Violent and Aggressive Youth: Intervention and Prevention Strategies for Changing Times / Edition 1

by Frederic P. Bemak, Susan G. Keys

Overview

The authors provide practical principles and guidelines educators can put to work immediately in all types of school settings—urban, suburban, and rural.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803968257
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/11/1999
Series:	Professional Skills for Counsellors Series
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Fred Bemak is a Professor in the Counseling & Development Program at George Mason University as well as the Founder and Director of the Diversity Research and Action Center and the organization Counselors Without Borders. He has directed federal, state, and privately funded human services programs, and has done consultation, training, and research with culturally diverse populations and public and private human services organizations locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Bemak has published extensively in the fields of cross-cultural and multicultural psychology and counseling, working with at-risk youth, and immigrant and refugee mental health and psychosocial adjustment and held faculty appointments in Brazil and Australia, held two Fulbright scholarships, a Kellogg International Fellowship, and a World Rehabilitation Fund Fellowship. He has the recipient of numerous awards including the American Counseling Association Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person.

Table of Contents

Danger Zones in Schools
Roots of Violence and Aggression
Learning to Help
On-the-Job Training
Innovative Interventions and Group Work
Partnerships for Prevention
Avoiding Professional Pitfalls
A Final Thought