Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal

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.