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Creative interventions for challenging children and adolescents : 186 techniques, activities, worksheets & communication tips to change behaviors /
Working on behavioral changes can be fun and successful for children and teens -- if you have the right tools and approach. Experienced therapist and sought-after parent coach Susan Epstein brings her signature style of innovation and fun in her latest book, providing proven and ready-to-use ideas t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Eau Claire, WI :
PESI Publishing and Media,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Anger & explosive behaviors. Sometimes we lose it
- It's not fair!
- Birthday cake relaxation
- Calming cards
- The feeling GPS
- Let's drive to CALM
- A watched pot never boils!
- Rag-doll relaxation
- Let's go to the moon!
- Now you see it, now you do it
- Now you see it: transition planner
- Up, up, and away
- Tommy the tiger
- Building a cool-down kit
- More ways parents, teachers and professionals can support children's self-regulation
- Ending the explosions
- My happy dance!
- Agenda circles: an end to power struggles
- Just the facts: simplifying communication
- Name it, don't blame it!
- Disrespectful behaviors. Which behaviors do you want to stop
- Increase your parenting awareness
- Powerful parenting assessment
- Commanding respect
- Watch out for negativity
- Provide nurturance and guidance
- Listen for feelings
- Child and adolescent behaviors that drive adults nuts
- 4-step process for calming down
- Mindful robotic parenting
- Unleash your inner robot
- Finding your inner robot: a visualization exercise
- Which behaviors do you want to start or see more of?
- Walls: creating rules that make sense
- Before I build a wall
- Take the gentle path
- Understanding power struggles
- Best friend or archenemy? What type of parent are you?
- When to say "yes" and when to say "no"
- A boat without a rudder
- Meta-view
- Great job! Breaking away from negativity
- Random acts of kindness wall
- Teaching your kids how to really say "I'm sorry"
- "Pleeeeease, you promised!" The art of blocking and affirming
- Choices: getting what I really want
- Pay the jar
- Miss-takes! New takes!
- Trauma & depression. Outer space: seeing the big picture
- What would the lamp say?
- It looks like fun!
- Big bird grows up
- Beautiful bags
- Blue, blue
- Nightmares and superheroes
- Bad things happen to great kids
- I am
- Helping children grieve
- Parent FAQs about children and grief
- Obesity and depression: the new childhood disease
- You are what you eat
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) & related issues. What's really wrong?
- Informed, involved, and on board
- Children's mental health and learning disabilities
- Red flag behaviors checklist
- A mother's journey
- Stress & anxiety. Conversation starters that engage even the most resistant teens
- Sailboats on the sea: feeling focused art therapy
- See, hear, feel: 5-4-3-2-1
- Feel the feeling: the only way out is through
- Turning fear into courage
- Talking to teenagers about stress
- Organization & independence. Executive function disorder
- Pom-poms and you
- Poker chips for electronics
- Whistle while you work: taking care of belongings
- Give them a hook
- FIRST and THEN board
- Behavior charts that really work
- The carrot and the stick: why rewards sometimes don't work
- Magic black bag: how not to trip over backpacks, skateboards, etc.
- How to outsource your laundry for free: life skills training
- Kids as cooks
- The creative brain: playing without electronics
- Allowance is what you are allowed: early lessons in financial responsibility
- Just one more glass of water: getting kids to bed and sleeping through the night
- Challenging & risky behaviors. When our teens don't get us and we don't get them ... and what to do about it
- Raising teens fearlessly
- Difficult conversations
- Out with friends unsupervised
- Good role models for teen drivers
- Teen driving
- What you need to know about your teen and drugs and alcohol
- Parent ammo: the written word
- Write me an essay
- Our own teenage years
- Responsibility & independence. What ancient Greece can teach us about teens
- The wonders of positive communication
- Great relationship
- Teenager's budget plan
- What teens want
- Coach a teen: getting started
- Teen coaching check-in
- Visions of hope: "if you could wave a magic wand"
- Teen's wheel of life: assessment and tracking
- Debriefing the wheel
- Dear best friend
- Dear best friend (responsible one)
- Dream boards
- A perfect day!
- Social & emotional skills. Volunteering: getting to thank you!
- What is your word?
- Tweet power
- Creating greatness
- Excuses versus reasons
- Time, time, time
- What does your week look like?
- What would you like your week to look like?
- Engagement, cooperation & learning. Engaging students in school
- Three-stage plan for an amazing school year
- My special project
- My own report card goals
- The ME poster
- "Getting unstuck" cards
- We all have homework
- Be a helper, not a doer
- When's the best time to do homework?
- Parent-child homework agreement
- Setting up a homework station
- Organize and chunk out homework
- "I hate homework!"
- It's the effort that counts
- Homework: LDs, ADHD and other challenges
- Tutors and mentors
- Children from different cultures
- Connection, communication & positivity. Puddle parenting: seizing opportunities of joy and connection
- Strengthening the parent/child bond
- Why did you do that?
- Three keys to magical connection: Stop. Look. Listen.
- Movement motivation & plan
- Who's got your back?
- Creating memories for life
- Look at me!
- Uncover your parenting brilliance with CLARITY
- For CLARITY
- Family meetings: run your home like a business
- Blended families and discipline: "You're not my dad! You can't tell me what to do!"
- Technology. Get outside
- Expanding childhood beyond the digital world
- Technology and distractibility
- Electronics cost money
- Contract for internet use
- 10 smartphone rules for kids
- Smart phone usage contract
- Parent self-care. One perfect moment
- Emotional intelligence & parenting
- Attention moms: identify your overwhelm
- Attention dads: learn to be confidently vulnerable
- Messy home, messy mind
- Rainy day tool kit: expressive arts for creative minds
- Parent/child boundaries: access tokens
- Free time? What's that? Taking care of you
- Time away from the kids
- Enjoying your kids while working from home
- Does your life have rhythm?
- What kids and cucumbers have in common.