Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents: Uncommon Sense for Child Professionals - Softcover

Taffel, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159385093X ISBN 13: 9781593850937

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2004

Synopsis

From experienced therapist Ron Taffel--widely known for his popular parenting guides--this is a commonsense handbook for any mental health, education, or medical professional working with challenging kids and parents. Provided are concrete strategies for building rapport with stressed-out families, getting children and adolescents to talk about what really matters, spotting developmental and psychiatric problems before a crisis develops, and developing skills to strengthen kids' self-esteem and parents' effectiveness in setting limits. Illustrative case vignettes get to the heart of what is going wrong between youngsters and their parents and show how simple, concrete interventions can make a big difference. Also covered in depth are ways for professionals to handle their own emotional responses in highly charged situations.

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About the Author

Ron Taffel, PhD, has supervised and written about working with children and families for over two decades. He is one of the country’s most sought-after speakers for both professional and parent audiences. Dr. Taffel is the award-winning author of over 100 academic and popular articles, and has been a contributing editor to McCall’s and Parents magazines for 14 years. His childrearing guides, translated into numerous languages, include the critically acclaimed Parenting by Heart, Nurturing Good Children Now, and When Parents Disagree, as well as the professional handbooks Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents and Breaking Through to Teens. His latest popular book on adolescence, he Second Family, was recently released in paperback. Dr. Taffel is the founder of Family and Couples Treatment Services at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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Contents 1. Getting Started: How to Quickly Gather the Information That Counts 2. Down and Dirty Diagnosis: Spotting Developmental and Psychiatric Problems Early On 3. Tough Tykes: Getting Through to Difficult Children (2-10 Years Old) 4. Up Against the Wall: Getting Through to Difficult Parents 5. Gut Responses: Handling Anger, Outrage, Sexuality, and Other "Unprofessional" Feelings 6. Staying in Charge: Helping Parents Avoid the Traps of Modern Parenthood 7. The Second Family: Working with Adolescents in a Dangerous World 8. Resilient Kids: Nurturing Self-Esteem in 21st-Century Children and Adolescents 9. The Power of Two: Helping Parents Create a Unified Front 10. Families Under Siege: Helping Parents and Children Connect 11. At the Millennium: Toward a New Paradigm for Working with Children and Parents

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 159385093X
• ISBN 13: 9781593850937
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244