Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, First Edition: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention (Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools)

Dawson and Guare go far beyond the description of executive skill deficits found in currently available texts to provide school psychologists, special and general education teachers, graduate students, and researchers with empirically based, practical guidelines for assessment and treatment. By far the most noteworthy aspect of this book is the detailed coverage and multiple examples of interventions. These interventions are not only based on solid research support but also have the added advantage of being practical and feasible for teachers and parents to use on a regular basis. An appropriate text for gaduate-level courses in psychological/behavioral assessment and school/child interventions. - George J. DuPaul, Lehigh University, USA

This volume is filled with promising practices for evaluating and improving children's executive functioning. Initially developed to target the processing problems of children with ADHD and traumatic brain injury, this approach shows potential for assisting all children in the classroom. The book's interview protocols and checklists provide readers with specific guidance for informed professional practice. - Jonathan Sandoval, University of California, USA

Difficulties with self-regulation of behavior and of thinking are among the most stressful and difficult-to-deal-with issues faced by parents and teachers of children with disabilities. Dawson and Guare deserve high praise for presenting a practical, integrated, and easy-to-digest approach to disorders of executive self-regulation in children. Their emphasis on intervention within the routines of everyday life, with adults acting as the children's coaches, is most welcome, as are their many user-friendly forms and helpful case illustrations. - Mark Ylvisaker, College of Saint Rose, USA

It is one thing to develop theories of the brain's executive system, as some of us have done in the clinical neurosciences, and quite another to translate such theories into meaningful, practical, well-organized, and easy-to-implement strategies that parents can use to enhance a child's natural executive abilities. Dawson and Guare have done so brilliantly in this book, which is by far the best on the topic I have read to date. Parents will find here a rich array of methods to help children develop their executive and self-regulatory abilities. Professionals, for their part, will enjoy the model of executive functioning and the ways to increase children's executive effectiveness, and will learn how to convey these ideas to their clients. - Russell A. Barkley, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Richard Guare, PhD, a neuropsychologist, is Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Guare received his doctorate in school/child psychology from the University of Virginia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has served as a consultant to a number of brain injury programs in New England, and has presented and published research and clinical work on acquired brain injury and attention disorders. In addition, Dr. Guare has been Adjunct Professor of Communication Disorders at the University of New Hampshire and teaches courses in child neuropsychology at the University of Southern Maine.