emotionally disturbed children

A teacher of six emotionally troubled kids describes the disasters and growth she faced with each one.

A guide to using the Response to Intervention system for educational redesign, providing an overview of Response to Intervention, and discussing the components of leadership, problem-solving teams, interventions, data use, parent involvement, special education, evaluation, and sustainability.

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.

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.

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.

Explores the ways in which children's nutritional needs are different from adult needs, the role of nutrition in the ability to learn and concentrate, and how foods affect behavior in children.

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

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.