Best Selling Books by Carolyn Webster-Stratton

For teachers of children aged four to eight years, this book demonstrates how to set up individualized programs to address the special social and emotional needs of children at risk because of learning difficulties, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, attention deficit disorder, language and reading delays, and aggressive behavior. The author shows how teachers can integrate individualized interventions for such children in the mainstream classroom, while enhancing the social competence of alltheir students.

Approximately two-thirds of all children referred to mental health agencies are labeled conduct-disordered. Typically such children exhibit antisocial behavior -- lying, cheating, stealing, firesetting, fighting, oppositional behavior and noncompliance to parental requests -- at abnormal rates. Troubled Families -- Problem Children helps the mental-health clinician understand the most effective "therapeutic processes" for supporting families who have children with conduct disorders. Help for these families is particularly urgent as the children are not only at increased risk of abuse by their parents but are more likely to be involved in school dropout, alcoholism, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, etc., and also to suffer from poor physical health. From the Foreword by Thomas Ollendick "What sets this book apart from others of its genre is its careful attention to, and elucidation of, the ''collaborative process'' in working with these oppositional, defiant, and conduct-disordered children and their families." "Webster-Stratton and Herbert do not just talk about troubled families and problem children; rather, they bring them to us in rich and graphic detail." "Troubled Families -- Problem Children is an outstanding and scholarly contribution to the field."

This book provides parents and teachers of children on the autism spectrum (aged 2-5 years) with strategies for promoting childrens optimal social, emotional, language, and academic competence. It includes verbal and nonverbal strategies to help caregivers to enter in childrens attention spotlight and expand their interest and joy in relationships with others. The book includes sample adult-child social and emotion coaching scripts for interacting with children and suggestions for modelling, initiating, and prompting social behaviours and joint activities. Also included are other connection and communication strategies such as sensory games, visual prompts and pictures, gestures, pretend and puppet play, and intentional communication. Through repeated, sensitive and responsive interactions, parents and teachers can learn to enter the child''s attention spotlight and to jointly share experiences that bring the child interest and joy. This results in a strong interpersonal connection and gradually leads to the child''s desire and ability to communicate and share emotions and experiences with others. This child-focused and developmentally based way of communicating and teaching leads to a stronger relationship, more emotional connection, more emotion regulation, and less frustration for parents, teachers, and the child!

Approximately 2/3 of all children referred to mental health agencies are labeled as having Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. These children are at increased risk for poor outcomes including academic failure, deviant peer groups, drug use, violenece, and deliquency. Identifying and treating these children as early as possible offers promise for stregnthening child protective factors such as social, emotional, and academic competence and effective parenting, thereby preventing and reducing the development of conduct problems and other secondary risk factors. The book has two elements -- first it allows parents to tell thier stories: sharing what it is like to have a "problem" child as well as the long and painful route to finding support and recovery through parent and child training. The book also elucidates in detail the "collaborative process" of therapists working together with familes. This process combines the knowledge and expertise of the clinician with the unique stregnths, perspectives, culture and goals of parents. Essentially the goal is to empower parents by making them active partners in the therapy process, teaching them parenting strategies to cope effectively with their child and stregnthen their relationship as well as build support networks. The book uses case examples to illustrate these points and provides examples of how to tailor the parent programs for high-risk populations and multicultural families. Examples of when and how to add adjunct therapies such as child and teacher training are also discussed, providing a comprehensive guide for the collaborative process for therapists using the Incredible Years® programs.

Jengelen, niet luisteren en boze buien horen bij jonge kinderen. Maar als uw 3-jarige dochtertje niet ophoudt met krijsen omdat zij geen tv meer mag kijken, wat is dan verstandig om te doen? Hoe te reageren als uw 5-jarig zoontje zijn jongere zusje een duw heeft gegeven, nadat ze zijn speelgoed heeft afgepakt? En als u uw zoontje naar de gang stuurt omdat hij zijn zusje heeft geslagen, maar hij komt steeds de woonkamer weer in, wat moet u dan? Wat kunt u doen als uw kind zich misdraagt in de supermarkt? Hoe kunnen kinderen geholpen worden beter met boosheid om te gaan? En hoe kunnen ouders de sociale vaardigheden van hun kinderen helpen vergroten in het samenspelen met andere kinderen? In Pittige jaren geeft Carolyn Webster-Stratton antwoord op deze vragen. Het zijn inderdaad pittige jaren, de tijd waarin ouders kinderen in de leeftijd van 2 tot 8 jaar opvoeden. Pittig in de zin van soms zwaar en heftig, maar ook in de zin van levendig, vol met voorvallen waar ouders later met vertedering op terugkijken, of hartelijk om kunnen lachen, Bij het bespreken van de problemen maakt klinisch psycholoog Carolyn Webster-Stratton gebruik van meer dan 25 jaar ervaring in het werken met ouders van jonge kinderen. Zij geeft niet alleen oplossingen, maar licht ook op een heel praktische manier de achtergrond toe van de gewenste aanpak. Pittige jaren is geschreven vanuit de unieke combinatie van een rijke praktijkervaring met een grondige kennis van de wetenschappelijke achtergrond van opvoeden. Voor menig ouder zal dit boek een veilige en wijze gids zijn bij het oplossen van opvoedingsproblemen. Ouders over Pittige jaren: "Hij is rustiger, liever en denkt nu ook aan anderen. Maar het komt niet vanzelf, je moet er wel iets voor doen" "Een praktische manier om als opvoeders samen aan de slag te gaan." "Elke dag spelen met je kind maakt een wereld van verschil: het zorgt voor een stevige basis en vertrouwen in elkaar."