School-Wide Guidance: Be a Shining Star!: Quick and Easy Programs to Motivate Every Student

by Lisa Miller (2007, MarCo, 28.95/book and CD)
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This book is divided into two sections: The first part explains the Shining Stars Guidance Program, and the second is a collection of schoolwide programs for each month of the school year. This program is designed to increase positive social interaction—to stop the day-to-day bullying, teasing, and fighting that take up much of a counselor’s time. You'll find a selection of ideas that recognize students who perform good deeds, students who set a good example, and students who excel academically. (Includes a CD-ROM of the activities.) Grades K-6. [8.5" x 11"...128 pages]

Common Psychological Disorders in Young Children: A Handbook for Child Care Professionals

by Jenna Bilmes & Tara Welker (2006, Redleaf Press, 29.95/spiral)
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The most common childhood psychological disorders—ADHD, autism, anxiety, and many more—are discussed in a user-friendly manner that includes examples and recommended practices specific to early childhood settings. For each disorder, the authors detail causes, symptoms, typical behaviors, effective interventions, and common medications and their side effects. The disorders, which are consistently formatted to make information easy to find, are organized under headings used in the DSM-IV-TR. [7” x 10”...183 pages]

Easy As Pie…CD: A Generous Serving of Creative Guidance Presentations

by Janet Bender (2002, Bender Enterprises, 25.00/CD)
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Nine motivational Powerpoint presentations. Each "piece of the pie" presents a different guidance topic in a PowerPoint slide show format. Reproducible student handouts are included. Topics are: orientation to guidance services, character education, career awareness, anger management, friendship, decision-making, and coping with family changes. Elementary grades.

What's the Issue? A Biblioguidance Program for Schools...That Works!

byDeDe Coffman (2005, Educational Media, 29.95/spiral)
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Here is a practical, step-by-step guide for using children's literature to help develop the skills, attitudes, and beliefs needed for success in school and life. Unit topics include: worry, anger, goal-setting, manners, and friendship. Materials for bulletin boards and parental involvement are included in both English and Spanish. The books referenced are often available in most elementary school libraries. Reproducible masters accompany each activity. Grades K-5. [8.5" x 11"...178 pages]

The Counseling Workbook

by Nancy Flood (2006, Childswork/Childsplay, 20.95/spiral)
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This fully reproducible handbook is chock-full of strategies designed to help children handle such challenges as parental divorce, living in a blended family, loss and grieving, food-related issues, coping with depression, having ADD/LD and being gifted. For each key idea, there is a story, narrated in a child's voice to illustrate the issue. There are questions to focus discussion and an activity designed to help children adapt and cope. Grades 2-5. [8.5" x 11"...96 pages]

Favorite Elementary Counseling Activities

Compiled by Dave Craig (2005, Paperbacks for Educators, 15.00/spiral)
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There are some talented elementary counselors in the world. This book is a celebration of those counselors and what they have shared as their “favorite counseling activity.” Simply put, a collection of those activities they felt the best about. Many of these are school-wide activities, others are for classroom-size groups. Some work best with small groups. Many revolve around children’s books. The inclusion here was determined solely by the editor’s intuition. Which was influenced greatly by the excitement and images conveyed as they described their “favorite counseling activity.” [7" x 8.5"...148 pages]

A Survival Guide for the Elementary/Middle School Counselor: Second Edition

by John Schmidt (2004, Jossey-Bass, 32.95)
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This second edition offers school counselors an expanded, practical, professional resource that is packed with hundreds of ready-to-use ideas, strategies, and tools. This "Survival Guide" will help you plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the remedial, preventative, and developmental needs of all your elementary and middle school students. For easy use, this book is organized into twelve sections, each focusing on one aspect of a comprehensive program. [8.5” x 11”...294 pages]

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