"The SOS (Sense of Self) Model = benefits of group work + solution-focused counseling + psychoeducational skills development. This timely text provides essential content on group practices, solution-focused counseling, and proven strategies for implementation of groups in schools. Imagine having a program that allows counselors and other helping professionals to meet many more students' critical needs, save a great deal of planning and implementation time, and develop skills in self acceptance, communication, interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, decision making, and self care! The SOS Model provides group session plans and interactive group activities to meet all of the ASCA National Standards for Personal/Social Development. This practical "how to" book includes all of the ready-to-use tools to set up, run, and evaluate groups--needs assessments, letters to parents and teachers, solution-focused interview guides, 54 session guides and handouts, and evaluations. CD-ROM includes all reproducible forms, guides, and handouts"--Publisher's website.

SOS!: A Practical Guide for Leading Solution-Focused Groups with Kids K-12

Education & Teaching

Synatschk, Katherine O.

Tullison, Patricia K.

Schools & Teaching

Pro.ed

Quickly determine your students' and clients' transition needs in the specific areas of employment and career planning with these informal assessments. Designed as a companion resource to Informal Assessments for Transition Planning, this new text, Informal Assessments for Transition: Employment and Career Planning, offers more than 60 easy-to-use assessments which provide focused data in four areas of assessment critical to transition planning and decision-making for employment and careers: Interests and Preferences Abilities and Skills Career Exploration Job Search and Securing Highly practical and reproducible, the resources include instruments that are simple to more complex, brief to comprehensive, and geared for use with students, parents, teachers, and employers.

Informal Assessments for Transition: Employment and Career Planning

Business & Money

Patton, James R.

Clark, Gary M.

Copeland, L. Rozelle

Job Hunting & Careers

Positive Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion for Aggressive Kids

McConnell, Kathleen

Education & Reference

Organized as both a text about self-regulation and a step-by-step, practical guide to developing a program for helping children and adolescents, this text is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, and behavior specialists. Chapters 1-3 provide research-based information regarding the connections between emotional intelligence, somatic experience, emotional regulation, and relationships and the ability to self-regulate. Chapter 4 Is a how-to for using somatic interventions. Chapter 5 links the concepts of solution-focused therapeutic approaches to the emotional/somatic concepts. Chapter 6 integrates the theory and literature into a model for use in the schools and mental health settings to help children and adolescents regulate their emotions and behaviors. Vignettes and case examples are included. Other features include: Appendix A: Tools - an array of reproducible tools, organized into tools for Assessment, Individual Counseling, Group Counseling, and Crisis Response Appendix B: Activities - many lesson/ activity plans for use in individual and group settings to teach skills for the Caregiver and for the Student in self-regulation (Grounding, Mindful Awareness, and Tracking Sensations) and the CASEL skills areas (Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision Making, and Relationship Skills).

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Tollison, Patricia K.

Logan, Gaea

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Ryser, Gail R.

Edmark Reading Program - Level 2, Mastery Test

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