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"In her new book, 'Help for Billy', Heather Forbes provides with deep insight a manual for parents and teachers addressing essential methods for managing the school-room behavior of the child with complex trauma. Based on concepts of the neuroscience of emotions and behavior, Forbes provides detailed, comprehensive, and logical strategies for both parent and teacher, with tables, outlines, and lists, focusing the information and making it easily applicable. She presents the essential concept of regulatory rather than behavioral dysfunction in the disruptive child, and provides a wealth of strategies for both the parent and teacher to apply to help the child to self-regulate. This groundbreaking book will be an invaluable resource for both parents and teachers of the disruptive child, and should be required reading for both."
~ Robert Scaer, MD
Author, The Body Bears the Burden, The Trauma Spectrum, and Eight Keys to Brain-Body
Balance
"'Help for Billy' is a must read for anyone looking to understand, support, and teach challenging and easily frustrated children. Heather writes with the knowledge of a professional and the heart of a parent."
~ Jenniffer Adkins
Parent to a traumatized child
"'Help for Billy' is a very inspiring, insightful, and practical book for parents and professionals who would like to work in partnership to help ensure the educational success for all the Billys we will encounter in our lifetime who have experienced trauma and are presenting with challenging behaviors in our classrooms. Trauma enters the lives of our children and families daily and in ways never dreamed imaginable. Heather Forbes' book, Help for Billy, provides parents and professionals with a practical and informative team approach to helping students who have and are experiencing trauma to have educational success. Her book presents staff and parents with real life insight and solutions for working with the 'unteachable child' by providing them with practical approaches, effective commonsense strategies, and tools that provide us with hope for the future of all the Billys of the world. 'Help for Billy' is a must read for all educators, administrators, and parents interested in making a difference in the lives of the 'unteachable child.'"
~ Winston B. Johnson, LCSW, ACSW
Director for Prevention/Intervention Services
Hartford Public Schools, Connecticut
"Help for Billy brings a compassionate voice to the thousands of children who attend every school in America who have been impacted by trauma, and the significant disadvantage that stress has on brain development. Heather clearly lays out the brain research and shows that we are trying to force square pegs into round holes."
~Jim Sporleder
Principal at Lincoln High School, Walla Walla, Washington
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