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This highly engaging, eminently practical book provides essential resources for implementing social and emotional learning (SEL) in any K-12 setting. Numerous vivid examples illustrate the nuts and bolts of this increasingly influential approach to supporting students' mental health, behavior, and academic performance. Helpful reproducibles are included. The authors offer clear-cut guidance on how to: choose the right SEL program for a particular school teach SEL concepts to students, teachers, and administrators weave SEL into the classroom curriculum to boost academic success adapt interventions for culturally and linguistically diverse students and those with special needs monitor outcomes and maximize the quality of interventions. This text will be valuable to school psychologists, counselors, social workers, and administrators; also of interest to general and special education teachers. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses such as Methods of School-Based Intervention.

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Why should social and emotional learning (SEL) be a central component of every child's education? Merrell and Gueldner offer the answers in this very readable, informative, and comprehensive guide. The book takes school-based practitioners through the entire process of choosing the best SEL approach for a particular context and implementing, assessing, and sustaining quality SEL programs for children and youth. The authors provide an integrated model that demonstrates how SEL can work effectively with positive behavioral supports within a three-tiered intervention framework. An excellent and timely guide. - Mark T. Greenberg, Bennett Chair of Prevention Research and Director, Prevention Research Center, Penn State University, USA This timely book summarizes and integrates recent advances in understanding the importance of SEL and developing evidence-based curricula and intervention strategies. The book strikes a perfect balance between reviewing the theoretical and empirical bases of recommended approaches and providing concrete guidelines for practitioners. The authors make excellent use of scenarios to emphasize important points. - Jan N. Hughes, Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, USA Finally, a comprehensive and well-written resource on SEL. This outstanding volume will be useful for school psychologists, educators, and graduate students. The book is great for those interested in implementing SEL in schools, as it contains plenty of practical advice and real-life examples. As a university trainer, I appreciate not only the academic rigor of the text, but also its accessibility and its clear connections to current issues in school psychology, especially response to intervention and mental health. This is a suitable text for graduate-level classes on mental health, behavioral interventions, prevention, and even classroom management. - Brian C. McKevitt, School Psychology Program, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA This book represents the best current state of the field. It will help educators approach SEL in an evidence-based, holistic way. Merrell and Gueldner clearly lay out the conceptual basis of SEL, its documented benefits for students, and the most effective teaching and assessment practices. Instructive and engaging, the book explains the nuts and bolts of how to best implement SEL in the classroom. It is a wonderful contribution and essential reading for educators, mental health practitioners, and researchers. I teach a course on SEL and I plan to assign this text as required reading. - Roger P. Weissberg, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

This book represents the best current state of the field. It will help educators approach SEL in an evidence-based, holistic way. Merrell and Gueldner clearly lay out the conceptual basis of SEL, its documented benefits for students, and the most effective teaching and assessment practices. Instructive and engaging, the book explains the nuts and bolts of how to best implement SEL in the classroom. It is a wonderful contribution and essential reading for educators, mental health practitioners, and researchers. I teach a course on SEL and I plan to assign this text as required reading. --Roger P. Weissberg, PhD, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago This timely book summarizes and integrates recent advances in understanding the importance of SEL and developing evidence-based curricula and intervention strategies. The book strikes a perfect balance between reviewing the theoretical and empirical bases of recommended approaches and providing concrete guidelines for practitioners. The authors make excellent use of scenarios to emphasize important points. I would select this text for master's-level courses in school-based interventions and school consultation. Students would benefit from the practice-relevant guidelines and from the book's emphasis on systemic change versus single strategies. --Jan N. Hughes, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University Finally, a comprehensive and well-written resource on social and emotional learning (SEL). This outstanding volume will be useful for school psychologists, educators, and graduate students. The book is great for those interested in implementing SEL in schools, as it contains plenty of practical advice and real-life examples. As a university trainer, I appreciate not only the academic rigor of the text, but also its accessibility and its clear connections to current issues in school psychology, especially response to intervention and mental health. This is a suitable text for graduate-level classes on mental health, behavioral interventions, prevention, and even classroom management. --Brian C. McKevitt, PhD, School Psychology Program, University of Nebraska at Omaha Why should social and emotional learning (SEL) be a central component of every child's education? Merrell and Gueldner offer the answers in this very readable, informative, and comprehensive guide. The book takes school-based practitioners through the entire process of choosing the best SEL approach for a particular context and implementing, assessing, and sustaining quality SEL programs for children and youth. The authors provide an integrated model that demonstrates how SEL can work effectively with positive behavioral supports within a three-tiered intervention framework. An excellent and timely guide. --Mark T. Greenberg, PhD, Bennett Chair of Prevention Research and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

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Kenneth W. Merrell, PhD, is Professor of School Psychology at the University of Oregon, where he has served as School Psychology Program Director and as head of the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences. His research and clinical interests focus on social and emotional learning in schools and social/n-/emotional assessment and intervention with children and adolescents. He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters in these areas, as well as several books, assessment instruments, and intervention programs. a Barbara A. Gueldner, PhD, is a psychologist at The Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. She has over a decade of experience working as a school psychologist in the public school systems in Wisconsin and Oregon. Dr. Gueldner's research and clinical interests are in the areas of universal prevention and early intervention for children's mental health concerns; issues in pediatric psychology; consultation; and training mental health professionals. She has coauthored several articles and book chapters as well as an SEL curriculum for students.

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