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Cooper, Paul; Tiknaz, Yonca – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007
This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling -- either in school or at home. It explains the social and emotional underpinnings of learning and presents practical strategies for aiding engagement. "Nurture Groups", originally devised and implemented in the…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Antisocial Behavior, Interpersonal Relationship, Group Counseling
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Borders, L. DiAnne; Drury, Sandra M. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1992
Describes components of effective school counseling programs that have emerged from 30 years of empirical research and professional standards. Results are summarized in seven sections: core principles of school counseling programs, program resources, program interventions, program evaluation, program renewal, written policies, and program climate.…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Guidance, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Johnson, Sharon K.; Whitfield, Edwin A. – 1991
This guide provides a comprehensive guidance program evaluation or it can be used to evaluate selected parts of a program. Chapter 1 "What Is Guidance Program Evaluation? by Sharon K. Johnson, introduces evaluation concepts. Chapter 2 "Results-Based Guidance Programs" by C. D. Johnson introduces the elements common to results-based guidance…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Guidance, Counseling Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Rudolph, David D. – 1984
Maryland's Perryville High School Positive Disciplinary Project involves both actively disruptive students referred by the administration and students who have demonstrated the potential to be disruptive who are referred by teachers, guidance counselors, or parents. In either instance, the student becomes a part of the program for the entire…
Descriptors: Delinquency Prevention, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Expulsion
Alaska State Dept. of Education and Early Development, Juneau. – 2001
Alaskan school counselors deal with diverse systems and conditions in order to deliver counseling services through the Alaska School Counseling Program. Wherever Alaskan counselors serve, the need for a comprehensive and sequential school counseling program remains the same. An effective school counseling program must enhance and support the…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Guidance, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
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Reynolds, William M.; Stark, Kevin D. – Special Services in the Schools, 1987
The article describes components of school-based programs that have demonstrated efficacy in treatment of depressed children and adolescents. Components include self-monitoring, activity scheduling, cognitive restructuring, attribution retraining, self-evaluation training, self-reinforcement training, and relaxation training. Results of studies…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Depression (Psychology), Educational Therapy
Betancourt, Irene – 1990
A guidance counselor and chair of an elementary school's special services team implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of 107 kindergarten through fifth grade students who were chronically absent. While 49 percent of the truant students lived in an inner-city housing project, 62 percent lived in…
Descriptors: Attendance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family School Relationship
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Guetzloe, Eleanor – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
This article focuses on special education's responsibility in planning and implementing suicide prevention programs in the schools. It discusses which students are at risk for suicide, the association between depression and suicidal behavior, guidelines issued by Minneapolis Public Schools, emotional first aid, and features of effective suicide…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, High Risk Students
Leonard, Carolyn M. – 1984
PASS (Positive Alternatives to Student Suspensions) is a Portland Public Schools program which provides a sequence of intervention strategies to improve attendance and progress of "high risk" high school students. The goal of its student, staff, parent, and community components is the reduction in the number of students suspended, or…
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Students, Expulsion, High Risk Students
Tripp, Amy Wilson; Turner, Barbara Siegel – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1986
Over a two-year period Hinsdale South High School (Chicago, Illinois) has successfully mainstreamed 59 hearing impaired students into such courses as English, mathematics, science, physical education, and business education. Program components include admission criteria, a Coordinator of Mainstreamed Support Services, counseling, interpreters,…
Descriptors: Deaf Interpreting, Extracurricular Activities, Hearing Impairments, High Schools
Larson, Jim; Lochman, John E. – 2002
This comprehensive guide presents the Anger Coping Program, an empirically supported group intervention for 8-12 year olds with anger and aggression problems. Controlled clinical research has demonstrated this program to reduce teacher- and parent-directed aggression; improve on-task behavior in the classroom; and enhance participants' verbal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aggression, Anger, Behavior Modification
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Allan, John – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1981
Presents a methodology for dealing with scapegoating and negative classroom environment. Outlines group discussion formats and suggests structured questions help children explore problems, express feelings, and feel motivated to act positively. Proposed benefits include individual children are not labeled as problems, and class members gain…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Counseling Techniques
Peck, Nancy L.; Eberhard, Raymond G. – The Practitioner, 1988
Dropout prevention is emerging as the most important new issue in education. Broad demographic trends predict a continuing growth in the population of at-risk youth, those most likely to drop out of school. The overall goal of any dropout prevention activity is to reduce the number of at-risk students. This issue is devoted to what research and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Change Strategies, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Opuni, Kwame A.; And Others – 1991
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Beating the Odds (BTO) program of the Houston (Texas) schools in the 1990-91 school year, the third and final year of Phase I of the program. The BTO program provided training workshops for teachers of at-risk students and direct counseling and social service support for at-risk students in a selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Hobson, Arthur T., Ed. – 1983
These guidelines and quality indicators are designed to help providers of vocational programs and services in California to identify policies, procedures, and practices that are exemplary or that might be improved. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: planning; fiscal resources; facilities, equipment, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Cooperative Programs
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