Threats in Schools: A Practical Guide for Managing Violence

ISBN-13: 9780789012968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 168 str.

Joseph T. McCann

Opis

This indispensable volume provides techniques for identifying, assessing, and managing threatening behavior by students in school settings. Threats in Schools: A Practical Guide for Managing Violence offers guidance on formulating questions to ask and suggestions for developing strategies for managing potentially violent situations. Integrating threat assessment and risk management models, this approach will help you target potential threats to property, other students, teachers, and school staff.

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Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Nature of School Violence and Threat Assessment
• Violence in Schools
• Approaches to Combating School Violence
• Understanding Threat Assessment and Management
• Conclusion
• Chapter 2. Types of Threats and Violence
• What Is Aggression?
• What Is Violence?
• Types of Threats?
• How Threats Are Communicated
• The Relationship Between Threats and Violence
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Risk Assessment of Violent Behavior
• Prediction versus Risk Assessment of Violence
• Personal Security versus Community Policing
• Correlates of Violent Behavior in Young People
• Violence and Mental Disorder
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Assessing and Evaluating Threats
• Direct Questions to Ask About a Threat
• Evaluating Specific Issues
• Indirect Methods of Assessment
• Assessing Potential Inhibitors of Violence
• Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Managing Potentially Violent Situations
• Interventions Targeting the Potentially Violent Student
• Interventions Targeting the Victim
• Interventions Targeting the Situation
• Critical Incident Stress Management
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Special Situations
• Threats Against Property
• Threats Against Other Students
• Threats Against Teachers
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Threat Assessment and Management Planning Form
• Appendix B: Checklist of Characteristics of Youth Who Have Caused School-Associated Violent Deaths
• Appendix C: Questions for Evaluating General Risk for Violence
• Appendix D: Fire Setting and Bombing Risk Assessment Questions
• Appendix E: Sex Offense Risk Assessment Questions
• References
• Index

O autorze

Joseph T Mccann