Firespitters

About the Book

If you have struggled with a difficult or angry child, this book can help. It is full of real ideas and explanations of why your child acts that way. Humorouly written with practical suggestions, this book helps parents manage a firespitting child.

About the Author

Gary is a native Northwesterner. He grew up in the greater Seattle area and attended Federal Way High School. He attained his Associate of Arts degree in business from Highline Community College, his bachelor of Arts degree in Social Welfare from the University of Washington and his Master of Counseling degree from Seattle University.

Gary has been in social work for over 31 years, providing marriage and family therapy, anger management and domestic violence treatment. He was the Director of the Family Anger Management Institute of Family Services, the Executive Director or Federal Way Youth and Fmaily Services, Auburn Youth Resources and the Executive Director of New Hope Child & Family Agency which provides adoption, pregnancy counseling and foster care services where he served as a Vice President of CRISTA Ministries. Currently he is the Executive Director of Life Manor Assisted Living, a ministry of Life Center Assembly of God in Tacoma.

Gary is a frequent local and national seminar speaker and trainer who addresses a number of different topics to a broad range of groups. He provides training to groups as diverse as the national corporations, Parent-Teacher Associations, school teachers, Juvenile Court workers and Ministers. He works at the national level with teachers on the topic: Succeeding with the Difficult Young Child. Locally he presents seminars such as: Managing Change in the Workplace, Improving Communication, Living With Teens, Developing a Vision and Mission, Dealing With Difficult and Angry Clients, Domestic Violence Treatment, Stress Reduction and Grief Loss and others. His workbook for parents of diffcult and angry children, Firespitters, was published in 1999.

Office phone: 253-779-3801; e-mail: gwbenton@aol.com