Behavior Books
Store and library bookshelves are overflowing with guides to improving your child's behavior. Which ones are worth your precious free time? Follow these recommendations to find the help you need.
Top 5 Behavior Books
Five books that specifically address disciplinary problems in children with special needs and give solid advice for behavior management and modification.
Five books that specifically address disciplinary problems in children with special needs and give solid advice for behavior management and modification.
Book Review: Dyslogic Syndrome
Autism authority Bernard Rimland applies his recommendations for dietary interventions to ADHD, learning disabilities, depression, and antisocial behaviors.
Autism authority Bernard Rimland applies his recommendations for dietary interventions to ADHD, learning disabilities, depression, and antisocial behaviors.
Book Review: Freedom From Meltdowns
Review of a book that offers techniques for parents and professionals on how to prevent meltdowns from getting started.
Review of a book that offers techniques for parents and professionals on how to prevent meltdowns from getting started.
Book Review: Helping Children With Complex Needs Bounce Back
A short course in "Resilient Therapy" for parents of children with special needs.
A short course in "Resilient Therapy" for parents of children with special needs.
Book Review: Kids in the Syndrome Mix
A review of "Kids in the Syndrome Mix," which looks at a number of different diagnoses that affect behavior.
A review of "Kids in the Syndrome Mix," which looks at a number of different diagnoses that affect behavior.
Book Review: Making Sense of Children's Thinking and Behavior
Review of a book that offers a questionnaire to follow when trying to understand the behavior kids with neurological differences
Review of a book that offers a questionnaire to follow when trying to understand the behavior kids with neurological differences
Book Review: Parenting with Positive Behavior Support
Bring the techniques of Positive Behavior Support into your home to help your child, your whole family, and even yourself behave better.
Bring the techniques of Positive Behavior Support into your home to help your child, your whole family, and even yourself behave better.
Book Review: Please Don't Label My Child
A holistic psychiatrist urges parents to "break the doctor-diagnosis-drug cycle."
A holistic psychiatrist urges parents to "break the doctor-diagnosis-drug cycle."
Book Review: Raising Your Spirited Child
Changing your attitude toward your child's behavior can help to change the behavior, too. This empowering book helps parents appreciate their child's personality, and understand themselves better, too.
Changing your attitude toward your child's behavior can help to change the behavior, too. This empowering book helps parents appreciate their child's personality, and understand themselves better, too.
Book Review: Should I Medicate My Child?
A fairly even-handed look at the issues involved in deciding how to treat children with behavioral issues.
A fairly even-handed look at the issues involved in deciding how to treat children with behavioral issues.
Book Review: Sleepless in America
Review of a book by the author of "Raising Your Spirited Child" that places the blame for a lot of childhood behavior problems in sleep deprivation.
Review of a book by the author of "Raising Your Spirited Child" that places the blame for a lot of childhood behavior problems in sleep deprivation.
Book Review: The Challenging Child
Will you find your child in Dr. Stanley Greenspan's guide to "understanding, raising, and enjoying the five 'difficult' types of children"?
Will you find your child in Dr. Stanley Greenspan's guide to "understanding, raising, and enjoying the five 'difficult' types of children"?
Book Review: The Explosive Child
Help your child get "unstuck" from bad behavior with this calm, practical guide to reducing frustration -- yours and your child's.
Help your child get "unstuck" from bad behavior with this calm, practical guide to reducing frustration -- yours and your child's.
Book Review: Transforming the Difficult Child - True Stories of Triumph
Review of a book offering stories on successful implementation of the Nurtured Heart Approach.
Review of a book offering stories on successful implementation of the Nurtured Heart Approach.
Book Review: Transforming the Difficult Child
This excellent behavior-management book helps focus intense, energetic kids into more positive patterns, and gives parents something to feel good about too.
This excellent behavior-management book helps focus intense, energetic kids into more positive patterns, and gives parents something to feel good about too.
Book Review: Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior
Figuring out what a child's behavior means is one of the great challenges of parenting, and when there's any sort of disability mixed in, the degree of difficulty rises. Psychologist Steven Curtis offers steps and charts for figuring out what's really going on.
Figuring out what a child's behavior means is one of the great challenges of parenting, and when there's any sort of disability mixed in, the degree of difficulty rises. Psychologist Steven Curtis offers steps and charts for figuring out what's really going on.
Book Review: What It Takes to Pull Me Through
Ever wonder what goes on in a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens? "What It Takes" follows one group through the 15-month program at one such facility, the Academy at Swift River in Massachusetts.
Ever wonder what goes on in a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens? "What It Takes" follows one group through the 15-month program at one such facility, the Academy at Swift River in Massachusetts.
Book Review: When the Labels Don't Fit
Review of a book offering a positive behavior management approach to understanding a challenging child's traits and temperament.
Review of a book offering a positive behavior management approach to understanding a challenging child's traits and temperament.