School Bullying: Insights and Perspectives examines the nature and extent of bullying in schools and gives a succinct and authoritative account of research into ways of reducing this problem. It offers a comprehensive evaluation of the success of different approaches, such as: developing a whole school policy; tackling bullying through classroom and curriculum materials; training lunchtime supervisors; improving the playground environment; and working directly with pupils involved in bullying situations. This book - and the companion volume, Tackling Bullying in Your School, which gives...

School Bullying: Insights and Perspectives examines the nature and extent of bullying in schools and gives a succinct and authoritative account of research into ways of reducing this problem. It offers a comprehensive evaluation of the success of different approaches, such as: developing a whole school policy; tackling bullying through classroom and curriculum materials; training lunchtime supervisors; improving the playground environment; and working directly with pupils involved in bullying situations. This book - and the companion volume, Tackling Bullying in Your School, which gives...

This book provides teachers and other educational professionals with an accessible, yet comprehensive and detailed guide to tackling bullying in schools. It gives essential facts and figures about the problem of bullying behaviour and then offers step-by-step descriptions of strategies and activities for dealing with it. The book discusses: how to establish a whole school anti-bullying policy; curriculum-based intervention strategies; methods for responding directly to bullying situations; and techniques for tackling bullying during breaks and lunch-times. The book is unique in drawing...

This set is comprised of four volumes, covering the following topics: schools, teachers and parents; pupils and learning; the school curriculum; and school behaviour and the school peer group. The selected pieces include review articles as well as original studies. Selections are balanced across combinations from North America, the UK, continental Europe, Australasia and Japan (all in English Language). Predominantly they are made from work in the 1990s as being the most relevant to contemporary knowledge, but some 10-20% of selections are of more classic studies which have had enduring...

The Family System Test (FAST), developed by Thomas M. Gehring, is an important new tool for investigating family relations. Based on the structural-systemic theory of families, it is a figural technique for representing emotional bonds (cohesion) and hierarchical structures in the family or similar social systems. In this volume, the editors draw on the available theory and research in family or similar social systems together with a variety of empirical studies that have used the FAST, to provide a comprehensive overview and assessment of the test and its use in various clinical research...

Bullying in Schools is the first comparative account of the major intervention projects against school bullying that have been carried out by educationalists and researchers since the 1980s, across Europe, North America and Australasia. Working on the principle that we can learn from success as well as failure, this book examines the processes as well as the outcomes, and critically assesses the likely reasons for success or failure. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, it is an important addition to the current debate on tackling this distressing problem.

Theories of Theories of Mind brings together contributions by a distinguished international team of philosophers, psychologists and primatologists, who among them address such questions as: what is it to understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of other people? How does such an understanding develop in the normal child? Why, unusually, does it fail to develop? Is any such mentalistic understanding shared by members of other species?

Bullying in Schools is the first comparative account of the major intervention projects against school bullying that have been carried out by educationalists and researchers since the 1980s, across Europe, North America and Australasia. Working on the principle that we can learn from success as well as failure, this book examines the processes as well as the outcomes, and critically assesses the likely reasons for success or failure. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, it is an important addition to the current debate on tackling this distressing problem.

Understanding Cognition provides a lively, accessible and thorough introduction to this exciting and rapidly developing brannch of psychology. It is intended primarily for first year undergraduates, and for pre-degree students who seek a deeper appreciation of contemporary cognitive psychology. The book is divided into three sections, which cover: the major structures, processing systems and mental operations involved in memory, perception, attention, skills and language; cognition in action; and approaches to modelling cognition, including cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist...

This book was originally published in 1980. At the time of publication the importance of the preschool years in a child's development and education had been recognised by educationalists, psychologists, and indeed parents, and there was a corresponding commitment to expand and improve nursery and playgroup facilities for preschool children. Yet, despite this recognition, there had been little sustained experimental work designed to examine the effects and importance of resources and their deployment in preschool institutions. The details of Peter Smith and Kevin Connolly's research are set...