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Essential
to the student's academic success and emotional growth is a positive
self-image.
Our
staff actively seeks to develop an atmosphere that praises each
child's accomplishments and values the talents and "specialness"
of each student.
Social Skills Development. The Counseling and Psychological
Services Department of the Yeshiva also directs a major endeavor to
help shape a generation that is generous, sensitive and confident
from a Torah perspective. The Social Skills Development Program
incorporates group discussions about particular human interactions.
Skills are presented within a Torah framework and in conjunction
with ideas corresponding to the middos program. Topics
include: making and maintaining of friendships, sensitivity to the
feelings of others, respect for feelings and property, building
self-respect and self-esteem, alternatives to teasing and bullying,
problem solving and decision making, self-control, dealing with
someone else's anger, and handling peer pressure.
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