School health practice

Publisher's description: This comprehensive text provides extensive coverage of health in elementary and secondary schools. Completely updated, the tenth edition addresses controversial issues facing today's teachers and school administrators. The text effectively incorporates theory with practice, explaining the basis of school health programs in addition to discussing their implementation. School Health Practice instills in prospective teachers and school administrators the ability to create and maintain a successful school health program and a healthy atmosphere for all students.

The book is organized as follows:

Part I: Organization of the School Health Program
1 School health
2 Basic plan of the health program

Part II: The School-Age Child
3 Health and the normal student
4 Physical growth and development
5 Psychosocial development
6 Departures from normal health, growth, and development

Part III: School Health Services
7 Health appraisal aspects of school health services
8 Preventive aspects of health services
9 Preventive aspects of health services
10 Tertiary prevention and special populations

Part IV. Health Instruction
11 A theoretical foundation for health instruction
12 Planning the health education curriculum
13 Elementary school health instruction
14 Health instruction in secondary schools

Part V. Healthful School Living
15 Policies and practices in health teaching
16 Healthful school environment
17 Evaluation

Appendices:
A. General criteria for evaluating instructional materials
B. School health program evaluation
C. Survey of conditions and practices affecting safety in the school environment
D-1. Responsibilities and competencies for entry-level health educators
D-2. Standard high school certificate for State of Illinois
D-3. State Board of Education Document No. 1 (October 1977)