Smart but scattered teens : the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential / Richard Guare, Peg Dawson, and Colin Guare.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Guilford Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: vii, 293 pages ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781609182298
- 1609182294
- 9781462506996
- 1462506992
- 306.874 23
- HQ799.15 .G83 2013
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | 306.874 GUA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 520522 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index.
Introduction -- Executive skills and the teen brain -- Identifying your teen's executive skill strengths and weaknesses -- Assessing your own executive skills and parenting style -- Ten principles for improving your teen's executive skills -- Motivating your teen to use executive skills -- Modifying the environment -- Teaching executive skills -- Advance organizer -- Enhancing response inhibition -- Strengthening working memory -- Increasing emotional control -- Boosting flexibility -- Building sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Improving time management -- Encouraging goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- Coaching -- Transitions.
Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.
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