This book examines school-based mass shootings by focusing on characteristics of the incident and geographic space to synthesize a holistic picture of the legal, socio-economic, and geographic context in which these incidents occur.
Research on Childhood, Workplace, and Cyberbullying
Featuring acclaimed research articles on cyber, childhood, and workplace bullying from the peer-reviewed journal Violence and Victims, this book provides comprehensive coverage of bullying from expert researchers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, criminology, counselling, and social work. It reflects our broadening perspectives ......
Presenting cutting-edge work from leading scholars, this authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge on aggression from infancy through adolescence. The volume explores the forms and functions of aggression and the multiple factors that contribute to its emergence, development, and consequences, including genetic and biological ......
Covers bullying, teasing, and victimization in child, adolescent, and adult populations. This book presents theoretical perspectives, including social cognition, social ecology, genetics and genetic-environment interactions, and social cognitive neuroscience. It analyses traditional aggression and victimization as well as social rejection.
Why children bully others and what schools can do about it
Psychologist Graham Ramsdens insightful new book explains why people, particularly children, bully others - and helps teachers to explore a variety of ways in which they can use their existing systems and structures to address this endemic issue.
Presents a datadriven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. With concrete methods for promoting safety educational settings, this book will engage and enable school faculty, counsellors, administrators, and other partners to better understand areas of common interest and learn how to work together more effectively.
Preventing and Addressing Bullying of Students with Special Needs
Provides school professionals and parents with data on the prevalence of bullying as well as research-based interventions to stop bullying in schools. Special considerations and strategies are shared for the bully, the bystander, the victim, and families. This resource also provides guidance on assessing needs, collecting data and how to report ......
Preventing Bullying and School Violence is a practical handbook for designing and sustaining effective interventions to address problem behaviors in schools. The book is designed to help clinicians, school counselors, and administrators create a safe climate for their students and to respond thoughtfully, but swiftly, when threats arise.
Grounded in research and extensive experience in schools, this book describes practical ways to combat bullying at the school, class, and individual levels. It presents strategies for developing school- and district-wide policies, coordinating team-based prevention efforts, and implementing targeted interventions with students at risk.
Creating a Positive School Climate and Developing Social Competence
Brings years of experience in research and applied behavioral sciences to show how educators, school psychologists, counselors, and other professionals can address the problem of bullying and aggression in schools. This book provides definitions, statistics, and theories that helps identify and characterize bullying.
