Tales From Time-Out

Since 1989, Henry Roth has been Principal of a Therapeutic Day School in Chicago with a highly diverse student population from all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic levels, including Orthodox Jewish students. All of these students had been transferred from their local public, private, or parochial schools due to emotional and behavioral problems. Henry had the opportunity to spend time conversing with students who were sent to "time-out" for various misbehaviors at school. TALES FROM TIME-OUT is a collection of vignettes relating some of the more memorable exchanges that Henry had in his conversations with students in time-out, followed by a brief overview of some of the background issues of the students' unique circumstances. A section is included that offers some strategies for dealing with children in time-out situations. TALES FROM TIME-OUT appeals to a diverse audience of parents and professionals -- but also to anyone who believes in the healing power of humor.

Henry J. Roth, Ph. D., has been the Principal of the Jewish Children's Bureau Therapeutic Day School in Chicago, Illinois, since 1989, and also served as the interim Executive Director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and the University of Chicago from 2005-2008. Before moving to the Chicago area, Dr. Roth was principal of the Duke University Child Psychiatry Day School, from 1975 - 1989. Dr. Roth has written and published more than sixty articles in professional journals in the area of working with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. He is the author of a textbook on working with orthodox religious students who have learning or emotional difficulties in school, Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Teaching and Counseling Orthodox Students. Dr. Roth has taught classes on occasion in the Department of Special Education at Northeastern Illinois University since 1991. Before moving to Illinois, Dr. Roth was a Clinical Associate Professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, from 1982-1989. Dr. Roth received his Ph. D. degree from Duke University in 1977. He graduated with his Bachelors degree in Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, in 1971; a Masters degree in Special Education from Northeastern Illinois University in 1972; and a Masters in Human Development from Governor's State University, in Park Forest, Illinois, in 1974.