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Katie Silvester – National Council of Teachers of English, 2024
This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life…
Descriptors: Females, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Sprague, Jeffrey R.; Walker, Hill M. – Guilford Press, 2021
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this authoritative resource provides a complete toolkit for designing and implementing an evidence-based school safety plan. Foremost experts guide practitioners to understand and prevent violence, bullying, and peer harassment in grades K-12. Best practices are reviewed for creating a positive…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, Bullying, Violence
Heller, Nina Rovinelli, Ed.; Gitterman, Alex, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Mental Health and Social Problems" is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness. The introductory chapter presents…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Problems, Social Work, Mental Disorders
Schmidt, Teresa M. – 1993
This group-activity manual is intended for adolescents who have risk factors on any of the four ecological levels: personal, family, social, and societal. It contains everything needed to lead a group of middle or high school students through this anger-management program. Part 1 provides guidelines to help initiate and implement a support-group…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anger, Early Intervention, Guides
Murphy, Patricia A. – 1996
The purpose of this workbook is to assist women abuse survivors in creating and directing their own vocational plans wherever these efforts may lead. The book is intended to be a part of the abuse recovery process and can be used by professionals working with abuse survivors or by individuals on their own. The book is divided into three sections.…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Battered Women, Career Counseling, Emotional Abuse
McConaughy, Stephanie H. – Guilford Publications, 2005
Crafted to meet the day-to-day needs of school psychologists and other practitioners working with children, this is the most concise, practical, and up-to-date book of its kind. The expert author offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages-as well as their parents and teachers-and for weaving the resulting data into multimethod…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Psychologists, Violence, Interviews
Posner, Marc – 2000
Every aspect of coping with injuries and preventing injuries in school settings is covered in this book. It examines how and why students are injured and in what situations schools can be held responsible. It also explains how schools can provide a quick, efficient, and effective emergency response to injuries. How to collect injury data, how to…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, School Safety
Davis, Jerry L., Ed.; Nelson, Cathy S., Ed.; Gauger, Elizabeth S., Ed. – 2000
This book presents useful information on types and levels of aggression, how conflicts escalate, early warning signs of violence, and characteristics of a safe school. Violence prevention techniques, many based on principles that form the foundation of the Boys Town Education Model, show educators and administrators how to calm an angry or…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Interpersonal Competence, Prevention
Moore, Dwight, Ed.; Leafgren, Fred, Ed. – 1990
This collection of readings addresses special issues with which men must deal in modern society. It was written for counselors at all educational levels, social workers, community therapists, private practitioners, clinicians, teachers, hospital workers, and Employee Assistance Program workers. The book is divided into five sections that deal…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Conflict, Counseling, Divorce
Bass, Debra D., Ed.; Yep, Richard, Ed. – 2002
Conceived as a resource for counselors, teachers, administrators, parents and others, this is a hands-on book that provides useful information and guidance on strategies, techniques and plans that have worked well in addressing the trauma of a tragic event. This book is a collection of original material, news stories, handouts, and even…
Descriptors: Coping, Counseling Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Emergency Programs
Hill, Marie Somers; Hill, Frank W. – 1994
This book presents various approaches for preventing violence from invading U.S. schools. Chapter 1 reviews the primary sources of violence that increasingly challenge U.S. society. Chapter 2 explores the reality that violence is not limited to poor, urban neighborhoods and presents three examples of different schools at pivotal points and offers…
Descriptors: Crime, Elementary Secondary Education, Prevention, Principals
Borum, Randy; Verhaagen, David – Guilford Publications, 2006
Highly practical and accessible, this is an indispensable resource for any mental health practitioner working with adolescents at risk for violent behavior. Presented is a comprehensive framework for evaluating justice-involved youth or those whose behavior in school, therapy sessions, or other contexts raises concern about violence. Detailed case…
Descriptors: Therapy, Intervention, At Risk Persons, Behavior Disorders
Nicoletti, John; Spencer-Thomas, Sally – 2002
This book-for school administrators, school resource officers, teachers, and interested parents-is a guide for developing prevention and response plans to handle threats and violence in schools. With a focus on practical measures, it provides step-by-step advice on early identification of problems, intervention and prevention techniques, and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Bray, Melissa A., Ed.; Kehle, Thomas J., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2011
With its roots in clinical and educational psychology, school psychology is an ever-changing field that encompasses a diversity of topics. "The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology" synthesizes the most vital and relevant literature in all of these areas, producing a state-of-the-art, authoritative resource for practitioners,…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Problem Solving, Delivery Systems, Cognitive Ability
Blitz, Michael; Hurlbert, C. Mark – 1998
This book takes up issues of violence in the lives of college students and looks for possibilities of teaching composition as an act of peace making. Through a variety of writings, the book illustrates students' experiences on the city streets of New York and in the small mining and steel towns of western Pennsylvania. One section of the book…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Educational Cooperation, Higher Education
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