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Gangs: Straight Talk, Straight Up. A Practical Guide for Teachers, Parents, and the Community.
Jensen, Mary M.; Yerington, Philip C. – 1997
This book is written about youth gangs with the aim of educating teachers and administrators, parents, and others who work with youth. The main emphasis is on gang identifiers and positive behavior management strategies and crisis intervention techniques that can be used in schools and the home. Section 1, "Youth Gangs Past and Present," provides…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Crisis Intervention, Delinquency
Effective Therapy for College Students. Alternatives to Traditional Counseling.
Hanfmann, Eugenia – 1978
Clinical professionals are offered practical guidelines for organizing psychological counseling services that will be acceptable and available to large numbers of students without being exorbitantly expensive. Detailed accounts are given on therapeutic and administrative procedures that have proven highly effective at Brandeis University's…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Case Studies, College Students, Cost Effectiveness
Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School: Making the Grade.
Silber, Earle; Arnstein, Robert L.; Backus, Varda; Eddy, Harrison P.; Liptzin, Myron B.; Notman, Malkah Tolpin; Reich, Peter; Reid, Elizabeth Aub; Siggins, Lorraine D.; Silverman, Morton; Stauffer, Tom G.; Wenger, Robert E. – 1999
This book, formulated by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) Committee on the College Student, describes the complexity of graduate student lives and advocates providing students with mental health services and other support to help them cope more successfully with the challenges of graduate school. It provides a view of students…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Counseling Services, Crisis Intervention
Campuses Respond to Violent Tragedy. American Council on Education Series on Higher Education.
Siegel, Dorothy G. – 1994
This book presents 10 case studies of how universities and colleges respond to violent tragedies, both on- and off-campus, and offers suggestions for institutions to prepare themselves to deal with such crises. Each case study of a specific case of violence or other tragedy was based on interviews with the participants and reports on the specific…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Case Studies, College Planning
Play Therapy with Children in Crisis: Individual, Group, and Family Treatment. Third Edition
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Webb, Nancy Boyd, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Now in a completely revised and updated third edition, this widely adopted casebook and text presents effective, creative approaches to helping children who have experienced such stressful situations as parental death or divorce, abuse and neglect, violence in the school or community, and natural disasters. While the book retains the focus on…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Educational Change, Sexual Abuse, Play Therapy
Performance Breakthroughs for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities or ADD: How To Help Students Succeed in the Regular Education Classroom.
Markel, Geraldine; Greenbaum, Judith – 1996
This book presents an integrative model that teachers at the middle school and high school levels can use to encourage performance breakthroughs for students with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. Chapter 1 sets the stage by describing how learning difficulties, attention problems, and adolescence challenge students, and gives…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Deficit Disorders, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques