Counseling Skills for Teachers

By Jeffrey A. Kottler, Ellen I. Kottler, Ellen Kottler

Book Overview

By necessity, today's teachers do much more than deliver instruction. In the classroom, on the playground, or even in the parking lot, teachers are often called upon to respond quickly and appropriately to students' social and emotional needs, drawing from instinct more than anything else.

In this second edition of the bestselling Counseling Skills for Teachers, Jeffrey and Ellen Kottler expertly guide preservice and inservice teachers to be effective helpers in the context of today's most common challenges, highlighting issues related to homelessness, grief and loss, and bullying and harassment.The book also discusses:

- Responding to a range of behaviors in formal and informal school settings
- Building a culture of tolerance and respect in the classroom
- Motivating disengaged students
- Communicating effectively with counseling professionals and parents

With an entirely new chapter on "Counseling Yourself," the book offers teachers surefire techniques for taking better care of themselves and the students in their schools.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163220553X
• ISBN13: 9781632205537
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A helpful tool for teachers.

This book serves as a useful tool for teachers designed to enhance their human relations and therapeutic counseling skills so they might better meet the personal, social, educational and vocational needs of children and adoloscents.