Why Is Johnny So Detached?: A School Professional's Guide to Understanding and Helping Students with Attachment Issues

by Thomas Ottavi (2007, YouthLight, 19.95)
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Detached students sometimes come with varying degrees of past home disruption, placements in foster care, adoptive homes, residential placements, or emergency shelter placements. This book is full of strategies and skill-building interventions, activities and hints you can use to help these students. It combines research and theory on attachment issues and addresses five types of detachment for students including detachment from Self, from Role of Student, from Peers and School Support, from Basic Effort, and from Sense of Success. Grades K-8. [8.5” x 11”...84 pages]

What Do You Do with a Child Like This?: Inside the Lives of Troubled Children

by L Tobin (1998, Whole Person Associates, 19.95)
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A notebook of specialized techniques for those who find themselves in the adventure of working with troubled children. It shows how to meet "creative misbehavior" with an equally creative response. This book will take you on a journey inside the world of troubled children. You will learn why they behave as they do—and ways to make changes. [7” x 9”...204 pages]

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