Children's Friendship Training


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First published in 2003. Children's Friendship Training is a complete manualized guide for therapists treating children with peer problems. This unique, empirically validated treatment is the first to integrate parents into the therapy process to ensure generalization to school and home. Representing over twelve years of research, Children's Friendship Training presents the comprehensive social skills training program developed by these pioneering authors. Step-by-step interventions help children develop the skills to initiate mutually satisfying social interactions. These interactions can lead to higher regard within the peer group and the development of satisfying dyadic relationships that will, in turn, serve to enhance overall well being. Clinical and empirical rationales, illustrative case examples and parent handouts that educate parents and give specific guidelines for homework assignments are presented for each treatment module. Brief relevant reviews of the child development literature and selective reviews of assessment techniques and other approached to children's social skills training are presented to sufficiently acquaint therapists interested in implementing children's friendship training.







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Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients


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This timely practical reference addresses the lack of Spanish-language resources for mental health professionals to use with their Latino clients. Geared toward both English- and Spanish-speaking practitioners in a variety of settings, this volume is designed to minimize misunderstandings between the clinician and client, and with that the possibility of inaccurate diagnosis and/or ineffective treatment. Coverage for each topic features a discussion of cultural considerations, guidelines for evidence-based best practices, a review of available findings, a treatment plan, plus clinical tools and client handouts, homework sheets, worksheets, and other materials. Chapters span a wide range of disorders and problems over the life-course, and include reproducible resources for: Assessing for race-based trauma. Using behavioral activation and cognitive interventions to treat depression among Latinos. Treating aggression, substance use, abuse, and dependence among Latino Adults. Treating behavioral problems among Latino adolescents. Treating anxiety among Latino children. Working with Latino couples. Restoring legal competency with Latinos. The Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients fills a glaring need in behavioral service delivery, offering health psychologists, social workers, clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other helping professionals culturally-relevant support for working with this under served population. The materials included here are an important step toward dismantling barriers to mental health care.







Models-based Practice in Physical Education


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This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in physical education to suggest Models-based Practice (MbP) as an innovative future approach to physical education. It lays out the ideal conditions for MbP to flourish by situating pedagogical models at the core of physical education programs and allowing space for local agency and the co-construction of practice. Starting from the premise that true MbP does not yet exist, the book makes a case for the term "pedagogical model" over alternatives such as curriculum model and instructional model, and explains how learners’ cognitive, social, affective and psychomotor needs should be organised in ways that are distinctive and unique to each model. It examines the core principles underpinning the pedagogical models that make up MbP, including pedagogical models as organising centres for program design and as design specifications for developing local programs. The book also explores how a common structure can be applied to analyse pedagogical models at macro, meso and micro levels of discourse. Having created a language through which to talk about pedagogical models and MbP, the book concludes by identifying the conditions - some existing and some aspirational - under which MbP can prosper in reforming physical education. An essential read for academics, doctoral and post-graduate students, and pre-service and in-service teachers, Models-based Practice in Physical Education is a vital point of reference for anyone who is interested in pedagogical models and wants to embrace this potential future of physical education.







MIL EJERCICIOS Y JUEGOS CON MATERIAL ALTERNATIVO


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Históricamente la palabra deporte ha estado ligada a los conceptos de recreación, ocio y entrenamiento. Con la aparición del profesionalismo y la alta competición, estas connotaciones han pasado a formar parte de otro tipo de manifestación deportiva llamado genéricamente Deporte para todos o Deporte de Recreación. En este sentido es donde se aplican las ideas del presente trabajo. Las actividades en forma de juegos y ejercicios que nos plantean los autores de este libro son perfectamente aplicables al ámbito de la Educación Física Escolar. Dentro de la gran variedad de actividades planteadas encontramos no sólo ejercicios y sus fundamentos, sino la motivación sugerente para que el propio lector y practicante apliquen su creatividad a nuevas y diferentes formas de las actividades a realizar. Las 1000 diferentes actividades que plantea el libro son aplicables a todas las edades y pueden practicarse en cualquier entorno. Un bote de yoghurt, cajas, cañas, cuerdas, escaleras, escoba, gomas elásticas, neumáticos, papel, pelotas, sillas, mesas, tiza, etc. Todo es válido para jugar y aprender, y los ejercicios aquí descritos nos dan pie a pensar que pueden haber otros materiales a utilizar y que seguramente los mismos niños pensarán en ellos. Realizando los ejercicios y juegos presentados en el libro, el niño trabajará: la estructuración espacio-temporal, la coordinación general, la coordinación óculo-segmentaria, la fuerza, la velocidad, la resistencia, la movilidad articular, el equilibrio, etc., además de aprender a cooperar con los compañeros y a oponerse a los compañeros. Cada uno de los ejercicios consta de una breve explicación, las posibles variantes, el ámbito donde practicarlo, los objetivos y la edad.







Physical Education Futures


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Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists? In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have been dominant in schools since the mid-twentieth century and that they have been highly resistant to change. The practice of physical education has focused on the transmission of de-contextualised sport-techniques to large classes of children who possess a range of interests and abilities, where learning rarely moves beyond introductory levels. Meanwhile, the academicization of physical education teacher education since the 1970s has left teachers less well prepared to teach this programme than they were previously, suggesting that the futures of school physical education and physical education teacher education are intertwined. Kirk explores three future scenarios for physical education, arguing that the most likely short-term future is ‘more of the same’. He makes an impassioned call for radical reform in the longer-term, arguing that without it physical education faces extinction. No other book makes such bold use of history to interrogate the present and future configurations of the discipline, nor offers such a wide-ranging critique of physical culture and school physical education. This book is essential reading for all serious students and scholars of physical education and the history and theory of education.