
When the Labels Don't Fit
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—Brock Eide and Fernette Eide, authors of The Mislabeled Child
Finally, a positive approach designed around your child's traits and needs
Many children do things that seem odd, troubling, or excessive at some point in their development, and our culture is quick to attach a label to every child who's "outside the box” or hard to raise. Again and again, studies document the explosion in the number of children receiving psychiatric diagnoses for being intense, moody, or offbeat.
In this groundbreaking book, childhood development expert Barbara Probst provides a new framework for identifying the specific traits—like rigidity, curiosity, perfectionism, intensity, slow tempo, a need for novelty, or a need for control—that lie at the root of your child's challenging behavior.
When the Labels Don't Fit features a questionnaire for profiling your child's temperament and more than sixty strategies for dealing with specific kinds of behavior. It's the first comprehensive system that's not based on figuring out what's "wrong” with your child, but on helping you tap into your child's strengths so you can manage, nurture, and enjoy his or her essential nature.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter One
- The Unbearable State of Not-Knowing
- The Diagnosis Explosion
- A New Approach
- Chapter Two
- Uses and Misuses of the Old Model
- Using Temperament to Understand Your Child
- Determining Your Child's Temperament
- Temperament Questionnaire
- Chapter Three
- How Your Child Refuels: Source of Energy
- How Your Child Manages Energy: Excitability and Arousal
- How Your Child Pays Attention: Concentration, Depth and Range of Focus
- How Your Child Experiences Emotion: Intensity
- How Your Child Senses Internal Needs: Rhythm and Regularity
- How Your Child Relates to Time: Tempo and Duration
- Chapter Four
- How Your Child Lives in His Body: Sensory Sensitivity
- How Your Child Handles Tasks: Perfectionism and Mental Images
- How Your Child Handles Change: Adaptability
- How Your Child Relates to Others: Social Sensitivity
- How Your Child Sees the World: Sequential or Visual/Spatial Perception
- "Mapping" Your Child
- Chapter Five
- Talking About Difference
- Communicating Without Criticizing
- Communicating Without Overpraising
- Changing Your Radar
- Helping Your Child Use Language
- Chapter Six
- How Values Affect Response
- How Fears Affect Response
- Learning from Success, Not from Failure
- Paying, Not Suffering
- Giving, Not Giving In
- A Word about "Electronic Addiction"
- Chapter Seven
- Causes, Not Motives
- Internal Needs: Physiological and Psychological Stability
- Relational Needs: Attention and Autonomy
- External Needs: A Benevolent Environment
- External Needs: A Margin of Tolerance
- Chapter Eight
- Learning to Adapt Mental Concepts
- Learning to Regulate Emotions
- Learning to Handle Overload
- Learning to Connect with Others
- Learning to Manage Time
- Chapter Nine
- Balancing Acceptance and Improvement
- Balancing Safety and Vulnerability
- Considering Your Child's Temperament
- Considering Your Child's Developmental Stage
- Considering Your Family Style
- When Doing Nothing Is the Thing to Do
- Chapter Ten
- Know Your Own Temperament
- Find Common Ground
- Reduce Overall Stress
- Become Aware of Automatic Thinking
- Set Physical and Psychological Boundaries
- Chapter Eleven
- Diagnosis: What Is It and How Do You Get One?
- Diagnosis: Advantages and Disadvantages
- Disorder as a "Bad Brain"
- Therapies and Services
- The Question of Medication
- Special Schools and Programs
- Jack's Story
- Chapter Twelve
- Principle #1: Be Helpful
- Principle #2: Modify the Context to Make It a Better Fit
- Principle #3: Give Your Child a Chance to Do It Right
- Principle #4: Put Yourself in Your Child's Shoes
- Principle #5: Find the Unit at Which Your Child Can Be Successful
- Principle #6: Be Clear and Concrete
- Principle #7: Model Behavior for Your Child to Imitate
- Principle #8: Take Responsibility for Doing Most of the Work
- Principle #9: Be the First One to Get Off the Treadmill
- Principle #10: Keep a Strengths Perspective
- Deconstructing Behavior
- In Conclusion
- Temperament Questionnaire Answer Sheets
- References
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- What Parents and Educators are Saying About
- Praise for When the Labels Don't Fit
- Copyright
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