Full Description
Fostering Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the Classroom provides educators and school personnel with a thorough, readable guide to some of the most common mental health issues they are likely to confront in the classroom. Editor Raymond J. Waller offers pre-service and in-service educators strategic tools to help take the proper steps toward addressing the mental health issues of their students.
Key Features:
Encourages effective collaboration between teachers and mental health professionals: While most books related to children's mental health are written for mental health personnel, this book offers strategies that teachers can use in their classrooms to help children with mental health issues. The chapters in this book are written by experts in the field and address contemporary, common mental health issues experienced by children and adolescents.
Gives teachers confidence in having a positive impact: Educators are often among the most influential people in the lives of children and this book offers helpful and practical roles for educators in promoting mental health in all children. Real-life vignettes demonstrate how various mental health problems may manifest in the classroom and how these problems can be addressed effectively in the school setting.
Helps identify mental health problems in the classroom: Few teachers are specifically taught to identify student behaviors that may potentially result in severely reduced functioning or risk of harm to self or others. This text will assist educators in recognizing symptoms of crisis and offer practical suggestions rather than treatment or diagnosis, which is beyond the purview of most educators.
Intended Audience:
This is an excellent supplementary textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on Classroom Management. It can also be used in a variety of courses in Education, Special Education, Educational Psychology, School Psychology, School Counseling, and School Social Work.
Contents
Introduction - Raymond J. Waller & Jeffrey P. Douglass
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
1. The Educator's Role in Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Raymond J. Waller, Diane J. Bresson, & Katie S. Waller
2. A Teacher's Guide to Understanding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders - Denise M. Green
3. Dealing with Problem Behavior in the Classroom: A Behaviorological Perspective - Jerome D. Ulman
PART II: MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FREQUENTLY CONFRONTED IN THE CLASSROOM
4. Elimination Disorders - Susan Mortweet VanScoyoc
5. Mood Disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder, and Bipolar Disorder - Amy C. Traylor and M. Elizabeth Vonk
6. Childhood Anxiety Disorders - Joseph Himle, Daniel Fischer, Michelle Van Etten, and Jordana Muroff
7. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Nina Yssel
8. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Julie Sarno Owens and Lauren Richerson
PART III: MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES INVOLVING SIGNIFICANT RISK TO SELF OR OTHERS
9. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Obesity - Laura Myers
10. Conduct Disorder - Raymond J. Waller, Katie S. Waller, Diane J. Bresson, & Michelle Schramm
11. Bullying Behavior and School Violence - W. Sean Newsome and Michael Kelly
12. Childhood Sexuality and Sexual Behavior - Ramona M. Noland
13. Child Abuse and Neglect - Julie Palmour, Diane J. Bresson, and Raymond J. Waller
14. Self Injury and Suicide - Steve Knotek, Sarah Hamel, Rachel Schoolman, and Natalie Siegel
PART IV: MOVING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
15. The Role of the Educator in Early Identification, Referral and Linkage - Dawn Anderson-Butcher
16. Communication Between Parents and Professionals - Thomas A. Wood and S. T. Kordinak
17. Mental Health Needs and Problems as Opportunities for Expanding the Boundaries of School Improvement - Hal A. Lawson, Kevin Quinn, Eric Hardiman, and Robert Miller
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