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If you're like most teachers and principals, you know that classroom management is getter tougher and tougher every day. Many of the problems you see on a daily basis weren't even "invented" when you received your college training. Even worse, much of your training was theoretical, leaving you to scramble to find real-world strategies to manage difficult-to-manage students.

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Q: For multi-problem kids, are there key problem areas that I should address first or as soon as possible?

A: Here are the top two areas. The first area that we always recommend you consider is safety, but not just for acting out, conduct disordered, oppositional, defiant, angry, violent, impulsive types of youngsters. Remember to notice all your classroom management concerns, and your entire group of students. Consider safety issues for less noticeable populations even though you may view these youngsters as your "good" or quiet ones.
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There are plenty of other students who are often typically overlooked, such as depressed, withdrawn, abused, neglected, thought disordered, and anxious students. Children in crisis, socially maladjusted, and alcoholic and addicted kids also often are missed. You must be especially careful to closely monitor the safety issues faced by students who may be quietly gesturing or suicidal. Carefully watch pregnant girls, teen parents, and those adolescents and children who have severe emotional or family problems. This guideline holds true for teachers, sped teachers, principals, court workers, justice workers, foster parents, and case managers. You don't have to be trained as a social worker, counselor, psychologist or mental health worker to incur an obligation to keep all kids safe. All youth workers have that obligation, regardless of their training, job title, or the mission of their site.

The second problem area that we recommend you consider addressing as soon as possible is attendance and punctuality. Why? If you are the best teacher, counselor or special educator-- whatever your job-- it doesn't matter how talented and effective you are if that student isn't in your classroom or office. The time to start teaching attendance and punctuality is Day 1, Week 1 of your contact with the child. If a child is absent, nothing else you do that day really matters for that student. Our All the Best Answers for the Worst Kid Problems Series (shown below) includes innovative strategies for many of these critical starting points, plus much more. Order the e-book version (click here) and download it immediately as a printable e-book. Click here right now and you will read and print our best solutions in just about 60 seconds. Or get this item as a paperback book. Click for details. These new tools can truly help turnaround even the most out-of-control, unmanageable classroom or group, and end even serious classroom management nightmares.

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Youth violence may now be at an historic worst in the U.S. Do you realize that school shootings are becoming such a common occurrence that some of them only receive local media coverage? That means that you may not even be aware how much school shootings continue to happen on a regular basis during the school year. Here's an even more upsetting fact that you may not have considered. Many of the conventional methods of teaching violence prevention are utterly ineffective with conduct disorders, the most misbehaved youngster.
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So, as children and youth become more violent, the methods we tend to use to curtail that violence are approaches that won't work with conduct disorders, the most misbehaved youngsters. Here is the explanation. As discussed in the article above, conduct disorders lack a conscience. That means that they have no relationship capacity, and are especially unable to feel empathy and compassion. Popular violence prevention methods like character education use one core approach, caring about others. It's like teaching a tone deaf person to sing. You can try but it may not be that person's strong suit-- ever. You can attempt to make conduct disorders care about others so they won't hurt others, but it's a tune they will never be able to sing. If you lack relationship capacity, you can never care about others. Therefore, caring about others will never be the way to assist conduct disorders to rein in their interpersonal aggression. It's actually ironic. The youngster who needs to most benefit from violence prevention training, is the most unaffected by it. Sadly, violence prevention training that relies on empathy, actually can prompt conduct disorders to behave worse. Relationship-based violence prevention methods often inadvertently teach the conduct disorder to be a more effective victimizer. That's part of what's different about our resources for severely misbehaved youth and children. Developed by mental health counselors with juvenile corrections experience, they are especially geared to avoid the pitfalls of conventional, one-size-fits-all violence prevention techniques. These methods aren't magic, but at least they are unlikely to make the situation worse as is an overwhelming risk with relationship-based violence prevention methods. Our resources can actually train children and youth to be more peaceful. These methods also rely heavily on a wide array of methods so they can effectively reach and teach a wide array of kids. These methods are especially formulated to work with conduct disorders, and play to the one thing that conduct disorders care about: me-me-me. Especially recommended are our Temper and Tantrum Tamers book (shown below), click here, and our All the Best Answers to the Worst Problems Anti-Social Youth and Conduct Disorders book, click here. You can instantly get and read either resource in ebook format by clicking here. Getting one of our ebooks is so fast that you should be reading and printing your solutions in just about 60 seconds.

Budget constraints shouldn't stop you from switching to more effective methods for conduct disorders. Youth Change is a socially responsible company. We will assist you to obtain our resources if you are a youth professional with a bad budget. For example, you can email us (click here) about purchasing damaged books at half price. If you prefer to get our most comprehensive help, and come to a live workshop, we also always have a few half-price work-study slots open at every Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop that we sponsor-- a rate so affordable that almost anyone can afford to come. Our workshop devotes several hours to violence prevention and management. Call us toll-free for work-study info at 1-800-545-5736. To learn about our workshop, call us, or visit our Workshop Page by clicking here. Whatever you do to update your methods and knowledge about conduct disorders, do something effective, and do something now. That will be important to ensure the safety of your youth and yourself. Let us know if we can assist you.

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