Elaine Clanton Harpine, Ph.D., has published extensively on topics related to group-centered prevention, intrinsic motivation, and reading education. During her 50 years of experience, she has worked with children, youth, and adults. Elaine has been awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who in America.
Group-centered prevention is the most effective way to bring about change and conduct an effective group program. To be effective, the group must be cohesive. The group members must work together, talk and listen to one another, and commit themselves to the group’s success.
Local hospitals with cardiac patients are organizing prevention groups to help patients prevent future heart attacks. A marriage and family counseling group can use prevention group interventions to improve marital communication. Anger management groups can use prevention techniques instead of just having people sit around and listen to a lecture. It's more effective. Group-centered interventions create a positive environment where children, teens, or adults can learn how to work together.
In education, research also shows that teaching is more effective when combined with group-centered therapeutic techniques. The teaching strategies and therapy interventions must be combined in the same program, at the same time. It's not as effective if therapy is merely tacked on later. Group-centered prevention educational programs combine teaching and therapy at the same time.
The strength of group-centered prevention has been demonstrated time and time again at Elaine's reading clinics where she uses vowel clustering to teach struggling students how to read. Elaine combines the power of group-centered prevention with a vowel clustering teaching approach to help students become successful readers. She has even had students move up four grade levels in reading in one year.
If you teach a child to read, you can change the world.
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Group-centered prevention is the most effective way to bring about change and conduct an effective group program. To be effective, the group must be cohesive. The group members must work together, talk and listen to one another, and commit themselves to the group’s success.
Local hospitals with cardiac patients are organizing prevention groups to help patients prevent future heart attacks. A marriage and family counseling group can use prevention group interventions to improve marital communication. Anger management groups can use prevention techniques instead of just having people sit around and listen to a lecture. It's more effective. Group-centered interventions create a positive environment where children, teens, or adults can learn how to work together.
In education, research also shows that teaching is more effective when combined with group-centered therapeutic techniques. The teaching strategies and therapy interventions must be combined in the same program, at the same time. It's not as effective if therapy is merely tacked on later. Group-centered prevention educational programs combine teaching and therapy at the same time.
The strength of group-centered prevention has been demonstrated time and time again at Elaine's reading clinics where she uses vowel clustering to teach struggling students how to read. Elaine combines the power of group-centered prevention with a vowel clustering teaching approach to help students become successful readers. She has even had students move up four grade levels in reading in one year.
If you teach a child to read, you can change the world.
Follow us on Twitter
Join us on Facebook
E-mail Elaine at clantonharpine@hotmail.com
Copyright 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022 Elaine Clanton Harpine
