We are pleased to announce that Professor Michael E. Bernard will be giving a talk at the 2011 Positive Schools Conference in both Perth and Brisbane

 Michael E. Bernard

 

Michael E. Bernard, Ph.D. is an international consultant to universities, educational authorities, organisations, and government as well as a Professor at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education. He is the Founder of You Can Do It! Education, a program for promoting student social-emotional well-being and achievement that is being used in over 6,000 schools in Australia, New Zealand, England, and North America. After receiving his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he worked for 18 years in the College of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. In 1983, he was appointed as Reader and Coordinator of the Master of Educational Psychology Program. From 1995-2005, he was a tenured professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling, College of Education, at California State University, Long Beach. Professor Bernard has worked as a consultant school psychologist helping families and schools address the educational and mental health needs of school-age children. He has spent extensive time counselling children with emotional, behavioural, or academic difficulties. Professor Bernard is a co-founder of the Australian Institute for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and is the author of many books on REBT. For eight years, he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy. He is the author of over 50 books, 15 book chapters, and 30 journal articles in the area of children’s early childhood development, learning and social-emotional well-being, as well as parent education, teacher professional development, and school improvement.

 

 

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Bernard, M.E. (2003). The Social-Emotional Well-Being Surveys. Camberwell, Vic.: The Australian Council for Educational Research.

Bernard, M.E. (2004). Capability Building for Teachers: A Framework of Sustainable, Ongoing Professional Development Aimed at Promoting Teaching Excellence. Laguna Beach, CA (USA): You Can Do It! Education, pp. 163.

Bernard, M.E. (2004). Emotional resilience in children: Implications for Rational Emotive Education. Romanian Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, 4, 39-52.

Bernard, M.E. (2004). The REBT Therapist’s Pocket Companion for Working with Children and Adolescents. New York: Albert Ellis Institute, pp. 245.

Bernard, M.E. (2004). The relationship of young children’s social and emotional development and reading achievement. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Australian Council for Educational Research, Adelaide, October 2004.

Bernard, M.E. (2004). The You Can Do It! Early Childhood Education Program: Developing Social-Emotional-Motivational Competencies (4-6 Year Olds). Oakleigh, VIC (AUS): Australian Scholarships Group.

Bernard, M.E. (2004). The You Can Do It! Early Childhood Education Program: A Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum (4-6 Year Olds). Oakleigh, Vic.: Australian Scholarships Group.

Bernard, M.E. (2006). It’s time we teach social and emotional competence as well as we teach academic competence. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 22, 103-119.

Bernard, M.E. (2006). Program Achieve: A Curriculum for Social and Emotional Learning. Third Edition (Vols. 1-6, Primary; Vols. 7-12, Secondary). Oakleigh, Vic.: Australian Scholarships Group.

Bernard, M.E. (2006). Providing All Children with the Foundations for Achievement, Well-Being and Positive Relationship, Third Editions. Oakleigh, Vic: Australian Scholarships Group, pp. 286.

Bernard, M.E. (2006). Strengthening the Social and Emotional Foundations of Young People with Achievement and Behaviour Problems: A Guide for Working with Parents and Teachers. Third Edition. Oakleigh, Vic.: Australian Scholarships Group.