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Dick Nelson is Professor Emeritus of
Counseling and Development in the Department of Educational Studies at Purdue University. His teaching assignments included Introduction to School Counseling
and the supervision of both the Practicum and the Internship in School
Counseling. He also supervised EDPS 302: Adolescents, the Classroom, and the
Teacher, and he co-authored the text for that course, Working
with Adolescents: Building Effective Communication and Choice-Making Skills (Nelson, Dandeneau, and Schrader, 1994).
Dick has written extensively on Choice
Awareness, a system that helps people
of all ages gain two basic understandings: that they are making hundreds, even
thousands, of choices daily, and that it may be possible for them to make
choices that serve them better and help their relationships with others at the
same time. The List of Publications presents Dick's eight books that are based on the Choice Awareness
system.
Dick designed STOP-THINK-CHOOSE as a program especially to help young people build
their choice-making skills. The program uses novels, discussion, and activities
to help children understand that they are making choices all the time, and that
they can improve their own lives by making more effective choices.
For more about Dick himself, click on the
more-than-you-want-to-know link that follows the kernel of philosophy Dick
wants to share with you and others:
What I say I choose to say; what I do I choose to do;
what I am I choose to be.