Mastering Challenges

About the Book

The manual “Mastering Challenges: Therapeutic Interventions in the Classroom”, gives step by step directions of implementing counseling services to students while they are in their classroom.  The manual contains exercises which stimulates problem solving, self analysis, coping skills, stress and anger management,  the exercises are thought provoking, realistic and sounds enough like their own experiences that they enthusiastically engage in the counseling activity with their peers.  Therapist of all disciplines can utilize this manual.  In my schools, located in the inner city of Chicago, the school counselors, teachers, social workers have used this manual to assist their students problem solve issues as it emerges.  Although, the manual is written by a school social worker and is addressed to this discipline it is user friendly to all the helping profession.

Children school aged and older have benefited from this material. 

About the Author

Airetta was raised for the first twelve years of her life in South Bend, Indiana. After the sixth grade her family moved to Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Lucy Flower Vocational High School. Received a Bachelors of Science Degree at George Williams College, and acquired a Masters of Social Work Degree at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also received advanced credentials of the Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, Qualifying Clinical Social Work, presented by the National Association of Social Work.

During her schooling years, she began to write about the experiences of being an African-American and living and studying in the inner city. As she began to recognize the need to share and to assist others experiencing dilemmas and crises in life, her creative juices and educational interest began to develop into a greater need to understand psychology and human nature. For almost two decade, Airetta has been working in the Chicago Public School system as a School Social Worker.