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The program helps youth build skills for school success and social-emotional growth while exploring such crucial topics as personal goals, ethnic identity and prejudice, peer pressure, violence prevention, and family relationships.
Full Description:
Engaging, activity based, and effective, this widely used group counseling curriculum (the SPARK program) is designed for flexible implementation in school or clinical settings. The program helps youth build skills for school success and social-emotional growth while exploring such crucial topics as personal goals, ethnic identity and prejudice, peer pressure, violence prevention, and family relationships. Featured are 36 reproducible handouts and forms-plus Spanish-language versions of the 32 handouts-in a large-size format with lay-flat binding for ease of use.
New to This Edition
- Revised and expanded to incorporate new findings and field-tested strategies.
- New module on male-female relationships.
- New sessions on emotion regulation, communication, and relational aggression.
- Strategies for whole-class implementation have been added.
- Nearly half of the 68 reproducibles are new or revised.
"This creative, activity-based psychoeducational curriculum addresses diverse needs of the most vulnerable sixth- to ninth-grade students. The second edition adds an excellent section on male-female relationships, as well as cutting-edge material on emotion regulation, anger management, gossip and bullying, and effective communication. The manual and reproducibles are remarkably user-friendly for participants and facilitators alike. Adolescents will be immediately engaged by the relevant, realistic examples." -Louise Silvern, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder "Providing powerful tools for helping at-risk youth, this innovative approach can be utilized in a range of educational and mental health settings. The program includes pragmatic, skill-based interventions that address the feelings and stressors that many at-risk youth experience in their daily lives. It can be used in its entirety or individual modules can be implemented flexibly to address specific issues. The second edition enhances the effectiveness of some of the original modules and adds important new content areas related to interpersonal and intrapersonal development." -Jeffrey Jacobs, PhD, Director of Psychological Services, University Elementary School, University of California, Los Angeles Jill Waterman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, and Elizabeth Walker, PhD, private practice, Denver, Colorado
274 Pages, Size: 8" x 10 1/2", December 2008
1. Guidelines for Setting Up and Leading Groups
Goals of the SPARK Program
Getting Started
Selecting Group Members
Structure of the Groups
Group Leaders
Presenting the Groups to Prospective Members
Pregroup Individual Interviews and/or
Questionnnaires
Group Counseling Techniques
Developing Trust and Understanding Confidentiality
Building Group Cohesion
Group Process
Developmental Considerations
Maintaining Order and Leader Sanity
Uses and Parameters of Check-In and Check-Out
Issues in Ending the Groups
Dilemmas for Group Leaders
Handling Issues of Child Abuse and Suicidality
Suicidality
Balancing the Needs of Individual Group Members
with the Requirements of the Psychoeducational
Curriculum
Dealing with Members Who Do Not Participate
Dealing with Chronically Disruptive Members
Parameters of the Group Leader Role
Adapting the Curriculum for Full Classroom Use
2. The SPARK Curriculum
Overview of Module Content
Recruitment Criteria
Module One: Trust-Building and Communication Skills
Module Two: Anger Management and Emotion Regulation Skills
Module Three: Ethnic Identity and Anti-Prejudice
Module Four: Educational Aspirations
Module Five: Peer Pressure, Bullying, and Gangs
Module Six: Male-Female Relationships
Module Seven: Exposure to Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Reactions
Module Eight: Family Relationships
Termination Session: The Party
3. Effectiveness of SPARK Groups
Characteristics of Participating Group Members
Family Structure and Distress
Outcome of the SPARK Groups
Time 1 and Time 2 Differences for Those in the
Treatment Group
Time 1 and Time 2 Differences for Those in the
Control Group
Comparisons between the Treatment and Control
Groups
Pilot Evaluations of New and Revised Modules in This Edition
Summary and Conclusions
Information Regarding Data Analyses
Appendix A. Sample Materials for Beginning SPARK Groups
Appendix B. Curriculum Materials and Handouts
Appendix C. Sample Materials in Spanish for Beginning SPARK Groups
Appendix D. Curriculum Materials and Handouts in Spanish
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