The major thrust of this book is generalization of gain in psychotherapy. The information presented also applies to change agents and recipients of training in educational and industrial settings. This book explores the varied history of generalization, elaborating on generalization techniques and examining obstacles to their use. The authors describe, in user-friendly detail, procedures representing both the existing technology of generalization enhancement and a number of emerging techniques that hold promise. They also consider how the qualities of the change agent and the context of training can influence generalization.

CONTENTS
1 Introduction

Part 1 Generalization Enhancement: Existing Approaches
2 Early Extrapolations: Initial Enhancement Methods
3 A Technology of Transfer and Maintenance
4 Self-Regulation

Part 2 Generalization Enhancement: Emerging Approaches
5 Relapse Prevention
6 Cognitive Structuring: Efficacy, Expectancy, Goal Setting
7 Promotive Environments

Part 3 Generalization-Promoting Change Agents
8 Change-Agent Burnout
9 Change-Agent Consultation

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"Catch it low to prevent it high." This timely, one of a kind book focuses on the critical but often ignored problem of low-level aggression in schools and other settings.

The author provides a series of useful strategies and tactics to help reduce and control low-level aggression-behaviors such as teasing, cursing, bullying, and vandalism-that when left unchecked often escalate into more serious forms of aggression and criminal activity.

The book also discusses thought processes that promote aggression: misperceptions, rationalizations, and other thinking errors.

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This well-researched manual has been significantly revised and expanded to include new and updated materials, procedures, and 93 supplementary exercises. The book is designed for use with middle school and high school students and can also be adapted for use with younger students.

The Prepare Curriculum presents a series of 10 course-length interventions grouped into three areas: reducing aggression, reducing stress, and reducing prejudice.

 Download a 8 page PDF document on The PREPARE Curriculum.

Contents
Introduction

Part I Aggression Reduction

1. Skillstreaming
2. Situational Perception
3. Anger Control
4. Moral Reasoning

Part II Stress Reduction
5. Stress Management
6. Problem Solving
7. Recruiting Supportive Models

Part III Prejudice Reduction
8. Empathy
9. Cooperation
10. Understanding and Using Groups

The 93 supplementary exercises involve games, role plays, reading and writing, drawing, brainstorming, group discussion, relaxation, tape recordings, photography, and other hands-on activities. The book examines important issues such as behavior management, assessment, motivation, and transfer and maintenance skills.

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Aggression Replacement Training (ART) offers a comprehensive intervention program designed to teach adolescents to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives.

ART provides a coordinated, three-part training approach:

• Prosocial Skills
• Anger Control
• Moral Reasoning

The book summarizes ART's outcome evaluations and discusses recent applications in schools and other settings. Appendices include over 100 pages of guidelines, checklists, moral reasoning problem situations, and more.

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Aggression Replacement Training (ART) offers a comprehensive intervention program designed to teach adolescents to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives.

ART provides a coordinated, three-part training approach:

• Prosocial Skills
• Anger Control
• Moral Reasoning

The book summarizes ART's outcome evaluations and discusses recent applications in schools and other settings. Appendices include over 100 pages of guidelines, checklists, moral reasoning problem situations, and more.

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This widely used book provides all the information needed to implement a successful Skillstreaming program with students in grades 2-5. The training approach utilizes modeling, role playing, performance feedback, and transfer (homework). Skillstreaming addresses the prosocial skill needs of elementary school students, especially those who display aggression, immaturity, withdrawal, or other problem behaviors. It is designed to help students develop competence in dealing with interpersonal conflicts, learn to use self-control, and contribute to a positive classroom atmosphere.

The curriculum is divided into five skill groups: Classroom Survival Skills, Friendship-Making Skills, Dealing with Feelings, Alternatives to Aggression, and Dealing with Stress.

Within these skill groups the authors provide strategies for teaching 60 specific prosocial skills, such as asking for help, accepting consequences, dealing with group pressure, and using self-control.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Skillstreaming: Past, Present, Future
3 Skillstreaming and Safe Schools
4 Skillstreaming Arrangements
5 Skillstreaming Teaching Procedures
6 A Sample Skillstreaming Session
7 Skills for Elementary Students
8 Refining Skill Use
9 Managing Behavior Problems
10 Teaching for Skill Generalization

Appendices contain program evaluation forms and a 42-page annotated bibliography of Skillstreaming research.

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This widely used book provides all the information needed to implement a successful Skillstreaming program with middle school and high school students. The training approach utilizes modeling, role playing, performance feedback, and transfer (homework). Skillstreaming addresses the prosocial skill needs of adolescents, especially those who display aggression, immaturity, withdrawal, or other problem behaviors.

It is designed to help students develop competence in dealing with interpersonal conflicts, learn to use self-control, and contribute to a positive classroom atmosphere. The curriculum is divided into six skill groups: Beginning Social Skills, Advanced Social Skills, Dealing with Feelings, Alternatives to Aggression, Dealing with Stress, and Planning Skills.

Within these skill groups the authors provide strategies for teaching 50 specific prosocial skills, such as starting a conversation, apologizing, expressing feelings, standing up for a friend, responding to failure, and setting a goal.

Contents

1 Introduction: Aggression in America's Schools
2 Skillstreaming: History and Development
3 Facilitative Skillstreaming Arrangements
4 Skillstreaming Training Procedures
5 A Sample Skillstreaming Session
6 Skills for Adolescents
7 Skill Sequences and Combinations
8 Trainee Motivation and Resistance
9 Enhancing Generalization of Skill Performance
10 The Skillstreaming Setting: Safe and Unsafe Schools
11 Future Directions and Opportunities

Appendices contain program evaluation forms and a 42-page annotated bibliography of Skillstreaming research.

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People in groups act aggressively as a group, not as a collection of individuals. The Psychology of Group Aggression's comprehensive journey starts with group dynamics theory and research by reviewing its relationship to aggression.

Arnold P. Goldstein then provides a unique and valuable insight into the different types and levels of intensity of anti-social behavior, examines its causes and considers its costs. In separate chapters he considers low intensity aggression, including ostracism, hazing, teasing; mid-intensity, e.g. bullying and harassment; and high intensity aggression, e.g. mobs and gangs.

In a final section, he considers management and intervention techniques, both widely employed and emerging methods. The Psychology of Group Aggression is an important work for both a pure and an applied audience.

It will be a key reference for many, including clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, criminal justice workers, social psychologists and academics and students in criminology, psychology and sociology.

Contents

Part I. Aggression-Relevant Group Dynamics

Part II. Forms and Formulations

Low-Level Group Aggression

Bullying and Harassment

Delinquent Gangs

The Mob

Part III. Intervention

Established and Emerging Interventions

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ISBN: 0-470-84516-3

This staff training video offers a quick overview of the concepts and training procedures contained in the books Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child and Skillstreaming the Adolescent. A free copy of each book accompanies the video.

The video features on-screen training sessions that show Dr. Arnold Goldstein and Dr. Ellen McGinnis working with small groups of adolescents and elementary students.

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