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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

Animal School, The

Ask, Don’t Tell: Alternatives to Advice-Giving

At Risk: Children and Families of Children at Risk

At Risk: Educators

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

Building Decision-Making Skills

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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

Conflict Prevention & Conflict Resolution: Strategies

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Bibliography

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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

Dimensions of Gratitude

Dysfunctional Family: Similarity in characteristics in schools

E

Educators at Risk

Emotionally Safe Schools: Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment

Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking

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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

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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)

Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place? (Survey)

M

“Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict

Modalities: Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations

Motivating Cooperative Behavior (Click here for parent version)

Multiple Intelligences: Many Ways to be “Smart”

Myth of the Self-Esteem “Myth”, The

O

Obedience and People-Pleasing, Dangers of Encouraging

Offering Choices, Guidelines for (Click here for parent version.)

Optimism: Ways to Live Optimistically

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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

Reach More Students, Ways to

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

Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child System

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

Survey: Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place?

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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

Water & The Body

Ways to Improve the School’s Social Culture

Ways to Live in Gratitude

Ways to Live Optimistically

Ways to Reach More Students

What’s Wrong with “I-Messages?”: Handout; Separte Article

Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations

Y

Your Students’ Parents, Dealing Successfully with

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