Parenting Techniques That Work: Successful Parenting Of Children & Teenagers With Challenging Behaviour, ADHD & Aspergers

by Dan Jones

Dan Jones has Asperger's which gives him a unique perspective in his work with families, he has over 15 years experience with children and young people with emotional & behavioural problems, ADHD, ODD and Aspergers & with offering parenting and family support. He also helped to set up a Therapeutic Children's Home and has held a number of training courses for professionals in how to work with children and young people that exhibit challenging behaviour, including senior social workers, and family support workers. This book has been written to be a quick read. It has as much 'jargon' and 'research' cut out as possible leaving the reader with what they can use right now to make a difference and get results. As well as being trained in behaviour management Dan has also trained and taught extensively in Solution Focused Therapy; Human Givens Approach to Therapy and Ericksonian Psychotherapy. All techniques and skills in this book have been successfully applied in real situations by the author and by parents that Dan has worked with over the years with children and teenagers with Asperger's, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessional Defiance Disorder (ODD), challenging behaviour and sleep difficulties. Dan has taught a wide variety of evidence-based parenting courses to parents in the UK including 'On Track' (for parents of 7-10 year olds, and parents of 10-14 year olds), 'Escape & Parallel Lines' (for parents and their teenager), 'Break 4 Change' (addressing teen to parent violence, for parents and their teenager), 'Strengthening Families Programme (10-14)' (for parents and their teenager) In this book you will learn - Consequences - Boundary setting - The importance of relaxation - Improving the quality of relationships - Effective listening and communication - Helping children to sleep - Reducing the risk of aggression - Understanding anger - Innate emotional needs - How to handle challenging behaviour and conflict This book has been written for parents that don't have time to trawl through many pages of research and irrelevant information before finding the answer. This book acknowledges that parents are busy and need to have the answer now, not a book that goes unread because you didn't have time to read it. If you would like to learn about Dan Jones research and work with parents to reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour and how to help parents to find their own answers to managing their children and teenagers that have challenging behaviour, ADHD, ODD or Asperger's please read 'Human Givens Approach to Working With Parents of Challenging Teens'

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting, Self Help

67 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 18, 2011

About the author

Dan Jones (Born 1978, Chichester, West Sussex, England) is an Aspie (person with Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism) who has over 20 years training and experience in hypnosis, meditation, and the healing arts, including Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Human Givens Approach, Solution Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. He has also worked for over 15 years with children, teens and parents. He worked in mental health in the late 1990s, before starting in children's homes in 2000, then helped to set up a therapeutic children's home, before moving into working with parents of children who were either young offenders, or committing anti-social behaviour and at risk of entering the youth justice system if they didn't turn their behaviour around. Dan then managed a team of Family Intervention Project staff, as well as continuing family work himself, and worked as part of the Troubled Families programme.

Relating to his experience with hypnotherapy and the healing arts Dan has written 'Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Scripts' and 'Hypnotherapy', both have frequently been bestsellers in hypnotherapy and hypnosis categories, and he has also written a novel 'The Hypnotic Assassin', and written the self-help book 'Take Control of Your Life', and the smoking cessation book 'Quit Smoking in 7 Day's', and has contributed to many other books, including Professor Ursula James' book 'Clinical Hypnosis Textbook'.

Relating to his parenting and family work Dan has written 'Parenting Techniques That Work' which is a 'to the point' book about what works in parenting based on his knowledge and experience having worked directly with children and teens with very challenging, often violent behaviour, and supporting many hundreds of parents to create change with their children. For professionals, he has written 'Human Given's Approach to Working With Parents of Teens With Challenging Behaviour' which shares how to support parents to make required changes to help their teens behave, and also shares efficacy research Dan carried out around helping teens to stop anti-social behaviour and youth crime by working with the parents (and not working with the teens directly at all).

Following many requests from parents and family support staff Dan also wrote his bestselling children's book 'Sleepy Bedtime Tales', which is based on an approach he developed while working in residential children's homes to help children to sleep. It is a collection of eleven stories, and guidelines on how those stories are to be read to help children sleep using various psychological techniques and principles, and the book also includes additional information about helping to get children to sleep. He has written a sequel to this book 'Relaxing Tales for Children' which uses many of the same psychological techniques and principles, but to help children relax rather than to send them to sleep.

Relating to his experiences as someone with Asperger's, and someone who has extensive experience working with those on the autistic spectrum, their families, friends, carers, and colleagues, Dan has written what he terms 'an autobiography through the lens of Asperger's' - 'Look Into My Eyes: Asperger's, Hypnosis, and Me' which aims to share what life is like as someone with Asperger's, as well as sharing information based on his professional experiences. This book has been a bestseller, reaching number one in psychology biographies, living with disabilities, developmental psychology, and many other categories, and number 30 in all biographies on Amazon UK. This book is now in its second edition following feedback from readers about what would make it more helpful. The second edition has an extra 50% of content including an extensive chapter of tips and strategies, covering tips for parents/carers, teachers, friends, employers, and those with Asperger's, and a chapter by Dan's wife about her experiences of being in a relationship with someone with Asperger'

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short e-book has some basic advice that might be useful for parents of children and teens with Aspergers or ADHD.

Advice such as:

"The more you can help them learn to relax or teach them ways to relax themselves the calmer they can remain and the more control they can have over their symptoms."

"If you are in a situation where you feel yourself getting angry; sit down. If you sit down this is a calm action so it reduces the chances of your behaviour escalating problems at the same time as calming you down and helping you manage the situation better."

"Many parents I have worked with see walking away as failure. This is actually as excellent strategy. If you can walk away do. Useful ideas are: Distraction, Ignoring, Offering Choices, Making clear consequences and sticking to them."

"Keep calm, keep your voice calm, don't shout or raise your voice. Try not to use materialistic punishments like taking things away, or materialistic rewards."

"It is important to give lots of praise when a child or teenager does something correct never mind how small. Within a day you want to give a minimum of 10 positives/praises for each negative. It has to be honest as specific praise."

[Nathan Ellzey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, concise book with good advice. Easy to read. Easy to highlight.