Optimistic Teaming
Coordination Strategies for Tough Student Situations
1st Edition
Published on 3. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-0719-3376-3 (ISBN)
Description
Uncover innovative and effective ways to confront challenging behavior
Complicated and intense student behavior often requires coordinated and powerful support, but that support need not be overwhelming or difficult to implement. Success with the most challenging students requires a team approach.
Optimistic Teaming is your ultimate guide to building and sustaining healthy interactions as teams working with challenging students. Drs. Ben Springer and Ben Belnap share humorous insights and critical strategies that help build successful school teams and rally those teams around your students. You'll discover how to:
Remain optimistic and coordinate the best response to even the most aggressive student behaviors
Identify the research and evidence base of leveraging optimism individually and in teams
Use principles of positive psychology to produce successful outcomes for students and educators alike
With this guide, you will discover the framework and strategies to not only remain optimistic, but make lasting, positive changes in the lives of students and their families.
Complicated and intense student behavior often requires coordinated and powerful support, but that support need not be overwhelming or difficult to implement. Success with the most challenging students requires a team approach.
Optimistic Teaming is your ultimate guide to building and sustaining healthy interactions as teams working with challenging students. Drs. Ben Springer and Ben Belnap share humorous insights and critical strategies that help build successful school teams and rally those teams around your students. You'll discover how to:
Remain optimistic and coordinate the best response to even the most aggressive student behaviors
Identify the research and evidence base of leveraging optimism individually and in teams
Use principles of positive psychology to produce successful outcomes for students and educators alike
With this guide, you will discover the framework and strategies to not only remain optimistic, but make lasting, positive changes in the lives of students and their families.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0719-3376-3 (9781071933763)
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Persons
Ben Springer is an award-winning and nationally certified school psychologist. Dr. Springer is also the author of the popular books Happy Kids Don't Punch You in the Face (2018) and GPS: Good Parenting Strategies (2021). Dr. Springer has served in schools as an autism specialist, school psychologist, behavior specialist, and Director of Special Education. In 2017, Dr. Springer founded Totem PD, a professional development company for educators and mental health practitioners with Dr. Ben Belnap.
Ben Belnap is an award-winning clinical psychologist practicing in the state of Utah. Dr. Belnap has contributed to state and national professional learning trainings for over a decade focusing on the applications of Positive Psychology, Family Systems, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Belnap has served in schools as an assistant superintendent of student services, behavior specialist, and school psychologist. Dr. Belnap currently manages a neuropsychology and counseling clinic in Heber City, Utah and helps manage Totem PD as a trainer and consultant.
Ben Belnap is an award-winning clinical psychologist practicing in the state of Utah. Dr. Belnap has contributed to state and national professional learning trainings for over a decade focusing on the applications of Positive Psychology, Family Systems, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Belnap has served in schools as an assistant superintendent of student services, behavior specialist, and school psychologist. Dr. Belnap currently manages a neuropsychology and counseling clinic in Heber City, Utah and helps manage Totem PD as a trainer and consultant.
Content
Acknowledgements
Preface
About the Authors
Introduction: Heavier than Heavy
Chapter 1: Wicked Problems
Chapter 2: Optimism is Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 3: The DNA of Optimism
Chapter 4: Team Dynamics
Chapter 5: PRISM Power to Fuel the Team
Chapter 6: Bringing it All Together
Conclusion: Catching Up with the Optimistic Teaming Hall of Fame
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix H
Appendix I
Appendix J
Appendix K
Appendix L
Appendix M
Appendix N
Appendix O
Appendix Q
Appendix R
Appendix S
Appendix T
Appendix U
Appendix V
Appendix W
References
Preface
About the Authors
Introduction: Heavier than Heavy
Chapter 1: Wicked Problems
Chapter 2: Optimism is Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 3: The DNA of Optimism
Chapter 4: Team Dynamics
Chapter 5: PRISM Power to Fuel the Team
Chapter 6: Bringing it All Together
Conclusion: Catching Up with the Optimistic Teaming Hall of Fame
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix H
Appendix I
Appendix J
Appendix K
Appendix L
Appendix M
Appendix N
Appendix O
Appendix Q
Appendix R
Appendix S
Appendix T
Appendix U
Appendix V
Appendix W
References