Skills Training for Struggling Kids : Promoting Your Child's Behavioral, Emotional, Academic, and Social Development

Enhancing Your Child's Emotional Development -- 12 Let It Out!: Teaching Your Child to Understand and Express Feelings -- 13 You Are What You Think: Teaching Your Child to Think Helpful Thoughts -- 14 Stress Busters: Teaching Your Child to Manage Stress -- Enhancing Your Child's Academic Development -- 15 Surviving School: Teaching Your Child to Manage Time, Organize, Plan, Review, and Stay on Task -- 16 Teaming Up: Collaborating and Advocating for Your Child at School -- Enhancing Your Well-Being as a Parent -- 17 You Parent the Way You Think: Thinking Helpful Thoughts to Enhance Parenting -- 18 Cool Parents: Managing Your Own Stress to Enhance Parenting -- Enhancing Your Family's Well-Being -- 19 Let's Get Together: Strengthening Family Bonds and Organization -- 20 We Can Work It Out: Strengthening Family Interaction Skills.;Introduction: How to Use This Book -- Getting Started and Staying with it -- 1 The Struggling Child: Understanding Your Child's Behavioral-Emotional Problems -- 2 Getting Back on Track: Coming Up with a Skills-Building Plan for Your Child and Family -- 3 Taking Care of Business: Getting Going and Following Through -- Enhancing Your Child's Behavioral Development -- 4 Doing what You're Told: Teaching Your Child to Comply with Parental Directives -- 5 Doing What's Expected: Teaching Your Child to Follow Rules -- 6 Doing the Right Thing: Teaching Your Child to Behave Honestly -- 7 Staying Cool under Fire: Managing Your Child's Protesting of Discipline and Preventing Angry Outbursts -- Enhancing Your Child's Social Development -- 8 Making Friends: Teaching Your Child Social Behavior Skills -- 9 Keeping Friends: Teaching Your Child Social Problem-Solving Skills -- 10 That Hurts!: Helping Your Child with Bullies -- 11 Hanging with the "Right Crowd": Influencing Your Child's Peer Relationships. Cover 1 Half Title Page 3 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Dedication Page 7 Contents 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction: How to Use This Book 15 Getting Started and Staying with It 25 Chapter 1. The Struggling Child: Understanding Your Child’s Behavioral–Emotional Problems 27 Chapter 2. Getting Back on Track: Coming Up with a Skills-Building Plan for Your Child and Family 35 Chapter 3. Taking Care of Business: Getting Going and Following Through 47 Enhancing Your Child’s Behavioral Development 65 Chapter 4. Doing What You’re Told: Teaching Your Child to Comply with Parental Directives 67 Chapter 5. Doing What’s Expected: Teaching Your Child to Follow Rules 83 Chapter 6. Doing the Right Thing: Teaching Your Child to Behave Honestly 97 Chapter 7. Staying Cool under Fire: Managing Your Child’s Protesting of Discipline and Preventing Angry Outbursts 106 Enhancing Your Child’s Social Development 119 Chapter 8. Making Friends: Teaching Your Child Social Behavior Skills 121 Chapter 9. Keeping Friends: Teaching Your Child Social Problem-Solving Skills 128 Chapter 10. That Hurts!: Helping Your Child with Bullies 142 Chapter 11. Hanging with the “Right Crowd”: Influencing Your Child’s Peer Relationships 149 Enhancing Your Child’s Emotional Development 159 Chapter 12. Let It Out!: Teaching Your Child to Understand and Express Feelings 161 Chapter 13. You Are What You Think: Teaching Your Child to Think Helpful Thoughts 172 Chapter 14. Stress Busters: Teaching Your Child to Manage Stress 188 Enhancing Your Child’s Academic Development 205 Chapter 15. Surviving School: Teaching Your Child to Manage Time, Organize, Plan, Review, and Stay on Task 207 Chapter 16. Teaming Up: Collaborating and Advocating for Your Child at School 217 Enhancing Your Well-Being as a Parent 231 Chapter 17. You Parent the Way You Think: Thinking Helpful Thoughts to Enhance Parenting 233 Chapter 18. Cool Parents: Managing Your Own Stress to Enhance Parenting 242 Enhancing Your Family’s Well-Being 253 Chapter 19. Let’s Get Together: Strengthening Family Bonds and Organization 255 Chapter 20. We Can Work It Out: Strengthening Family Interaction Skills 263 Resources 277 Index 279 About the Author 289 Challenging kids don't behave badly on purpose -- they are simply struggling to "catch up" in key areas of psychological and cognitive development. If your child or teen's emotional or behavioral difficulties are getting in the way of success at home, at school, or in social situations, this is the book for you. Dr. Michael Bloomquist has spent decades helping parents to understand acting-out kids and support their healthy development. In these pages, he presents tried-and-true ways you can build your 5- to 17-year-old's skills *Follow rules and behave honestly. *Curb angry outbursts. *Make and maintain friendships. *Express feelings productively. *Stay on task at school. *Resolve conflicts with siblings. *Manage stress. Loads of checklists, worksheets, and troubleshooting tips help you select and implement the strategies that meet your child's specific needs. You'll also build your own skills for parenting effectively when the going gets tough. Systematic, compassionate, and practical, the book is grounded in state-of-the-art research. The road to positive changes for your child and family starts here. Mental health professionals, see also the related title The Practitioner Guide to Skills Training for Struggling Kids. Challenging kids don't behave badly on purpose -- they are simply struggling to'catch up'in key areas of psychological and cognitive development. If your child or teen's emotional or behavioral difficulties are getting in the way of success at home, at school, or in social situations, this is the book for you. Dr. Michael Bloomquist has spent decades helping parents to understand acting-out kids and support their healthy development. In these pages, he presents tried-and-true ways you can build your 5- to 17-year-old's skills to: •Follow rules and behave honestly.•Curb angry outbursts.•Make and maintain friendships. •Express feelings productively.•Stay on task at school.•Resolve conflicts with siblings. •Manage stress.Loads of checklists, worksheets, and troubleshooting tips help you select and implement the strategies that meet your child's specific needs. You'll also build your own skills for parenting effectively when the going gets tough. Systematic, compassionate, and practical, the book is grounded in state-of-the-art research. The road to positive changes for your child and family starts here.Mental health professionals, see also the related title The Practitioner Guide to Skills Training for Struggling Kids.