Succeeding with difficult students
By: Jeffrey A. Kottler.
Series: Practical skills for counselors
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Educational counseling -- United States.; Problem children -- Counseling of -- United States.; Problem children -- Education -- United States.
Description: Succeeding With Difficult Students offers step-by-step instructions for dealing with your most challenging students. Designed for school counselors and teachers who employ counseling skills in their daily interactions, it shows how to reach students who are needy, hostile, unmotivated, bored, withdrawn, inarticulate, manipulative, or attention seeking.

Most school personnel haven't been prepared for the tremendous challenges that exist in schools today: gang activity, violence, sexual abuse, addictions, and obstructiveness. Based on established research and extensive interviews with counselors in the field, this new book provides counselors and other school personnel with a model for understanding resistant, unmotivated, and otherwise difficult students. Includes a number of practical strategies for changing established dysfunctional behavior patterns.

Shows how to define who your most difficult students are and why; understand your students' actions within their particular cultural, peer, and familial contexts; discover how you can look inward to break through inaccurate perceptions that may interfere with your ability to be more helpful; challenge yourself to work in more flexible, creative ways; and find ways to work with difficult colleagues. Succeeding With Difficult Students is an essential resource for school counselors, teachers, principals - anyone who interacts on a regular basis with difficult students.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Who are difficult students? At loss about what to do. In the eye of the beholder. Students who challenge us the most. Questions to ask yourself; title: 2. Why do they act the way they do? They are doing the best they can. Additional functions of conflict. Creating difficult students. In summary; title: 3. How do they get underneath your skin? Those who don't fight fair. Protecting yourself. Pushing our buttons. Engaging the challenging student. How can you help yourself? Don't take the conflict personally. It comes with the territory; title: 4. What can you do differently? Some rules of engagement. Strategic interventions; title: 5. What about difficult colleagues? The least of your problems. Teachers who don't understand. Administrators who handcuff us. Parents who fight us. Counselors who undermine us; title: What about you? Those who abuse you. In summary.