problem children

Offers an eight step plan parents may follow to reverse patterns of interaction with children that turn everyday encounters into conflicts.

Provides advice for teachers working with at-risk students; addressing family engagement, mentoring and tutoring, service learning, after-school opportunities, educational technology, individualized instruction, career and technical education, school-community collaboration, safe learning environments, systemic renewal, and more.

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.

Offers advice to parents on how to deal with hard-to-handle children from about age three to age twelve; providing insight into normal and abnormal behavior, and discussing stress management, authoritative parenting, discipline strategies, and other topics.

Offers specific ways to involve students in defining classroom procedures, rules, and consequences based on values or principles compatible with learning; including prevention, action and resolution of conflicts.

Presents stories of defiance and aggression in children based on actual classroom cases, and explains how teachers can structure their own behavior to change that of disruptive students. Discusses the identification of risk factors, and show what to do and what not to do in problem situations.

Advises parents on how to handle children with quick tempers, explaining how to anticipate and lessen the behavior by teaching the child the skills necessary to handle frustration adaptively to become more flexible, socially and emotionally.

Presents suggestions for instructional design, collaboration, and troubleshooting using response to intervention (RTI) techniques to help children with reading, and provides tips for better understanding of the structure and implementation of RTI.

Examines the hidden trauma of growing up with an emotionally troubled or physically disabled sibling that offers adult "normal" siblings advice on how they can resolve and overcome their childhood pain.