Smart but scattered teens : the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential
Title:
Smart but scattered teens : the "executive skills" program for helping teens reach their potential
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.
Year Published:
2013
Physical Description:
vii, 292 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Executive skills and the teen brain -- Identifying your teen's executive skill strengths and weaknesses -- Assessing your own executive skills and parenting style -- Ten principles for improving your teen's executive skills -- Motivating your teen to use executive skills -- Modifying the environment -- Teaching executive skills -- Advance organizer -- Enhancing response inhibition -- Strengthening working memory -- Increasing emotional control -- Boosting flexibility -- Building sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Improving time management -- Encouraging goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- Coaching -- Transitions.
ISBN:
9781609182298
Publisher:
New York : Guilford Press, c2013.
