Underachievement: Reversing the Process A Parents Guide for Assisting Your Underachiever to Success - Softcover

M.D., John H. Samson,

9780962892516: Underachievement: Reversing the Process A Parents Guide for Assisting Your Underachiever to Success

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962892513 ISBN 13: 9780962892516

Publisher: Family Life Pubns, 1991

Have you ever thought your child was not doing as well in school as he or she could? You are not alone. One out of every four students functions a year and a half or more below grade level, and the numbers are rising. In UNDERACHIEVEMENT: REVERSING THE PROCESS the authors share the 10-step process they have used successfully with hundreds of families to release the power of success in underachievers. Discover how to:

Recognize signs of underachievement

Get the help your child or adolescent needs

Evaluate the effectiveness of that help Effectively parent the underachieving child and adolescent

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About the Author:

Carolyn Warnemuende, M.S., writes, facilitates seminars and workshops in communication skills and parenting, and has a private counseling practice. For 11 years, she taught mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed and learning disabled students from the primary grades through the community college level. She helped develop and taught in the special education aide certification program at Long Beach City College and held an assistant professorship in the Educational Psychology Department at California State University Long Beach. Carolyn lives with her husband and two daughters in Redding, California.

John H. Samson, M.D., a pediatrician since 1965, practices in Long Beach, California. He is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at USC School of Medicine and UCI School of Medicine. He serves as an attending physician at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and Memorial Miller Children's Hospital of Long Beach. He is the Editor-in-Chief for THE INFORMED PARENT, the Child Care Internet Magazine of the 21st Century. The father of 13 children, John lives with his wife and younger children in Long Beach.

Your child is not doing well in school. You have used every avenue of persuasion, coercion, reward, punishment, threat in your bank of knowledge. Still, he is labeled an underachiever.

The parenting skills seem not to cover help for a child who falls short in a classroom. UNDERACHIEVEMENT: REVERSING THE PROCESS is that on-the-job training you find lacking in your life. It offers a 10-step process to determine whether your child is underachieving and what to do about it. The way to achieve effective results with underachievement is to correctly diagnose the underlying cause and follow the specific prescribed treatment.

The underachiever requires a team approach for help: this includes the child, parent, physician learning specialist, mental health worker and classroom teacher. Each member plays a vital role.

This book provides basic knowledge for this problem. Each chapter concludes with a check list to help the reader toward steps to get the best possible help.

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