| Description |
vii, 292 pages ; 27 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses. |
| Subject |
Parent and teenager.
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Executive ability in adolescence.
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Self-control in adolescence.
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Attention in adolescence.
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Parenting.
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| Added Author |
Guare, Richard.
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Guare, Colin.
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| ISBN |
9781609182298 (pbk. ; alk. paper) : $17.95 |
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1609182294 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781462506996 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1462506992 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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