Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges

With 55% new material, the significantly revised second edition of this influential resource presents a refined coaching model and an expanded set of tools for helping K-12 students live up to their potential in school and beyond. The book describes how to provide evidence-based, individualized instruction and support for kids and teens with executive skills challenges. Guidelines are provided for partnering with students and improving their performance in such areas as time and task management, planning, organization, and impulse control. Adaptations for coaching students with disabilities are discussed. In a convenient large-size format, the book features over two dozen reproducible forms and handouts; coaches can download and print additional copies as needed.

New to This Edition
*Two new chapters on coaching 5- to 8-year-olds (K-3), and more material on younger students throughout.
*Shows how to enhance coaching by incorporating motivational interviewing and cognitive rehearsal strategies.
*Chapter of case examples, plus chapters on self-assessment for coaches and the building blocks of executive skills coaching.
*Expanded content on goal setting, action planning, and progress monitoring.
*Updated research and revised reproducible tools.

This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.


Author: Peg Dawson, Richard Guare
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 05/22/2023
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 10.39h x 7.87w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781462552191
ISBN10: 1462552196
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
- Education | Special Education | General
- Social Science | Social Work

About the Author
Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist on the staff of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She also does professional development training on executive skills for schools and organizations nationally and internationally. Dr. Dawson is a past president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the International School Psychology Association, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from NASP. She is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). Dr. Dawson is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition, and Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges, Second Edition.

Richard Guare, PhD, is Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Guare's research and publications focus on the understanding and treatment of learning and attention difficulties. He is a neuropsychologist and board-certified behavior analyst who frequently consults to schools and agencies. He is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). Dr. Guare is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition, and Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges, Second Edition.