No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Dealing with and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior, Paperback

It could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. At home. Meltdowns are stressful for both child and adult, but Dr. Baker can helpAuthor of the award-winning Social Skills Picture Book series, Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for preventing and managing meltdowns. His 20+ years of experience working with children on the autism spectrum, combined with his personal experiences raising his own children, have yielded time-tested strategies, and resultsDr. Baker offers an easy-to-follow, 4-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: 1) Managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, 2) Learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, 3) Understanding why a meltdown occurs, and 4) Creating plans to prevent future meltdowns. Helpful chapters include:

• Meltdowns: When rewards and punishments are not enough
• What are meltdowns made of?
• Accepting and appreciating our children
• De-escalating a meltdown
• Understanding why repeat problems occur
• Creating a prevention plan
• Demands
• Waiting
• Threats to self-image
• Unmet wishes for attention