Trials Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
By Robert Meadows and Joan Blacher
ISBN: 097173450X
Book Description
Difficult Teens: A Parent's Guide for Coping, by Robert J. Meadows, Ph.D., and Joan H. Blacher, Ph.D., is the outcome of a unique collaboration between a criminal justice specialist and former LAPD officer (Meadows) and a licensed marriage, family therapist and former school psychologist (Blacher). Because of their combined experinces in all aspects of teen behavior and the fact that they have been parents of teens, they address the following issues with authority, compassion, and understanding:
-why teens behave the way they do; actual case studies
-the defiant teen's impact on the family
-how to keep aggression from escalating into violence
-how to work with your child's school
-how to deal with specific problems
-the juvenile justice system and important legal issues
-extensive list of common drug types and their effects
-resources for the teen, the parent, and the families
By Ruth Herman Wells
ISBN: 1891881043
Book Description
The lessons in this book build self-esteem in children and teens. Designed for use by teachers, counselors, youth workers and parents, this book has 20 lessons that utilize powerful, attention-grabbing strategies to help children and teens develop a positive feeling about themselves and their accomplishments. Many lessons include handouts. This book is perfect for the classroom, counseling room or home. Using a light, engaging approach, these lesson can involve even sour, negative, withdrawn, easily bored and oppositional youth and children. Lessons include: "On the Cover of 'Esteem Magazine,'" "Nobody's Perfect All the Time", "So What's So Good About Me?, and "Building Esteem is an Inside Job." Handouts accompany many lessons and use cartoons to involve students who are not normally easily engaged. The lessons in these books were designed to work when conventional approaches fail, and were honed on children and youth with a wide range of problems. These lessons may be the new, more powerful tools you need to maximize your impact on your troubled and challenged youth and children.
By Ray Levy, Bill O'Hanlon, and Tyler Norris Goode
ISBN: 0451206452
Book Description
Are bad blow-ups the norm? Are you feeling battle-weary and ineffective? Do you worry that punishing your child will make him resent you and worsen your relationship?
Finally, here's a book that will address all these problems, plus help you overcome your child's defiant attitude, build your child's self-esteem, and restore the natural balance of power in your home. Try and Make Me! offers a common-sense approach to child-rearing that ends the madness, prevents future violence, and helps children become the cooperative and well-adjusted "big people" they innately want to be. Longtime child therapists Ray Levy and Bill O'Hanlon first explore the various ways a child becomes defiant-- some are born that way; some take their clues from their parents. Then, the authors center in on control-who has it, what it means to the defiant child, and how adults like you can regain it in a way that actually helps your child grow. For example, don't always try to stop your child from making mistakes--he needs to make them to grow. Next, you'll Learn how to use Levy and O'Hanlon's seven-step program for changing behavior. From targeting a specific behavior you want to alter to keeping track of progress in a journal, this easy-to-follow plan will give you the confidence you need to press on and will make a profound difference in the life of your child and yourself.
By Ruth Wells
ISBN: 1891881280
Book Description
Got Problem Kids? This book has all the best answers for the most misbehaved, unmanageable kids of all: anti-social youth and conduct disorders. Get immediate solutions for violence, non-compliance, lying, manipulation, and other serious misbehavior.
You have already discovered that conventional approaches fail with out-of-control youth, and are not just ineffective but also unsafe. Learn what you should do instead. Get dozens of ready-to-use, more effective approaches that are clearly explained in jargon-free language. If you work with impossible-to-manage youngsters, don't work another day without the must-have solutions packed into this book. You will finally have the effective tools you need-- practical tools that weren't included in your college training. Working with difficult youth doesn't have to be so difficult with the immediate answers packed into this book.
By Ruth Wells
ISBN: 1891881000
About the Author
This book delivers the newest and best answers that exist for teachers, counselors, parents, juvenile court workers and others. Packed with solutions for ADD, ADHD, apathy, poor motivation, anger control problems and more, you will use every word of this book. Lushly illustrated with attention-grabbing cartoons, this book gives concise, quick-access answers for the worst kid problems that exist. If your training prepared you to work with Beaver Cleaver, but you have Beavis and Butthead showing up, then this book has the solutions you have been looking for. This book has amassed the best answers that exist for the worst problems today's youth present.
Book Description
Author Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. "knows all about troubled kids," says the Portland Oregonian newspaper. You will use every word Ruth writes. A veteran youth program director who has written 17 books and recorded two workshops tapings, Ruth packs the newest and best strategies into every book and every class. If you need the best and fastest solutions for apathy, violence, poor motivation, conduct disorders, depression, family problems, truancy, ADD, ADHD and school failure, then Ruth's resources will deliver the answers you need.
By Ruth Wells
ISBN: 1891881027
About the Author
This book delivers the newest and best answers that exist for teachers, counselors, parents, juvenile court workers and others. Packed with solutions for ADD, ADHD, apathy, poor motivation, anger control problems and more, you will use every word of this book. Lushly illustrated with attention-grabbing cartoons, this book gives concise, quick-access answers for the worst kid problems that exist. If your training prepared you to work with Beaver Cleaver, but you have Beavis and Butthead showing up, then this book has the solutions you have been looking for. This book has amassed the best answers that exist for the worst problems today's youth present.
Book Description
Author Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. "knows all about troubled kids," says the Portland Oregonian newspaper. You will use every word Ruth writes. A veteran youth program director who has written 17 books and recorded two workshops tapings, Ruth packs the newest and best strategies into every book and every class. If you need the best and fastest solutions for apathy, violence, poor motivation, conduct disorders, depression, family problems, truancy, ADD, ADHD and school failure, then Ruth's resources will deliver the answers you need.
By Ruth Wells
ISBN: 1891881051
About the Author
This book delivers the newest and best answers that exist for teachers, counselors, parents, juvenile court workers and others. Packed with solutions for ADD, ADHD, apathy, poor motivation, anger control problems and more, you will use every word of this book. Lushly illustrated with attention-grabbing cartoons, this book gives concise, quick-access answers for the worst kid problems that exist. If your training prepared you to work with Beaver Cleaver, but you have Beavis and Butthead showing up, then this book has the solutions you have been looking for. This book has amassed the best answers that exist for the worst problems today's youth present.
Book Description
Author Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. "knows all about troubled kids," says the Portland Oregonian newspaper. You will use every word Ruth writes. A veteran youth program director who has written 17 books and recorded two workshops tapings, Ruth packs the newest and best strategies into every book and every class. If you need the best and fastest solutions for apathy, violence, poor motivation, conduct disorders, depression, family problems, truancy, ADD, ADHD and school failure, then Ruth's resources will deliver the answers you need.
By Rex Forehand and Nicholas Long
ISBN: 0071383018
Book Description
The bestselling five-week program to improving the disruptive child's behavior--now updated and revised
Based on more than 40 years of collective research, parents and longtime child behavior experts Dr. Rex Forehand and Dr. Nicholas Long have devised a program to help you find positive and manageable solutions to your child's difficult behavior. Now in a revised and updated edition, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child is a self-guided program for managing disruptive young children based on a clinical treatment program.
This hands-on guide provides you with a step-by-step, five-week program toward improving your child's behavior as well as the entire family's relationship. Providing you with the necessary tools for successfully managing the difficult child, the book covers specific factors that cause or contribute to a child's disruptive behavior; ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home; actual reports by parents of difficult children; strategies for managing specific behavior problems; how to tell if your child might have ADHD; and more.
By Michael Bloomquist and Steven Schnell
ISBN: 157230748X
Book Info
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Text reviews the characteristics and developmental pathways of children with aggression and conduct problems and discusses social competence training, parent and family skills training, mental health treatments, and school-based interventions.
By: Nancy Snyderman
ISBN: 0786867434
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Necessary Journeys -- here is the book every mother of a maturing girl will need to have on her shelf.
"Just as we once peered over the crib rails to search our newborn daughters' faces for signs of personality or family resemblance, so too, during the years of adolescence, mother and daughter alike will look into the mirror of each other's faces, searching for hints of their past and future selves, of resemblance and connection, as part of a journey of self discovery . . ." --excerpt from Girl in the Mirror
Drawing on the latest research and interviews with experts in different fields, Girl in the Mirror sheds new light on one of life's most important passages, the journey that is adolescence. Unlike other books, Girl in the Mirror focuses on the interaction between mother and daughter during this decade-long process, and illuminates how both the mother and her understanding of her parental role need to evolve and change as her child enters a new and crucial phase of emotional and psychic growth.
A recognized authority in the field of women's health, Dr. Snyderman lays to rest some of the myths about adolescence, among them:
--"raging" hormones and inevitable rebellion
--the meaning of adolescent "autonomy"
--the adolescent girl's need for "separation" from her mother
--the negative role of peer influences
Filled with practical wisdom and stories drawn not only from her experience with her own two adolescent daughters but those of other mothers from around the country, Girl in the Mirror offers readers a new vision: To see the years of adolescence as a time not of conflict but of opportunity for personal and spiritual growth for mothers and daughters alike.
By William Pollack
ISBN: 0805061835
Book Description
Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference.
With author appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20 /20 and NPR's Fresh Air, and featuring articles in Newsweek, Time, and The New York Times, Real Boys is one of the most talked-about and influential books published this year.
Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School over two decades, Real Boys explores why many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack challenges conventional expectations about manhood and masculinity that encourage parents to treat boys as little men, raising them through a toughening process that drives their true emotions underground. Only when we understand what boys are really like, says Pollack, can we help them develop more self-confidence and the emotional savvy they need to deal with issues such as depression, love and sexuality, drugs and alcohol, divorce, and violence.
By Eli Newberger
ISBN: 0738203637
Book Description
How do boys develop character? And what can parents, teachers, and society do, from birth to late adolescence, to help nurture admirable qualities in young men? Eli Newberger brings decades of experience and insight to these vital questions. In a series of riveting stories, he shows boys facing the harsh challenges that forge or break character: cheating, bullying, drugs, alcohol, and competition. The Men They Will Become delves to the deepest roots of male character and to the sources of attachment, honesty, self-control, sportsmanship, generosity, and courage. Rather than looking for flaws and vulnerabilities, Dr. Newberger celebrates all the wonderful qualities that make boys boys. The need for leaders of bold but non-violent character makes this wise book of urgent and timely importance.
by Janet Sasson Edgette
ISBN: 0399527893
About the Author
Janet Sasson Edgette has been a practicing clinical psychologist for the last fifteen years, providing services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She speaks nationally to mental health professionals on adolescent therapy, and has written for several professional publications including Family Therapy Networker.
Book Description
A psychologist offers peace-making strategies for parents who don't know where to turn.
The sullen, withdrawn, sarcastic teenager. The defensive, wary, and helpless parent. This book builds a bridge between the two sides--with practical and supportive advice on how to:
* Contain conflicts before they escalate into violence
* Break through the teen's verbal intimidation
* Avoid futile arguments
* Turn confrontation into communication
* Stand firm against teen rage
* Manage teen manipulation
* Build the teen's self-esteem
* Talk to teens when no one knows what to say
For ever parent who's screamed, what am I going to do with you?, this book finally provides the answer.
By Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley
ISBN: 0967050707
About the Author
Howard Glasser, MA is the Executive Director of both the Children's Success Foundation and the Tucson Center for the Difficult Child. He received his Master's Degree in 1974 from New York University and left his doctoral work in clinical psychology to briefly pursue a career in art. He is the designer of the Nurtured Heart Approach which is a model for working with challenging children through both parenting and classroom applications. Numerous educational and treatment applications are currently based on this approach.
Jennifer Easley, MA is a transformational counselor in Seattle who has worked with difficult children and their families in community mental health settings for over 15 years. Her primary focus is in sharing non-conventional healing techniques with others.
Book Description
Transforming the Difficult Child brings to life a new way of shifting intense children to a solid life of success. The Nurtured Heart Approach puts a refreshing spin on both parenting and teaching and reveals new techniques and strategies that create thoroughly positive behaviors.
By Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley
Author: Dr. Mark Katz
ISBN: 0393702324
Description: Other Format, 171pp
Publisher: December 1996 Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Summary: The book begins with insights into childhood risks and adversities - enduring and inescapable stressful experiences, such as growing up under violent, dangerous, or abusive conditions, or experiencing years of school failure as a result of serious learning disabilities or attention problems. The author then explores the latest research into life's trajectories and culls the lessons we must learn in order to provide avenues through which turning point experiences and second-chance opportunities can occur - to change the odds, so to speak, for individuals who were dealt a poor hand. On Playing a Poor Hand Well focuses on how people overcome different adversities - not simply on the effects these stresses had on their lives. This book will enable disadvantaged individuals and their families to validate the pain they've endured and to celebrate their resilience.
By Jeanne Safer
ISBN: 0385337566
Book Description
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 hidden world of problem siblings and explores the far-reaching effects on the lives of those who are considered the “normal ones.”
Drawing on more than sixty interviews with normal, or intact, siblings, Safer explores the daunting challenges they face, and probes the complex feelings that can strain families and damage lives. A “normal” sibling herself, Safer chronicles her own life-shaping experiences with her troubled brother. She examines the double-edged reality of normal ones: how they both compensate for their siblings’ abnormality and feel guilty for their own health and success. With both wisdom and empathy, she delineates the “Caliban Syndrome,” a set of personality traits characteristic of higher-functioning siblings: premature maturity, compulsion to achieve, survivor guilt, and fear of contagion.
Essential reading for normal ones and those who love them, this landmark work offers readers insight, compassion, and tools to help resolve childhood pain. It is a profound and eye-opening examination of a subject that has too long been shrouded in darkness.
by Russell Barkley
ISBN: 1572304405
Book Info
Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester. Manual presents an 18-step program designed to teach parents the skills they need to manage difficult adolescent behavior and improve family relationships. Includes forms, questionnaires, and reproducible handouts. For therapists. Plastic-comb binding.
Book Description
This authoritative manual presents an 18-step program designed both to teach parents the skills they need to manage difficult adolescent behavior and to improve family relationships overall.
The first nine steps of the program modify the approach presented in Russell A. Barkley's Defiant Children, Second Edition, to focus on developmental concerns of adolescence. The authors delineate clear procedures for assessing defiance in teens and working with parents, alone or in groups, to reverse problem behavior.
Steps 10 through 18 are conducted with parents and teenagers together, utilizing a proven family therapy model developed by Arthur L. Robin and Sharon Foster. Clinicians are shown how to help all family members learn to negotiate, communicate, and problem-solve more effectively, while facilitating adolescents' individuation and autonomy.
The manual's utility is greatly enhanced by ready-to-photocopy forms that enable clinicians to gauge the nature, diversity, and severity of parent adolescent conflicts; assess for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); and evaluate parental psychological adjustment. Also included are reproducible handouts for families that reinforce crucial ideas and skills imparted in-session.
Your Photocopy Rights: The Publisher grants individual book purchasers nonassignable permission to reproduce the handouts and forms in this book for clinical use with their clients.
By Jonathan Mooney
ISBN: 068486598X
About the Author
Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic student who did not learn to read until he was twelve years old. After attending Loyola Marymount University for one year, he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated with an honors degree in English. Mooney is also the recipient of the distinguished Truman Fellowship for graduate study in the field of learning disabilities and special education.
Book Description
Learning with YOUR purpose in mind -- not your parents', not your teacher's, not your school's
Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to
measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently -- but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail.
Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures" -- that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole teach you how to take control of your education and find true success -- and they offer all the reasons why you should persevere. Witty, bold, and disarmingly honest, Learning Outside the Lines takes you on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken.
By Marshall Brain
ISBN: 0965743039
Book Description
The Teenager's Guide to the Real World" starts from the central reality that teenagers get to design their own lives. Many of the choices that teenagers make as teenagers will affect them for the rest of their lives. This book is designed to help teenagers see the amazing freedom they have to control their lives and their destinies, and to then help them make good decisions about the future. After reading this book teenagers understand a great deal more about themselves and the world around them. They are able to think about their choices with a new clarity and understanding, and are therefore able to begin planning a path toward success.