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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: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : The Guilford Press, (c)2016.Description: vii, 294 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • 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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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) 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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