How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy

Strategies for working with parents of all kinds 

Unexpected situations with angry or dysfunctional parents can leave teachers floundering. This teachers’ edition of the best-sellingHow to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy provides invaluable strategies that teachers can use to defuse angry parents and to work with all parents to advance the success of their children. It includes:  

• A set of proactive practices to help teachers get parents on their side.
• Guidelines for teachers to follow when meeting with parents during Annual Reviews and IEP meetings.
• Advice and vignettes that reflect concerns of today’s teachers.

Strategies for working with parents of all kinds 

Parents can be a teacher’s greatest advocate—and that’s why it’s important to know how to handle even the hardest parent situations. In fact, new teachers reported that parent communication is one of their biggest challenges. This teachers’ edition of the all-time best-sellingHow to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy provides invaluable strategies that teachers can use to defuse angry parents and to work with all parents to advance the success of their children. Addressing a variety of educator needs and concerns, this resource

• Helps teachers get parents on their side with a set of proactive practices and policies 
• Provides guidelines for teachers to follow when meeting with parents during annual reviews and IEP meetings
• Includes advice and vignettes that reflect challenges and concerns of today’s teachers

With resources that will remain relevant to teachers throughout their careers, this book provides a clear explanation of the complexities that interact to create dysfunctional parents and how teachers can most effectively problem solve, communicate, and learn from their relationships with parents.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. Why Are There So Many Angry Parents?
Facet 1: The Increasing Variety of Today’s Family Units
Facet 2: The Range of Needs, Issues, and Problems of Today’s Students
Facet 3: A Continuum of Types of Schools
Facet 4: The Things Teachers Do That Irritate and Inflame Parents
Facet 5: A Variety of Types of Parents
Chapter 2. Proactive Ways to Get and Keep Parents on Your Side
Chapter 3. Defusing and Disarming Out-of-Control Parents
What Is Anger?
How to Deal With Angry Parents
How to Deal With Very Dysfunctional Parents
Using Your Encounters With Parents to Learn and Grow
Chapter 4. Solving the Problems That Make Parents Angry, Troubled, Afraid, and Seem Even Crazier
The Pervasive Problems That Will Plague You
Solving the Problems That Plague You
Chapter 5. Advice From Teachers Who Have Seen It All
Chapter 6. Putting Your Best Self Forward
Pay Attention to Your “Emotional Immune System”
Nurture Your Best Self Around a Set of Personal Traits That Signify Character
Affirm, Bridge, Communicate (ABC)
Lead by Example
Conduct an Assertive Intervention
Take the A Train
Deposit Trust in Your Relationship Trust and Savings Bank
Become an Assertive and Self-Differentiated Teacher
Tend to Your Health
One at a Time or All at Once
Conclusion: 10 Goals to Help You Deal With Difficult Parents
References
Index