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Empowering underachievers, new strategies to guide kids (8-18) to personal excellence, Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch

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Empowering underachievers, new strategies to guide kids (8-18) to personal excellence, Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Empowering underachievers

Oclc number

145464815

Responsibility statement

Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch

Sub title

new strategies to guide kids (8-18) to personal excellence

Table Of Contents

Machine derived contents note: Illustrations ix -- Author's Note xi -- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgements xv -- Part I: -- Understanding the Problem 1 -- 1 Who Are Underachievers? 5 -- 2 The Four Types of Underachievers 21 -- 3 Attention Deficit and Other Disorders 41 -- 4 What Influences Motivation? 49 -- 5 Why It Is Important to Motivate Underachievers 71 -- 6 The Motitivational Circle 83 -- 7 Good and Bad Emotions 94 -- 8 Intellectual Versus Emotional Development 112 -- Part II: -- Solving the Problem 120 -- 9 Approaches to Motivation-What to Avoid 122 -- 10 General Interventions 130 -- 11 General Interventions: Rules with Value 152 -- 12 Summer and Holiday Interventions 165 -- 13 How to Motivate a Distant Underachiever 172 -- 14 How to Motivate a Passive Underachiever 180 -- 15 How to Motivate a Dependent Underachiever 187 -- 16 How to Motivate a Defiant Underachiever 194 -- 17 Maintenance and Prevention 204 -- 18 Staying Fit for Intervention 234 -- 19 Teacher/Parent Cooperation 240 -- 20 Intervention When You Aren't Around 249 -- Conclusion 254 -- Appendix A Checklist of Underachieving Behaviors 257 -- Appendix B Developmental Level Indicators 259 -- Appendix C Emotion Vocabulatry Words 263 -- Appendix D Emotion Situation Gram 275 -- Appendix E Unhook the Projection Scenarios 277 -- Appendix F Party Guidelines 280 -- About the Authors 286

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