Unsmiling Faces: Creating Preschools That Heal

by Lesley Koplow

Part I presents emotional issues within the context of general development. Part II gives teachers and clinicians the tools they need to make adult-child relationships in preschool strong and therapeutic by providing structure and analyzing therapeutic components of classroom experience, play therapy experience, and language therapy experience for children in need of early intervention. Part III offers teachers a conceptual framework for a method of inventing emotionally based curriculums, and provides lesson plans for teachers. Part IV helps the reader to focus on special populations of children in the preschool group who may present a confusing developmental picture.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Education

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1995

Reviews

[Caitlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read for PD during a book study at the school I work in. Very relevant for teaching pandemic and post pandemic children, and just any child who may have experienced or is experiencing any kind of trauma in their lives. Very realistic examples with honest tips and conversations and ways to help support these children.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started this book back when I taught Pre-K and just now finished it. It really is not a book I would typically read cover to cover, but it is very interesting in an academic sort of way. Not as many practical strategies as I would have liked.

[Atena Oyadi]

I've had this on my shelf for a couple of years now - I think I'm going to pick it up soon.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information.