Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challenges
. . . Faced with behavior in their children that they don t understand, parents can easily become overwhelmed. They often find themselves having to select and put their faith in professionals they know little about, make decisions based on information they don't understand, and try to remain calm when they re frightened about what might be wrong with their children. Armed with a tool, such as this guide that Steven Curtis has created, parents can gain a greater sense of control and play a more active role in uncovering the cause of the children's puzzling behavior. Having this type of information can enable them to function as partners and make informed choices about their children's future. --Linda C. Neumann, Editor, 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter<br /><br />Almost daily, children's behavioral problems are in the news, and the parents' complaint is often the same: something is not quite right with my child. These puzzling behaviors can take many forms--social isolation, disruptive behavior, failure to learn, excitability, inability to follow directions... What s a parent to do? Curtis, a clinical psychologist and director of Lifespan Psychological Services in Washington state, asks parents to take an involved, detailed inventory of their child before seeking professional help.Curtis shows parents through a step-by-step procedure how to clarify and document concerns. Included are several pages of reproducible worksheets: problem-tracking sheets, time line/stressors, causal factors, and more. These worksheets will help parents not only discover possible causes for behavioral problems, but also aid in the choice of professional help. Clearly, this is a no-easy-answers approach, and Curtis insists parents must profile the child before blindly choosing professionals and starting behavior-altering drugs.An excellent bibliography, organized by topic, includes books and Web sites, as well as a glossary of terms. Lifespan s publishing goal is to provide self-help resources for parents and professionals, and this book fills that need without advertising its own services.Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavioris an excellent book for parents and caregivers. --Linda Beck, ForeWord Magazine<br /><br />At what point do you seek professional help when a child is acting, by his parent's standards, weird?Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challengesis a parent's guide to understanding a child's strange behavior and whether they should intervene or it is simply another kind of normal. Suggesting that parents never go for short term solutions, how to look at why the child acts the way they act, and when is the line to seek psychiatric assistance?Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Child with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challengesis essential for any concerned parent who doesn't get their child's behavior and for community library parenting collections. --Midwest Book ReviewUnderstand Your Child's Puzzling Behavioris a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award. The Mom's Choice Awards honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times Best-Selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach, and founder of the Mom's Choice Awards. Parents and educators look for the Mom's Choice Awards seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. This book/product has been honored by this distinguished award. --Mom's Choice AwardsAt what point do you seek professional help when a child is acting, by his parent's standards, weird?Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challengesis a parent's guide to understanding a child's strange behavior and whether they should intervene or it is simply another kind of normal. Suggesting that parents never go for short term solutions, how to look at why the child acts the way they act, and when is the line to seek psychiatric assistance?Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Child with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challengesis essential for any concerned parent who doesn't get their child's behavior and for community library parenting collections. --Midwest Book Review