Adolescent Curriculum for Communication and Effective Social Skills ACCESS is a complete curriculum for teaching effective social skills to students at middle and high school levels. The program teaches peer-to-peer skills, skills for relating to adults, and self-management skills. The ACCESS curriculum, which is designed for use by both regular and special education teachers, may be taught in one-to-one, small-group, or large-group instruction formats. ACCESS contains teaching scripts for 30 social skills identified by secondary teachers and students as critical for social competence; an eight-step instructional procedure; student study guide containing role-play scripts, discrimination exercises, and student report forms for contracted practice; and suggestions for grouping of students as well as motivational, behavior management, and generalization strategies.

This inventory combines two teststhe Manson Evaluation and the Alcadd Test, both described below. For hand scoring, you can use the convenient WPS AutoScore Test Form. For computer scoring, you can use prepaid Mail-In Answer Sheets. Both scoring options let you quickly administer, score, and profile one or both tests. The computer scoring option also gives you a full interpretive report.

Join Angus the anxious terrier and Serena the cat in this delightful board game as they deal with 15 common social stressors grouped into three categories:
Peers (dealing with being left out, handling group pressure, responding to teasing, saying no, and showing sportsmanship)
Authority (accepting consequences, accepting denials, being honest, managing accusations, and making
complaints)
School (attending, completing homework, meeting expectations, performing in class, and taking tests)
Game cards feature Angus the anxious terrier struggling to manage stress as his good friend Serena helps him refrain from extremism, catastrophizing, dichotomizing, overgeneralizing, and personalizing situations. The four different card categories keep the game interesting as players engage in role play, learn proven stress management tips, challenge cognitive errors, and learn to identify the triggers and symptoms of stress.

The six RBPC subscales measure Conduct Disorder, Socialized Aggression, Attention Problems-Immaturity, Anxiety-Withdrawal, Psychotic Behavior, and Motor Tension-Excess. Administration and scoring are straightforward. Raters respond to the 89 items on the top page of the carbonless Test Booklet. Responses transfer to the bottom sheet, which contains scoring instructions and a scoring key. The RBPC Profile Sheet is used to record the obtained raw and T scores and to plot the pattern of the test results. The Rating Form is designed for use in conjunction with other measures (e.g., intelligence and achievement tests, behavior observations, and interviews) as part of an overall assessment of the individual.

Following a threat of violence, the PETRA enables you to analyze the context of psychosocial, ecological, and coping/resiliency factors to assist in the identification, assessment, intervention and treatment planning, and behavioral management of adolescents who pose a risk of targeted violence toward others. The PETRA provides four domain scores (i.e., Psychosocial, Resiliency Problems, Ecological, Total), eight cluster scores (i.e., Depressed Mood, Alienation, Egocentricism, Aggression, Family/Home, School, Stress, Coping Problems), two Response Style Indicators (i.e., Inconsistency, Social Desirability), and eight Critical Items. The PETRA Threat Assessment Matrix is used to help you classify the content of a threat as low, medium, or high risk based on the information gleaned from the threat itself.

Ready-to-use classroom lessons with over 40 reproducible student worksheets and hundreds of practical learning activities designed to help teens work out their anger and learn skills for anger management. Anger is natural and we all get angry, but learning how to use your anger to help solve a problem or to make a change can be hard work. This book provides step-by-step instructions and activities to help counselors guide students through effective, meaningful expressions of anger. Make anger helpful, not harmful. Learn quick and easy tips for recognizing anger and dealing with difficult situations. Students explore a variety of practical, fun, and interactive activities. They learn lifelong techniques for working with, and working out, their anger through self-expression, relaxation, self-control, negotiation, compromise, and just plain letting go and moving on.

This convenient checklist helps clinicians structure and focus the diagnostic interview. Requiring just 10 to 15 minutes to complete, it lists more than 100 DSM-IV-related symptoms in clear, easy-to-understand language. The adolescent simply checks those symptoms that he or she has experienced. The symptoms listed relate to the following areas: cognitive disorders, substance abuse, psychosis, mood and anxiety disorders, cluster A personality disorders, oppositional behavior, attention-deficit hyperactivity, conduct problems, eating disturbance, sexual deviance, somatoform and dissociative disturbances, sleep difficulties, communication disorders, and V-code problems such as bereavement, academic troubles, parent-child conflict, phase-of-life issues, and identity problems. Using a WPS AutoScoreTM Form, the adolescent checks problems on the top sheet, and these marks are automatically transferred to a bottom sheet, where they are aligned with corresponding clinical symptoms and associated diagnoses. When the form is separated, this bottom sheet serves as the clinician's worksheet. It guides the initial interview, provides material for the intake report, and identifies areas where personality testing might be helpful--saving the clinician considerable time.

The Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales-Second Edition (PKBS-2) is a behavior rating scale designed for use with children ages 3 through 6 years. This unique behavior rating scale is easy to use, very practical, and based on a solid foundation of research. With 76 items on two separate scales, it provides an integrated and functional appraisal of the social skills and problem behaviors of young children. The scales can be completed by a variety of behavioral informants, such as parents, teachers, and other care givers. Separate score conversion tables are available for home-based and school-based raters. Completion of the rating form takes about 12 minutes. The Social Skills scale includes 34 items on 3 subscales: Social Cooperation, Social Interaction, and Social Independence. The Problem Behavior scale includes 42 items on 2 subscales: Externalizing Problems and Internalizing Problems. In addition, 5 supplementary problem behavior subscales are available for optional use.

Practical Ideas That Really Work for Students with Disruptive, Defiant, and Difficult Behaviors, Second Edition is for educators who work with students with challenging behaviors. Like the other titles in the PITRW series, this easy-to-use resource consists of two main components: a Practical Ideas Manual and an Evaluation Form. Educators can incorporate these practical ideas into their campus Response to Intervention framework. Ideas for schoolwide, classwide, group, and individual interventions are provided, along with references indicating their scientific research basis. The complete kit includes everything educators need to provide high-quality, targeted interventions that meet RTI requirements for behavior. In addition, educators who work with students already identified with emotional/behavioral disorders will find effective, easy-to-use ideas that can be integral to their Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPS).

Practical Ideas That Really Work for Students with Disruptive, Defiant, and Difficult Behaviors, Second Edition is for educators who work with students with challenging behaviors. Like the other titles in the PITRW series, this easy-to-use resource consists of two main components: a Practical Ideas Manual and an Evaluation Form. The Preschool–Grade 4 Manual has 35 practical intervention ideas, reproducible worksheets, examples, illustrations, and tips designed for easy implementation. A CD-ROM with all of the reproducible forms is provided along with the manual. Most of the ideas in the second edition of this popular resource are new and the others have been revised and improved.