Alphabetical List of Handouts
by Dr. Jane Bluestein
The list below includes links to all handouts on the site, for all audiences, and are arranged alphabetically. To see these handouts listed by topic, click here. More information is available in the Articles section of this site.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
A
ADHD “Look-Alike” Symptoms, Conditions with
Alternatives to Advice-Giving: Ask, Don’t Tell
Ask, Don’t Tell: Alternatives to Advice-Giving
B
Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies (Click here for parent version)
Behavior (Cooperative), Motivating (Click here for parent version)
Behavior (Negative), Guidelines for Handling Negative (Click here for parent version)
Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
Bibliography of Creating Emotionally Safe Schools
Boundaries: Characteristics (for parents) in English, Spanish or French
Boundaries: Characteristics (for educators)
The Brain, Impact of stress on brain function and learning
C
Characteristics of a Good Boundary (for educators)
Characteristics of a Good Boundary (for parents) in English, Spanish or French
Characteristics of Healthy Adult-Child Relationships (Click here for parent version)
Characteristics of Traditional Learners: The “Ideal” Student
Checklist for Healthy Adult-Child Relationships (Click here for parent version)
Children at Risk, Families of Children at Risk
Cooperative Behavior, Motivating (Click here for parent version)
Conditions with ADHD “Look-Alike” Symptoms
D
Dangers of Encouraging Obedience and People-Pleasing
Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents
Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) Supportively, in English, Spanish or French
Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings, Supportive Alternatives (Steps) in English, Spanish or French
Decision-Making Skills, Building
Decision-making, using questions instead of giving advice: Alternatives to Advice-Giving: Ask, Don’t Tell
Dysfunctional Family: Similarity in characteristics in schools
E
Emotionally Safe Schools: Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
F
Families of Children at Risk, Children at Risk
Feelings and Supportiveness: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
French language handouts and articles for parents
G
Gratitude: Dimensions of Gratitude
Gratitude: Ways to Live in Gratitude
Guidelines for Handling Negative Behavior (Click here for parent version)
Guidelines for Offering Choices (Click here for parent version)
Guidelines for Reinforcing Positive Behavior (Click here for parent version)
H
Handling Negative Behavior, Guidelines for (Click here for parent version)
Handouts for parents in French
Handouts for parents in Spanish
Healthy Adult-Child Relationships, Characteristics of
Healthy Adult-Child Relationships, Checklist for
Home-School Relationships: Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents
Hydration and learning: Water & The Body
I
“Ideal” Student, The: Characteristics of Traditional Learners
“I-Messages?” (Problems with): Handout; Separte Article
Improve the School’s Social Culture, Ways to
Intelligences, Multiple: Many Ways to be “Smart”
Information Age Schools vs. Industrial Age Schools
Intervention Strategies: Behavior Management (Click here for parent version)
M
“Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict
Modalities: Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations
Motivating Cooperative Behavior (Click here for parent version)
O
Obedience and People-Pleasing, Dangers of Encouraging
Offering Choices, Guidelines for (Click here for parent version.)
Optimism: Ways to Live Optimistically
P
Positive Behavior, Guidelines for Reinforcing (Click here for parent version)
Q
Questions, using instead of giving advice: Alternatives to Advice-Giving: Ask, Don’t Tell
R
Reasons to Use Boundaries (for educators)
Reasons to Use Boundaries for parents in English, Spanish or French
Reasons to Not ask for excuses (Click here for parent version)
Reinforcing Positive Behavior, Guidelines for (Click here for parent version)
Relationships: Stress-Producing Obstacles
S
Self-Assessment for Educators
Self-Esteem: The Myth of the Self-Esteem “Myth”
School as a Dysfunctional Family, The
School’s Social Culture, Ways to Improve the
Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations, Working With Different
Strategies: Conflict Prevention & Conflict Resolution
Stress & The Brain: Impact of stress on brain function and learning
Stressful or Painful School Experiences that can Compromise Emotional Safety
Stress-Producing Obstacles in Relationships
Supportive Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings in English, Spanish or French
Supportiveness: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
T
Things to Remember about Setting a Boundary (for educators)
Things to Remember about Setting a Boundary for parents in English, Spanish and French
Thinking, changing: Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking
Traditional Learners, Characteristics: The “Ideal” Student
U
Unhealthy Adult-Child System, Rules and Beliefs of
W
Ways to Improve the School’s Social Culture
What’s Wrong with “I-Messages?”: Handout; Separte Article
Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations
Y
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