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conduct disorder and under-achievement

The young people who are the subject of this book are responsible for a disproportionate amount of difficulty for society. They are the chronic rule-breakers and bullies. They may threaten, intimidate, manipulate, steal, and use violence to get what they want. Many are drug abusers and drug dealers.

Most have problems with self-control and self-discipline. Nearly all of them are academic underachievers. Unfortunately, they are also incredibly resistant to psychological intervention. Exhibiting a range of behaviors grouped under...

Offering an integrated approach to the psychology of underachievement, unifying theory and practice, this book examines different types of underachievers, explores the relationship between personality and underachievement, and provides useful guidelines for clinical practice. An outline and summary of the voluminous (and often contradictory) literature is presented, together with theoretical models of the underachiever that are grounded in mainstream diagnostic and therapeutic theory. Examples of each personality type are included, so that practitioners can easily recognize and treat them.

I know my son is bright. . . . why doesn't he care about school? Why is he so lazy and unmotivated?

My daughter is . . . so unmotivated. How can I make her want to do better?

In this lifesaving, groundbreaking book, Drs. Mandel and Marcus, clinical psychologists with more than 25 years' experience working with underachievers, show that these children are, in fact, highly motivated--in directions other than schoolwork. The key to helping underachievers reach their full potential lies in discovering their real motivation and redirecting it.

But first, say the authors, you must...

I know my son is bright. . . . why doesn't he care about school? Why is he so lazy and unmotivated?

My daughter is . . . so unmotivated. How can I make her want to do better?

In this lifesaving, groundbreaking book, Drs. Mandel and Marcus, clinical psychologists with more than 25 years' experience working with underachievers, show that these children are, in fact, highly motivated--in directions other than schoolwork. The key to helping underachievers reach their full potential lies in discovering their real motivation and redirecting it.

But first, say the authors, you must...

The Scope of Brief Therapy Within the last two decades there has been a dramatic expansion in the uses of short-term treatment (Grayson, 1979, Small, 1979). Brief therapies have been and continue to be widely used with a number of different patient popu lations in a broad variety of service settings. They have been reported in use with children, adolescents, adults and the aged; in groups, families, and individual treatment; on college campuses, high schools, in community mental health centers, in child guidance clinics, in private psychiatric clinics, in hospitals as part of out-patient or...