After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students
Promoting Engagement and Academic Success
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Beschreibung
After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students offers professionals a detailed framework for developing and enhancing after-school programs. Emphasizing a prevention focus and a group-centered interactive approach, the book's year-long model combines education and counseling, incorporating key therapeutic objectives to foster academic and behavior skills and reduce problems in and outside class. Practical step-by-step guidelines for creating and implementing programs include clear rationales, instructive design and case examples, and ready-to-use interventions. The author also provides guidance on developmental, gender, and cultural considerations, the challenges of maintaining progress over the course of the school year, and the handling of severe learning and emotional problems.
Among the topics covered:
- Organizing a group-centered after-school program.
- Combining learning and counseling into one curriculum.
- The role of motivation in an ongoing year-long program.
- Group process, self-efficacy, cohesion: applying the principles of change.
- Interaction in a year-long program.
- Solving problems and conflicts.
After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students is an essential reference for scientist-practitioners, clinicians, and academics in such disciplines as school psychology, childhood education, social work, psychotherapy and counseling, and learning andinstruction.
After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students offers professionals a detailed framework for developing and enhancing after-school programs. Emphasizing a prevention focus and a group-centered interactive approach, the book's year-long model combines education and counseling, incorporating key therapeutic objectives to foster academic and behavior skills and reduce problems in and outside class. Practical step-by-step guidelines for creating and implementing programs include clear rationales, instructive design and case examples, and ready-to-use interventions. The author also provides guidance on developmental, gender, and cultural considerations, the challenges of maintaining progress over the course of the school year, and the handling of severe learning and emotional problems.
Among the topics covered:
- Organizing a group-centered after-school program.
- Combining learning and counseling into one curriculum.
- The role of motivation in an ongoing year-long program.
- Group process, self-efficacy, cohesion: applying the principles of change.
- Interaction in a year-long program.
- Solving problems and conflicts.
After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students is an essential reference for scientist-practitioners, clinicians, and academics in such disciplines as school psychology, childhood education, social work, psychotherapy and counseling, and learning andinstruction.
Provides theoretical and research bases for designing after-school programs that ensure academic success for at-risk students Features instructive case examples and evidence-based group-centered interventions Offers observational exercises to assist readers in gaining a deeper understanding of how group process works Shows how after-school gains translate into improved classroom performance and reduced dropout rates Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Elaine Clanton Harpine
Themen in »After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students«
Academic competence and after-school programs After-school prevention programs At-risk students and after-school activities Cohesion and after-school programs Efficacy retraining and after-school programs Gender issues and after-school programs Group interventions after school Group process in after-school programs Group-centered after-school prevention programs Group-centered interventions after school Interaction in after-school programs Mental wellness and after-school programs Motivational strategies and after-school programs Multicultural considerations and after-school programs School mission and after-school programs
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"This text is scholarly yet reader-friendly. It is written without jargon and addresses major issues which arise while working with an at risk population. Additionally, it effectively addresses multiple facets of group cohesion, cultural needs, multiple teaching strategies, along with many problems solving skills ... This book is especially helpful for the new professional or those just beginning to work in group settings."
Kelly Devinney
The Group Psychologist
The Newsletter of the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy
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