Skills training for struggling kids : promoting your child's behavioral, emotional, academic, and social development / by Michael L. Bloomquist.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Getting Started and Staying with It -- 1. Struggling Child: Understanding Your Child's Behavioral-Emotional Problems -- 2. Getting Back on Track: Coming Up with a Skills-Building Plan for Your Child and Family -- 3. Taking Care of Business: Getting Going and Following Through -- Enhancing Your Child's Behavioral Development -- 4. Doing What You're Told: Teaching Your Child to Comply with Parental Directives -- 5. Doing What's Expected: Teaching Your Child to Follow Rules -- 6. Doing the Right Thing: Teaching Your Child to Behave Honestly -- 7. Staying Cool under Fire: Managing Your Child's Protesting of Discipline and Preventing Angry Outbursts -- Enhancing Your Child's Social Development -- 8. Making Friends: Teaching Your Child Social Behavior Skills -- 9. Keeping Friends: Teaching Your Child Social Problem-Solving Skills -- 10. That Hurts!: Helping Your Child with Bullies -- 11. Hanging with the "Right Crowd": Influencing Your Child's Peer Relationships -- Enhancing Your Child's Emotional Development -- 12. Let It Out!: Teaching Your Child to Understand and Express Feelings -- 13. You Are What You Think: Teaching Your Child to Think Helpful Thoughts -- 14. Stress Busters: Teaching Your Child to Manage Stress -- Enhancing Your Child's Academic Development -- 15. Surviving School: Teaching Your Child to Manage Time, Organize, Plan, Review, and Stay on Task -- 16. Teaming Up: Collaborating and Advocating for Your Child at School -- Enhancing Your Well-Being as a Parent -- 17. You Parent the Way You Think: Thinking Helpful Thoughts to Enhance Parenting -- 18. Cool Parents: Managing Your Own Stress to Enhance Parenting -- Enhancing Your Family's Well-Being -- 19. Let's Get Together: Strengthening Family Bonds and Organization -- 20. We Can Work It Out: Strengthening Family Interaction Skills.

If your child or teen's emotional or behavioral difficulties are getting in the way of success at home, at school, or in social situations, this is the book for you. Systematic, sompassionate, and practical, the book is grounded in state-of-the-art research. The road to positive changes for your child and family starts here.