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No More Meltdowns : Positive Strategies for Dealing with and Preventing Out-of-Control Behavior
by Baker, JedISBN13:
9781932565621
ISBN10:
1932565620
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
4/1/2008
Publisher(s):
Ingram Pub Services
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Summary
It could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. 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. His 20+ 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, 4-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: 1) Managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, 2) Learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, 3) Understanding why a meltdown occurs, and 4) Creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.
Author Biography
Dr. Jed Baker is a behavioral consultant for several New Jersey school districts where, nearly two decades ago, he organized a group to help children with social communication problems
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| The Problem | |
| Meltdowns: When rewards and punishments are not enough | p. 3 |
| What is a meltdown? | |
| The usual parenting advice: start with rules and consequences | |
| The limits of discipline: when rewards and punishments no longer work | |
| But aren't meltdowns just manipulative behavior? | |
| Can we really expect no more meltdowns? | |
| An overview of the four-step model for reducing meltdowns | |
| What are meltdowns made of? | p. 13 |
| Fight, flight or freeze response | |
| Temperament | |
| Difficulties with abstract thinking and perspective taking | |
| Inflexibility | |
| An explosive combination | |
| The Solution | |
| Accepting and appreciating our children | p. 23 |
| Controlling our own frustration | |
| Building competence | |
| Avoiding learned helplessness | |
| The 80/20 rule | |
| Anticipating frustration as part of learning | |
| When to avoid power struggles | |
| De-escalating a meltdown | p. 35 |
| How to de-escalate a meltdown | |
| Distractions | |
| When too much distraction can make things worse | |
| Helping children find their own distractions and calming strategies | |
| Steps for creating self-calming strategies | |
| Understanding why repeat problems occur | p. 47 |
| Understanding the triggers | |
| The ABCs of behavior: Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence | |
| Getting the ABCs: Interviews and observations | |
| Seeing the pattern | |
| Creating a prevention plan | p. 57 |
| The components of a good prevention plan | |
| A prevention plan for Kevin | |
| The four types of meltdown situations | |
| Plans for the Four Types of Meltdown Situations | |
| Demands | p. 69 |
| Do your schoolwork | |
| Try it, it's delicious | |
| Hurry up, the bus is coming | |
| Clean up | |
| Let's go to the party | |
| Waiting | p. 93 |
| Just wait | |
| You can't always get what you want | |
| Okay, time to stop playing | |
| Threats to self-image | p. 109 |
| Winning isn't everything | |
| It's okay to make mistakes | |
| But names will never hurt you | |
| Unmet wishes for attention | p. 125 |
| I can't play with you now | |
| Don't be jealous | |
| Time to go to bed | |
| Closing thoughts: Finding your own way | p. 145 |
| Prevention plan form | |
| References | p. 149 |
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