Preface: The changing landscape of early childhood education -- Preface to first edition -- Introduction: Knowing what we know now -- Making room for emotional life in preschool. Developmental reality and the reality of experience / Lesley Koplow -- "If you're sad and you know it": the value of children's affects / Lesley Koplow -- A look in the mirror: self-concept in preschool children / Judith Ferber -- Structure and relationships in preschool. Therapeutic teacher, therapeutic classroom / Judith Ferber -- Play therapy as early intervention / Lesley Koplow -- Therapeutic technique: the tools of preschools that heal / Lesley Koplow -- The meaning of curriculum. Playing for keeps: the value of open-ended play / Lesley Koplow -- Affect meets cognition: building a curricular bridge / Lesley Koplow, Virginia Hut, Judith Ferber -- Lesson plans for emotional life / Virginia Hut [and others]. -- Understanding special populations. The traumatized child in preschool / Lesley Koplow, Judith Ferber -- Helping children with autistic spectrum disorders / Lesley Koplow [and others] -- Why homeless children can't sit still / Lesley Koplow -- Preschool as home base. Caring for families and staff / Lesley Koplow.