The Adventures of Stretch More: Pick-Your-Path Stories for Solving Problems Together - Softcover

Epstein, Trina; Greene, Ross W., Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606132016 ISBN 13: 9781606132012

Publisher: Woodbine House, 2014

Synopsis

Meet Stretch More, a rubber-band character who loves video games and skateboarding, but who also has behavior issues that frequently get him in trouble. Stretch is very inflexible!

If you know a child like Stretch -- one who has difficulty adapting to changes, handling frustrations, and problem solving -- then this book can help! The book includes three pick-your-path stories and at key points in each story, you get to pick what happens next, as Stretch learns to solve problems together with his parents and teacher.

This is the first children's book to demonstrate Collaborative & Proactive Solutions, a therapy method that presumes kids act poorly because they lack the skills to deal with challenging situations. Together parents and children learn how to defuse the tension and build a more supportive approach to improving behavior. A perfect book for children aged 8 to 13 years who have ADHD, Tourettes, OCD, or Asperger's that also includes an information section for parents.

About this title

About the Author:

Trina Epstein is a child and adolescent psychologist in Toronto, Canada. Her work includes helping inflexible children and their families.  Dr. Ross Greene is a clinical child psychologist, researcher, and lecturer, and the author of The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Human Beings. He is also Founding Director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance (livesinthebalance.org), where vast free resources on his Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model can be found.

Review:

Parents and teachers who have been unsuccessful with traditional parenting techniques will appreciate this new way to understand and work with difficult children. --CAPHIS Consumer Connections

Parents and children can read the stories over and over, following different paths to different outcomes, learning something new from each scenario. --ADDitude Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodbine House
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1606132016
• ISBN 13: 9781606132012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132