How to Reach Defiant, Resistant, Disrespectful Kids Through Native American Teachings: Elementary

by Darlene Hunter (2008, YouthLight, 23.95)
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The discouragement of the oppositional, defiant youth is born out of years of experiencing disrespect and failure, making poor choices, and disregarding the rights and feelings of others. This book can be used to help these defiant young people to become more emotionally connected with school through the Native American lesson that all things are connected. This book is full of Native American quotes, hands-on activities, checklists, and reproducible worksheets that students will enjoy while they learn the valuable lessons. The lessons can be used with individuals, small groups, and/or classrooms. Grades K-6. [8.5” x 11”...196 pages]

Tough Kids, Cool Counseling: User-Friendly Approaches with Challenging Youth, Second Edition

by John & Rita Sommers-Flanagan (2007, ACA, 46.95)
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In this second edition, the authors offer a new chapter on resistance busters and present updated and fresh ideas for establishing rapport, carrying out informal assessments, improving negative moods, modifying maladaptive behaviors, and educating parents. Suicide assessment, medication referrals, and therapy termination are also discussed in this helpful resource. [6” x 9”...248 pages]

The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills with DVD

by Alan Kazdin (2008, Houghton Mifflin Company, 26.00/hardback)
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The director of the acclaimed Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic distills his 30 years of work with children into a step-by-step method for parents, with a bound-in DVD featuring effective tips for common behavioral problems. [6” x 9”...288 pages]

The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

by Douglas Riley (1997, Taylor Publishing, 14.95)
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Disruptive in school and chronically in trouble, these kids relentlessly push the boundaries set for them by authority figures. By exploring the mind set of O.D.D. children and explaining the way they operate, Dr. Riley teaches how to recognize the signs, understand the attitudes, and modify their behavior. [6” x 9"...196 pages]

Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent

by Mary Kurcinka (2006, HarperCollins, 14.95)
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Showing that spirited kids are, in fact, simply "more"—intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change—it offers parents the personal insight and authoritative advice they need to create a nurturing environment in which their children can flourish. [5” x 8”...302 pages]

Try and Make Me!: Simple Strategies That Turn Off the Tantrums & Create Cooperation

by Ray Levy, et al. (2001, Rodale Press, 6.99)
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The authors offer a straightforward approach to behavior modification in children. Written in a conversational and humorous style, this book helps frustrated parents avoid futile battles and take loving, but firm, charge of their difficult children. [5” x 7”...256 pages]

Living with the Active Alert Child: Groundbreaking Strategies for Parents

by Linda Budd (2003, Parenting Press, 14.95)
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Bright, controlling, fearful, and highly energetic, active alert children are frequently misdiagnosed as hyperactive or learning disabled. These children provide a special challenge. This book describes the eleven characteristics of an active alert child, what's right about these children (and their parents), and how to improve their interaction in school and in families. [5.5” x 8”...288 pages]

Dreamers, Discoverers, & Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who is Bright, Bored, and Having Problems in School

by Lucy Jo Palladino (1999, Ballantine, 14.95)
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A psychologist declares that one in five children is on a collision course with a conforming world. Unlike their peers, these children think divergently (generating many ideas at once), rather than convergently (focusing on one idea at a time). There brain-storming minds often cause distress in school, where conformity rules the classroom. [5.5” x 8”...310 pages]

Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach

by Ross Greene & J. Stuart Ablon (2006, Guilford, 35.00/hardback)
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This book provides a framework for intervention with noncompliant children and their families. Vivid examples and Q&A sections show how to identify and remediate the contributing cognitive factors. [6” x 9”...244 pages]

How to Reach Defiant, Resistant, Disrespectful Kids Through Native American Teachings

by Darlene Hunter (2005, YouthLight, 19.95)
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This book is full of Native American quotes, hands-on activities, checklists, and reproducible worksheets that students will enjoy while they learn the valuable lessons. The lessons can be used with individuals, small groups, and/or classrooms. Grades 6-12. [8.5” x 11”...112 pages]

Student Resistance in the Classroom: Effective Prevention & Intervention Strategies for Non-Compliant & Disruptive Students

by Ronald Miles (2007, YouthLight, 20.95)
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A unique and user-friendly resource designed to assist today's elementary educator with effective prevention and intervention resources for managing non-compliant and disruptive students. Of particular interest to the busy educator is the handy "Dictionary of Interventions" which provides useful and immediate strategies for dealing with 20 types of disruptive behavior. Contains more than 200 ready-to-use strategies. Grades K-6. [8.5” x 11”...148 pages]

Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In—When to Worry & When Not to Worry

by Perri Klass & Eileen Costello (2003, Child Management, Inc., 14.95)
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Two acclaimed pediatricians provide expert guidance on raising and accepting "quirky" and eccentric kids. A guide for parents of children who have trouble socializing or who are developing inconsistently. Lots of insight here into the often confusing list of diagnoses applied to unusual children, outlining various therapy options and coping strategies. [5.5” x 8”...400 pages]

Transforming the Difficult Child

by Howard Glasser (2006, Nurtured Heart Publications, 22.95)
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Based on the "nurtured heart approach," this book shows how difficult children respond to "normal" ways of parenting. And why those normal ways don't work. It also provides a powerful set of strategies designed specifically to turn the challenging child around to a new pattern of success. Using this approach, it is easy to shift the difficult child to being a cooperative child who uses his or her intensity in entirely positive and creative ways. For children in grades 2-9. [6” x 9”...250 pages]

The Difficult Child: Second Edition

by Stanley Turecki (2000, Bantam, 17.00)
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A practicing child and family psychiatrist explains that some children are born with temperament traits that can make them difficult to raise. He describes how to better understand and manage such children from birth to age six, and how to handle problem behaviors. [5” x 8”...302 pages]

The Tough Kid Parent Book: Practical Solutions to Tough Childhood Problems

by William Jenson, et al. (2003, Sopris West, 34.95)
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A practical and proactive approach to handling children who argue, don't do what parents ask, throw tantrums, defy authority, or chronically in trouble. Shows how to manage "tough kid" behaviors positively and confidently using proven methods. Also deals with stealing, fire setting, bed wetting, soiling, smoking, drinking, and drug use. Includes a CD-ROM of reproducible forms. Grades K-8. [8.5” x 11”...182 pages]

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflicts by Establishing Clear, Firm, & Respectful Boundaries

by Robert MacKenzie (2001, Random House, 14.95)
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Here are some techniques and procedures that provide a refreshing alternative to the ineffective extremes of punishment and permissiveness. Parents and teachers alike will discover some great ideas on how to effectively motivate the difficult child and achieve cooperation. [5.5” x 8.5”...274 pages]

How to Handle a Hard-to-Handle Kid: A Parent's Guide to Understanding and Changing Problem Behaviors

by Drew Edwards (1999, Free Spirit, 15.95)
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A wealth of solid information and sound advice for those who have (or work with) high-maintenance kids who act out, argue, disobey, and display their anger often. It is packed with useful ideas and explains why some children are so aggressive and disruptive in school—and provides ways to change their behaviors. Grades K-5. [6” x 9”...216 pages]

Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook

by Mary Kurcinka (1998, HarperPerennial, 14.00)
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The author of the popular Raising Your Spirited Child (13.00) provides exercises, observations, and dialogue from actual groups, to show how to identify the "triggers" that lead to tantrums and challenging behaviors. The key word that distinguishes spirited children from other children is "more"—more intense, more persistent, more sensitive, and more uncomfortable with change. [6” x 9”...306 pages]

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