90-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast May 12, 2009 • $239

Explosive. Anti-social. Passive-aggressive. Students with these and other types of troublesome personalities can quickly undermine a class and spoil the learning experience for everyone involved. What’s more, these students can put others at risk with behaviors that in extreme cases can even result in fatalities, as evidenced by the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois universities.

Recognizing troublesome personality styles and knowing how to respond to them—you can get crucial insights on these and related topics during this seminar. Led by Dr. Gerald Amada, Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom will give you principles, guidelines and strategies so you can identify different disruptive personality styles and teach these students more effectively.

During this seminar, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the seven disruptive personality styles, which include the:
• Compulsive personality - characterized by being perfectionistic and expecting perfection and flawlessness from instructors and themselves.
• Explosive personality style - characterized by attributes that include abusive epithets, bullying, and physical or verbal threats.
• Anti-social personality style - usually characterized by behaviors that include cheating, stealing, forging or defrauding academic documents, contempt for the rights of others, and menacing and dangerous behavior toward others.

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Dr. Amada is a co-founder of the Mental Health Program at the City College of San Francisco, and he has presented on the subject of the disruptive college student for more than 20 years at more than 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. He has published nine books and more than 80 articles and book reviews on mental health, psychotherapy and disruptive college student issues. He received B.A. and M.S.W. degrees at Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in social and clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, Calif.

In addition to learning how to recognize and respond to various troublesome personality types, this insightful, content-rich seminar will enable you to:
• Identify “red flag” signals that indicate possible physical risk when dealing with frightening anti-social students.
• Better manage passive-aggressive behavioral styles such as sleeping in class, lateness and procrastination.
• Set standards, expectations and boundaries flexibly with students related to their personality styles.
• Understand essential principles for collaborating with on-campus resources to resolve disruptive crises.
• Understand when or whether to report incidents of disruption.

Dr. Amada has extensive experience with this subject and, for anyone who would like to better understand the different personality styles of disruptive college students and cope with these individuals more effectively, this is a superb opportunity.

Whether for one person or a group, you can watch for a single low fee that’s budget friendly!
This seminar is just $239 on CD, which allows you to listen in a classroom or conference facility and invite others from your campus to watch with you—all for the same low fee. It’s a terrific way to share ideas and approaches on how to identify and respond to students with troublesome personalities.

What’s more, this seminar can help you make tight budget dollars go further. This is especially true when you compare the costs of lodging, transportation and other expenses in participating in an off-site seminar (not to mention the time involved in getting budget approval and completing expense reports afterward).

Who will benefit from this seminar:
• Administrators
• Department Chairs
• Instructors
• Security Personnel
• Judicial Affairs Officers
• Counselors

Featured Higher Education Presenter:

Dr. Gerald Amada

90-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast May 12, 2009 • $239

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