John Maag

Broschiertes Buch

Powerful Struggles: Managing Resistance and Students' Challenging Behaviors

Beschreibung

Every teacher or any professionals working with students who display challenging behaviors should have a diverse and varied repertoire of methods for addressing those behaviors. Dr. Maag offers novel approaches to dealing with challenging behaviors, showing how you can achieve dramatic, positive results by refocusing on your own behavior instead of continuing to use the same old methods without success. You'll learn how to respond in new ways that really work. With an in-depth exploration of the nature of resistance, illustrated by real-life examples of the strategies in practice, you will discover the secrets of turning resistance into compliance: - The fundamentals of managing resistance - Which strategy to choose, how to test it, and when to stop and try another - How to eliminate challenging behaviors and replace them with appropriate ones - Proven techniques for building rapport - How to foster compliance by matching your students' frames of reference >By broadening your repertoire of behavior management strategies with Powerful Struggles: Managing Resistance and Students' Challenging Behaviors you will be able to make your classroom resistance-free and keep it that way for years to come. >- The fundamentals of managing resistance - Which strategy to choose, how to test it, and when to stop and try another - How to eliminate challenging behaviors and replace them with appropriate ones - Proven techniques for building rapport - How to foster compliance by matching your students' frames of reference >By broadening your repertoire of behavior management strategies with Powerful Struggles: Managing Resistance and Students' Challenging Behaviors you will be able to make your classroom resistance-free and keep it that way for years to come.

Autor

Dr. John W. Maag is the Larry and Sharron Roos Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he specializes in the education and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. He is a nationally recognized behavioral consultant on best practices for managing resistance and improving relationships with others. Dr. Maag's main areas of research include functional behavioral assessment, childhood and adolescent depression, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, self-management training, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. He has published approximately 120 articles and book chapters on these topics as well as authoring four books-- one of which, Parenting without Punishment, won a Parent's Choice award. He was also the recipient of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Distinguished Teaching Award. A licensed psychotherapist, Dr. Maag is a frequent public speaker and consulting editor to numerous journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798350907964
• Artikelnr.: 68420081