num_pages: 200
description: Peter A. Spevak, Ph.D., a former underachiever who has brought over 2000 students from failure to success, explores how problems such as emotional immaturity, low self-esteem and poor self-confidence contribute to children's underachievement. Focusing on four types of underachievers - distant, passive, dependent and defiant - Dr. Spevak helps readers identify which type their underachiever is and reveals his unique and successful method of specific interventions, actions and exercises to get these children "unstuck" and on the road to emotional growth and academic success.(From the cover.)
language: English
title: Empowering Underachievers: How to Guide Failing Kids (8-18) to Personal Excellence
titlecomplete: Empowering Underachievers: How to Guide Failing Kids (8-18) to Personal Excellence
genres: Parenting
ratings_count: 40
publisher: New Horizon Press