Banishing bullying behavior : transforming the culture of peer abuse / / SuEllen Fried and Blanche Sosland ; foreword by James Garbarino

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826863603321
• Autore: Fried SuEllen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Education, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-61048-434-7
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SoslandBlanche E <1936-> (Blanche Eisemann)
• Disciplina: 371.5/8
• Soggetti: Bullying in schools - Prevention; School violence - Prevention; School children - Conduct of life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Transforming the culture -- Dimensions and overview of bullying -- Back to bullying basics -- Getting specific about bullying -- Cyberbullying: unimagined cruelty -- Bully-free summer camps -- Bullying from preschool through adolescence -- Helping special needs students achieve success -- The challenge of changing the culture -- Change agents -- Empowering students in the solution -- Ten burning questions posed by educators -- Parents as protectors, partners, and change agents -- Letters from children.
• Sommario/riassunto: Banishing Bullying Behavior challenges students, parents, educators, education support professionals, administrators, counselors, and policy makers to confront the culture of cruelty that is devastating our society. This book is filled with insights, personal stories, anecdotal material, and strategies that are directed to the widest audience possible. It urges us to become change agents and empower children to transform their pain, rage, and revenge to empathy, kindness, and healing. Fried and Sosland tackle the demanding questions about physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, cyber, sibling, an