Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits, First Edition: (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. From leading experts, the book provides detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a classwide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured; the large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying.

Table of Contents:
Unit I. Theoretical and Research Background1. Executive Skills and Brain Development 2. Theoretical Underpinnings for Coaching Unit II. Our Coaching Model3. Basic Coaching for Academic Success 4. Advanced Coaching Techniques 5. Setting Up a School-Based Academic Coaching Program Unit III. Special Applications6. Classwide Peer Coaching 7. Peer Coaching for Social Skills Development, Pamela Plumer8. Parting Thoughts Practice Exercises Appendices. Reproducible Materials

About the Author :
Peg Dawson, EdD, and Richard Guare, PhD: both at Center for Learning and Attention Disorders, Seacoast Mental Health Center, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA

Review :
"Dawson and Guare are to be congratulated for writing such a readable yet scientifically rigorous manual that will be invaluable to teachers, counselors, and school psychologists who work with students with executive skills deficits. The book is illustrated with fascinating case examples that will be all too familiar to teachers who have struggled to find ways of helping students to reach their potential. It provides constructive, step-by-step guidance on what it means to have an executive skills deficit and how to implement an effective coaching program." - Peter Farrell, University of Manchester, UK "This is a unique and marvelous book that presents a useful coaching model for students with executive skills deficits, including those who have ADHD. It is the most informative, practical guide available on the topic. As with their other books, the authors have again produced a resource that is straightforward, well organized, easy to understand, and filled with strategies that can be readily implemented. The book will prove exceptionally useful not only for teachers, practitioners, and coaches, but also for graduate courses in education and in school, child clinical, and counseling psychology." - Russell A. Barkley, Medical University of South Carolina, USA