Poppy and Graham's Quest for Tenacity is designed to be an engaging, visually stimulating graphic book that combines the essential elements of storytelling with powerful educational messages. It narrates the adventures of Poppy and Graham, two relatable and spirited characters, who embark on a journey filled with challenges and learning opportunities. Each part of their journey is an allegory designed to teach and reinforce the principles of the seven instincts of tenacity, and resilience.

Poppy and Graham's Quest for Tenacity is engaging and visually appealing. My grandsons, Isaac (9) and Harry (13) learned the value of persistence and goals. The creative artwork captivated them. The book's parental guidelines ensure its message endures. Highly recommended!
-Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., Rutgers University. Co-author, The Joys and Oys of Parenting and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

Poppy and Graham's Quest for Tenacity is designed to be an engaging, visually stimulating graphic book that combines the essential elements of storytelling with powerful educational messages. It narrates the adventures of Poppy and Graham, two relatable and spirited characters, who embark on a journey filled with challenges and learning opportunities. Each part of their journey is an allegory designed to teach and reinforce the principles of the seven instincts of tenacity, and resilience.

Poppy and Graham's Quest for Tenacity is engaging and visually appealing. My grandsons, Isaac (9) and Harry (13) learned the value of persistence and goals. The creative artwork captivated them. The book's parental guidelines ensure its message endures. Highly recommended!
-Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., Rutgers University. Co-author, The Joys and Oys of Parenting and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

This book examines disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) during childhood and adolescence. It explores the ways in which explosive anger outbursts and persistent irritability are among the most problematic symptoms in child and adolescent mental health. and may present as a feature of many different psychiatric illnesses. The volume addresses the myriad challenges that youth with a focus on the DMDD diagnosis experience. Chapters focus on key issues of development, behavior, achievement, social relations, and mood. The book describes how to diagnose and conduct clinical assessments of child and adolescent personality and behavior with suspected DMDD.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Comprehensive history of mood dysregulation research and current trends in psychiatric classification (e.g., DSM-5, Research Domain Criteria) and their influence on the clinical assessment of children and adolescents with suspected DMDD.
• Updates of professional standards to guide clinicians and diagnosticians and discussions of practical considerations in planning and conducting clinical assessments for children with DMDD.
• Reviews the most recent editions of questionnaires and tests used in the clinical assessment of child and adolescents with suspected DMDD.
• Differential diagnosis and practical methods for integrating assessment information to develop an effective, multidisciplinary treatment plan.
• Review of current trends in psychiatric and psychological treatment of DMDD.

Clinician Guide to Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder in Children serves as an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as veteran and early-career clinicians and professionals across such interrelated disciplines as school, clinical child, developmental, and educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, school counseling, social work, and public health.

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow's successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts - intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness - as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts.

Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ these instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life. This book also serves as a rich resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in mental health and public health disciplines as well as many interrelated fields as we all strive to promote the well-being of children.

The collaboration of these two esteemed psychologists has been impacting on our field for decades. This new book continues that tradition.

- Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed.
Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend:
Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success

Tenacity in Children is the perfect balance between concepts, knowledge, scientific discourse, practical ideas and touching stories thattruly illustrate the principles shared in the book. This book should reach the hands of every person dedicated to working with children.

- Encarni Gallardo, MBA, CBM
Executive Director, Children's Service Society of Utah

Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Drs. Goldstein and Brooks impart their innovative concept of Tenacity in Children along with its seven essential instincts by using heartwarming stories, personal and professional insights, research, and wisdom.

- Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.
Co-author of Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within

Visit our website at www.tenacityinchildren.com

​Synthesizes and integrates the science of internalizing and externalizing childhood disorders with the DSM-5Provides an overview of internalizing and externalizing childhood behaviors

Offers clinical vignettes to illustrate key concepts and diagnostic and treatment issues

Addresses the shift from categorical to dimensional, diagnostic, and treatment systems

Explores the shift in research funding for child disorders​

Expands and updates First Edition's analysis of theory and research on impairment

Addresses improved diagnoses, interventions, and patient functioning according to DSM-5 and other medical models

Explores issues of resilience, adaptive behaviors, and treatment integrity

Examines impairment across broad domains of physical, educational, and cognitive disabilities

A must-have companion to the Impairment Rating Scale

Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood.

The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, analyzing both the whole and its parts in comprehensive, practical detail for scholar and clinician alike. Background chapters examine influential models of EF, tour the brain geography of the executive system and pose salient developmental questions. A section on practical implications relates early deficits in executive functioning to ADD and other disorders in children and considers autism and later-life dementias from an EF standpoint. Further chapters weigh the merits of widely used instruments for assessing executive functioning and review interventions for its enhancement, with special emphasis on children and adolescents.

Featured in the Handbook:

• The development of hot and cool executive function in childhood and adolescence.
• A review of the use of executive function tasks in externalizing and internalizing disorders.
• Executive functioning as a mediator of age-related cognitive decline in adults.
• Treatment integrity in interventions that target executive function.
• Supporting and strengthening working memory in the classroom to enhance executive functioning.

The Handbook of Executive Functioning is an essential resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners and graduate students in clinical child, school and educational psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; neurobiology; developmental psychology; rehabilitation medicine/therapy and social work.

Written in a Seussian style, this delightful story explains why children suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) react differently to simple situations in their daily lives. Explaining the symptoms of ADHD in an entertaining way, this tale helps children understand their differences, accept treatment, and retain positive self-esteem. Parents, teachers, and doctors will welcome this dialogue concerning how they can help children with ADHD.

Children are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders at a staggering rate-as many as one in 110, according to some studies. To this sobering statistic add the familiar figures of the toddler disengaged from his peers, the middle schooler shunned in the lunchroom, and the adult struggling with social cues on the job, and professionals are faced with a mounting challenge: to assist and support young people with these disorders to ensure their successful transition to adolescence and adulthood.

The first volume dedicated solely to its topic, Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders provides a comprehensive overview of programs currently in use. Contributors explore programs focusing on long-term outcomes, home- and classroom-based strategies, resilience training for parents, and pharmacological management of symptoms. Background chapters review issues in reliability and validity of interventions and evaluating treatment effectiveness. And an especially cogent chapter discusses the centrality of treatment integrity to best practice. Comprehensive programs and targeted interventions covered include:

• The Early Start Denver Model for young children.
• The TEACCH program for children, adults, and families.
• The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) and CARD eLearning.
• PROGress: a program for remediating and expanding social skills.
• Evidence-based strategies for repetitive behaviors and sensory issues.
• Self-regulation strategies for students with autism spectrum disorders.

Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential resource for researchers, professionals/practitioners, and clinicians in a wide array of fields, including clinical child, school, and developmental psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; education; rehabilitation medicine/therapy; social work; and pediatrics.

This text offers practicing clinicians strategies, interventions, suggestions, guidance and ideas to work with adults struggling with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and is intended as a reference to which clinicians will turn time and time again as issues or problems present themselves. The text will also provide a comprehensive review of the scientific literature and expand the development of an ongoing model to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Acknowledging that anger in children is an emotion that cannot be entirely avoided, this guide outlines a 7-step program to promote anger management in children aged 4 to 14. It offers techniques to help children deal with stress and anger, build confidence and resilience, and use effective coping behaviours to avoid dysfunctional behaviour.

Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with - and survive in - challenging new environments.
The Handbook of Intelligence addresses a broad range of issues relating to our cognitive and linguistic past. It is the first full-length volume to place intelligence in an evolutionary/cultural framework, tracing the development of the human mind, exploring differences between humans and other primates, and addressing human thinking and reasoning about its own intelligence and its uses. The works of pioneering thinkers - from Plato to Darwin, Binet to Piaget, Luria to Weachsler - are referenced to illustrate major events in the evolution of theories of intelligence, leading to the current era of multiple intelligences and special education programs. In addition, it examines evolutionary concepts in areas as diverse as creativity, culture, neurocognition, emotional intelligence, and assessment.
Featured topics include:

• The evolution of the human brain from matter to mind
  
• Social competition and the evolution of fluid intelligence
  
• Multiple intelligences in the new age of thinking
  
• Intelligence as a malleable construct
  
• From traditional IQ to second-generation intelligence tests
  
• The evolution of intelligence, including implications for educational programming and policy.
  

The Handbook of Intelligence is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and professionals in developmental psychology; assessment, testing and evaluation; language philosophy; personality and social psychology; sociology; and developmental biology.

This authoritative resource, now thoroughly revised for DSM-5, has set the standard for the comprehensive assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Leading experts demonstrate how to craft a scientifically grounded profile of each child's strengths and difficulties, make a formal diagnosis, and use assessment data to guide individualized intervention in clinical and school settings. Chapters review state-of-the-art instruments and approaches for evaluating specific areas of impairment in ASD and co-occurring emotional and behavioral disorders. Considerations in working with children of different ages are highlighted. With a primary focus on children, several chapters also address assessment of adolescents and adults.

New to This Edition
*Chapter on key implications of DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, plus related updates throughout the volume.
*Chapter on advances in early identification (ages 0-3).
*Chapter with in-depth case examples illustrating the evaluation decision-making process and common diagnostic challenges.
*Chapters on pseudoscience (including strategies for advising parents) and future directions in the field.
*Current assessment data, numerous new and revised measures, and cutting-edge screening approaches.

Expands and updates First Edition's analysis of theory and research on impairment

Addresses improved diagnoses, interventions, and patient functioning according to DSM-5 and other medical models

Explores issues of resilience, adaptive behaviors, and treatment integrity

Examines impairment across broad domains of physical, educational, and cognitive disabilities

A must-have companion to the Impairment Rating Scale

​Synthesizes and integrates the science of internalizing and externalizing childhood disorders with the DSM-5Provides an overview of internalizing and externalizing childhood behaviors

Offers clinical vignettes to illustrate key concepts and diagnostic and treatment issues

Addresses the shift from categorical to dimensional, diagnostic, and treatment systems

Explores the shift in research funding for child disorders​

This authoritative resource, now thoroughly revised for DSM-5, has set the standard for the comprehensive assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Leading experts demonstrate how to craft a scientifically grounded profile of each child's strengths and difficulties, make a formal diagnosis, and use assessment data to guide individualized intervention in clinical and school settings. Chapters review state-of-the-art instruments and approaches for evaluating specific areas of impairment in ASD and co-occurring emotional and behavioral disorders. Considerations in working with children of different ages are highlighted. With a primary focus on children, several chapters also address assessment of adolescents and adults.

New to This Edition
*Chapter on key implications of DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, plus related updates throughout the volume.
*Chapter on advances in early identification (ages 0-3).
*Chapter with in-depth case examples illustrating the evaluation decision-making process and common diagnostic challenges.
*Chapters on pseudoscience (including strategies for advising parents) and future directions in the field.
*Current assessment data, numerous new and revised measures, and cutting-edge screening approaches.

The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to happier and healthier lives as well as improved functionality across the lifespan. In this edition, expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors as phenomena in child and adolescent disorders and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood.

The significantly expanded third edition includes new and significantly revised chapters that explore strategies for developing resilience in families, clinical practice, and educational settings as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers. Key areas of coverage include:

• Exploration of the four waves of resilience research.
• Resilience in gene-environment transactions.
• Resilience in boys and girls.
Resilience in family processes.
• Asset building as an essential component of intervention.
• Assessment of social and emotional competencies related to resilience.
• Building resilience through school bullying prevention.
• Resilience in positive youth development.
• Enhancing resilience through effective thinking.

The Handbook of Resilience in Children, Third Edition, is an essential reference for researchers, clinicians and allied practitioners, and graduate students across such interrelated disciplines as child and school psychology, social work, public health as well as developmental psychology, special and general education, child and adolescent psychiatry, family studies, and pediatrics.

Ellie is a bright, creative nine-year-old with a unique way of seeing the world. Through music, art, and her vivid imagination, she explores her extraordinary mind. But when her days feel overwhelming, Ellie discovers the beauty of embracing who she is. With the help of a caring teacher, Ellie learns about Autism - a word that unlocks understanding and celebrates her strengths. As Ellie navigates challenges, she finds her voice through her talents, inspiring her friends and family. Ellie's Song is a heartwarming tale of self-discovery, acceptance, and the vibrant power of being yourself. It is perfect for readers of all ages!

Ausdauer bei Kindern untersucht, wie Generationen von Eltern und Pädagogen Kinder zu erfolgreichen Erwachsenen erzogen haben. In der Geschichte der Menschheit gab es bis vor relativ kurzer Zeit keine organisierten Einrichtungen, Pädagogikschulungen oder Erziehungsbücher; stattdessen verlie en sich Pädagogen auf sieben wichtige Instinkte, die sich über zehntausende Jahre entwickelt haben. Dieser Band hebt hervor, wie entscheidend diese Instinkte heute sind, um Kinder fürein erfolgreiches Leben vorzubereiten. Wichtige Themen sind folgende sieben Instinkte: intuitiver Optimismus, intrinsische Motivation, mitfühlende Empathie, gleichzeitige Intelligenz, echter Altruismus, tugendhafte Verantwortung und nachweisbare Fairness - sowie praktische Strategien zur Entwicklung dieser Instinkte.

Ausdauer bei Kindern bietet eine solide Grundlage, um Kinder auf eine glückliche Zukunft vorzubereiten. Es gibt Erwachsenen klare Wegweisung, wie sie jedem Kind die Möglichkeit geben können, diese Instinkte zu stärken, während sie die Kindheit und den Übergang ins Erwachsenenleben meistern. Das Buch ist auch eine wertvolle Ressource für Forscher und Praktiker in den Bereichen psychische und öffentliche Gesundheit.

Die Zusammenarbeit dieser beiden Psychologen hat unser Fachgebiet seit Jahrzehnten geprägt. Dieses Buch führt diese Tradition fort.

- Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed. Autor von It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success

Ausdauer bei Kindern bietet eine ausgewogene Mischung aus Konzepten, Wissen, praktischen Ideen und berührenden Geschichten. Es sollte in die Hände aller gelangen, die mit Kindern arbeiten.

- Encarni Gallardo, MBA, CBM Geschäftsführerin, Children's Service Society of Utah

In einem leicht lesbaren Stil vermitteln Dr. Goldstein und Dr. Brooks ihr innovatives Konzept von Ausdauer bei Kindern und den sieben wesentlichen Instinkten durch herzerwärmende Geschichten und persönliche Einblicke.

- Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.Mitautorin von Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within

Besuchen Sie unsere Website unter www.tenacityinchildren.com

Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood.

The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, analyzing both the whole and its parts in comprehensive, practical detail for scholar and clinician alike. Background chapters examine influential models of EF, tour the brain geography of the executive system and pose salient developmental questions. A section on practical implications relates early deficits in executive functioning to ADD and other disorders in children and considers autism and later-life dementias from an EF standpoint. Further chapters weigh the merits of widely used instruments for assessing executive functioning and review interventions for its enhancement, with special emphasis on children and adolescents.

Featured in the Handbook:

• The development of hot and cool executive function in childhood and adolescence.
• A review of the use of executive function tasks in externalizing and internalizing disorders.
• Executive functioning as a mediator of age-related cognitive decline in adults.
• Treatment integrity in interventions that target executive function.
• Supporting and strengthening working memory in the classroom to enhance executive functioning.

The Handbook of Executive Functioning is an essential resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners and graduate students in clinical child, school and educational psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; neurobiology; developmental psychology; rehabilitation medicine/therapy and social work.