Main description:

*From authors with extensive experience in schools, an authoritative guide to making any evidence-based group intervention work.
*Extremely practical: step-by-step guidance, reproducible/downloadable handouts, reflection questions, and role-play exercises.
*From-the-trenches logistical advice includes strategies for engaging students (ages 5-13) and parents and sustaining participation.
*The group format gives more students access to help and enables them to practice social skills while benefiting from shared peer experiences.

Contents:

1. Facilitating Successful Child and Parent Groups
2. Locating Evidence-Based Group Interventions
3. Recruiting for Child and Parent Groups
4. Planning, Organizing, and Establishing the Group
5. Managing Behaviors in Child Groups
6. Managing Behaviors in Parent Groups
7. Engaging Group Members
8. Abuse, Neglect, Crisis Situations, and Suicidal Ideation
9. Data-Based Decision Making and Planning for Termination
Appendices
Reproducible Forms
References
Index