In a world where children are beset by violence and stress, Lesley Koplow provides educators with clear, level-headed advice on how to integrate preventive mental health practice into public schools (preschool through grade 5). Koplow, a psychotherapist, discusses the mandate for violence prevention and offers an intervention framework for teachers, administrators, and school-based clinicians who want to improve the emotional climate in their school. The book includes a chapter addressing what we've learned from the recent tragic events of September 11th in New York City. Suggested Interview...

The first edition of this indispensable book set the standard for high-quality intervention and prevention programs in early childhood practice. Now in the wake of many new forces that have impacted the landscape of early childhood education, it has undergone a thorough revision, making complex psychological concepts available to classroom teachers.

This title offers teachers a proven way of addressing social and emotional issues in the classroom. The book features strategies for integrating teddy bears into classroom life and the curriculum itself to help teachers address unresolved emotional issues that hinder children's socialization and learning processes.

This book is a "must read" for parents and teachers who are concerned about our current education policies and how they affect our youngest students. Lesley Koplow brings the experience of being a young child, a young child's parent, or a teacher of young children to life in an era when public elementary schools are besieged by pressure to "win the race." Anyone who wonders what happened to nurturing early childhood and early grade classrooms that stimulate the young child's curiosity, creativity and quest to discover meaning will find the answer here. Advocates for the young child's right to...