ED389133 EC304419
Title:
Antisocial Behavior in School: Strategies and Best Practices.
Author(s):: Walker, Hill M.; And Others
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-534-25644-9
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 511 Forest Lodge
Rd., Pacific Grove, CA 93950-9968.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Guides--Non-classroom (055)
Geographic Source: U.S.; California
Journal Announcement: RIEAPR1996
Target Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
This text
is intended to provide educators with increased understanding of
the nature, origins, and causes of antisocial behavior and to offer
information on the best available practices, interventions, and
model programs for preventing and remediating antisocial behavior
disorders occurring in school. The book is based upon principles
of social learning. The 13 chapters are entitled: (1) Antisocial
Behavior Patterns in Children and Youth: Characteristics, Causes,
and Outcomes; (2) Issues and Procedural Recommendations Regarding
Effective Interventions for Antisocial Behavior in School; (3) The
Acting-Out Behavior Cycle of Antisocial Students in the Classroom:
A Conceptual Model; (4) Strategies for Managing the Phases of Acting-Out
Behavior; (5) Establishing a Schoolwide Discipline Plan; (6) Instructing
and Managing the Classroom Environment; (7) An Instructional Approach
to Teaching Adaptive Behavior Patterns; (8) Instruction and Managing
the Antisocial Student on the Playground; (9) Social Skills: Importance
and Assessment; (10) Social Skills: Implementation and Generalization;
(11) Parent Involvement in the Schooling of Antisocial Students;
(12) Case-Study Applications of Best Practices with Antisocial Students;
and (13) School Violence, Gangs, and Safety: Toward Proactive Strategies.
Appendices provide a summary of empirical investigations on antisocial
behavior in school and at home, an article entitled "The Case
of Judge Hargreaves: Society Is Failing Its Children, Forsaking
Its Future" (by James Hargreaves) and an excerpt from an article
by Carla Marinucci and Scott Winokur entitled "Generals in
the War on School Violence." (Contains approximately 320 references.)
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Descriptors: *Antisocial Behavior; Behavior Patterns; *Classroom
Techniques; Demonstration Programs; *Discipline; *Educational Practices;
Educational Principles; Elementary Secondary Education; *Etiology;
Interpersonal Competence; *Intervention; Parent Participation; Socialization;
Student Behavior; Student Characteristics; Symptoms (Individual
Disorders); Violence
