Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Guare, Richard. Title: Smart but scattered teens : the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential / Richard Guare, Peg Dawson, and Colin Guare. Publisher, Date: New York : Guilford Press, ©2013. Description: vii, 292 pages ; 27 cm Summary: Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses. Subjects: Parent and teenager. Executive ability in adolescence. Self-control in adolescence. Attention in adolescence. Parenting. Other Author: Dawson, Peg. Guare, Colin. Notes: 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. LCCN: 2012036449 ISBN: 9781609182298 1609182294 9781462506996 1462506992 Other Number: 788280862 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 346822 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 306.874 Guare Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
