After decades of working with some of society’s most challenging and troubled children, Dr. Dave Ziegler believes there are no impossible children, just impossible situations. The programs he has developed have focused on children that no one else seems to be able to help, yet over time, these children have achieved exceptionally positive outcomes.
Using clear and accessible language, humor, and numerous real-life anecdotes, Dr. Ziegler describes how to help “impossible” children achieve success in their families and their lives. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents, therapists, teachers, and social workers will find Achieving Success with Impossible Children a gold mine of information and an invaluable reference.
A licensed psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. Ziegler received his doctorate in counseling and psychology from the University of Oregon. He developed his first training program for parents in 1972.
From the author of Raising Children Who Refuse to Be Raised and Traumatic Experience and the Brain comes this book. Dr. Dave Ziegler has been a psychologist, therapist, and foster parent to hundreds of the most challenging children. His methods have helped these “impossible” children—and their parents, teachers, and caregivers—get back on the right track. He has done what many therapists don’t know how to do: help raise troubled youths, who are exceptions to all the usual rules, into healthy, successful human beings.
This book emphasizes an important element of being successful with difficult children: hope. The repeated message is not only that success is possible, but also that it is realistically achievable. However, success comes only with the right type of hard work combined with a deep understanding of what troubled children need. If success with your child is escaping your grasp, you’ll find some help in these pages.
