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.