The smart but scattered guide to success : how to use your brain's executive skills to keep up, stay calm, and get organized at work and at home / Peg Dawson, EdD, Richard Guare, PhD. [print]

By:

Dawson, Peg [Author]

Contributor(s):

Guare, Richard

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781462516964
9781462522798

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

BF637.G914.S637 2016
BF637

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Contents:

Are you smart, scattered, and stressed? -- Your executive skills profile -- Managing executive skills by modifying the environment -- Improving your executive skills

Executive skills in the workplace ; Executive skills in the home -- Executive skills and relationships

Controlling impulses : response inhibition -- Keeping track of it all : working memory -- Being cool : emotional control -- Avoiding procrastination : task initiation -- Staying focused : sustained attention -- Defining a path : planning/prioritizing -- Clearing clutter : organization -- Sticking to the schedule : time management -- Shifting gears : flexibility -- Learning from experience : metacognition -- Reaching the finish line : goal-directed persistence -- Rolling with the punches : stress tolerance

Aging without losing your edge : a prescription for preserving executive skills.

Subject: "Meeting a huge demand, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (authors of the bestselling Smart but Scattered books focusing on kids and teens) now provide a state of the art resource specifically geared to adults. Drs. Dawson and Guare offer expert guidance for boosting executive skills--the core brain based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. Readers will be drawn in by realistic examples, self quizzes, and science based tools for strengthening time management, organization, emotional control, and more. And what you can't change, you can work around! The book is packed with simple yet effective strategies for maintaining focus, conquering clutter, staying on top of work demands, and taming the chaos of family life. Numerous worksheets and forms (which purchasers can download and print in a convenient 8.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library ACADEMIC SUCCESS CENTER - CIRCULATING	BF637.S4.D272.S637 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001734629

PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE EXECUTIVE IN YOUR BRAIN : -- Are you smart, scattered, and stressed? -- Your executive skills profile -- Managing executive skills by modifying the environment -- Improving your executive skills

PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE SKILLS IN YOUR DAILY LIFE : -- Executive skills in the workplace ; Executive skills in the home -- Executive skills and relationships

PART III: STRATEGIES FOR INDIVIDUAL EXECUTIVE SKILLS : -- Controlling impulses : response inhibition -- Keeping track of it all : working memory -- Being cool : emotional control -- Avoiding procrastination : task initiation -- Staying focused : sustained attention -- Defining a path : planning/prioritizing -- Clearing clutter : organization -- Sticking to the schedule : time management -- Shifting gears : flexibility -- Learning from experience : metacognition -- Reaching the finish line : goal-directed persistence -- Rolling with the punches : stress tolerance

PART IV: LOOKING AHEAD : -- Aging without losing your edge : a prescription for preserving executive skills.

"Meeting a huge demand, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (authors of the bestselling Smart but Scattered books focusing on kids and teens) now provide a state of the art resource specifically geared to adults. Drs. Dawson and Guare offer expert guidance for boosting executive skills--the core brain based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. Readers will be drawn in by realistic examples, self quizzes, and science based tools for strengthening time management, organization, emotional control, and more. And what you can't change, you can work around! The book is packed with simple yet effective strategies for maintaining focus, conquering clutter, staying on top of work demands, and taming the chaos of family life. Numerous worksheets and forms (which purchasers can download and print in a convenient 8.

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