The ABC's Workbook: Achieving Acceptable Behavior Changes

The ABC's Workbook offers answers when typical discipline strategies fail to achieve the ultimate goal of changing behavior. Ms. Divinyi uses the simple acronym ACT. A: access, C: construct a plan, T: teach a skill to help parents and educators create customized highly structured procedures and strategies for helping even the most troubled child learn new behavior. This book gives a simple explanation of the E-T-A (emotions-thinking-action) centers of the brain must work together to achieve behavior change. This is a valuable tool to special educators and others working with problematic behavior in children and teens.

Ms. Divinyi has an Atlanta-based private practice in individual and family therapy and is the owner of The Human Connection, a company dedicated to Improving People to People Interactions.

In addition to training parents and professionals in behavior management and strategies for communicating with troubled children, she has trained employees of Fortune 500 companies in the areas of defusing hostile customers, stress management and self motivation. She has appeared on television and radio and in a variety of publications discussing issues such as school safety, potentially violent children in trauma.