ISBN# 0-87628-144-7
Publication Date: 2002
Paperback, 3416pp
Summary
For teachers, counselors and parents, this comprehensive new resource is filled with up-to-date information and practical strategies to help kids with attention deficits learn to control and change their own behaviors and build the academic, social, and personal skills necessary for success in school and in life. The Kit first explains ADD/ADHD behavior, its biological bases and basic characteristics and describes procedures used for diagnosis and various treatment options. It then details a proven set of training exercises and programs in which teachers, counselors and parents work together to monitor and manage the child's behavior to achieve the desired results.
Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About This Resource Kit
Chapter 1: Essential Background Information
Chapter 2: Diagnosis and Treatment of ADD/ADHD
Chapter 3: Looking At Behavior: The A-B-C-‘s of Behavior Change Programs
Chapter 4: Managing Behavior
Chapter 5: Social Skills
Chapter 6: Homework Issues for Parents
Chapter 7: Expanding Home Programs to Include School Behavior
Chapter 8: Effective Behavioral Techniques for Teachers
Chapter 9: General Activities and Games
Chapter 10: Survival Training for Parents and Teachers
Appendices