Foreword

James P. Comer

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jonathan Cohen

Part I Social Emotional Education and the Young Child

Social and Emotional Education: Core Concepts and Practices

Jonathan Cohen

Development in Context: Imagining the Child at Hand

Barbara K. Eisold

Part II Creating Safe, Caring, and Responsive Schools

School Climate and Social and Emotional Development in the Young Child

Joy E. Fopiano

Norris M. Haynes

Helping Emotionally Vulnerable Children: Moving Toward an Empathic Orientation in the Classroom

Deborah Mugno

Donald Rosenblitt

Creating a Classroom Community Where Social Emotional Learning Thrives: The Case of the ``Cool Girls'' List

Ruth Charney

Roxann Kriete

Part III Programmatic Efforts

Fostering Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom and School: Strategies from the Child Development Project

Stefan Dasho

Catherine Lewis

Marilyn Watson

Reach Out to Schools: A Social Competency Program

Pamela Seigle

I Can Problem Solve (ICPS): A Cognitive Approach to the Prevention of Early High-Risk Behaviors

Myrna B. Shure

Ann-Linn Glaser

PATHS in Your Classroom: Promoting Emotional Literacy and Alleviating Emotional Distress

Carol A. Kusche

Mark T. Greenberg

Improving the Social and Intellectual Climate in Elementary Schools by Addressing Bully-Victim-Bystander Power Struggles

Stuart W. Twemlow

Peter Fonagy

Frank C. Sacco

Martin L. Gies

Debora Hess

Part IV Current Issues and Future Directions

Social and Emotional Learning: The Future Is Now

Ronald J. Areglado

Social and Emotional Literacy for All in the Twenty-first Century: A Challenge and a Necessity

Jonathan Cohen

About the Contributors

Index