What grows in the garden? Varieties of attention difference -- Understand the nature of the challenge -- Seeing is behaving, how a child's perceptual style causes behavior problems -- A wellness model for parenting attention different children -- How stress cycles make problems worse -- How to take care of yourself so you can take care of your child -- Strategies for successful management of individual problems -- Calming hyperactivity -- Cooling oppositionality -- Overcoming self-righteousness and making friends -- Educating emotional wildness -- Confronting dangerous, destructive, and risky behavior -- Transcending depression -- healing rage -- Meeting the challenge of obsessions and compulsions -- Strategies for changing family distress cycles to family eustress cycles -- Moving through the grief cycle -- Taming uproar to revitalize your marriage -- Meeting the challenge of school-caused stress -- Mastering the stressors of single parenting -- Dealing with the blended family blues -- Creating community to contain our kids wyrd gifts -- Nutritional alternatives to Ritalin. treating the causes as well as the symptoms.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.