What is SOS Help For Parents?


SOS Help For Parents: A Practical Guide For Handling Common Everyday Behavior Problems

Do you have a strong willed child?

How can you help your child to grow out of emotional or behavioral problems?

Do you want to feel more confident as a parent?

SOS Help For Parents is a book and parent education program which helps children, ages two to twelve, to improve their behavior and emotional adjustment. The SOS book teaches over 20 basic methods and techniques for helping children. The best methods for handling over 46 different behavior problems are taught.

The complete SOS Program includes the SOS Help For Parents book, “How To Use Time-Out Effectively” audio program, “DVD Video SOS Help For Parents” Kit (for counselors and educators), and additional internet resources.

Available in 9 languages, SOS Help For Parents is internationally used and recommended by psychologists, pediatricians, teachers, and other professionals as well as parents.

SOS teaches evidence-based methods and techniques from behavior therapy as well as methods from humanistic and Adlerian approaches to helping children.

English SOS
254 Pages
100 Illustrations
254 Pages
100 Illustrations


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SOS teaches the following methods and skills for helping children:

Positive reinforcement
Social rewards
Parents as role models
Practicing the behavior
Working with the teacher
Giving effective instructions
Common discipline mistakes
Active ignoring
Logical consequences
Natural consequences
Response cost
Encouragement
Time-out for toys
Time-out mistakes
Token rewards
Point rewards
Grandma’s rule
Controlling parent anger
Parent-child contracts
Racing the timer
Reflective listening
Expressing feelings
Other Methods and Skills

Resources for Counselors and Educators:

SOS Help For Parents book is intended as a handbook for counselors as well as a self-help book for parents of young children.

SOS Child Management Guidelines, our most popular handout, lists three child rearing rules and four child rearing errors to avoid. Use this handout with the “DVD Video SOS Help For Parents”program when counseling parents or teaching behavior management classes.

SOS Time-Out Guidelines, our second most popular handout, lists nine common time-out mistakes that parents make and basic steps for using time-out. Also use with “DVD Video SOS Help For Parents” Program.

Evidence-Based Behavior Therapy SOS Interventions provides a comprehensive outline or picture of SOS methods, techniques, & skills.

Menu of Interventions For 46 Problem Behaviors lists 23 methods for handling more than 46 problem behaviors. Mental health professionals often use this Menu at staffings when developing intervention plans for children.

SOS DVD Lesson Plans These lesson plans for teaching and counseling, describe how to use the SOS DVD Video and SOS book, over six sessions or classes. The lesson plans are taken from the “DVD Video Leader’s Guide, Revised Edition.”

Advertising Your SOS Parenting Classes & Counseling Practice Use this brochure to advertise your SOS parenting classes or counseling practice.

If Your Child Rebels Against Time-Out do this, don’t just read it!

Audio CD Time-Out Guide teaches time-out skills and accompanies the CD Program, “How To Use Time-Out Effectively.” For both individual listening and behavior management workshops.

Time-Out Effective Use Example video clip - watch and discuss with parents. You can also view other video clips.

Discount Coupon Prepaid Orders Use this 20% discount coupon to get free shipping and no taxes, when ordering five or more SOS books. Make SOS books available to clients when they most need them - immediately!

SOS ORDER FORM can be printed on one page to give to clients and professionals. Or order from our secure ONLINE ORDER FORM.

Check out our additional Free Resources for assessment and therapy.

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"They never told us
it would be like this!"
Time Out
Impatiently waiting for the timer
to ring!
Typical Tantrum!


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handling this behavior problem?"