Product Description

The Bullying Prevention Handbook addresses bully-victim problems at school, and can be used as a comprehensive tool for understanding, preventing, and reducing bullying. It focuses primarily on middle and high school, but offers valuable advice and resources for elementary-school educators as well. It contains advice for working with bullies and their victims using a multifaceted approach that includes education, counseling, mediation, and efforts to foster an attitude of respect and caring in the school at large.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166889 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

About the Author
Dr. John H. Hoover is interim associate dean of the College of Education and professor of special education at St. Cloud State University, his alma mater. Dr. Hoover earned an MS in special education from the University of Illinois and a PhD in special education from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Ronald L. Oliver is a visiting professor and research associate at the Institute for Peace Promotion and Injury/Violence Prevention (CISALVA), School of Public Health, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. He has an EdD in counselor education from Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Customer Reviews

Highly practical, new guidelines for schools and therapists
Both victim and bully are helped to avoid usual traps of demeaning bullies and reinforcing habitual victims. New alliances are built with bullies, with clear steps towards genuine empowerment as well as protection of other children. Family guidelines useful for therapists, perhaps not always for schools.

Excellent information on prevention of bullying
This book is the product of the National Educational Service, whose stated goal is to offer resources that have been tested and proven helpful in creating safe environments for young people. In addition to creating safe schools, their areas of expertise include: working in culturally diverse environments, containing crises, anger management, building life skills in young people, handling the threat of youth suicide, and discipline with dignity.

The Bullying Prevention Handbook contains a great deal of information, but the style of writing is clear and easy to read. Though there is no index, the table of contents is very clear, and the book is well laid out. The three main topics presented are: the characteristics of a bully, individual and group interventions at home and at school, and a specific anti-bullying education program. The authors provide references, an extensive bibliography, and many appendices containing multiple evaluation checklists and screening forms.

Though this book is billed in its subtitle as "a guide for principals, teachers and counselors," I recommend it highly to parents, as well. It is frequently only through the intervention of concerned, informed parents that excellent violence-prevention programs such as the one outlined in this book are implemented. Preventing violence in the schools is not a simple, overnight process. It requires the commitment and cooperation of the school staff, parents and the community at large.

BULLY? Worst than Physical Assault
Bullying? Every school has kids who tease, taunt, shove up and beat other kids for no reason at all. Ignored, exulted sort of indirect bullying is worst than a physical assault too that kids face at School or just about anywhere! Bullying has just become of the most underrated but enduring problems in schools today. The cases rise to shoot up and as the survey speaks, it has been a challenging task for the mentors to instill the values of human relationships.Its sometimes the attitude of parents/teachers/adult that fail to instill moral values to the kids.Recognizing degrees of teasing and learning to cope with hurtful teasing are important life skills a child needs to learn. Often bullies become more unhappy and aggressive with age. When a bully attacks kids, they often feel ashamed and refrain from talking about it. Bullying Prevention Handbook offer resources tested and proven creating safe environments for students. The main topics presented by the author are the characteristics of a bully, individual and group interventions at home and at school. Discipline, creating life skills and safe environment at schools is necessary for child development. The Handbook is indeed a good 'guide'