When All Else Fails!: Unique, Last-Resort Strategies, Activities & Proven Programs for Reaching Difficult Students

by Tom Carr (2003, YouthLight, 20.95)
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Practical, non-nonsense ideas to help you deal with disruptive students. The book starts with creative prevention measures and ends with powerful strategies to handle the most difficult of students in school. It is sprinkled with numerous poems, quotes, stories, mottos, affirmations, checklists, and valuable reproducibles. Grades 4-8. [8.5” x 11”...108 pages]

Dangerous Kids: Boys Town's Approach for Helping Caregivers Treat Aggressive & Violent Youth

by Michael Sterba, et al. (1999, Boys Town Press, 29.95)
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These crisis techniques will help you work with students who lose control. Those who succumb to yelling, swearing, hitting, or kicking. You will learn how to use strategies such as cool-down time, the concept of positive correction, reality statements, aggression logs, and other techniques to help children and teens regain self-control. Grades 6-12. [8.5” x 11”...148 pages]

Defiant Teens: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment & Family Intervention

by Russell Barkley, et al. (1999, Guilford, 39.00)
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The authors delineate procedures for assessing defiance in teenagers. They show you how to work with parents in order to reverse problem behavior. Reproducible forms gauge the nature and severity of conflicts, assess for oppositional defiant disorder, and evaluate parental adjustment. Includes handouts that reinforce crucial ideas and skills. [8.5” x 11”...250 pages]

Innovative Strategies for Unlocking Difficult Adolescents; Second Edition

by Robert Bowman, et al. (2007, YouthLight, 20.95)
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Ready-to-use information on how to work with challenging students. This book is full of strategies, activities, and hints for reaching attention seekers (such as “gossips” and “class clowns”), manipulators (such as “truth benders” and “game players”), hostile students (such as “snipers” and “teasers”), and apathetic students (such as “day dreamers” and “the unmotivated”). Grades 7-12. [8.5” x 11”...190 pages]

Individual Counseling Lessons for Adolescents

by Robert Bowman, et al. (1998, YouthLight, 20.95)
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The 15 lessons in this book cover such topics as: healthy relationships, stress, character building, anger management, being assertive, personal strengths, goal setting, careers, racism, drugs, study skills, family issues, conflict, and much more. Grades 7-12. [8.5” x 11”...91 pages]

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