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Smart but Scattered Teens

The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

Richard Guare, Peg Dawson, and Colin Guare

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December 16, 2012
ISBN 9781462506996
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293 Pages
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December 17, 2012
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Introduction

I. What Makes Your Teen Smart but Scattered

1. Executive Skills and the Teen Brain sample

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

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