Winning Cooperation from Your Child!: A Comprehensive Method to Stop Defiant and Aggressive Behavior in Children (Developments in Clinical Psychiatry)

"Winning Cooperation from Your Child provides parents and therapists with a comprehensive, homebased behavioral recovery program for oppositional, defiant, and aggressive children. In response to the national epidemic of defiant and aggressive behavior, Kenneth Wenning offers a range of specific techniques to promote cooperative behavior in children. "BOOK JACKET. "This unique book can be used either as a selfhelp resource for parents or to support a collaboration between a parent and a therapist toward a common goal a child's rapid behavioral recovery. "BOOK JACKET." These methods will enable parents to help defiant children develop "psychological armor" and behavioral and emotional control when provoked, teased, or frustrated as well as prevent parents from overreacting or underreacting to the child's disobedience. The aim is to nurture in the child the capacity for accurate selfreflection, a prerequisite for taking responsibility for his or her own actions. "BOOK JACKET.

Kenneth Wenning received his MSW (1980) and Ph.D. (1988) from the Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. For the past fifteen years he has specialized in the evaluation and treatment of children who are oppositional, defiant, and aggressive. Currently he works in New Haven at the Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic where he teaches, supervises, and conducts research. Dr. Wenning also maintains a private practice of child and family treatment in Hamden, Connecticut.