Challenging Behaviour in Mainstream Schools: Practical Strategies for Effective Intervention and Reintegration

by McSherry,Jane

• ISBN13: 9781853467462
• ISBN10: 1853467464
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-07-30
• Publisher: David Fulton Pub

Summary

This book is designed to help; schools and LEAs meet their responsibilities under the new Social Inclusion: Pupil Support guidance; and teachers successfully include and reintegrate pupils with emotional and behavioral difficulties and challenging behaviors by offering a structured program that includes assessment, group work and post-intervention strategies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Core elements of the programme
The underlying framework	p. 9
The development of the re-integration programme	p. 18
Assessment: The Coping in Schools Scale (CISS)	p. 26
The group work approach	p. 34
Applications of the programme
Primary secondary transfer	p. 47
Learning Support Units	p. 61
Pastoral Support Programmes (PSPs)	p. 78
Re-integration from Pupil Referral Units	p. 90
Key points of implementation and ways forward	p. 107
Pupil Action Plan	p. 111
The Coping in Schools Scale (CISS)	p. 113
The Coping in Schools Scale (CISS) (shorter version)	p. 131
CISS score summary sheet	p. 136
CISS shorter version summary sheet	p. 137
Primary/Secondary transfer evaluation	p. 139
Primary/Secondary transfer pro-forma	p. 141
Pastoral Support Programme - meeting pro-forma	p. 146
Re-integration checklist	p. 150
References	p. 151
Index	p. 153
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