SOS! Help for Parents - Book

ISBN# 0-935111-21-2
Publication Date: 2005
Paperback, 254 pgs.
Third Edition

Summary

SOS Help For Parents is a book and parent education program which helps children, ages two to twelve, to improve their behavior and emotional adjustment.  It is internationally used and recommended by psychologists, pediatricians, teachers, and other professionals as well as parents.  The book teaches over 20 methods for helping children and offers the most complete ;Slable for using time-out.

Reviews

"SOS is an extremely comprehensive book...an excellent book.  We highly recommend it."
-- Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

"Lynn Clark...drew from his 20 years of working with parents and children when he wrote SOS Help For Parents.
-- USA Today

"It's a wonderful book...easy to read, simple, and based on sound research."
-- Emel Summer, MD, Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, DePaul Health Center, St. Louis, Missouri

SOS books -- "great teaching tools for our staff as well as parents."
 -- Director of Hospital Child Unit, Augusta, Georgia

"SOS turned our family around...I really regained my self-confidence as a parent."
-- Mother of two, Riverview, Michigan

"...easy to read and it's content is excellent."
-- Contemporary Psychology Journal

"SOS...cannot help but make a parent's life easier and more enjoyable.  I endorse it with enthusiasm!"
-- A.J. Moser, Director, Center For Human Potential

"...I am in Istanbul, Turkey and have found your book quite helpful with Turkish parents..."
-- Yanki Yazgan, MD, Child Psychiatry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

"Both teachers and parents in Hungary consider SOS Help For Parents very useful and the feedback is quite good."
-- Anna Decsi and Barnane Marta Likovszky, Budapest, Hungary

"SOS Help For Parents empowers parents with the tools for child rearing using a positive, consistent and simple-to-follow program . . . . will enable parents to feel more competent and confident in their parenting skills as well as in their communication skills with their children."
-- National Association of School Psychologists, Communique'

Contents

Introduction

Section One
FUNDAMENTALS OF IMPROVING BEHAVIOR

1. Why Kids Behave and Misbehave
2. Clear Communication Promotes Effective Parenting
3. Ways of Increasing Good Behavior
4. What is Time-Out? When Do Parents Use It?
5. Major Methods For Stopping Bad Behavior

6. Getting Started Wtih Time-Out
7. Picking A Boring Place For Time-Out
8. Explaining Time-Out To Your Child
9. Quickly Getting Your Child To Time-Out
10. The Timer And Waiting In Time-Out
11. Talking With Your Child--After Time-Out
12. Common Time-Out Mistakes

13. Managing Bad Behavior Away From Home
14. Using Points, Tokens, And Contracts
15. Timing-Out Two Children
16. Timing-Out A Toy Instead Of The Child
17. Handling Aggressive And Dangerous Behavior
18. Helping Your Child Express Feelings
19. More Problem Behaviors--Questions And Solutions

20. Teachers And Parents As Partners
21. Helpful Classes For Parents
22. When and How to Get Professional Help
23. Controlling Your Own Anger
24. Quizzes And Answers For Parents

1. SOS Video And Professional Materials
2. SOS Summary Sheets For Parents