Mary N. Cook and Kathy Weldon

Counseling Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Problems in the Schools is a comprehensive text on counseling in a user-friendly format that makes it a joy for those who work with children with emotional and behavioral problems.

Cook and Weldon explore different emotional and behavioral problems and the children that exhibit them, including children who are depressed, unsafe, socially impaired, anxious, selectively mute, school-refusing, disruptive or ADHD, and difficult. The book also examines working with classes or groups, as well as crisis intervention from the counselor’s perspective.

Categorized by emotional or behavioral difficulty, each chapter dissects the epidemiology and major characteristics of the problem, assessment techniques, and interventions. The text relates countless scenarios, dialogues, and case studies and provides activities, games, and sample behavioral contracts to be used by counselors, teachers, and parents.

Special Features

• Provides essential information and statistics about each emotional or behavioral problem
• Emphasizes practical and usable strategies to effect change in children
• Includes three appendices with more than 40 blackline masters to be used around the office, classroom, or home

Contents

1. The Depressed Child: What to Do With Kids Who Are Sad
2. The Unsafe Child: What to Do With Kids Who Threaten to Harm Themselves or Others
3. The Socially Impaired Child: What to Do With Kids Who Can’t Get Along With Others
4. The Anxious Child: What to Do With Kids Who Worry Too Much
5. The Selectively Mute Child: What to Do With Kids Who Won’t Talk at School
6. The School-Refusing Child: What to Do When Kids Won’t Go to School
7. The Disruptive or ADHD Child: What to Do When Kids Won’t Sit Still and Be Quiet
8. The Difficult Child: What to Do When You’ve Tried Everything
9. Working With Groups or Classes: How To Intervene With More Than One Child
10. Crisis Intervention: How to Intervene in the Face of Tragedy

Appendix A: Techniques for Counseling Socially Impaired Children

Appendix B: Techniques for Counseling Anxious Children

Appendix C: Techniques for Counseling Disruptive Children

Appendix D: Sample Behavioral Contracts

0501/176 pages/2006
Paperback
ISBN 0-89108-313-8
$29.95

Linda K. Elksnin and Nick Elksnin

Teaching Social–Emotional Skills at School and Home is designed to provide teachers and parents with strategies for teaching children and youth to become socially and emotionally competent.

This book is research-based yet practical and easy to read. The authors examine all aspects of social–emotional learning, including emotional literacy, social problem solving, and the social skills essential for making friends and succeeding in school—making this text the most comprehensive available.

Readers will learn how to teach social–emotional skills at the individual, classroom, schoolwide, and districtwide levels by integrating instruction within the academic curriculum and how to make social–emotional learning part of school and family life.

Special Features

• Includes assessment approaches to identify children who need social–emotional skills instruction
• Contains practical activities to help children of all ages understand and regulate emotions, make and keep friends, solve social problems, and succeed in school
• Addresses the importance of social–emotional skills for gaining and maintaining employment
• Incorporates real-life vignettes that connect theory and practice
• Provides numerous useful forms, checklists, and planning sheets

Contents

1. The Importance of Social–Emotional Competence
2. Identifying Children and Youth Who Need Social–Emotional Skills Instruction
3. Teaching Children and Youth to Understand and Regulate Emotions
4. Teaching Children and Youth Social–Emotional Problem-Solving Strategies
5. Teaching Children and Youth Peer-Pleasing Social–Emotional Skills
6. Teaching Children and Youth Teacher-Pleasing Social–Emotional Skills
7. Teaching Occupational Social–Emotional Skills
8. Parents as Teachers
9. Getting Children and Youth to Use Social–Emotional Skills

Appendix A: Books for Parents, Children & Youth, and Teachers & Administrators

Appendix B: Children’s Books Chosen by Children

0603/352 pages/2006
Paperback
ISBN 0-89108-316-2
$56.00

This highly practical third edition combines innovative techniques with solid theory for helping children. It is a developmental approach with major revisions in all chapters. The new chapter on counseling culturally and ethnically diverse youth shows how to develop cultural, ethnic, and racial self-awareness as a counselor. The book offers a plan for designing a developmental counseling curriculum from primary through high school. It presents empirically based strategies and shows how to assess needs and design helpful interventions. Play therapy, brief counseling, rational emotional therapy, small group counseling, working with at-risk youth, and working with parents are all part of this text. The rich experiences of the authors as both practitioners and clinicians in addition to being counselor educators brings a wide array of innovations and creative techniques to this new volume.

 Special Features

• Shows how to assess needs and design helpful interventions.
• Addresses the current emphasis on developmental counseling.
• Includes empirically-based strategies for effective counseling.
• Discusses new ideas for working with at-risk and special populations.
• Responsive to diversity and the special needs of multicultural populations.

Contents

1. Working With Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents: Practical Application of Developmental Theory
2. The Individual Counseling Process
3. Using Innovative Techniques for Counseling Children and Adolescents
4. Play Therapy
5. Brief Counseling With Children and Adolescents: Interactive
6. Culturally Responsive, and Action-Based
7. Applications of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy With Children and Adolescents
8. Counseling With Exceptional Children
9. Counseling Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Youth
10. Counseling Children and Adolescents With Special Needs
11. Counseling At-Risk Children and Adolescents
12. Small-Group Counseling
13. Designing a Developmental Counseling Curriculum
14. Working With Parents
15. Working With Families

Instructors Manual
484 pages
0307/Hardback/ISBN 0-89108-304-9
$76.00

Edited by Jon Carlson and Judith Lewis

The new fifth edition includes six totally new chapters making this latest edition of Counseling the Adolescent a definitive text. The contributors are experts in the field who blend theory and practice to address all of the important issues related to adolescence.
You’ll find practical intervention strategies and proven methods that work, plus material on resilience in children, causes of bullying, school violence, conflict resolution, ethics, and much more.
The text begins by addressing the cultural context of adolescent development and how this impacts both the modality and the context of counseling sessions. Next, notable experts discuss individual struggles such as bullying, depression, suicide, and teaching children to care. Family and school issues are also presented along with interventions and activities that will aid in our understanding of the adolescent experience and help adolescents themselves enjoy healthier and more productive lives.

Special Feature

• Emphasis on partnerships of school, community, and agencies
  
• Covers evolving changes in counseling practice
  
• Includes important new information on social skills
  
• Expands coverage of school crisis intervention
  
• Shows new ideas for counseling developmental groups

Contents

Part 1: Adolescent Counseling in Context
1. Working With Adolescents: The Cultural Context
2. Ethical and Legal Complexities Inherent in Professional Roles
3. Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning: School, Family, Community, and Agency Partnerships in New Mexico

Part II: Individual Issues and Interventions
4. Problems of Adolescents
5. Fostering Resilience
6. Depression
7. Adolescent Suicide
8. Uncovering Hidden Causes of Bullying
9. Teaching Children to Care Reather Than Kill

Part III: School-Based Interventions
10. Transformations in School Counselor Preparation and Practice
11. Consultation and Counseling Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion
12. Enhancing Educational Attainment of Minority Youth
13. School Violence and Disruption: Rhetoric, Reality, and Reasonable Balance
14. Promoting a Safe School Environment
15. Intervention Procedures for Traumatic Crises in Schools
16. School Crisis Intervention
17. Teaching Students to Resolve Their Own and Their Schoolmates' Conflicts
18. Developmental Groups in School Counseling
19. Social Skills Training in Schools

Part IV: Family-Based Interventions
20. Changing Family Patterns
21. Working with Childre, Adolescents, and Their Parents
22. Family Counseling With Children

528 pages
paperback/ISBN 0-89108-320-0
$68.00

This guidebook presents both a rational and specific technique for improving teamwork in educational settings. You'll find information on creating effective teams and what makes them work. It shows how to increase collaboration and teamwork among educators, social workers, school counselors, psychologists, community leaders, and parents.

It is designed to provide a blend of research and organizational development theory, step-by-step processes for leading team-building meetings, and information to expand leadership qualities.

Special Features

• Addresses the issues of motivation, group dynamics, and the progressive team-building process
• Includes handouts and experiential exercises
• Shows how to conduct booster sessions to help energize teams
• Presents the differences between being a manager, a pseudo leader, and a genuine leader

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Creating Effective Teams
3. Pitfalls, Resistance, and What You Already Know
4. Team-Building Preparation
5. Beginning the Process
6. Assessment in Team-Building
7. Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
8. Goal Setting and Implementation
9. Conducting a Booster Session
10. The Ethics of Team-Building and Leadership
11. Building a Crisis Team
12. Training Team-Building Consultants
13. Conclusion

 242 pages
2000/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-267-0
$34.95

The first edition was essential for any professional attempting to understand the family life cycle, family interactions and other environmental factors affecting at-risk and special-needs students. Now, every chapter in this enlarged second edition has been extensively updated to reflect recent developments. The scope of the book has been expanded to go beyond students with disabilities to include students with any kind of special need and their families as well as their social networks. Of special note is the new chapter on resilient youth and the community as a resource.

Special Features

• Increased attention on diversity and special populations, including families of divorce and remarriage and abusive or addictive families
• Specific strategies for working with these children and their families
• Concrete exercises and practical interventions, including suggestions for interventions within the school system
• Entire section devoted to case studies
• New appendices - including one devoted exclusively to books for children and youth
• Expanded resource lists include web sites and e-mail addresses

Contents

Part One: Description of Family Systems

1. Introduction
2. Family Life Cycle
3. Family Interaction Patterns
4. Historical Factors

Part Two: At-Risk, Special-Needs, and Resilient Children

5. At-Risk Students and Environmental Factors
6. At-Risk Students from Nontraditional Families
7. At-Risk Students from Dysfunctional Families
8. Special-Needs Students from Dysfunctional Family Systems
9. Resiliency and the Village

Part Three: Applications of Family Systems

10. Team Functioning and Family Involvement
11. Family Conferences and Teacher-Student Support Teams
12. Family Involvement and Planning for FFIs and IEPs
13. Classroom and Group Extension of Family Systems Concepts
14. Strengthening the Possibilities for a Systems Paradigm

Part Four: Family Systems Case Study, Appendices, References, and Index

15.Case Study

536 pages
2000/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-265-4
$60.00

This text uses a holistic approach to show how schools, families, and community agencies can build partnerships to reduce school violence. The book examines various theoretical perspectives to facilitate understanding of the etiology and consequences of school, family, and community violence. The authors cover crisis teams, teacher interventions, debriefing, group psychotherapy, and building partnerships for success. The final part of this text presents community interventions, suggesting that community-based clinical social workers take leadership in collaborations to build systems of care.

This effective resource provides practical insight into the emerging culture of violence in our schools and is specially designed to help school social workers, counselors, and community leaders address this critical issue.

Contents

Part I: Children and Violence: Theoretical Perspectives

1. Why Our Children Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
2. When Home Isn’t Safe: Children and Domestic Violence
3. Witnessing Violence: The Effects on Children and Adolescents
4. School Violence and Disruption: Rhetoric, Reality, and Reasonable Balance
5. Societal Neglect and Abuse of Children

Part II: Interventions in Schools

6. Uncovering the Hidden Causes of Bullying and School Violence
7. Teaching Children to Care Rather Than Kill
8. School-Based Violence Reduction Programs: A Selevice Review of Curricula
9. Using a Group Psychotherapy Framework to Address School Violence
10. Escalation-De-Escalation: Teacher Interventions
11. The Use of Debriefings in Schools
12. The Use of Crisis Teams in Response to Violent or Critical Incidents in Schools
13. The Protocol Approach to School Violence
14. Partners for Success: A Collaborative Approach

15. The Importance of a Community Response to Violence
16. Constructing a Community Response to Violence
17. Reflections on Family Traditions
18. Systems of Care: Expanding the Response to School Violence
19. Community Mental Health in Practice

336 pages
2003/Paperback/ISBN 0-89108-299-9
$49.95