Grades 6-12. This valuable resource offers a research-based approach for helping youth develop academic self-regulation skills -- highlighting the relationship among choice, willpower, and effort. Over 70 interventions are provided to enhance students' self-control and self-discipline. The interventions are appropriate for use with individual students and are readily adaptable for small-group, classroom, and counseling settings. An accompanying CD with all the reproducible questionnaires, checklists, and program forms is included with the book. - Publisher.

Components of academic self-regulation -- Choice and self-determination -- Understanding and setting goals -- Factors influencing goals -- Planning, effective strategies, and help seeking -- Self-concept and sense of efficacy -- Self-guides and the possible self -- Self-monitoring -- The role of mood -- Controlling anxiety -- The social and physical context -- Review and key ideas challenge -- Appendix A : Academic self-regulation checklist -- Appendix B : Answer keys.