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Child-Centered Play Therapy
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VanFleet, Rise; Sywulak, Andrea E.; Sniscak, Cynthia Caparosa – Guilford Publications, 2010
Highly practical, instructive, and authoritative, this book vividly describes how to conduct child-centered play therapy. The authors are master clinicians who explain core therapeutic principles and techniques, using rich case material to illustrate treatment of a wide range of difficulties. The focus is on nondirective interventions that allow…
Descriptors: Play Therapy, Children, Counseling Techniques, Intervention
Working with Families of Young Children with Special Needs
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McWilliam, R. A., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This user-friendly book presents research-based best practices for serving families of children with special needs from birth to age 6. Expert contributors demonstrate how early intervention and early childhood special education can effectively address a wide range of family concerns, which in turn optimizes children's development and learning.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Social Development
Brief Intervention for School Problems: Outcome Informed Strategies, Second Edition
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Murphy, John J.; Duncan, Barry L. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Now in a revised and updated second edition, this highly practical guide provides innovative strategies for resolving academic and behavioral difficulties by enlisting the strengths and resources of students, parents, and teachers. Extensive new case material illustrates the authors' creative approach to building solutions and "busting problems"…
Descriptors: Intervention, Rating Scales, Disabilities, Student Evaluation
Collaborating with Parents for Early School Success: The Achieving-Behaving-Caring Program
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McConaughy, Stephanie H.; Kay, Pam; Welkowitz, Julie A.; Hewitt, Kim; Fitzgerald, Martha D. – Guilford Publications, 2007
The Achieving-Behaving-Caring (ABC) Program is an evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties and promoting successful home-school collaboration. This practical guide demonstrates how classroom teachers and parents can work together to boost individual children's…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Parent Participation, Action Research, Parent School Relationship
Training Teachers to Give Effective Commands: Effects on Student Compliance and Academic Behaviors
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Matheson, Andrea Starkweather; Shriver, Mark D. – School Psychology Review, 2005
This study examined the effects of effective command training with teachers on students' compliance rates and academic engagement. Three target students were selected who were exhibiting compliance rates substantially below peers. The students' teachers were taught how to provide effective commands. Results indicated that students' rates of…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Compliance (Psychology), Classroom Techniques, Student Participation
Smart Discipline for the Classroom: Respect and Cooperation Restored. Third Edition.
Koenig, Larry – 2000
This book helps teachers develop personal plans of action to handle classroom discipline, offering progressive Plan A and Plan B strategies. Plan A strategies take seconds to implement. Plan B strategies take more time but are designed to turn around specific attitudes and behaviors. After an introduction, there are 9 chapters: (1) "Misbehaviors…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Discipline Problems