Unsmiling Faces, Second Edition
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The first edition of this indispensable book set the standard for high-quality intervention and prevention programs in early childhood practice. Since its publication, many new forces have impacted the landscape of early childhood education, presenting both great opportunities and great risks for today's emotionally fragile young children. Once again making complex psychological concepts available to classroom teachers, this thorough revision: (1) incorporates important understandings gained since the tragic events of 9/11; (2) addresses many of the challenging issues that confront educators in the current high-pressure climate focused on academic performance; (3) includes recent scientific research that supports the concepts underlying high-quality intervention and prevention in early childhood practice-concepts that were the basis for the first edition of this book; and (4) provides an essential framework to help teachers understand the emotional lives of the young children they serve.
ForewordPrefacePrologue1Developmental Reality and the Reality of Experience32If You're Sad and You Know It: The Value of Children's Affects163A Look in the Mirror: Self-Concept in Preschool Children274Therapeutic Teacher, Therapeutic Classroom455In Their Own Words: The Work of the Language Therapist in Preschool646Play Therapy As Early Intervention757Therapeutic Technique: The Tools of Preschools That Heal898Playing for Keeps: The Value of Open-ended Play1079Affect Meets Cognition: Building a Curricular Bridge12310Lesson Plans for Emotional Life14211Helping Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders18112The Traumatized Child in Preschool20213Why Homeless Children Can't Sit Still21914Families on Site23315A Staff United: Issues of Joint Domain248About the Contributors261Index263
