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How to Stimulate the Child's Brain: 100 Exercises to Boost Concentration, Memory and Other Executive Functions book cover

1st Edition

How to Stimulate the Child's Brain 100 Exercises to Boost Concentration, Memory and Other Executive Functions

By Rafa Guerrero Copyright 2027
96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

What are executive functions and why are they important? How can they be developed effectively in children and adults? Many children, adolescents and adults experience difficulties and disorders that stem from poor executive functioning, such as ADHD, dyslexia or behavioural problems. Concentration, working memory, planning and impulse control are executive functions of the brain that must be... Read more
Introduction 1. The brain, that great unknown 2.The four brains 3. What are executive functions? 4. Development of executive functions 5. Exercises to develop concentration 6. Exercises to develop impulse control 7. Exercises to develop working memory 8. Exercises to develop cognitive flexibility 9. Exercises for developing planning skills 10. Exercises to develop problem solving skills 11. Exercises for developing emotional self-regulation 12. Exercises to develop processing speed 13. Exercises to develop spatial orientation 14. Executive function disorders and difficulties 15. Designing executive function training 16. The ten best board games for working on executive functions 17. Solutions

Biography

Rafa Guerrero is currently Director of Darwin Psychologists and Professor at the Faculty of Education of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He also teaches at the Cardenal Cisneros University Center, University of Alcalá de Henares, and is a lecturer at the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC). He is a member of the Spanish Society of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (SEMPP), a member of the Institute for the Development and Application of EMDR (IDAE), a regular contributor to the newspaper El País and the Diario ABC, as well as a lecturer at national and international conferences, and a trainer of teachers and parents in numerous schools and educational centers in Spain.

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