Grab The Wheel, Bryan Anderson, MSW, LCSW

Grab The Wheel, Helping Young Children Manage Explosive Anger by Bryan Anderson, MSW, LCSW, CAMF provides a structured emotional intelligence curriculum for parents and professionals for special needs students.

EQ can be a positive response for many problems by providing the teacher, assistant or behavioral interventionist with positive strategies to work around most common classroom situations. In a class of 30 students, here is a sample of typical conditions that must be addressed:

·      2–3 students will suffer from depression; 

·       6 have diagnosable developmental, behavioral and/or emotional problems including autism that will cause them to become victims or perpetrators of bullying; 

·      2 will have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD); 

·      6 will be growing up in alcoholic or abusive families; 

·      4 will suffer eating disorders in their teen years; 

·      2 will describe themselves as homosexual or bisexual; 

·      4 will be unsure of their sexual orientation; 

·      4–7 will suffer from mental, emotional or behavioral disorders that may not have been diagnosed or treated; 

·      12 students risk failure because of serious problems outside of school.