15-Minute Focus: Behavior Interventions: Strategies for Educators, Counselors, and Parents

15-Minute Focus: Behavior Interventions: Strategies for Educators, Counselors, and Parents
Author: Amie Dean
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1953945589

In 15-Minute Focus: Behavior Interventions, Amie Dean gives educators, counselors, and parents knowledge, strategies, and resources to teach children and teens how to communicate and make decisions to get their needs met in positive ways through behavior instruction and coaching. If a child or teen is struggling to manage emotions or make good choices, it is rarely because they want to be "bad" or disrespectful. Most adults look for the "right" way or a magic formula that will transform challenging students, with no luck on finding one. Impacting behavioral change in another person is hard work, and every individual has unique needs and circumstances that should be considered. This book will help you view children's words and actions as a lack of coping skills in the moment, or a skill deficit that can be taught and improved. You'll discover: - The function of behavior - Ways to rethink responses to behavior - De-escalation techniques - Steps to create a trauma-sensitive classroom - Principles for a positive classroom - Actionable strategies, curated resources, and more! This guide will ask you to consider that there is likely a barrier keeping children from being successful, and it is our opportunity as the adults who care for them to help them through it.

15-Minute Focus: Anxiety: Worry, Stress, and Fear

15-Minute Focus: Anxiety: Worry, Stress, and Fear
Author: Leigh Bagwell
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1953945279

In 15-Minute Focus: Anxiety, Worry, Stress, and Fear, Dr. Leigh Bagwell gives counselors and educators a step-by-step primer on how to support students who struggle with anxiety. Anxiety can cause students to feel isolated and overwhelmed, preventing them from learning and engaging in the classroom. Rather than tell our students not to worry, our job as educators should be to recognize when our students are struggling with anxiety and get them the support they need. In this book, Bagwell explains the physiological progression from a trigger to a full-blown anxiety attack, and provides a variety of prevention and intervention strategies for school counselors, educators, and administrators. What you'll get: - Understanding of anxiety and clarification of anxiety vs. misbehavior -Breakdown of various anxiety disorders and how they present - Helpful tips for parents who have anxious children - Curated list of resources, including organizations, curriculum, books, and more! When students experience anxiety, they need help navigating through it. This guide will teach school counselors, educators, and administrators how to become powerful advocates for their students so they can thrive in the classroom and in life.

Your Happy Heart

Your Happy Heart
Author: Amie Dean
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1953945112

A Story from the Heart... Fifth-grader Javon has the big responsibility of being a Book Buddy to a kindergartner named Richard. But when he meets Richard for the first time, he isn't so sure he's up for the challenge. Richard won't talk to Javon or even look at him. He seems sad, but Javon quickly realizes that Richard reminds him a whole lot of himself at that age, and Javon is determined to help his new friend. Both boys learn a lot that year, but what Javon learns from Richard is the most important lesson of all: that helping someone find their happiness can make your own heart happy, too. Children need to be taught they have unique gifts they can be proud of and that make them special. They need to know how to cope when the world feels like a big, scary place, and they need to be reminded of the things that make them happy so when they are sad, they can remember those things. With these tools in their tool belts, children can grow in self-confidence and learn to thrive in their world.

Collaborative Home/School Interventions

Collaborative Home/School Interventions
Author: Gretchen Gimpel Peacock
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1606233785

Parents can be invaluable partners in identifying students’ behavioral and learning needs and developing effective solutions. This book provides practical tools for collaborating with families to achieve the best outcomes for K–12 students. In a large-size format for easy reference and photocopying, the book includes more than 40 ready-to-use reproducibles. School-based mental health professionals will learn how to build positive home/school relationships, actively involve parents in assessment and intervention, and overcome barriers to collaboration. The latest research on what works in treating internalizing, externalizing, and academic difficulties is translated into clear-cut recommendations for practice. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

15-Minute Counseling Techniques That Work

15-Minute Counseling Techniques That Work
Author: Allison Edwards
Publisher: 15-Minute Focus
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781937870690

The counselor is not the strategy. The counselor teaches strategies. As counselors, we spend our days helping kids. Kids come to us with a variety of problems, searching for answers. They want us to listen. And they need us to give them solutions for the issues they are facing. While these solutions may work temporarily, we really never help kids until we give them tools"¬‚¬"or techniques"¬‚¬"to manage thoughts and feelings on their own. Our job is not to do it for them. Our job is to teach them how to do it themselves! This is the greatest gift we can give. In 15-Minute Counseling Techniques, Allison Edwards provides tools to use in individual or group counseling sessions with children in grades K"¬‚¬"12. Children will learn how to calm their mind and body with Square Breathing, let go of negative thoughts by Changing the Channel, identify their unique gifts by creating a "What I'm Good At" Jar, and so much more. The techniques in this book will help children feel empowered to face everyday challenges and equipped to manage their stress and emotions. And, best of all, you will give them the confidence they need to handle challenges throughout their lives.

There's No Dream Too Tall

There's No Dream Too Tall
Author: Amie Dean
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781937870669

Believe in Yourself and Your Dream Will Find You! By showing kids that their different strengths can help them become who they want to be, we give them the power and permission to dream.

School Counseling Chronicles

School Counseling Chronicles
Author: Erica Jones Biddings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre:
ISBN:

SCHOOL COUNSELING CHRONICLES: REAL TALK FOR REAL COUNSELORS 100+ School Counseling Advice, Strategies, and ActivitiesInformative and insightful, this book explains how school counselors and educators help students with various issues to succeed in school. Written by a School counselor for School counselors, new and more experienced, need tips, strategies, and ideas at a moment's notice to enhance their daily practice. Everyday, School Counselors are so busy with large caseloads and classroom guidance lessons. They look for one promising idea that they can implement immediately to teach a new skill, cause the students to think, and change their behavior. The tips/strategies and advice in this book will make it easier for you to work towards meaningful changes in your students by concentrating on a specific problem or goal and significantly impacting your students' achievement and success! I sincerely hope that this book will be helpful to Rookie Counselors as well as Seasoned Veterans. School Counseling Chronicles: Real Talk for Real Counselors can help light your pathway to a successful year. By Reading This Book, You too can: conduct positive and goal-oriented small group and classroom guidance lessons; maximize your time with ideas you can implement immediately Create well-defined goals to impact students quickly; work efficiently with students, parents, teachers, and school administrators to support your school counseling program; spend less time searching for great activities that yield significant results in student progress; discover low -and no-cost ideas for making activities engaging for students.

Parenting Matters

Parenting Matters
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309388570

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

FBA and BIP

FBA and BIP
Author: Christine Ditrano
Publisher: Dude Publishing
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2010
Genre: Behavior modification
ISBN: 9781935609278

This laminated reference guide provides an efficient and effective template/model to conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIP) that work. The focus of this guide is on developing team-based intervention plans for the students who require intensive, individualized behavioral intervention and includes: A team problem-solving approach to reduce behavior problems in schools A concise description of the steps to conduct FBAs How to transform FBA results into practical function-based interventions This valuable training tool helps teachers, school psychologists, guidance counselors, and administrators learn how to design effective behavioral interventions. It focuses on the value of preventing problem behaviors by changing the environment as well implementing function-based behavioral interventions. An essential tool for school staff that conduct FBAs and BIPs

Interventions for Disruptive Behaviors

Interventions for Disruptive Behaviors
Author: Gregory A. Fabiano
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462526691

Children and adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders struggle both in and outside the classroom. This book gives school practitioners vital tools for supporting students' positive behavior as well as their academic and social success. Chapters review effective behavioral interventions at the whole-class, targeted, and individual levels; parent training programs; and strategies for building adaptive skills. Core evidence-based techniques are illustrated with vivid, concrete examples. Ways to integrate the strategies into a school's multi-tiered model of prevention and intervention are discussed. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 14 reproducible forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.