Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Laurie Dietzel
Does your child have difficulty meeting deadlines, staying organised, or keeping track of important information? Do they tend to forget details? Are they prone to emotional meltdowns? This book will become your go-to, all-inclusive guide to helping children manage issues with these executive functions.
Late, Lost, and Unprepared is packed with encouragement, strategies, overviews, case studies, tips, and more, explained in accessible, everyday language. In this updated and expanded edition of the highly regarded book for parents, you will find valuable new insights, fresh examples, and an all-new chapter on emotional regulation. Featuring down-to-earth examples and a flexible framework that allows you to think on your feet, the strategies within this book can be adapted to any child or situation.
In addition to providing approaches for helping your child to manage demands in the short run, this book offers strategies for building independent skills for long-term self-management. Late, Lost, and Unprepared gives parents the support they need to help their child become productive and independent – today and in the future.
This is a must-have book for parents and those working with children from primary school through high school who struggle with:
Written by clinical psychologists, this book emphasises the need to help the child to manage demands in the short run and build independent skills for long-term self-management. Full of encouragement and practical strategies. Summaries, case studies, tips, and definitions make it easy to grasp concepts quickly and get started.
Part I, What You Need to Know, covers: what executive functions are and how weaknesses in these skills affect development; the impact of weak executive function on children’s emotional lives and their families; how professionals assess executive function problems; and associated conditions (AD/HD--children with an AD/HD diagnosis always have executive skills issues--learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, Tourette syndrome, etc.).
Part II, What You Can Do About It: covers how to change behaviour and set reasonable expectations, and offers specific intervention strategies for children of different ages, varying needs, and profiles.
Acknowledgments
Part I: What You Need to Know
Part II: What You Can Do about It
Appendix
Bibliography
Index