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

Roger L. Kroth and Denzil Edge

This book combines innovative strategies with daily activities designed to improve communication between the school and families of special needs children. The text addresses the changing family structure and takes the stance that parents and educators should be partners rather that combatants. Listening skills and positive communication are the heart of building positive relationships between family memebers and professionals. This text explains how to handle parent-teacher conferences, progress reports, group meetings, parent training, and planning programs.

This fourth edition takes an in-depth look at fostering the best relationship between teachers and parents. Classroom teachers, as well as special educators, will find this resource extremely useful in communicating with parents and addressing the needs of children with disabilities.

Special Features

• Addresses improved communication between parent and teacher
• Practical resource for teachers and organizations
• Handouts provided on several key topics
• Reflection questions follow each chapter
• Strategies for involving parents

Contents

1. The Family in Today's Society
2. The Mirror Model
3. Family Dynamics
4. Perceptions and Diversity of Values
5. Listening Skills
6. Parent-Teacher Conferences
7. Informational Formats for Parents
8. Reporting Progress
9. Parent Group Meetings
10. Defining the Problem
11. Reinforcers and Reinforcement
12. The Reinforecement Menu
13. Parent Training Groups
14. Assistive Technology and Assistive Devices
15. What's Ahead

336 pages
2007/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-314-6
$52.00

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