37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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Highly practical, new guidelines for schools and therapists, May 18, 1999
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This review is from: Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors (Paperback)
Both victim and bully are helped to avoid usual traps of demeaning bullies and reinforcing habitual victims. New alliances are built with bullies, with clear steps towards genuine empowerment as well as protection of other children. Family guidelines useful for therapists, perhaps not always for schools.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent information on prevention of bullying, November 29, 2001
This review is from: Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors (Paperback)
This book is the product of the National Educational Service, whose stated goal is to offer resources that have been tested and proven helpful in creating safe environments for young people. In addition to creating safe schools, their areas of expertise include: working in culturally diverse environments, containing crises, anger management, building life skills in young people, handling the threat of youth suicide, and discipline with dignity.
The Bullying Prevention Handbook contains a great deal of information, but the style of writing is clear and easy to read. Though there is no index, the table of contents is very clear, and the book is well laid out. The three main topics presented are: the characteristics of a bully, individual and group interventions at home and at school, and a specific anti-bullying education program. The authors provide references, an extensive bibliography, and many appendices containing multiple evaluation checklists and screening forms.
Though this book is billed in its subtitle as "a guide for principals, teachers and counselors," I recommend it highly to parents, as well. It is frequently only through the intervention of concerned, informed parents that excellent violence-prevention programs such as the one outlined in this book are implemented. Preventing violence in the schools is not a simple, overnight process. It requires the commitment and cooperation of the school staff, parents and the community at large.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Useful tool for professionals, October 23, 2005
This review is from: Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors (Paperback)
This book provides useful information for the professional interested in decreasing bullying in his/her school. There are role play scenarios and discussion of teasing dos and don'ts. There are also reproducible screening checklists and surveys to measure the extent of bullying on your campus. How to appropriately conduct an interview with a bully is included as well. While this is not a comprehensive resource, it is a great jumping board to begin ridding your school of bullies and it provides a list of additional resources one may look in to.
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