emotionally disturbed children

Provides practical guidance for avoiding power struggles with students, discussing the hostility cycle and covering intervention, reframing, and defusing as well as how to deal with the rest of the class.

Discusses fundamental principles and goals pertaining to discipline strategies in school situations, focusing on topics such as teachers' responsibility to students; the use of motivation instead of discipline; and ways to use difficult behavior as a chance to provide instruction.

Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

Thirteen-year-old Conrad decides to pay a surprise visit to his divorced parents in New York and comes face to face with bitter reality. The friendship of an emotionally troubled girl helps to sustain him through the crisis.

Chris Flynn starts to work for his father's company and discovers something troublesome in the floorboards of the house he is helping to remodel; and his father, Thomas, who is still adjusting to the fact that his son is grown and working, worries when Chris does not show up to work one morning.

Gary Ferguson recounts the experiences he had while spending two months in the Utah wilderness with a group of troubled teens.

Presents methods based on neuroscience for helping behaviorally challenged kids that explain why traditional disciplinary measures are ineffective, and argues that they lack the skills to adapt their behavior and overcome their frustration with parents, teachers, and peers, and includes dialogues, tools for identifying triggers, and more.

After her former friend Leah dies in an accident, Laine remembers their troubled relationship, dating back to elementary school when Leah convinced Laine to "practice" in the closet with her, and controlled Laine's every thought.