problem children

Tells the story of Sheila, a high school student suffering from severe emotional disturbance, and her attempts to cope by venting her rage, cutting herself, and starving herself before getting the help she needs to begin to recover.

Provides a guide for parenting strong-willed children that is based on a clinical treatment program intended to discover strategies that manage specific behavior problems.

Explains how to parent a strong-willed child without being too easy or too hard, showing how to set boundaries and keep them while staying empathetic, and how to make the child want to cooperate.

Helps parents determine whether their children's behavior points to serious problems, discussing anxiety, hyperactivity, mood swings, sexual development, social skills, aggression, and other related topics.

Provides solutions to more than 140 child misbehaviors, with an understanding of the child's side of problems.

Describes the characteristics of five types of "problem" children: highly sensitive, self-absorbed, defiant, inattentive, and active/aggressive; discusses how it feels to be them; and explains how to effectively parent them, also covering environmental and dietary influences.

Offers the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior.

Offers parenting advice based on the solution-focused brief therapy model of counseling, which encourages parents to use skills developed at work, in adult relationships, and other areas of life, to help deal with the behavior problems of their children.

Presents a discussion of sensory integration theory and its relationship to a range of problematic behaviors in children, examines specific issues related to living with a child with inefficient sensory processing, and summarizes the state of scientific knowledge on the topic.