In this text, clinical psychologist Edward Christophersen and his colleague, child psychologist Susan Mortweet, show parents how to raise their child to become th adult we would all like to be - one who is happy and compassionate, confident but not aggressive, and able to make and keep friends.
This hands-on guide is designed to help school practitioners conduct effective multidimensional assessments of a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Each chapter focuses on a particular method, describes its applications in the school setting, and offers clear guidelines.
A volume divided into seven parts, each beginning with an introductory chapter presenting findings on the topic at hand, followed by one or more papers from the author's research program.
Early Childhood Indicators of Developmental Dysfunction
TABS is specifically designed to identify critical temperament and self-regulation problems that can identify a child's risk as early as possible. This pack includes a TABS screener, a TABS assessment tool, and a TABS manual which covers information for administration and scoring of TABS.
This book tells the story of how Suzanne, a young teacher at a Waldorf school, copes with the changes her class is going through at the transition from childhood to adolescence. The problems she and the parents of her students must face are familiar to all parents of teens: drug use, smoking, apathy, rebelliousness, moodiness, to name only a few. ......
Caroline von Heydebrand, a teacher in the first Waldorf school, traces human development through childhood. She describes the spirit and soul as the child incarnates and how the individual comes to expression in various ways, including the particular temperament; the unique formative forces that give shape to the physical body; the development of ......
This text provides a framework for teaching students how to be students, and offers practical guidance on how academic learning, at its best can be brought about.
This biography of the psychologist Lightner Witmer, focuses on personal events and circumstances, but also offers insights into the professional, scientific, academic, and clinical aspects of his life. It also places Witmer's life in the economic and political context of his times.
Opening address, Stuttgart, August 20, 191914 lectures, Stuttgart, August 21-September 5, 1919 (CW 293)2 lectures, Berlin, March 15 and 17, 1917 (CW 66). The Foundations of Human Experience is the most important text for studying and understanding the human developmental and psychological basis for Waldorf education.
An exploration of ""the thinking classroom"". Illustrated with classroom vignettes and teaching activities, this volume is supported by an empirically validated and classroom tested psychological theory that lays out the three ways of thinking and the cognitive processes that underlie them.
This text describes the evolution and daily operation of the ""Primary Mental Health Project"", a school-based prevention programme that provides a practical alternative to traditional ""after-the fact"" intervention. It describes how to establish, maintain and evaluate such a programme.
This is a lively, colorful, and absorbing account of a class teacher's journey with his class, from first grade through the eighth grade in a Waldorf school. Straightforward and humorous, School as a Journey provides an excellent introduction to the daily activities of a Waldorf school classroom. Torin Finser--who is now Director of Waldorf ......
