10 Guidelines for Living with Children
Temperament and the Pediatrician
A view of challenging child behavior from the standpoint of temperamental differences.
Time-Out Guidelines
Step by step instructions of using the Time Out method of behavior management.
Perfectionistic Children
Perfectionist students are not satisfied with merely doing well or even with doing better than their peers. They are satisfied only if they have done a job perfectly, so that the result reveals no blemishes or weaknesses. To the extent that perfectionism involves striving for difficult but reachable goals, it involves the success-seeking aspects of healthy achievement motivation and functions as an asset to the student and as an ally to the teacher.
Habit Reversal
This handout describes a simple behavioral procedure for eliminating habits such as skin picking or thumb-sucking.
Teaching Skills that Reduce the Need for Discipline
Behavior management information for parents.
Oppositional Behavior as a Learning Disability: Guidance Pediatricians Can Offer Parents
Counseling parents about noncompliance and disruptive behavior
How Can Pediatricians Respond to Difficult Behavioral Questions?
Primary care approach to managing difficult behavior problems
Discipline and Behavior
Suggestions for parents on discipline and managing behavior.
Social Development
Tips for parents on teaching social and emotional skills.
Is it Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, or What?
The differential diagnosis and comorbidity of bipolar disorder, mania and adhd.
Helping the Young Hair Puller
Information for parents and physicians about causes and treatments for trichotillomania.
Pictorial Pediatric Symptom Checklist Form
Printable checklist in English and Spanish
What Parents Can Do Right Now to Reduce Aggressive Behavior in Young Children
Spring 2010 SODBP Newsletter
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF):
An Ideal Framework for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Spring 2010 SODBP Newsletter
Weather Anxiety
Implementing Computerized
Adolescent Behavioral Health
Screening in the Emergency Department
Fall 2009 SODBP Newsletter
What Makes Time-Out Work (and Fail)?