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Using a holistic approach--to take intervention from an individual to a systemic level--this book focuses on the front-line, practical issues faced by the consultant attempting to gain entry into a school. Opening with a review of consultation and its purposes, this unusually practical volume describes in detail how to: * Define consultant functions * Make decisions about where to enter the system * Build support among key school system staff who are in a position to facilitate initial entry * Garner information on the school's lines of authority, communication networks, missions, values, goals, and traditions * Determine how practical the project is to the school * Ascertain whether financi...
Meet the neighbors from hell, in the gripping thriller that reviewers and readers describe as "fast-paced," "chilling," and "impossible to put down." When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open arms. But then strange things start to happen. Dead rats are left on their doorstep. They hear disturbing noises, and much worse, in the night. After Jamie's best friend is injured in a horrific accident, Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted ...
This hands-on guide is designed to help school practitioners conduct effective multidimensional assessments of a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Each chapter focuses on a particular method, describes its applications in the school setting, and offers clear guidelines for implementation, illustrated with realistic case examples. Approaches discussed include direct observation, analogue assessment, child self-reports, teacher and parent interviewing, informant reports, and self-monitoring procedures. Recommendations for working with culturally and linguistically diverse children and adolescents are also provided. The theoretical and empirical underpinnings of the assessment strategies demonstrated here are thoroughly reviewed in the companion volume, Behavioral Assessment in Schools, Second Edition: Theory, Research, and Clinical Foundations (see other side for more information).
This volume describes proven, practical techniques for promoting key skills in students for everyday social, academic, familial, and vocational success. Based on the work of a highly acclaimed, 15-year, ongoing multisite project, the approach is designed to help professionals encourage the development of enduring life tools and prevent substance abuse, HIV infection, violence, and other behavior-related problems. The program is directed toward children in primarily K-8 populations at high, moderate, and low levels of risk, in both regular and special education contexts.
While there is considerable evidence for the effectiveness of school consultation teams for interventions with difficult or at-risk students, relatively little has been written on the implementation of such teams. This book details that process and describes the important features of the Instructional Consultation Team, including methods and instruments for evaluating student progress and system functioning. Bringing together literature on school consultation and school change, this volume enables the school-based professional who takes the role as change facilitator not only to implement new, more effective services, but also to ensure that the services become established functions of the school system.
This manual presents the first empirically supported homework intervention approach specifically developed for families coping with ADHD in children in grades 1-6. Special features include detailed case examples; checklists for monitoring interventions; recruiting instruments and outcome measures; and reproducible parent handouts. Ideal for use with groups of parents and children, or with one family at a time, this manual is intended for school psychologists and counselors, clinical child psychologists and other mental health practitioners, and special education professionals.