Smart but scattered teens : the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential /

Smart but scattered teens : the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Guare, Richard.
Imprint:	New York : Guilford Press, c2013.
Description:	vii, 292 p. ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Parent and teenager. Executive ability in adolescence. Self-control in adolescence. Attention in adolescence. Parenting. Attention in adolescence. Executive ability in adolescence. Parent and teenager. Parenting. Self-control in adolescence.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8947175

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Other authors / contributors:	Dawson, Peg. Guare, Colin.
ISBN:	9781609182298 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1609182294 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781462506996 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1462506992 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-282) and index.

Table of Contents:

Authors' Note
Introduction
Part I. What Makes Your Teen Smart but Scattered
1. Executive Skills and the Teen Brain
2. Identifying Your Teen's Executive Skill Strengths and Weaknesses
3. Assessing Your Own Executive Skills and Parenting Style
Part II. Laying a Foundation That Can Help
4. Ten Principles for Improving Your Teen's Executive Skills
5. Motivating Your Teen to Use Executive Skills
6. Modifying the Environment
7. Teaching Executive Skills
Part III. Putting It All Together
8. Advance Organizer
9. Enhancing Response Inhibition
10. Strengthening Working Memory
11. Increasing Emotional Control
12. Boosting Flexibility
13. Building Sustained Attention
14. Teaching Task Initiation
15. Promoting Planning and Prioritizing
16. Fostering Organization
17. Improving Time Management
18. Encouraging Goal-Directed Persistence
19. Cultivating Metacognition
20. Coaching
21. Transitions
Resources
Index
About the Authors