2. A set of nine booklets, making up a course of support and guidance by Dr. Sutton for parents or caregivers for a young child with behaviour difficulties: tantrums, rudeness, interrupting, aggressiveness, disobedience or disruptiveness.

These booklets are the latest edition of those used by Dr. Sutton with parents when she undertook the research leading to the award of her PhD. Parents reported just as good results whether she worked with parents face to face or by telephone.

Introductory booklet. This is written for professionals to help them ensure that the child’s difficult behaviours are not normal for the child’s age, to his or her diet or to upsetting events or experiences in the parents’ or child’s life. It also points out how important it is to raise parents’ confidence and self esteem in the demanding task of raising children, often with little support and few resources.

Although the booklet was written with professionals in mind, it will make sense to parents and may help them in getting started.

Booklet 1. Getting Started: Pinpointing, Observing and Recording

This booklet supports you in identifying a specific behaviour, negative and positive, and in recording how often it happens over the course of one week. This provides ‘baseline’ information at the beginning of the course of support and guidance.

Booklet 2. The A-B-C sequence. A for Activator; B for Behaviour; C for Consequences. This helps you to identify triggers and consequences for children’s difficult behaviour.

Booklet 3. More about Managing the C for Consequences. This gives you guidance and support in managing what happens after your child’s behaviour.

Booklet 4. More about Rewarding and Penalties. This gives you further help in giving a very clear and firm instruction to a child.

Booklet 5. Sleeping Problems This gives you help in managing young children’s settling and sleeping difficulties.

Booklet 6. A Little More about A for Antecedents. This helps you think about triggers of difficult behaviours.

Booklet 7. Extending the Approach to Other Behaviours This helps you to use the same approach with a range of other difficult behaviours.

Booklet 8. Maintaining the Improvement. This helps you keep the child behaving well so as to avoid his slipping backwards.