Smart But Scattered Teens

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This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens’ independence by building their executive skills—the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

Executive skills experts Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson are joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced these issues himself. Learn step-by-step strategies to help your teen live up to his or her potential now and in the future—while making your relationship stronger.

Helpful worksheets and forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8½“ x 11” size.

Winner (Third Place)—American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, Consumer Health Category

Table of Contents

Authors’ Note
Introduction

I. What Makes Your Teen Smart but Scattered

1. Executive Skills and the Teen Brain (Sample link)
2. Identifying Your Teen’s Executive Skills Strengths and Weaknesses
3. Assessing Your Own Executive Skills and Parenting Style

II. Laying a Foundation That Can Help

4. Ten Principles for Improving Your Teen’s Executive Skills
5. Motivating Your Teen to Use Executive Skills
6. Modifying the Environment
7. Teaching Executive Skills

III. Putting It All Together

8. Advance Organizer
9. Enhancing Response Inhibition
10. Strengthening Working Memory
11. Increasing Emotional Control
12. Boosting Flexibility
13. Building Sustained Attention
14. Teaching Task Initiation
15. Promoting Planning and Prioritizing
16. Fostering Organization
17. Improving Time Management
18. Encouraging Goal-Directed Persistence
19. Cultivating Metacognition
20. Coaching
21. Transitions

Resources

Titles in Series

Smart but Scattered (Second Edition)
Smart but Scattered Teens
Smart but Scattered – and Stalled
The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success