This excellent text gives current strategies and techniques that really work. It is chock-full of activities for classroom instruction that will make your class a joy for your students. Many examples, photos, illustrations, forms, and vignettes make this book engaging and contemporary.

This text has been updated and expanded to include the latest practical tools for working with troubled children.

Special Features

• Offers proven ideas that capture the reader's attention and stimulate creative thinking
• Translates theory and research into practical classroom teaching ideas
• Combines psychoeducation, behaviorism, and structure to present workable applications

Contents

1. Troubled Youth: An Overview

Part One: Planning

2. Advanced Organization
3. Educational Diagnosis

Part Two: Curriculum

4. Curriculum: Basic Considerations
5. Curriculum: Special Considerations
6. Instructional Techniques

Part Three: Management and Organization

7. Management: Overview
8. Management: Psychoeducational Techniques
9. Management: Behavior Modification Techniques
10. Scheduling

Part Four: Communication

11. Communication with Significant Adults
12. Communication with Future Employers

406 pages
2000/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-278-6
$45.00