Beverley Johns
Valerie Carr

The latest edition of this classic book incorporates new strategies for handling violence and inappropriate behavior in our schools, including the implications of new technologies like cell phones, social networking, and cyberbullying. The authors provide how-to information and step-by-step methods for working with disciplinary problems and aggression within the school setting. It focuses specifically on techniques for breaking up fights, intervening in bullying, and working with students who talk back and refuse to do their work.

These classroom management techniques provide tangible results. Strategies for school-wide behavior management and community and parent involvement provide an integrated and comprehensive approach to addressing violence in our schools.

Contents

1. Facing the Challenge
2. The Classroom Climate
3. Ineffective Classroom Management Techniques
4. Successful Behavior Management
5. Behavioral Intervention Plans
6. Understanding Aggression
7. Dealing With Aggressive Behavior
8. Verbally Dealing With Aggression
9. Use of Time-Out
10. Bully-Proofing Your Classroom
11. Dealing With Physical Aggression
12. Breaking Up Fights
13. Police Intervention and Community Agency Involvement
14. Working Effectively With Parents
15. Administrative Issues

194 pages
paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-342-9
$39.95

This text uses a holistic approach to show how schools, families, and community agencies can build partnerships to reduce school violence. The book examines various theoretical perspectives to facilitate understanding of the etiology and consequences of school, family, and community violence. The authors cover crisis teams, teacher interventions, debriefing, group psychotherapy, and building partnerships for success. The final part of this text presents community interventions, suggesting that community-based clinical social workers take leadership in collaborations to build systems of care.

This effective resource provides practical insight into the emerging culture of violence in our schools and is specially designed to help school social workers, counselors, and community leaders address this critical issue.

Contents

Part I: Children and Violence: Theoretical Perspectives

1. Why Our Children Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
2. When Home Isn’t Safe: Children and Domestic Violence
3. Witnessing Violence: The Effects on Children and Adolescents
4. School Violence and Disruption: Rhetoric, Reality, and Reasonable Balance
5. Societal Neglect and Abuse of Children

Part II: Interventions in Schools

6. Uncovering the Hidden Causes of Bullying and School Violence
7. Teaching Children to Care Rather Than Kill
8. School-Based Violence Reduction Programs: A Selective Review of Curricula
9. Using a Group Psychotherapy Framework to Address School Violence
10. Escalation-De-Escalation: Teacher Interventions
11. The Use of Debriefings in Schools
12. The Use of Crisis Teams in Response to Violent or Critical Incidents in Schools
13. The Protocol Approach to School Violence
14. Partners for Success: A Collaborative Approach

15. The Importance of a Community Response to Violence
16. Constructing a Community Response to Violence
17. Reflections on Family Traditions
18. Systems of Care: Expanding the Response to School Violence
19. Community Mental Health in Practice

336 pages
2003/Paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-299-6
$52.00