Winning Cooperation from Your Child!: A Comprehensive Method to Stop Defiant and Aggressive Behavior in Children (Developments in Clinical Psychiatry) - Softcover

Wenning, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765702312 ISBN 13: 9780765702319

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1999

Synopsis

"Winning Cooperation from Your Child provides parents and therapists with a comprehensive, homebased behavioral recovery program for oppositional, defiant, and aggressive children. In response to the national epidemic of defiant and aggressive behavior, Kenneth Wenning offers a range of specific techniques to promote cooperative behavior in children. "BOOK JACKET. "This unique book can be used either as a selfhelp resource for parents or to support a collaboration between a parent and a therapist toward a common goal a child's rapid behavioral recovery. "BOOK JACKET." These methods will enable parents to help defiant children develop "psychological armor" and behavioral and emotional control when provoked, teased, or frustrated as well as prevent parents from overreacting or underreacting to the child's disobedience. The aim is to nurture in the child the capacity for accurate selfreflection, a prerequisite for taking responsibility for his or her own actions. "BOOK JACKET.

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth Wenning received his MSW (1980) and Ph.D. (1988) from the Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. For the past fifteen years he has specialized in the evaluation and treatment of children who are oppositional, defiant, and aggressive. Currently he works in New Haven at the Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic where he teaches, supervises, and conducts research. Dr. Wenning also maintains a private practice of child and family treatment in Hamden, Connecticut.

Review

This book beautifully applies the theory and practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to the parenting of difficult children. It does so clearly and soundly and is short in length but long on great advice to parents. (Albert Ellis, Ph.D, President, Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy )

This is an extremely readable, engaging, and informed book. (Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., Yale University )

This book succinctly communicates crucial information for parents of disruptive children. Despite its brevity, it focuses not just on behaviors, but also on thought patterns; not just on children's compliance, but also on their skills in dealing with the world; not just on reward and punishment, but also on modeling and other methods of influence; and not just on what parents should do, but also on how they can overcome the barriers to doing these things. This book will help both parents and clinicians who wish to prevail over the behavior problems that pervade our society. If all parents could incorporate these suggestions into their behavior, the world would be a vastly better place. (Joseph Strayhorn, M.D., Medical College of Pennsylvania )

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0765702312
• ISBN 13: 9780765702319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188