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The New Edition of Fostering Emotional Well-Being in the Classroom

HAS A NEW TITLE

Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom, Fourth Edition

Randy M. Page, PhD, and Tana S. Page, MS

ISBN: 0-7637-4154-X~ Paperback ~ 362 Pages ~ © 2007

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Transition Guide

The Fourth Edition of Fostering Emotional Well-Being in the Classroom has an updated and revised title—Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom—to reflect the many changes in the new edition. Designed to help prospective teachers, current teachers, and parents make positive impressions in the lives of young people, the Fourth Edition continues to provide up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the critical issues impacting today’s youth.

New to the Fourth Edition!

Chapter material has been updated and each chapter includes numerous new issues, topics, review questions, and web resources to better equip you in promoting health and well-being in your classroom. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s six categories of risk behavior are emphasized, along with the life skills that help protect youth from risk behaviors.

“Background on…” Boxes

New to this edition, these boxes explore topics of current interest and expand on topics in the text.

Chapter 1: Common Childhood Chronic Health Conditions & Types of Learning Disabilities

Chapter 2: Skill-Based Health Education

Chapter 3: Information Literacy, Statistics on Wired Teens and Technology

Chapter 4: Stress and Headaches, Psoriasis and Eczema, The Immune System

Chapter 5: Dental Decay, Osteoporosis, and Coronary Heart Disease

Chapter 6: Teen Pregnancy – So What?, Disease Causing Microbes, Chlamydia

Chapter 7: Dangers of Drugged Driving, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Drugs and the Brain, How Inhalants are Used

Chapter 8: Continuum of Troublesome and Criminal Groups, Child Abuse

Chapter 9: Antidepressants and Youth: Black Box Warning and Off-Label Use, Suicide Statistics and Facts, Factors for Youth Suicide, Suicide Prevention Strategies

Chapter 10: Bereavement

Chapter 1: Teaching to Make a Difference (new title)

• Updated “Characteristics of Effective Teachers” box

• New sections on teaching with the brain in mind, relaxed alertness, “So What?, active learning, six categories of risk behavior, health education and the coordinated school health program

• Web Resources: Tools for Teaching ADHD Students

Chapter 2: Life Skills for Health and Emotional Well-Being (new title)

• New information on the World Health Organization’s call for Life Skill Education

• Addresses life skill areas such as self esteem, emotional intelligence, being proactive, communication, relationship building, problem solving, and decision making

• Web Resources: Asset Development

• Additional teaching activities

Chapter 3: Media Literacy (New Chapter!)

• Sections have been expanded and updated from Chapter 2 in the third edition

• New topics include Generation M Study, Advertising Placement, Internet Marketing and Kids, Vulnerability of Children to Ads, and Questioning Media Messages

• Addresses life skills such as vital media literacy skills

• Web Resources: Teaching Media Literacy

• Additional teaching activities

The New Edition of Fostering Emotional Well-Being in the Classroom

HAS A NEW TITLE

Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom, Fourth Edition

Randy M. Page, PhD, and Tana S. Page, MS

ISBN: 0-7637-4154-X~ Paperback ~ 362 Pages ~ © 2007

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Transition Guide

Chapter 4: Dealing with Stress (previously Chapter 3)

• Addresses life skill areas such as stress coping and stress management

• New information on the stress associated with natural disasters and immigration

• Web Resources: Stress Management

• Additional teaching activities

Chapter 5:Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Patterns (previously Chapter 4)

• MyPyramid, Physical Activity Guidelines for Young People

• New information on promoting healthy eating and physical activity

• Coverage of Categories of Risk Behavior: Unhealthy Dietary Patterns, Physical Inactivity

• Addresses life skills areas such as skills necessary for healthy eating and physical activity

• Web Resources: BMI Calculators for Kids, Fast Food Calorie and Fat Gram Counter, Eating Disorders and Body Image

Chapter 6: Sexual Activity (previously Chapter 5)

• Coverage of Categories of Risk Behavior: Behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and STDs

• State requirements for sex and or STD/HIV education and updated information on unintended teen pregnancy

• Addresses life skill areas such as refusal, decision making, and goal setting

• Web Resources: Teaching Risks Associated with Sexual Activity

Chapter 7: Substance Use and Abuse (previously Chapter 6)

• Coverage of Categories of Risk Behavior: Tobacco Use, Alcohol and Other Drug Use, Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence

• Updated information on how to monitor substance use trends

• Addresses life skill areas such as refusal, decision making, and goal setting

• Web Resources: Teaching Substance Use Prevention, Anabolic Steroids

Chapter 8: Violence and Unintentional Injury (previously Chapter 7—note new title)

• Coverage of Categories of Risk Behavior: Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence

• Addresses life skill areas such as conflict resolution, anger management, and victim avoidance

• CDC’s School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries & Violence

• New information on gang involvement; preventing violence and unintentional injury; responding to crises, disasters, and injuries that affect the school community; and preventing child abuse and neglect

• Web Resources: Violence, Unintentional Injuries

• Additional teaching activities

Chapter 9: Depression and Suicidal Behavior (previously Chapter 8)

• Coverage of Categories of Risk Behavior: Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence

• Addresses life skill areas such as skills for dealing with depression, suicide, and death

• Web Resources: Depression and Suicide

Chapter 10: Death and Dying (previously Chapter 9)

• Addresses life skill areas such as skills for dealing with depression, suicide, and death

• New coverage of losing a parent in the teen years and expanded coverage of dealing with the death of a pet

• Web Resources: Death and Dying

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