Coping Skills Interventions for Children and Adolescents

A book in the Psychoeducational Intervention Series

Provides a wide range of coping skills interventions for helpingchildren learn to handle everyday stress and deal better withacademic, interpersonal, and physical demands both in and out ofthe classroom. Also includes specific techniques for promotingchange and evaluating results. Stress and Coping in Children and Adolescents.

Learning to Relax.

Facilitating Social Problem Solving.

Improving Social Interactions.

Acquiring Assertiveness Skills.

Using Self-Instruction Techniques.

Decreasing Irrational Beliefs.

Developing Stress-Reducing Thought Patterns.

Changing Beliefs About Success and Failure.

Promoting Behavioral Self-Control.

Prevention Applications.

Successful Implementation. "Forman has assembled the most comprehensive literature on coping skills interventions for children and adolescents currently available...an extraordinarily valuable resource." --Thomas R. Kratochwill, professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Susan G. Forman is the author of Coping Skills Interventions for Children and Adolescents, published by Wiley. Provides school psychologists, counselors, social workers, and teachers with a wide range of coping skills interventions designed to help them teach children how to handle stress and deal more competently with academic, interpersonal, and physical demands both in and out of the classroom. Details the specific techniques that can be used to promote and evaluate student change. Shows how instruction in relaxation training, social problem-solving training, social skills training, and assertiveness training can promote the growth of interpersonal and emotional competence. For school psychologists, counselors, social workers, and teachers, this volume presents a wide range of coping skills interventions for helping children learn how to handle everyday stress and better deal with academic, interpersonal, and physical demands both in and out of the classroom. In addition, it includes specific techniques for promoting change and evaluating results.