Smart but Scattered Teens: "The ""Executive Skills"" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential"...

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Richard Guare Peg Dawson

Smart but Scattered Teens

"The ""Executive Skills"" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential"

Richard Guare, Peg Dawson, Colin Guare , Arthur L. Robin

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Guilford Press
14 February 2013

Teenagers: advice for parents

"""I told you, I'll do it later.""

""I forgot to turn in the stupid application.""

""Could you drive me to school? I missed the bus again.""

""I can't walk the dog--I have too much homework!""

If you're the parent of a ""smart but scattered"" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments. This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills--the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions. Executive skills experts Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson are joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced these issues himself. Learn step-by-step strategies to help your teen live up to his or her potential now and in the future--while making your relationship stronger. Helpful worksheets and forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2"" x 11"" size.

See also the authors' Smart but Scattered (with a focus on 4- to 13-year-olds) and their self-help guide for adults. Plus, Work-Smart Academic Planner: Write It Down, Get It Done, designed for middle and high school students to use in conjunction with coaching, and related titles for professionals.

Winner (Third Place)--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, Consumer Health Category"

By: Richard Guare, Peg Dawson, Colin Guare, Arthur L. Robin, Patricia O. Quinn, MD
Imprint: Guilford Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781462506996
ISBN 10: 1462506992
Pages: 293
Publication Date: 14 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Authors' Note Introduction I. What Makes Your Teen Smart but Scattered 1. Executive Skills and the Teen Brain 2. Identifying Your Teen's Executive Skills Strengths and Weaknesses 3. Assessing Your Own Executive Skills and Parenting Style 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 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

Richard Guare, PhD, BCBA-D, is a neuropsychologist and board-certified behavior analyst who frequently consults to schools and agencies on attention and executive skills difficulties. He is former Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Guare is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). He is also coauthor ofThe Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist who provides professional development training on executive skills for schools and organizations nationally and internationally. She was previously on the staff of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Dawson is a past president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the International School Psychology Association, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from NASP. She is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). Dr. Dawson is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. Colin Guare, BCBA, LBA, is a Rhode Island-based behavior analyst and executive skills coach. He has worked with children, adolescents, and young adults since 2008 in clinical, home, and school settings, and consults for organizations and state agencies on employment coaching programs.

Reviews for Smart but Scattered Teens: "The ""Executive Skills"" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential"

An absolute 'must read' for parents. Many detailed examples show you exactly how to teach your teenager the skills needed for success in school and beyond. The clever strategies for getting around teens' creative resistance to making changes are particularly helpful. I will recommend this gem of a book to all of the parents and adolescents I treat. - Arthur L. Robin, coauthor of Your Defiant Teen Executive skills are critical to success in life, but may be delayed in some teens and young adults and parents are often at a loss for how to help. Smart but Scattered Teens is just what parents need. This is a highly useful guide for improving teens' executive skills and motivating them to use the skills they already have.This is the most comprehensive book I have read on the subject, and one I highly recommend. - Patricia O. Quinn, coauthor of Ready for Take-Off: Preparing Your Teen with ADHD or LD for College Adolescence can be a difficult developmental time, especially for those who are 'smart but scattered.' This book helps both parents and practitioners navigate the path more effectively. It is wonderfully rich with empirically based interventions presented in a user-friendly way. This book has many effective tools for coaching teens to improve their behavioral, educational, and social success. - William Pfohl, PsyD, Western Kentucky University, USA Throughout the book, useful examples are provided and the layout encourages the reader to participate actively in completing quick checklists. ... This book has much useful, practical and sensible information in it, and is a useful introduction to the field of executive function. While its target audience is primarily parents, I think it has much to offer a wider audience. - Mary Mountstephen, SEN Magazine (Issue 66)