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

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
$32.00

Students and professionals will find that this edition of this classic book has dozens of new strategies for working with violence and behavior in our schools. The authors provide how-to information and step-by-step methods for working with disciplinary problems and aggression within the school setting.

You’ll find a new chapter on behavioral intervention plans based on functional assessment. It includes six specific things you must do in completing functional assessments. Tips for dealing with aggressive behavior and how to bully-proof your classroom are all part of this edition.

Special Features

• Solutions based on actual experience of the authors.
• New ideas for designing individualized behavioral intervention plans.
• Guidelines for dealing with physical aggression.
• Effective use of praise to manage student behavior.

Contents

1. Facing the Challenge
2. The Classroom Climate
3. Ineffective Classroom Management Techniques
4. Successful Behavior Management
5. Behavioral Intervention Plans
6. Understanding Aggression
7. Dealing With Aggressive Behavior
8. Verbally Dealing With Aggression Ineffective Talk
9. Use of Time-Out
10. Bully-Proofing Your Classroom
11. Dealing With Physical Aggression
12. Breaking Up Fights
13. Police Intervention and Community Agency Involvement
14. Working Effectively With Parents
15. Administrative Issues

176 pages
2002
paperback/ISBN 0-89108-289-1
$32.00

Functional assessment can be overwhelming to educators who are not familiar with the process. This book is designed specifically for persons who have limited training in applied behavior analysis and functional assessment procedures.

This easy-to-use manual will help educators understand the purpose and meaning of the functional behavior assessment process and how to identify and assess behavior. It shows how to develop and write effective Behavior Intervention Plans using data collected during the functional assessment.

Special Features

• Presents step-by-step procedures for conducting functional assessments
• Shows how to write Behavior Intervention Plans and select interventions
• Discusses data collection
• Includes dozens of checklists and plan sheets for working with Behavior Intervention Plans.

Contents

1. Introduction to IDEA and Functional Assessment
2. The Function of Functional Assessment
3. Functional Assessment Process
4. Behavioral Intervention Plans
5. Appendix Forms and Planning Sheets

112 pages
2001/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-277-8
$24.95

This practical text covers techniques for combating truancy, collaborating with police, conflict resolution, and gang prevention and intervention measures.

The book is intended for all educators who ultimately will face behaviorally challenging students and compromising situations in schools. You’ll find ideas about dress codes, searches, sexual perpetrators in schools, and safety checklists.

Special Features

• Details the appropriate use of searches and interventions
  
• Solutions based on actual experiences of authors
  
• Designed to be used for all schools K-12

210 pages
1997/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-256-5
$29.95

The book begins with a discussion of current practices in the education and management of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Subsequent sections define and classify behaviors, identify styles of coping, show procedures for identification, and present educational interventions.

You'll find chapters covering depression, dignity, interventions, instructional planning, and most importantly classroom practices.

Special Features

• A unique presentation that traces the transition and etiology of behavior disorders up to today
• Includes models for intervention, planning, classroom strategies, and research implications
• Highly practical and translates research into classroom practice

Contents

1. Current Perspectives on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
2. Educational Practices

Part One: Affective Considerations

3. The Relationship Between Pupil Affect and Achievement
4. The Emotional Development of Exceptional Students
5. Depression in Children and Adolescents: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment
6. Promoting Dignity: Taking the Destructive D's out of Behavior Disorders

Part Two: Models of Intervention

7. Engineered Classroom
8. Teaching Children Self-Control
9. The Helping Teacher/Crisis Teacher Concept
10. Developing Self-Regulated Learners
11. Courage for the Discouraged: A Psychoeducational Approach to Troubled and Troubling Children

Part Three: Instructional Planning

12. Developing Instructional Materials for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
13. Integration of Exceptional Children into Regular Classes: Research and Procedure
14. Procedures for Developing Creativity in Emotionally Disturbed Children
15. Curriculum Modification as a Strategy for Helping Regular Classroom Behavior-Disordered Students

Part Four: Classroom Practices

16. Classroom Scheduling Techniques for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
17. Therapeutic Discussion Groups in Public School Classes for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
18. Application of the Self-Control Curriculum with Behavior-Disordered Students
19. Classroom Management: Teacher-Child-Peer Relationships
20. Management of Aggressive and Violent Behavior in the Schools
21. Perspective on the Future

416 pages
1998/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-254-9
$48.00

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

This book is designed to show how to create specialized instruction based on the individualized needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The book demonstrates throughout how to plan a curriculum based on a diagnostic prescriptive approach.

The authors stress that teachers must know as much as possible about each student. This includes strengths, deficits, interests, and behavioral functions. Teachers can then plan an appropriate program based on effective, direct instructional approaches.

Special Features

• Shows both social and academic interventions.
• Includes ideas for becoming partners with community agencies.
• Gives techniques for planning communication with parents.
• Helps teachers to plan engaged time in learning activities.

Contents

1. The Teacher as a Catalyst for Change
2. Assumptions Underlying Quality Educational Programming
3. Life Skills and Transition to Adulthood
4. Role of the IEP in Education of Students With E/BD
5. Meaningful and Relevant Curriculum
6. The Central Role of Teaching Social Skills
7. Multicultural Education for Students With E/BD
8. Curriculum of Hope: Focusing on Helping Others
9. Engaged Time in the Classroom
10. Student Self-Management
11. Higher-Level Thinking Skills
12. Learning Strategies and Study Skills
13. Access to the General Curriculum
14. Effective Inclusion of Students With E/BD
15. Working With Families of Students With E/BD

256 pages
2002
paperback/ISBN 0-89108-287-5
$39.95