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Shure, Myrna Beth was born on September 11, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Sidney Natkin and Frances (Laufman) Shure.
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For parents of children ages 4-7. The Raising a Thinking Child Workbook is based on the highly acclaimed I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) approach for use in schools. The workbook, which is now available in Spanish, stands alone as a practical parenting manual and also serves as the ideal ICPS parent involvement component. Educators can use the workbook with parents to help reinforce ICPS classroom lessons at home. The workbook's pages are packed with dozens of activities that invite parents and children as young as four to play games, to draw, and to color the reproducible illustrations. And while children are having fun, they will also be learning ICPS thinking skills. Children learn how to think, not what to think. They learn to decide on solutions based on consequences. They learn to negotiate for what they want and to cope with the frustration when they can t have what they want. And they learn to understand their own as well as others feelings.
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In their new book, George Spivack, Jerome Platt, and Myrna Shure describe a distinct group of cognitive skills that determine, to a large extent, our ability to solve social problems and deal successfully with other people. These interpersonal cognitive problem-solving (ICPS) skills, which go beyond intellectual ability, include the capacity to generate alternative solutions to problems, to plan ahead, to grasp the .means that may be necessary to achieve ends, to consider the consequences of one's acts, and to understand how the way one feels and acts is influenced by others, and vice versa. These skills are different within age groups and some are more important than others, but they are all significant in social adjustment. The authors bring together for the first time the basic research done to date on ICPS skills, including their own contributions. They define the issues, describe methods of measurement, demonstrate the relationship of ICPS scores to social adjustment, discuss the relationship of ICPS skills to IQ and other measures, and show how ICPS skills are learned in the family and in childrearing situations. In addition, the authors outline a number of training programs-developed by themselves and others-designed to enhance problem-solving skills in both children and adults. These programs are truly educational; focus on teaching the learner how, not what, to think; and are described in sufficient detail so that potential users can fully evaluate the problem-solving approach to social adjustment. In presenting both research findings in a relatively new field and full descriptions of training and therapeutic programs based on those findings, The Problem-Solving Approach to Adjustment will interest a wide range of professionals-researchers in cognitive psychology and child development, as well as practitioners, mental health workers, teachers, and administrators in a variety of clinical and educational settings.
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Stressing the importance of developing thinking skills in growing children, a parent's guide introduces the I Can Problem Solve program and explains the difference between teaching children what to think and how to think. Reprint.
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Shure, Myrna Beth was born on September 11, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Sidney Natkin and Frances (Laufman) Shure.
Student, University Colorado, 1955. Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, 1959. Master of Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1966.
Assistant professor of University Rhode Island, head teacher Nursery School, Kingston, 1961-1962. Assistant professor Temple University, Philadelphia, 1966-1967, associate professor, 1967-1968. Instructor Hahneman Medical College, Philadelphia, 1968-1969, senior instructor psychology, 1969-1970, assistant professor, 1970-1973, associate professor, 1973-1980, professor, since 1980.
Myrna B. Shure, Doctor of Philosophy, born September 11, 1937, is a developmental psychologist at AlleghenyUniversity of the Health Sciences (formerly Hahneman University) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She parlayed three decades of research into a program that teaches children how to think and resolve problems, skills that help reduce and prevent psychological disfunction, violence substance abuse, teen-pregnancy and school dropout.
Her contributions to teachers and families through five books and the mass media have won five national awards including one from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and several local honors including one from the Philadelphia Chapter of Women in Communications. National Institute of Mental Health research grantee, 1971-1975, 77-79, 82-85, 87, 88-93.
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(Stressing the importance of developing thinking skills in...)
(For parents of children ages 4-7. The Raising a Thinking ...)
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Fellow: American Psychological Association (division clinical psychology, child section 1994, Distinguished Contribution award division community psychology 1984, Task Force on Prevention award 1987, Task Force on Model Programs award 1994, University Utah and Juvenile Justice Department of Delinquency Prevention award 1996, United States Department Education award 2001, Collaborator for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning award 2002). Member: Philadelphia Society Clinical Psychologists, Society Research in Child Development, National Association Education Young Children, National Association School Psychologists.