Group interventions in schools: promoting mental health for at-risk children and youth

Children who are labeled at-risk often suffer from severe deficiencies in cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills that, if unaddressed, may lead to limited prospects for future success and well-being. Tapping into the therapeuticpotential of groups, this volume presents the theory and practice of cognitive-oriented group-centered counseling – combining intrinsic motivation, efficacy retraining, and targeted play therapy and social role-playing – that can be implemented to help children build core social skills and emotional regulationto complement their classroom instruction. In addition to providing a complete framework for developing, facilitating, and evaluating group interventions with children in their natural learning environments, Group Interventions in Schools: Offers observational exercises to assist readers in gaining a deeper understanding of how group interventions work; provides both the theory and research that supports real-world group-based motivational interventions. Explainshow to combine efficacy retraining, intrinsic motivation, and group counseling in order to alleviate concerns about taking children away from content instruction in the classroom – Group-centered motivational counseling interventionsteach remedial skills in an efficacy retraining motivational setting; therefore, students receive both interventions and cognitive instruction INDICE: Preface.- Acknowledgments.- About the Author.- Introduction.- Erasing Failure with School-Based Prevention Programs.- Skill-Building Efficacy Retraining.- Motivation: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic.- Group Process and Change.- Selecting Effective Interventions.- A One-Week Group-Centered Motivational Intervention Program.- Designing Group-Centered Motivational Interventions.- Creating Cohesive Group Interventions.- Implementing and Evaluating Your Program: The Long-Term Goal.- Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-77315-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 235
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés