Innovative Strategies for Unlocking Difficult Children: Grades K-6, Second Edition

by Robert Bowman (2007, YouthLight, 20.95)
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Now updated, this book is designed to help you with your difficult students, this book contains ready-to-use information on how to work with students who are challenging. It is full of specific 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 K-6. [8.5” x 11”...190 pages]

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding & Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

by Ross Greene (2005, Perennial, 13.95)
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A new approach to understanding and helping children who suffer intense temper outbursts, extreme noncompliance, and verbal and physical aggression. The ones who completely lose control and become verbally and physically aggressive. They usually leave their parents, and often other adults, feeling frustrated, guilt-ridden, and overwhelmed. [5.5” x 8”...342 pages]

Fresh Approaches to Working with Problematic Behavior

by Adele Brodkin (2001, Scholastic Professional, 12.95)
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A collection of strategies for reaching and teaching children who disrupt, withdraw, and otherwise struggle to be a harmonious part of the classroom. Grades K-5. [8.5” x 11”...96 pages]

Uncontrollable Kids: From Heartbreak to Hope

by Foster Cline (2001, Love & Logic Pressl, 14.95)
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Dr. Cline, a renowned adult and child psychiatrist, reveals why some children are unable to bond with others, lack a conscience, and demonstrate damaged cause-and-effect thinking. These are the children who are emotionally hurt early in life and cannot form the relationships necessary to heal themselves. [6” x 9”...338 pages]

What Went Wrong?

by Rick Lewis (2000, Peace Education Foundation, 3.50)
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This booklet provides teachers and counselors with a step-by-step process to guide elementary students through both their conflicts and the restitution process. It focuses on a series of 14 questions with suggested scripts and goals. You will find it an excellent tool to resolve and document conflicts in your school. But, most of all, prevent future conflicts at your school. Grades K-5. [8” x 9”...20 pages]

The Manipulative Child: How to Regain Control & Raise Resilient, Resourceful, and Independent Kids

by E.W. Swihart & Patrick Cotte (1996, Bantam, 15.00)
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A pediatrician and a child psychologist describe manipulation as the behavior kids learn when their parents are reluctant or afraid to say no. They contend that allowing manipulative behavior will have serious long-term effects on a child’s self-esteem and ability to successfully meet life’s challenges. [5.5” x 8”...254 pages]

The Tough Kid Tool Box

by William Jenson, et al. (1995, Sopris West, 32.50)
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Provides materials for managing and motivating tough students. It contains gems such as: behavior observation charts, reward spinners, classroom contracts, reinforcer lists, point cards, classroom activity schedules for optimum learning times, and many more. Grades 1-8. [8.5” x 11”...213 pages]

Defiant Children: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment & Parent Training, Second Edition

by Russell Barkley (1997, Guilford, 39.00)
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This remarkably clear and effective manual includes a thorough clinical guide to Dr. Barkley's 10-session parent training program, an assessment section that incorporates DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, and reproducible handouts that reinforce each step of the program. [8.5” x 11”...264 pages]

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