ICPS serves as an effective violence prevention program by helping children think of nonviolent ways to solve everyday problems. ICPS was selected as a model prevention program by the Departments of Education and Justice in the 1999 Annual Report on School Safety. It was also selected as an exemplary mental health program by the National Association of School Psychologists. In addition, ICPS was designated as one of the top six prevention programs in a five state area by the Mid-Atlantic Department of Health and Human Services.
ICPS for Preschool contains 59 lessons. Based on 25 years of meticulous research, ICPS has proven to be extremely effective in helping young children learn to resolve interpersonal problems and prevent antisocial behaviors. ICPS teaches children how to think, not what to think. It is a self-contained program that involves the use of games, stories, puppets, and role plays to make learning enjoyable. Each lesson contains a teacher script, reproducible illustrations, and a list of readily available materials.

Reviews

"Rather than telling them what to do, the volume gives children ways to talk about and think problems through. Clear steps and examples are used to introduce each step, along with ways of integrating the concept into other curricula and into classroom interaction."
-- Ted Bowman, Family Forum

"These books can become a teacher's best friend in promoting children's critical social-thinking skills and in boosting a peace-making climate in the classroom."
-- Alice Sterling Honig, Day Care and Early Education

"I highly recommend this book for any educator who has ever been frustrated by behavior problems in the classroom. It is a refreshingly practical approach to a common and difficult problem in many classrooms. This is definitely a book for those of us on the 'front lines' of our educational system."
-- Lou Ann Warren, East Texas School Study Council Newsletter

Contents

List of Complementary Applications
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pre-Problem-Solving Skills
Introducing the ICPS Program: Teacher Script

1. Is
2. Some-all
3. Not
4. Or
5. And
6. Same-Different
7. More Same-Different
8. Guess What?
9. Review of ICPS Words
10. More Review of ICPS Words
11. Happy
12. Sad
13. How Can We Tell: Seeing and Hearing
14. More How Can We Tell
15. How Can We Tell: Asking
16. Can I Make You Happy
17. Angry
18. Let's Pretend
19. What Am I Doing? What Do I Want You to Do?
20. A Story
21. Remembering Choices
22. A Story
23. Why-Because, Might-Maybe
24. Feelings Have Causes
25. More Than One Because
26. What Do You Choose? A Different Because
27. A Story
28. Review
29. Do You Like?
30. Allie the Alligator, Part I
31. Allie the Alligator, Part II
32. Is That Fair?
33. More About Fair
    Problem-Solving Skills
    Alternative Solutions
    
34. What's the Problem?
35. What Else Can He Do?
36. Introduction to Role-Playing
37. Solve a Problem
38. Solve Another Problem
    Consequences
    
39. Mystery Sequence, Part I
40. A Story
41. Mystery Sequence, Part II
42. More ICPS Words: If-Then
43. Mystery Sequence, Part III
44. A Good Idea?
45. What Can I Do While I Wait?
46. What Might Happen Next? Part I
47. What Might Happen Next? Part II
48. A Story
49. What Might Happen Next? Part III
50. What Might Happen Next? Part IV
    Solution-Consequence Pairs
    
51. What Might Happen If I Do That? Part I
52. What Might Happen If I Do That? Part II
53. What Else Can I Do?
54. Puppet Story
55. Dialoguing With Puppets
56. A Story
57. What's Your Problem? Part I
58. What's Your Problem? Part II
59. What's Your Problem? Part III

List of Complementary Applications

Interaction in the Classroom
ICPS Words: Is, Some-All, Not, Or, And, Same-Different
Recognizing Happy, Sad, and Angry Feelings
Using the Allie the Alligator Story
Fair or not Fair?
Finding Solutions
Is That a Good Idea, Place, or Time?
Helping Children Wait
ICPS Dialoguing
Curriculum Ideas
ICPS Words: Is, Some-All, Not, Or, And, Same-Different
Finding Out How People Feel: Happy, Sad, Angry
Listening and Paying Attention
There's More Than One Way
Remembering Sequences
Advanced Concepts
Additional Advanced Concepts
Parent Pages

1. Welcome to ICPS!
2. ICPS Words: Is, Not, Same-Different
3. ICPS Words: Or, And, Some-All
4. Feelings and Causes, ICPS Words: Might-Maybe
5. Using ICPS Talk
6. Adding Talk About Feelings
7. Is That a Good Idea?
8. Helping Your Child Wait
9. Adding Consequences
10. I Had It First
11. I Forgot...
12. It's Mine
13. He Hit Me