Kenneth W. Merrell & Barbara A. Gueldner 
Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom [PDF ebook] 
Promoting Mental Health and Academic Success

This highly engaging, eminently practical book provides essential resources for implementing social and emotional learning (SEL) in any K–12 setting. Numerous vivid examples illustrate the nuts and bolts of this increasingly influential approach to supporting students’ mental health, behavior, and academic performance. Helpful reproducibles are included. The authors offer clear-cut guidance on how to:*Choose the right SEL program for a particular school.*Teach SEL concepts to students, teachers, and administrators.*Weave SEL into the classroom curriculum to boost academic success.*Adapt interventions for culturally and linguistically diverse students and those with special needs.*Monitor outcomes and maximize the quality of interventions. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

Table of Content

1. Social and Emotional Learning: What It Is, and What It Can Do for Your Students 2. Social and Emotional Learning Curricula: A Review of Selected Programs 3. The Essentials of Using Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom 4. Using Social and Emotional Learning to Foster Academic Learning 5. One Size Does Not Fit All: Adapting Social and Emotional Learning for Use in Our Multicultural World, with Sara Castro-Olivo6. When Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom Is Not Enough: Linking Students to Mental Health Services 7. Assessment and Evaluation Strategies in Social and Emotional Learning 8. Using Social and Emotional Learning within School Systems: Organizational Dynamics and Strategic Planning

About the author

Kenneth W. Merrell, Ph D, until his death in 2011, was Professor of School Psychology and Director of the Oregon Resiliency Project at the University of Oregon. For 25 years, Dr. Merrell’s influential teaching and research focused on social-emotional assessment and intervention for at-risk children and adolescents and social-emotional learning in schools. He published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles; several books and nationally normed assessment instruments; and the Strong Kids programs, a comprehensive social and emotional learning curriculum. Dr. Merrell was a Fellow of the Division of School Psychology (Division 16) and the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association. He received the Senior Scientist Award from Division 16, the Division’s highest honor for excellence in science.Barbara A. Gueldner, Ph D, is a nationally certified school psychologist with over a decade of experience in the public school systems in Wisconsin and Oregon. She is a licensed psychologist in Colorado and has extensive experience working with children and families in pediatric primary care and intensive medical and psychiatric inpatient settings. Her research and clinical interests are in the areas of universal prevention and early intervention of children’s mental health concerns, issues in pediatric psychology, integrated care, consultation, and training mental health professionals. She has coauthored several articles and book chapters in these areas, as well as a social and emotional learning curriculum for students.