ED435073 CG029539
Title: Enhancing Relationships between Children and Teachers.
School Psychology Book Series.
Author(s): Pianta, Robert C.
Author Affiliation: American Psychological Association, Washington,
DC.(FGK02400)
Pages: 205
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 1-55798-542-1
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: American Psychological Association Order Dept.,
P.O. Box 92984, Washington, D.C. 20090-2984.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Guides--Non-classroom (055)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEAPR2000
Target Audience: Administrators; Counselors
This book aims to provide counselors with the theoretical and technical
basis needed for designing interventions that enhance relationships
between children and teachers. It draws on research in social development
and relationships-systems theory to describe the role of child-adult
relationships in the development of social and academic competencies
and the potential of child-teacher relationships to promote healthy
development. The focus of the book is on the role of the psychologist
as a consultant to the classroom teacher, the school, and the school
district. The book identifies aspects of the classroom and school
contexts that have relationship-based components and similarities
and differences across those contexts. Relationship-based principles
to designing interventions in the classroom are applied. Lastly,
it identifies a set of theoretically driven applications for intervention
strategies. Chapters include: (1) "Why Supportive Relationships
Are Essential"; (2) "How the Parts Affect the Whole: Systems
Theory in Classroom Relationships"; (3) "The Child as
a Developing System"; (4) "The Emotional Bond between
Children and Adults"; (5) "Assessing Child-Teacher Relationships";
(6) "Examples from Life"; (7) "Supporting Teachers:
The Key to Affecting Child-Teacher Relationships"; (8) "Enhancing
Relationships across the Classroom"; (9) "How School Policy
Affects the Child-Teacher Relationship"; and (10) "Strong
Relationships Mean More Resources: An Agenda for Practice and Research."
(Contains 210 references.) (JDM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Helping Relationship; Improvement Programs; Interpersonal Competence; Intervention; Research Methodology; Social Development; *Social Science Research; *Social Theories; *Teacher Student Relationship; Teachers
