Success in schoolwork contributes greatly not only to career and economic good fortune, but also to happiness and mental health. This book teaches students the strategies that maximize the chance of academic success. It is written in interactive format: divided into brief sections with a comprehension question following each one; this format is ideal for the student to work through with a tutor or parent.

Our present mental health system emphasizes the medical model: diagnosis of mental disorders and treatment, usually with drugs or psychotherapy, delivered by licensed professionals and paid for by medical insurance. While not rejecting the medical model, this book advocates an educational model: a plan for teaching psychological skills, through textbook-focused instruction, modeling of desirable patterns, reinforcement, practice exercises, and other straightforward and tested educational techniques. Services can be delivered by nonprofessionals as well as by therapists, and by telephone as...