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Stress in Childhood: An Intervention Model for Teachers and Other Professionalsreviewed by Joseph C. Grannis — 1987 Title: Stress in Childhood: An Intervention Model for Teachers and Other Professionals Author(s): Gaston E. Blom, Bruce D. Cheney, James E. Snoddy Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0807727806, Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com Of several books on child and adolescent stress published in recent years, this one is distinguished by its being organized around a model of teacher intervention to reduce the negative impact of stress. At the same time, the book discusses systematically the nature of stress; family, school, and health-related stressors in childhood; and childrens coping with stress.
Blom, Cheney, and Snoddys model distinguishes between behavioral indicators of stress and behavioral reactions to stress. The behavioral phenomena per se are the same, but in the one case the teacher is alerted to the potential existence of a stressor, while in the other she or he is attending to the childs reactions to a stressor that the teacher has already identified. The book draws on many cases from the authors work with teachers to develop a variety of strategies for discovering and ameliorating the causes and effects of stress.
The authors also distinguish between... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Joseph Grannis
Teachers College, Columbia University
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