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Parenting Skills & Therapy Interventions for the Most Difficult Children

In his new book, Raising Children Who Refuse to be Raised, psychologist Dave Ziegler offers insight gained over 30 years working with difficult children and 16 years spent as a foster parent to hundreds of severely disturbed children. With empathy and humor, he delivers more than 300 pages of valuable information in a style as accessible to parents as to professionals. Unlike books that address individual categories of special needs children, Ziegler's is a handbook for parents (and the therapists who coach them) of children with multiple problems.

About the Author:

Dr. Dave Ziegler is Executive Director of SCAR/Jasper Mountain, a treatment program for some of our society's most damaged children. A psychologist, trainer, therapist, and most importantly, foster parent to hundreds of challenging children, Dr. Ziegler is quick to point out that he has been privileged to have had the finest education and training available. His principal teachers have not been in graduate school, but rather the children discussed in the pages of this book.

Beverly James (Review):

Dr. Dave Ziegler writes with the clarity that comes from working with these kids for 30 years. He provides a great mix of wisdom, humor and practical tools for families and their therapist/coaches.