Bullying Prevention and Intervention at School (eBook, PDF)

Integrating Theory and Research into Best Practices
Redaktion: Gordon, Jacob U'Mofe

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the continuum of bullying services, including prevention, intervention, and recovery. It reviews current theories, studies, and programs relating to this issue as well as outcome-based solutions to enhance best practices. Chapters discuss prevention and intervention services such as enhancing and promoting teacher skills in identifying abusive behaviors; interventions with bullies, victims, bystanders, and enablers; and curbing digital forms of bullying. International perspectives on program development and delivery offer fresh approaches to conceptualizing a school's particular bullying problems and creating effective policy. In addition, chapters cover program evaluation, guiding principles for evaluators,measurement methods, and documenting and disseminating findings. The book also provides recommendations for program development.

Topics featured in this book include:

• An Adlerian approach to predicting bullying behavior.
• Bibliotherapy as a strategy for bullying prevention.
• Coaching teachers in bullying detection and intervention.
• Cyberbullying prevention and intervention.
• The "Coping with Bullying" program in Greek secondary schools.
• Factors that affect reporting victimization in South African schools.

Bullying Prevention and Intervention at School is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and other practitioners, graduate students, and policymakers across such disciplines as child and school psychology, social work/counseling, pediatrics/school nursing, and educational policy and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 155
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319954141
• Artikelnr.: 53708733

Autorenporträt

Jacob U'Mofe Gordon, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas; Fulbright Program Senior Specialist and the Kwame Nkrumah Endowed Chair at the University of Ghana, 2012-2015. He is the author and/or co-author of 26 books, numerous articles in academic journals, book chapters, monographs and research reports. His diverse academic publications include Managing Multi-Culturalism in Substance Abuse Services (1994); A Systems Change Approach to Substance Abuse Prevention (1997); The Role of Higher Education in Alcohol and other Drug Abuse Prevention (1993); African Presence in Black America (2004); and An Anthology of African Presidential Leadership and Governance (2017). He is the recipient of many honors and awards; serves on several boards, including the International Bullying Prevention Association (IBPA) and the University of Kansas School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. He was an international approved evaluator for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and served as program evaluator for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) Fighting Back in Kansas City, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. The State of Bullying in Schools.- Chapter 2. Predictors of Bullying Behavior: An Adlerian Approach.- Chapter 3. Bibliotherapy as a Strategy for Bullying Prevention.- Chapter 4. Coaching Teachers in Bullying Detention and Intervention.- Chapter 5. Cyberbullying Prevention and Intervention: Promising Approaches.- Chapter 6. "Copying with Bullying" Program in Greek Secondary Schools: An Evaluation.- Chapter 7. Factors in Reporting Mobile Victimization in South African Schools.- Chapter 8. Measuring Bullying Prevention and Intervention.