Social Skills Lesson Plans, Classroom Management Worksheet Books with Behavior Intervention Strategies

Breakthrough Strategies
to Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth eBook Series
by Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. (Click to learn about the author)

Breakthrough Series
Set of 11 eBOOKs
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Our Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth lesson series ebooks deliver immediate help to turnaround your troubled, defiant, and challenged youth and children. This series is packed with must-have, innovative interventions to stop problems with violence, anger control, withdrawal, non-compliance, poor motivation, school failure, peer conflict, low self-esteem, bad attitudes, truancy, dropping out, and more.These approaches were created to work when conventional approaches fail. For use by anyone who needs more effective methods for difficult or troubled students, these books are designed to work with children and youth in grades K through 12.

Safe Learning magazine reviewed these books in their March/April 2001 issue: "Materials are short, brightly written, useful and full of unconventional wisdom." Youth Today Newspaper's review praised the books as offering "good tips on approaching difficult topics." teacher counselor books

Choose from 11 volumes; available as a set or by individual title. More details are directly below (just scroll down.) These books use a quick-access lesson plan format, with 20 lessons per book. Each book comes with many attention-grabbing student handouts that you can immediately print and use. Purchase books as a set or separately. Books are just $15 each, $139 for the full series of 11 books. Get all the tools you need to do your job. In just seconds, you will have immediate, more effective solutions you've been searching for.

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Last Chance School
Success Guide
eBOOK
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TV Viewers Needed for High Paying Jobs

Ready or Not, Here Life Comes

Education: Don't Leave Home Without It

Even You Can Get Along With Teachers

The Tassel is Worth the Hassle plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

Teachers, if you have classroom management problems, this book will help. The lessons in this book deliver powerful new ways to turnaround negative, defiant, oppositional, conduct-disordered, misbehaved and problem students. If you work with students who have difficulty accepting and respecting authority, or seem unable to function successfully in school, the lessons in this book actually teach and motivate these youngsters to function at a more positive level. Especially designed for youth who are unresponsive to conventional approaches, this book delivers creative, new tools that are particularly effective with special and alternative ed students, youth who constantly require disciplinary action, truants and potential drop-outs. This book actually eases very negative, discouraged and apathetic youth into re-evaluating their behaviors and attitudes about school. Honed with extremely misbehaved students, these lessons can stop current problems and prevent additional problems from ever happening.

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Temper and Tantrum
Tamers
eBOOK
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Find Work Where Aggression Works

How to Keep a Grip on Yourself

Outside Anger That Comes to School

Spot Aggressiveness Before it (Or You) Strikes

Turn Down the Heat at Home ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

Through violent TV, violent sports, violent neighborhoods, and more, many kids are being thoroughly trained to be violent. They may receive little or no training to act non-violently. Expecting youth and children to act peacefully, while knowing that many kids are never taught how and why to do so, may be a very unfair expectation. It can be hard for kids to perform behaviors that they are not taught. This book systematically teaches children and youth how and why to behave peacefully. Everything that a youth needs to do to function peacefully can be taught using these lessons, including teaching appropriate use of hands, face, feet, mouth, legs, etc. These lessons also give you the newest and best ways to give kids the motivation they need to be willing to become more peaceful. Developed with troubled, delinquent and out-of-control youth, these lessons ease even the most negative and oppositional youth into reconsidering their behavior and attitude. Stop expecting kids to do behaviors that they were never taught, and instead, first teach the behaviors, attitudes and motivation you want using the powerful lessons packed into this book.

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Child's Guide to Surviving
in a Troubled Family
eBOOK
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Maximum-Strength Motivation Makers

Are You Ready For Life in the Adult Lane?

Put Aside Problems During School

Missing Today Makes It Harder to Learn Tomorrow

Even Rock Stars Gonna Need School ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

This is the one book that belongs in the office of every youth counselor, social worker, psychologist, foster parent, teacher and youth worker. Here is the book that can bring solace and solutions to children and youth who are suffering through very serious family problems. Packed with lessons to assist youngsters to manage divorce, domestic violence, family substance abuse, sexual abuse, and other major concerns, this book is perfect for counseling, group sessions, the classroom or office. The lessons explain the problem objectively and gently, then provide specific assistance to the youth to cope with the difficulty they face. Youth Today Newspaper in March, 1993, said that this book is filled with "good tips on approaching serious family problems." If you work with youth who struggle with their family's pain, then put these sensitive, powerful lessons to work easing the pain and anguish that your children face.

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Turn On The
Turned-Off Student
eBOOK
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Maximum-Strength Motivation Makers

Put Aside Problems During School

Are You Ready For Life in the Adult Lane?

Missing Today Makes It Harder to Learn Tomorrow

Even Rock Stars Gonna Need School ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

Few schools have a formal, written-down plan to train their students to be motivated for school. As a result, you may feel that your job is nearly impossible because you are working with so many resistant, bored, disinterested, unmotivated students. Especially if you're a teacher, or work with this type of student, this social skills training lesson plan book can provide immediate help. It's filled with surprising lessons and strategies to turnaround even the most negative, apathetic, bored, disinterested, jaded, oppositional, discouraged learner. Not just designed for use with alternative ed and special ed students, this book contains the training that many other students need so they learn to view school as absolutely critical and essential. This book even has lessons to turnaround students who believe that school is unnecessary because they will win the lottery, marry a wealthy man, go on welfare, become a rock star or be the next wealthy sports star. Especially effective with children from homes that have communicated that school is not important, these lessons finally give your students the training they must have before they can succeed in school. This training should be offered every student, but since it is not, even if you are not a teacher, but a parent, counselor, social worker or truancy officer, you will want to get this book to ensure that at least your students are actually motivated to show up on time, stay awake, and work hard in school.

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Education: Don't Start the Millennium Without It
eBOOK
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Will Your Skills-- Or You-- Work in the New Century?

Work for Your Diploma Now, Your Diploma Will Work for You Forever

Will Yesterday's Skills Work Tomorrow?

Will You Make Cents in the New Century?

The More You Learn, the More You Earn ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

If you work with students who believe that they will never need an education, you have found your solution. Especially if your students hear at home that school is not important, this book can convincingly teach otherwise. The lessons "toss" your students further into our new millennium and dramatically convey the difficulties that drop-outs will face, including diminishing job choices, decreasing salaries and difficulty performing everyday tasks in an increasingly technological society. If you need a way to "hit your students over the head" with the importance of finishing school, then you will use every lesson in this book. When conventional approaches fail, turn to this book for the solutions you need for discouraged, absent, bored, oppositional, disinterested, under-performing, special ed, alternative ed or mainstream students. The lessons are crafted to turnaround the poor motivation, but they can also be used pro-actively to stop motivation problems before they even happen.

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All-Time
Favorite Lessons
eBOOK
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Space Invaders and Your Personal Space Forcefield

Learn to Think First: Become a Think-o-Matic

The Top 10 Ways the Teacher Can't Tell You Need Help

Are Gang Members Gang-Dependent?

On Time Every Time ...plus 15 more lessons, most with worksheets

If you can't decide which book to get because your kids have such a big array of problems, consider getting this book with it's wide variety of lessons. This book is packed with problem-stopping lessons for all the different problems your kids present: peer interaction problems, gang problems, making excuses, punctuality, getting help from the teacher, making mistakes, following rules and building good esteem. If you want the "most favorite" lessons that our company has ever produced, then according to our workshop participants, this book has all the best lessons-- and solutions that exist. If you ever wished that one book had a huge variety of social skills lesson plans and printable worksheets for use with the huge variety of discipline, behavior, and emotional problems that you see each day at your school or agency, then you just found the resource you need. You won't find more innovative, refreshingly different, surprisingly effective strategies and printable student worksheets anywhere else.

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Build On-the-Job
Success Skills
eBOOK
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How to Survive the Monster Boss

Are You a Co-Worker or a Co-Work Shirker?

Words That Get You Fired or Keep You Hired

50 Ways to Leave Your Employer and Ever Work Again

How to Say "Yes" to the Boss...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

If you're a job trainer, the boss of young employees, a summer youth work supervisor, or anyone who prepares youth for success in the work place, then this book can rapidly train youth to become prepared, motivated, on time, appropriately behaved workers. This book also is perfect for use with students who think they "know it all already." Topics covered include: saying "yes" to the boss, when to make excuses, following directions, interacting with customers and co-workers, punctuality and understanding your pay check, This book uses attention-grabbing, compelling methods to powerfully and persuasively give youth the right attitudes, skills and motivation for work place success. Nearly any problem a youth might encounter can be pro-actively avoided by training your youth with the lessons in this book. Don't let your youth start their next job without being trained to succeed. When economic times are tough, youth employment often suffers the most. Maximize your students' chances of finding and keeping employment. This book can prevent work place problems before they start, and will help ensure that young employees stay employed. Don't wait to find out if your teens will evidence social, emotional or behavioral problems in the work place. Get this book now so you can be sure your students are practiced, prepared, and motivated to succeed in the work place regardless of any challenges and difficulty your youngsters may face.

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Coping Skills
Sampler
eBOOK
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The Cost of My Actions

It Can Be Tough Being a Kid

Deny It or Not, You May be Gang-Dependent

Are You Talking About Doing?

Everybody Makes Mistooks...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

Here is the book that covers all types of coping problems. Each lesson focuses on one single coping problem area such as accepting responsibility for self, becoming accountable for behavior, family problems, perfectionism, gangs, setting goals, self-esteem, denial and honesty. If you work with kids who have an array of coping problems, then this book gives you the variety of lessons that you need to address many of those problems. Each lesson uses a colorful, engaging approach to teach new behaviors, attitudes and motivations in a way that can work even with oppositional, depressed, defiant, negative, discouraged, withdrawn or uncooperative youth and children. The book to turn to when conventional approaches fail, this book is perfect for group or individual counseling sessions, but is also designed to work in the classroom, foster home, treatment center or clinic.

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Learning to Like the
Kid in the Mirror
eBOOK
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Deciding My Own Opinion of Me

Building Esteem is an Inside Job

Is Esteem More Than Just a Lot of Hot Air?

Everybody Knows Somebody Who Doesn't Like Them Sometimes

Even Winners Sometimes Lose...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

This book gives you the best lessons to build esteem in children. These fun, engaging activities are fun and light ways to teach kids to value themselves. These lessons are especially appropriate for children who have struggled with abusive homes or other debilitating family problems. These social skills lesson plan handouts are engaging and use cartoons to reach kids who otherwise might be too withdrawn, negative or oppositional to properly participate. This book is designed for the classroom, group room, office or home, and for use by anyone who wants to assist a child with low self-esteem. Inside this book are the very best, most compelling ways to powerfully and rapidly impact the self-worth of children and youth. Whether you are a school counselor, social worker, group home worker, child therapist, family counselor or foster parent, stop struggling to raise the self-esteem of your children and adolescents. The lesson plans and printable worksheets in this volume can speed the process of helping your students discover their value and self-worth despite the difficulties life has dealt them. This lesson book is full of innovative, unexpected, engaging activities that can help even abused and abandoned youngsters to "bloom where they're planted."

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Ready, Set, Go
for Independent Living
eBOOK
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Are You Ready for a Typical Day as an Adult?

There's Something to Do When There's Nothing to Do

What I 'Gotta Do' When I Move Out

Budgeting and Bill Paying

Are You Ready for Independent Living?...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheet

This is the one social skills lesson book that has everything you need to prepare youth to succeed on their own. It is also the perfect choice for anyone who works with students who "know it all already" or believe that your setting has nothing of value to offer them. If your youngsters believe that your setting is "a waste of time," then buy this book right away because it has lessons to convince them that they can't even make it through the morning without the service that you offer. While this book is a great resource for youngsters who believe they are ready to be on their own, but are really not ready, the lessons also powerfully teach independent readiness skills like securing housing, keeping housing, interacting with property managers, budgeting, and eating in a healthy manner. Even the emotional problems that can occur during the transition to independence are covered in a pro-active way that can prevent the types of transition problems that often occur in the first days of independence. The book includes the character "Independence Man," who teaches pro-social skills in a way that engages even the most negative, difficult, uncooperative, "I know it already," youth into benefitting from the lessons. This social skills lesson book is a must-have for anyone who works with adolescents or children who believe that they are all ready to live on their own.

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What Every Girl Needs to Know
About Real World
eBOOK
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Does a Girl Need a Guy Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

If a Baby is the Answer, What's the Question?

Give the Boot to Problem Hands

What Today's Girl Needs to Know By Tomorrow

Staying Safe Starting Now...plus 15 more lessons, most with worksheet

Finally, a book for girls' special problem areas. This book is the perfect solution for anyone who assists girls and young women to manage problems that are frequently encountered by young females. Problem areas covered include staying safe, domestic violence, sexual abuse, date rape, teen pregnancy, teen parenting, gender bias, self-esteem, motivation and more coping and social skills areas. Problem areas are gently explained then specific ways to manage the problem are offered. Using humor, cartoons and surprising, unconventional interventions, girls are eased into making changes that they otherwise might successfully resist. This book can become the perfect addition for your group, one-to-one counseling session, classroom, foster home or office. Ease the suffering and struggle of your young women by choosing resources that are crafted just for use with girls and young women. Stop using one-gender-fits-all, unisex approaches that are not targeting your girls' problems. Start using the newest and fastest, gender-proficient ways to assist girls to survive and thrive even while facing significant barriers and obstacles.

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