No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior

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It could happen anywhere: at the grocery store, at a restaurant, at school, or at home. Meltdowns are stressful for both child and adult, but Dr. Baker can help!

Author of the award-winning Social Skills Picture Book series, Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for preventing and managing meltdowns. Over twenty years of experience working with children on the autism spectrum combined with his personal experiences raising his own children have yielded time-tested strategies―and results! Dr. Baker offers an easy-to-follow, four-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life, including managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, understanding why a meltdown occurs, and creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.

Helpful chapters include:: Meltdowns: When rewards and punishments are not enough
What are meltdowns made of?
Accepting and appreciating our children
De-escalating a meltdown
Understanding why repeat problems occur
Creating a prevention plan
And more!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Future Horizons
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2008
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 150 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932565620
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932565621
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.99 x 0.41 x 9.04 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #70,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #71 in Children & Adolescent’s Autism Spectrum #129 in Parenting Books on Children with Disabilities #145 in Popular Child Psychology
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