Practitioner's Guide to Emotion Regulation in School-Aged Children

by Gayle L. Macklem

Overview

Emotion regulation skills should be mastered by early childhood, but many enter school with deficits that may not have been addressed effectively or early enough. This vital new text presents in-depth background and practical information on the subject so school professionals can craft interventions that are developmentally appropriate and timely. It also offers practical tools that can be taught to children and shared with parents and teachers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441944771
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/04/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Gayle L. Macklem, MA, NCSP, LEP, is a Massachusetts licensed school psychologist and a Massachusetts-licensed educational psychologist. She has served in the field of education for 30 years. A former president of the Massachusetts School Psychologists Association (MSPA), she serves as the Technology Chairperson of the state association. Gayle is an adjunct instructor in the Counseling and School Psychology Specialist Training Program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Gayle writes curriculum and writes on topics of interest to educators. She is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences. Gayle is the author of Springer’s Bullying and teasing: Social power in children’s groups (2003).

Table of Contents

The Importance of Emotional Regulation in Child and Adolescent Functioning and School Success.- Emotional Dysregulation.- Understanding the Biology of Emotion and Using this Knowledge to Develop Interventions.- Development of Emotion Regulation in Young Children.- Parenting and Emotion Regulation.- Emotion Regulation in the Classroom.- Emotion Regulation and Social Functioning in the Context of the Peer Group.- Regulating Positive and Negative Emotions.- Strategies for Parents and Teachers.- Adapting Interventions for Use with School-Aged Children.- The Intervention Process.