Description

It could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. At home.

Author 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 results! Dr. 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 momen
•  3) Understanding why a meltdown occurs
• 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