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This book tells how to help teenagers deal with anger, using an eleven-session support group model.

Teenagers will explore their feelings, receive guidelines for the appropriate expression of feelings, and learn survival skills for handling emotionally violent environments. ... Read more

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A Complete Tested Program
While the movies would make us believe that the high school years are our happiest time, it is a time of stress for the students as they move from childhood to young adulthood. Many times the pressures of divorcing parents, alcohol or other drug problems create an anger in the student that may break out into violence.

This book lays out a complete program of treating these problems. It starts setting up the program, getting teachers to refer students to the program, convincing the school (or other organization) to allow implementation of the program and other high level aspects.

From there is goes on to provide the planning for each session, down to including such things as 'graduation' certificates for the students, reporting forms and so on.

This book completely lays out the whole program that has been successfully implemented many times.

Very Comprehensive Source on Anger Management!
I'd give this book ten stars if I could. This lays out the plans for sessions and provides many worksheets to discuss, pages to assign for hw or for use in group, questions to ask... you name it! This is hands down the best single resource I have seen on everything anger management!

This ia a practical well thought out guide.
This test can be used as a guideline for adapting an effective counselingprogram for students in a secondary school setting. It reviews the"how to" set it up with attention to getting administrativesupport, screening students, parent permission, group rules, group topics,cognitive-behavioral strategies, applications to real life scenarios andattention is paid to the impact of family violence. It provides "angermanagement steps" to encourage students to think before they react totheir feelings. Some adaptations are neccessary to accommodate individualsituations or policies withing your own school setting. This is just anexcellent text!! ... Read more

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This practical resource gives educators in grades K through 6/8 a flexible, ready-to-use curriculum focusing on a wide range of contemporary topics such as stimulant use, family relationships, dealing with anger, managing threatening situations, and crime related activities. Developed by a team of experience educators, the lessons are based on real situations I students' own lives that involve dealing with feelings, self-esteem, peer pressure, and respect for others. They help students build character, prepare them to recognize situations that could become violent, and teach them the skills they need to handle conflicts in a non-violent and peaceful manner.

For easy use, the lessons follow a uniform format, including a descriptive title, a specific behavioral objective, and a simple eight-step lesson plan that provides everything needed for an effective, well-balances learning experience. Each lessons covers:

• Purpose: Need for teaching/learning the social skill, e.g."Choosing Friends Selectively."
• Introduction: Stories and questions to make the skill concrete.
• Skill Components: Skill steps for teaching the appropriate behavior.
• Modeling the Skill: Teacher and/or student demonstration of the skill.
• Behavioral Rehearsal: Student performance of the skill with teacher correction if necessary.
• Practice: Worksheets and other activities summarizing the skill.
• Independent Use: Activities to promote use of the skills outside of school.
• Continuation: Suggestions for reinforcing the skill through the school year.

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The exposure of children to violence at school is a major concern for educators everywhere and a frequent topic of discussion in the media. Written by experts in research, practice, and training in the field, this timely text proposes a whole-school approach to reduce the impact of violence on children's development. The authors take into account:

• Personal characteristics of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders
• A school’s culture
• The quality of a school’s learning environment
• Links between the school and the community

The whole school approach includes a wide range of formal and informal initiatives to improve the quality of life at school. Managing Violence in Schools covers preventive methods and provisions for students' individual needs. Readers will also find strategies for strengthening school culture, such as peer support, cooperative group work, and restorative practice.

This resource also provides guidance for implementing a needs analysis, formulating a cycle of change for handling bullying and violence, and creating a shared understanding of the issue. Each strategy for preventive and integrative practice is illustrated with real-life case studies and relevant experiential exercises.

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Two self-contained volumes, for the elementary and secondary levels, featuring a ready-to-use curriculum of lessons and reproducible activity sheet to help students build character, recognize threatening situations, and handle conflicts safely. Lessons are based on real situations in students' own lives, with topics such as stimulant use, dealing with anger, family relationships, choosing friends wisely, and gang-related activities. Includes detailed lesson plans and an extensive bibliography of useful resources. ... Read more

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Illustrated with numerous case studies–many drawn from the author’s work as a forensic psychologist–this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings. It covers controversial topics such as gun control and the effects of entertainment violence on children. The author demonstrates how fear of school violence has resulted in misguided, counterproductive educational policies and practices ranging from boot camps to zero tolerance. He reviews evidence from hundreds of controlled studies showing that school-based school violence prevention programs and mental health services, which are largely effective, are often overlooked in favor of politically popular yet ineffective programs such as school uniforms, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, and Scared Straight. He concludes by reviewing some of his own research on student threat assessment as a more flexible and less punitive alternative to zero tolerance,! and presents a wide ranging series of recommendations for improving and expanding the use of school-based violence prevention programs and mental health services for troubled students.Key features include the following:Contrarian Approach–This book identifies and refutes 19 basic misconceptions about trends in youth violence and school safety, and shows how the fear of school violence has been exaggerated through inaccurate statistics, erroneous conclusions about youth violence, and over-emphasis on atypical, sensational cases.Readability–The book translates scientific, evidence-based research into language that educators, parents, law enforcement officers, and policymakers can readily understand and shows what can be done to improve things. Expertise–Dewey Cornell is a forensic psychologist and Professor of Education at the University of Virginia, where he holds the Linda K. Bunker Chair in Education. He is Director of the UVA Youth Violence Project and is a faculty associate of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. The author of more than 100 publications in psychology and education, he frequently testifies in criminal proceedings and at legislative hearings involving violence prevention efforts. This book is appropriate for courses or seminars dealing wholly or partly with school violence and school safety. It is also an indispensable volume for school administrators and safety officers; local, state and national policymakers; involved parents; and academic libraries serving these groups.Illustrated with numerous case studies–many drawn from the author’s work as a forensic psychologist–this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings. It covers controversial topics such as gun control and the effects of entertainment ... Read more

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Important read for educators, parents, and professionals
The summary of this book is that homocide/suicide that is school based is due to the fact that they the victim/perpetrator have been bullied by others.The author has done a wonderful job of doing exactly what he says, looking at facts vs. fiction.He brings up statistics that are well known and gets to the bottom of where they came from. As a professional, reading a book that is putting things in laymen's terms can get kind of boring so I skimmed through redundancy or items that I am pretty aware of already.Also, I am not to concerned with the numbers and all the details about the meaning of the numbers.What I was most interested in were the facts, as in psychoanalysis or case studies, behind the scenes information, things I never knew about the stories I was hearing on televsion.I still haven't finished this book yet and I would like to know more about solutions which I think could be answered with wrap-around services in a collaboration between community, government, and schools. In the meantime, I have underlined a great many things and I have written things down in the margins.This is a good reference book that is a must have.The next book that I think people should buy, which I already have, is Phyllis Chessler's book, Women's Inhumanity to Women.Both Dr. Cornell's book and Chessler's are talking about bullying from different perspectives.Each contribute a wealth of information that would delight the ears of professionals who work with children. ... Read more

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Making the Peace is written to help high school students break away from violence, develop self-esteem, and regain a sense of community. It provides photographs, illustrations, exercises, role-plays, in-class handouts, homework sheets, and discussion guidelines to explore issues such as dating violence, gangs, interracial tension, suicide, sexual harassment, and the social roots of violence. ... Read more

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Grades 6-12. This comprehensive, evidence-based program is designed for use in classrooms or small groups in schools and other settings. During the past 10 years, the program has been thoroughly field-tested and successfully used with over 50,000 students in a number of school districts. Lively sessions help students learn coping strategies, cognitive restructuring techniques, and stress and anger management skills through discussion, demonstrations, group and individual activities, and relaxation procedures. The Leader s Manual contains step-by-step lesson plans and is accompanied by a free copy of a 13-minute Scanning Relaxation Audio CD. The appendix includes an 8-page reproducible pre/posttest. A Student Workbook is necessary for each participant and is sold in packets of 10. ... Read more

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This book explores the relationship between violence and masculinity within schools. There is a clear need to explore this relationship. A substantial amount of evidence exists which demonstrates how boys are the major perpetrators of violence in schools - from extreme acts of violence such as school shootings in the US to more common forms of schoolyard bullying - and that both girls and boys are their victims. The book suggests that violence has been 'masculinized' in such a way that boys often perpetrate violence as a means of demonstrating their perception of what counts as a valued form of masculinity. This masculinization of violence has often meant that girls experience violence from boys who are seeking to demonstrate their superiority over girls, and it has also meant that some boys often experience violence due to their non-conformity to dominan images of masculinity. In order to support these arguments the book draws on extensive interview data collected from boys and teachers who were involved in anti-violence programs in their schools. ... Read more