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- Youth with impulse-control disorders : on the spur of the moment / by McIntosh, Kenneth,1959-(CARDINAL)672665; Livingston, Phyllis,1957-(CARDINAL)480878;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-124) and index.Girl with a secret -- Caught in the act -- The little turquoise jacket -- Illumination -- The truth about Kyle -- A dubious deal -- Vanna's choice -- Glossary -- Further reading -- For more information.1040L- Subjects: Impulse control disorders in children;
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- Golden girl / by Faruqi, Reem,author.(CARDINAL)409549;
When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.Ages 9 to 12.Accelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Novels in verse.; Fiction.; Pakistani Americans; Families; Muslims; False imprisonment; Impulse control disorders in children; Pakistani American teenage girls; Teenage girls; Impulse control disorders;
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- Mental health disorders sourcebook : basic consumer health information about healthy brain functioning and mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychotic and personality disorders, eating disorders, impulse control disorders, and more; along with information about medications and treatments, mental health concerns in specific groups, such as children, adolescents, older adults, minority populations, and people in poverty, a glossary of related terms, and directories of resources for additional help and information. by Williams, Angela,1963-(CARDINAL)805067; Omnigraphics, Inc.(CARDINAL)203262;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, and other groups, along with tips for maintaining mental wellness. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--- Subjects: Mental illness.; Psychiatry;
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- The everything parent's guide to children with executive functioning disorder : strategies to help your child achieve the time-management skills, focus, and organization needed to succeed in school and life / by Branstetter, Rebecca,author.(CARDINAL)594294;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is executive functioning? -- The "Big 10" executive functions -- How does executive functioning develop in children and adolescents? -- Disorders with symptoms of executive functioning weakness -- Task initiation: taming your child's procrastination monster -- Response inhibition: teaching your child to control impulses -- Focus -- Time management: strengthening your child's internal clock -- Working memory -- Flexibility: rolling with changes -- Self-regulation: thinking about thinking -- Emotional self-control -- Task completion -- Organization -- Setting up your home environment to support executive functioning development -- How to advocate for support for your child at school -- Parenting children with executive functioning challenges -- Manager or micromanager? -- What if you also have executive functioning challenges? -- Building resilience.Learn what EF difficulties look like, and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Branstetter teaches you how to help improve the executive functions, and includes checklists to help enforce skills and improve organization. This is your step-by-step handbook for helping your child concentrate, learn, and thrive!- Subjects: Self-control in children.; Executive functions (Neuropsychology); Child development.; Child psychology.;
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- My busy, busy brain : the ABCDs of ADHD / by Russell, Nicole.; Thomas, Antoinette.;
"My Busy, Busy Brain provides practical tools for children struggling with controlling their emotions, impulses, and concentration. Nicole's experience encourages kids to embrace their special brains and provides a simple guide to take charge of their experience in the classroom and beyond. A beginner course for children curious about mental health, ADHD and the challenges we feel but can't see"--- Subjects: Fiction.; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Hyperactive children; Hyperactive children.;
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- Mental health disorders sourcebook : basic consumer health information about healthy brain functioning and mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychotic and personality disorders, eating disorders, impulse control disorders ... / by Bellenir, Karen.(CARDINAL)386725;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, and other groups, along with tips for maintaining mental wellness. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--- Subjects: Mental illness.; Psychiatry.;
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- Spontaneous activity in education. Translated from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. by Montessori, Maria,1870-1952.(CARDINAL)142750;
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages xxvi-xxviii).A survey of the child's life : Laws of the child's physical life paralleled by those of its physical : Current objections to a system of education based upon ''liberty'' ; Hygiene has freed the infant from straps and swaddling clothes and left it free to develop ; Education must leave the soul free to develop ; Principle of liberty in education not a principle of abandonment. The liberty accorded the child of to-day is purely physical. Civil rights of the child in the twentieth century : Removal of perils of disease a step toward physical liberation ; Supplying the child's physical needs is not sufficient ; Child's social rights overlooked in the administration of orphan asylums ; Poor child's health and property confiscated in the custom of wet nursing ; We recognize justice only for those who can defend themselves. How we receive the infants that come into the world : Home has no furnishings adapted to their small size ; Society prepares a mockery for their reception in the shape of useless toys ; Child not allowed to act for himself ; Constant interruption of his activities prevents physical growth ; Bodily health suffers from spiritual neglect. With man the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit : Reflex action of the emotions on the body functions ; Child's body requires joy as much as food and air -- A survey of modern education : The precepts which govern moral education and instruction : Child expected to acquire virtues by imitation, instead of development ; Domination of the child's will the basis of education. It is the teacher who forms the child's mind. How he teaches : Teacher's path beset with difficulties under the present system ; Advanced experts prepare the schemata of instruction ; Some outlines of ''model lessons'' used in the schools ; Comparison of a ''model lesson'' for sense development with the Montessori method ; Experimental psychology, not speculative psychology, the basis of Montessori teaching ; False conceptions of the ''art of the teacher'' illustrated by model lessons. Positive science makes its appearance in the schools ; Discoveries of medicine: distortions and diseases ; Science has not fulfilled its mission in its dealings with children : Diseases of school children treated, causes left undisturbed. Discoveries of experimental psychology: overwork; nervous exhaustion ; Science is confronted by a mass of unsolved problems : Laws governing fatigue still unknown ; Toxines produced by fatigue and their antitoxins ; Joy in work the only preventative of fatigue ; Real experimental science, which shall liberate the child, not yet born -- My Contribution to experimental science : The organization of the physical life begins with the characteristic phenomenon of attention : Incident which led Dr. Montessori to define her method. Physical development is organized by the aid of external stimuli, which may be determined experimentally : Tendency to develop his latent powers exists in the child's nature ; Environment should contain the means of auto-education. External stimuli may be determined in quality and quantity : Educative material used should contain in itself the control of error ; Quantity of material determined by the advent of abstraction in pupil ; Relation of stimuli to the age of the pupil. Material of development is necessary only as a starting point : Corresponds to the terra firma from which the aero plane takes flight and to which it returns to rest ; Establishing of internal order, or ''discipline'' ; Physical growth requires constantly new and more complex material ; Difference between materials of auto-education and the didactic material of the schools. Physical truths : "Discipline" the first external sign of a physical reaction to the material ; Initial disorder in Montessori schools ; Physical progress not systematic but ''explosive in nature'' ; Birth of individuality ; Intellectual crises are accompanied by emotion ; Older child beginning in system, chooses materials in inverse order ; Course of physical phenomena explained by diagrams ; Tests of Binet and Simon arbitrary and superficial ; Problems of physical measurement ; Observing the child's moral nature ; Transformation of a ''violent'' child and of a ''spying'' child in Montessori school ; Polarization of the internal personality. Guide to psychological observation : Work ; Conduct ; Obedience -- The preparation of the teacher : The school is the laboratory of experimental psychology ; Qualities the new type of teacher must possess -- Environment : Physical hygiene in school ; The requirements of physical hygiene. Free movement : Misconceptions of physical freedom ; Action without an aim fatigues ; Work of ''preservation'' rather than ''production'' suitable to children -- Attention : Awakens in answer to an impulse of ''spiritual hunger'' ; Attention cannot be artificially maintained by teacher ; Liberty the experimental condition necessary for studying the phenomena of attention ; Child's perception of an internal development makes the exercise pleasant and induces him to prolong it ; External stimuli powerless without an answering internal force ; A natural internal force directs physical formation ; New pedagogy provides nourishment for internal needs ; Organization of knowledge in the child's mind ; teacher directs, but does not interrupt phenomena of attention ; Material offered should correspond to physical needs -- Will : Its relation to attention ; Manifested in action and inhibition ; Opposite activities of the will must combine to form the personality.Powers of the will established by exercise, not by subjection ; Persistence in effort the true foundation of will ; Decision the highest function of the will ; Development of will depends on order and clarity of ideas ; Power of choice, which precedes decision, should be strengthened ; Need of exercise for the will paralleled with need of muscular exercise ; Fallacy of educating the child's will by ''breaking it'' ; ''Character'' the result of established will, not of emulation -- Intelligence : Liberating the child means leaving him to ''his own intelligence'' ; How the intelligence of the child differs from the instincts of animals ; Intelligence the actual means of formation to the inner life ; Hygiene of intelligence ; Intelligence awakens and sets in motion the central nervous mechanisms ; In an age of speed, man has not accelerated himself ; Swift reactions to an external manifestation of intelligence ; Ability to distinguish and arrange the characteristic sign of intelligence ; Montessori ''sensory exercises'' make it possible for the child to distinguish and classify ; The Montessori child is sensitive to the objects of his environment ; Educational methods in use do not help the child to distinguish ; Power of association depends on ability to distinguish dominant characteristics ; Individuality revealed in association by similarity ; by means of attention and internal will the intelligence accomplishes the work of association ; Judgement and reasoning depend on ability to distinguish ; Activities of association and selection lead to individual habits of thought ; Importance of acquiring ability to reason for oneself ; Genius the possession of maximum powers of association by similarity ; Genius of errors in association and reasoning which have impeded science ; The consciousness can only accept truths for which it is ''expectant'' ; The intelligence has its peculiar perils, from which it should be guarded -- Imagination : The creative imagination of science is based upon truth : Imagination based on reality differs from that based on speculation ; Speculative imagination akin to original sin ; Education should direct imagination into creative channels. Truth is also the basis of artistic imagination : All imagination based on sense impressions ; Non-sensorial impressions--Spiritual truths ; Education in sense perception strengthens imagination ; Perfection in art dependent on approximation to truth ; Exercise of the intelligence aids imagination. Imagination in children : Immature and therefore concerned with unrealities ; Should be helped to overcome immaturity of thought ; False methods develop credulity, akin to insanity ; Period of credulity in the child prolonged for the amusement of the adult ; ''Living among real possessions'' the cure for illusion. Fable and religion : Religion not the product of fantasy ; Fable in schools does not prepare for religious teaching. The education of the imagination in schools for older children : Environment and method oppressive ; ''Composition'' introduced to foster imagination ; How composition is ''taught'' ; Imagination cannot be forced. The moral question : Contributions of positive science to morality ; Science raises society to level of Christian standards ; Parents' failure to teach sex morality ; Probable effects of experimental psychology in field of morals ; Experimental psychology should be directed to the schools ; Progress of medicine and its relation to new psychology ; Childish naughtiness a parental misconception ; Infant life different from the adult ; Hindering the child's development a moral question for the adult ; Need of the child ''to touch and to act'' ; How the adult prevents him from learning by doing ; Conceptions of good and bad conduct in the school ; Mutual aid a high crime in the school ; Surveillance for vicious habits originating in the school ; Developing a ''social sentiment'' in the school ; ''A moral with every lesson'' the teacher's aim ; Injurious system of prizes and punishments the school's mainstay ; The fallacy of ''emulation'' ; Necessity of reforming the school ; Good conduct dependent on satisfaction of intellectual needs ; Mere sensory education inadequate ; Love, the preservative force of life ; Christianity teaches the necessity of mutual love. The education of the moral sense : Moral education must have basis of feeling ; Adult the stimulus by which child's feeling is exercised ; How and when the adult should offer affection. The essence of moral education : Importance of perfecting spiritual sensibility ; Necessity of properly organized environment ; Helping the child distinguish between right and wrong ; ''Internal sense'' of right and wrong ; Moral conscience capable of development. Our insensibility : Virtuous person and criminal not detected by contact ; The war as an example of moral insensibility ; Insensibility distinguished from death of the soul ; Spiritually, man must either ascend or die. Morality and religion : Conversion, the sudden establishing of moral order ; The Spirit enslaved by sentiments hostile to love. The religious sentiment in children : Crises of conscience and spontaneous religious feeling ; Some original observations by Dr. Montessori.- Subjects: Montessori method of education.;
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- Why we hate : understanding, curbing, and eliminating hate in ourselves and our world / by Dozier, Rush W.(CARDINAL)369104;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.- Subjects: Hate.;
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