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Handouts

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	Angry Children: How to Help Handling children's anger can be puzzling, draining, and distressing for adults. This article gives advice on how to manage children who are angry, explosive, or difficult.
Accident and Injury Prevention
	Managing normal tantrums: 10 tips for parents. Strategies for avoiding tantrums and keeping them from coming back.
Attention Disorders
	Clinical Attention Problem Scale Brief rating scale for measuring attention and impulse control symptoms in a classroom
Autistic Spectrum
	Multisystem Developmental Disorder This articles describes a common problem in young children that is felt to be related to autistic disorders.
Behavior
	10 Guidelines for Living with Children
	Pictorial Pediatric Symptom Checklist Form Printable checklist in English and Spanish
	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.
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	Parents and Careers Pros and Cons of working parents.
Post-Partum Depression
	Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Widely used scale to screen for postpartum depression in primary care.