More About the Author, from promotional materials:

Jerry Adams grew up in a large family in rural northern Iowa and developed an early fascination with how children mature and how they behave. After graduating from Iowa State University, he spent two years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, where he taught high school classes for one year and worked in a Liberian psychiatric hospital for another year. In the process, he was exposed to what is universal in the human spirit and to how culture impacts human development and behavior. To pursue this new awareness, he continued his education and completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Iowa.

Although Dr. Adams, once a tenured associate professor, taught at several universities, his "heart was always in clinical work with children," and he left academia for clinical practice. For twenty-five years, he served as lead psychologist in a very large non-profit health maintenance organization, specializing in assisting children and their parents.

Whenever Dr. Adams gave talks to parents, many remained afterward to ask, "But Doctor, what do I do when…?" about difficult discipline challenges with their own children. Recognizing that neither he nor anyone else can provide effective one-minute responses to such challenges, he set about developing a class to provide parents with a comprehensive approach to positive and effective discipline.

"I learned from hundreds of parents who attended my classes what does and what does not work, and I refined my presentations accordingly," he says. Despite extensive handouts which he provided to parents who attended his classes, he added, he was frequently urged to write a book encompassing the entire approach, resulting in How to Raise Disciplined and Happy Children.

Dr. Adams, who is married and has two sons and two grandchildren, is licensed to practice his profession in California.

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