A step-by-step guide to handling behaviour difficulties. This second edition includes new chapters on the family atmosphere, learning disabilities, the adolescent as opposed to the teenager, and the delinquent child. It features charts on the sociogram and a chart on student seating arrangements.

Encouragement is the basis for development of human potential in children and adults. It is the source of motivation for effective actions, goals and interpersonal relationships. Encouragement permits individuals to overcome setbacks and adversities, to have respect for self and for others, to be optimistic and to meet life's challenges. In an era that has witnessed high rates of depression, anxiety, suicide and violence, EncouragingChildren to Learn provides crucial and well tested encouragement methods for improving attitudes, goals and actions.

A step-by-step guide to handling behaviour difficulties. This second edition includes new chapters on the family atmosphere, learning disabilities, the adolescent as opposed to the teenager, and the delinquent child. It features charts on the sociogram and a chart on student seating arrangements.

A central tenet of Adlerian psychology and a timeless intervention strategy, encouragement gives children a sense that they have a place in society and, in turn, secures their investment in themselves and the group. As we witness rising levels of violence, depression, anxiety, and suicide among the nation's youth, this classic discussion of how to encourage children to engage in learning assumes renewed, even increased, importance. Discouraged children disengage from learning and from society. Encouraged children believe themselves capable of overcoming adversity, of meeting life's challenges; they feel the value of contributing to the world around them, and both child and society benefit.
Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D., a colleague of Alfred Adler and founder of Individual Psychology, and Don Dinkmeyer, PhD., distinguished author and educator, provide teachers, mental health professionals, and parents with practical strategies for using encouragement in their work with children. They use case studies from actual classroom situations to illustrate their methods, and what results is a concise, easy to read volume that will continue to be indispensable to anyone working with children now and in the future. Brunner-Routledge is proud to reprint this timeless classic with a new preface by G. W. Linden.

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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Based on his wide experience in the practice of psychiatry, Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs presents a positive program for resolving problems of love and sex in marriage and offers a message of challenge, hope and workable solutions. This definitive guide gives couples the help they need to solve such common problems as: dealing with infidelity and jealousy, reawakening sexual desire, resolving arguments constructively, getting along together, and rearing children.
"The Challenge of Marriage" offers excellent advice and proven strategies for men and women who want to build love and intimacy and establish happier, healthier relationships.
Accelerated Development is proud to provide a reprint of this classic Adlerian resource. Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D.-a long-time associate of Alfred Adler, M.D.-helps the reader gain insight into Adlerian Psychology and its approach to effective marital and family life.

Children:The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This warm and reassuring reference helps parents to understand their children's actions better, giving them the guidance necessary to discipline lovingly and effectively.

A collection of papers originally published in a variety of periodical sources; two papers by Sadie Dreikurs are included in the Appendix.