Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum for Children/Grades 1-6 Revised Edition - Softcover

Vernon, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878225560 ISBN 13: 9780878225569

Publisher: Research Press (IL), 2006

Synopsis

For grades 1-6. An essential resource for helping students learn to overcome irrational beliefs, negative feelings, and the negative consequences that may result. This 2006 revision is packed with 105 creative and easy-to-do activities 15 are new to this edition. The activities include games, stories, role plays, writing, drawing, and brainstorming. Each activity is identified by grade level and categorized into one of five important topic areas: Self-Acceptance; Feelings; Beliefs and Behavior; Problem Solving and Decision Making; and Interpersonal Relationships. Thinking, Feeling, Behaving is an emotional education curriculum based on the principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. It can be used in classroom or small group settings.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Vernon, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls where she served as Coordinator of the School and Mental Health Counseling programs for 23 years, in addition to maintaining a large private practice where she specialized in working with children, adolescents, and their parents. Dr. Vernon has published 15 books and numerous chapters and articles on counseling techniques with youth, and in particular, applications of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in individual and small group counseling as well as classroom guidance. Dr. Vernon is considered one of the leading experts on REBT with children and has presented workshops on this topic, as well as other topics related to counseling children, throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and South America.

Review:

Because the activites were interest-provoking and different from much of the regular classroom curriculum, the students were enthusiastic about the sessions. It was also rewarding to see the 'light bulb' go on when students started taking ownership for their own thoughts and feelings and stepping out of the victim role. --Rebecca Schmitz, School Social Work Journal

Ann Vernon has developed a curriculum that provides school counselors with lessons on all different facets of social and emotional barriers. . . The author provides actual scenarios that students can understand and relate to. . . The curriculum embraces the goal of positive behavior and flexible thinking. Topics presented in the lessons reflect peer perception, cliques, transition issues, and social pressures. . . a great resource for school counselors. --Deborah Hardy, New York State School Counselors Association Newsletter

It is critical for school districts to select a program that is empirically-based, cost-effective, and user-friendly. You will be delighted to know that Dr. Ann Vernon's emotional education curriculum meet all of the above criteria. . . . Dr. Vernon presents a framework of emotional education with a total of 210 experiential activities that are applications of Dr. Albert Ellis' rational emotive behavioral therapy. . . . I believe these two books are ideal for educators, counselors, and school psychologists who are looking for resources to foster healthy social and emotional development in their students. --Tony Wu, NCSP

About this edition

• Publisher: Research Press (IL)
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0878225560
• ISBN 13: 9780878225569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294