School Violence Intervention: A Practical Handbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572301759 ISBN 13: 9781572301757

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1997

Synopsis

Broad in scope and thorough in detail, this book provides effective intervention strategies for managing school violence. Opening with a range of perspectives on student aggression from school and educational professionals, the book moves on to present practical interventions at the student, school, and system levels. Leading practitioners provide empirically-grounded strategies for a wide array of situations and contexts, enabling the work to be applied to virtually every school setting.

About this title

About the Author:

Arnold P. Goldstein, Ph.D., is Professor of Special Education at Syracuse University, Director of the New York State Task Force on Juvenile Gangs, a member of the American Psychological Association Commission on Youth Violence, and a member of the Council of Representatives, International Society for Research on Aggression. He has developed three increasingly competitive approaches to prosocial skills training, skillstreaming, aggression replacement training, and the Prepare Curriculum. Reflecting his role as Director of the Syracuse University Center for Research on Aggression, much of his research and teaching have centered on helping youngsters replace antisocial, aggressive behaviors with constructive, alternative means of seeking life satisfaction and effectiveness.

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I. Introduction
1. Student Aggression: Current Status, Goldstein and Conoley
II. Practitioners' Perspectives
2. The Low-Aggression Classroom: A Teacher's View, Striepling
3. Creating Safe Schools: A Principal's Perspective, Braaten
4. The State Department of Education's Role in Creating Safe Schools, Grady, Krumm, and Losh
5. National Trends in School Violence: Statistics and Prevention Strategies, Stephens
III: Student-Oriented Interventions
6. Preschool Interventions, Carey
7. Classroom Management, Keller and Tapasak
8. School Crisis Teams, Poland
9. Interventions for Aggressive Students in a Public-School-Based Day Treatment Program, Oestmann and Walker
10. Gang-Oriented Interventions, Kodluboy
IV. School-Oriented Interventions
11. Academic and Curriculum Interventions with Aggressive Youths, Gagnon and Conoley
12. The Safe School: Moving beyond Crime Prevention to School Empowerment, Morrison, Furlong, and Morrison
13. Security Policy, Personnel, and Operations, Trump
14. Controlling Vandalism: The Person Environment Duet, Goldstein
V. System-Oriented Interventions
15. Families with Aggressive Children and Adolescents, Christenson, Hirsch, and Hurley
16. Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence, Garbarino and Kostelny
VI. Special Topics
17. School Violence and Cultural Sensitivity, Cartledge and Johnson
18. Victims and Victimizers: The Two Faces of School Violence, Hyman, Weiler, Perone, Romano, Britton, and Shanock
19. FERPA and School Violence: The Silence that Kills, James
VII. Summary
20. The Known, Unknown, and Future of Violence Reduction, Conoley and Goldstein

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1572301759
• ISBN 13: 9781572301757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 509
• Editor: Goldstein Arnold P., Conoley Jane Close