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Resilient Playgrounds

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Resilient Playgrounds emphasises the importance of recess as a crucial part of children's social, emotional, and academic growth. It offers school mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators practical tools and strategies to assess and enhance playground environments. The book guides readers through a data-driven problem-solving approach to identify and improve playground elements that affect student interactions, ensuring recess is a beneficial experience. An accompanying CD provides useful resources such as forms, examples, and presentations to support these interventions.
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This book is ideal for educators, school administrators, and mental health professionals seeking to optimise the recess experience for children to support their holistic development.

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Intends to apply a data-based evaluation and problem-solving method to the playground environment, allowing school-based mental health professionals to work with teachers and administrators to provide and promote safer, engaging, and nurturing recess environments. This book provides the tools to evaluate recess experiences and strategies.

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While recess provides children with a time to play and take a break from the school day, research has shown that it is also a necessary and vital part of their social, emotional, and academic development.

Resilient Playgrounds provides tools and strategies for school mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators to evaluate and improve the recess experience in order to ensure that children benefit as much as possible from this important time.

Using a data-based problem solving strategy, the authors present methods for assessing playgrounds, identifying features that may negatively impact students and their social interactions, intervening to modify and strengthen these features, and monitoring to guarantee that the interventions have created successful outcomes.

An accompanying CD contains forms, examples, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources to support the procedures discussed throughout the book.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415960885

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 5 Tables, black and white; 119 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 317g

Pages: 183

About the Author

Dr. Beth Doll is a Professor in the School Psychology Program of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She is Nebraska’s School Psychologist of the Year in 2005, serves on the editorial board of all three major school psychology journals, is an Associate Editor of School Psychology Quarterly, and has served as an officer or president of three state school psychology associations as well as Division 16 (School Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Katherine Brehm is a long-time practitioner of school psychology. She is currently a school psychologist with the Ysleta School District in El Paso, Texas, where she provides consultation services in inclusive classrooms to enhance the social-emotional functioning of students with learning and behavior problems. She was also a practicing school psychologist for sixteen years in Colorado, where she was School Psychologist of the Year in 2001, a guest reviewer for a major school psychology journal, and a board member of the school psychology associations in Colorado and Texas.

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