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PREFACE xv
CHAPTER 1: Walking in the Footsteps of Troubled Students: How Classical Literature Portrays the Psychological Struggles of Troubled Children and Youth 1
ARTICLE 1.1 Th e Use of Force 2William Carlos Williams
ARTICLE 1.2 Th e Day of the Last Rock Fight 7Joseph Whitehill
ARTICLE 1.3 To Sir, with Love 25E. R. Braithwaite
ARTICLE 1.4 Doctor Jack-o’-Lantern 36Richard Yates
ARTICLE 1.5 Down Th ese Mean Streets 53Piri Th omas
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ARTICLE 1.6 Interview with a Patient—Th e Voice of an Alcoholic Teenager 59
ARTICLE 1.7 A Student’s Reminiscence About Her Alcoholic Mother 60
ARTICLE 1.8 From Down-and-Out to Up-and-Coming 62Ryan Gauthier
CHAPTER 2: Connecting with Troubled Students: The Psychology of Helping 67
ARTICLE 2.1 As I Grow 72Echo LeBeaux (Grade 5)
ARTICLE 2.2 Respect 73Jerome His Law (Grade 7)
ARTICLE 2.3 Th e Curriculum of Control: Twelve Reasons for It, Some Arguments Against It 73Polly Nichols
ARTICLE 2.4 Beyond the Curriculum of Control 88Larry K. Brendtro and Martin Brokenleg
ARTICLE 2.5 Mental Health Professionals and Teachers: How Do the Twain Meet? 102William C. Morse
ARTICLE 2.6 Seven Habits of Reclaiming Relationships 120Erik K. Laursen
CHAPTER 3: Connecting with the World of Troubled Students: Their Family, School, and Community 133
ARTICLE 3.1 Collaboration with Families: From Myth to Reality 138Naomi Karp
ARTICLE 3.2 Five Ways Teachers Can Help Children from Single-Parent Families 143Myrna Olson
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ARTICLE 3.3 Growing Up Without Family Privilege 149John R. Seita
ARTICLE 3.4 Unmasking the Terror 155Jamie C. Chambers
ARTICLE 3.5 Bridging Cultures 162Martin Brokenleg
CHAPTER 4: The Therapeutic Classroom: Strategies and Skills of Successful Methods and Social–Emotional Curricula 169
ARTICLE 4.1 Elements of an Eff ective Re-EDucation Program for the 21st Century 172Bridget A. Walker and Frank A. Fecser
ARTICLE 4.2 No Child Left Behind and the Changing Role of the Special Educator: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? 186Charles A. Chrystal and Lenore B. Luciano
ARTICLE 4.3 Psychiatric Disorders and Treatments: A Primer for Teachers 192Steven R. Forness, Hill M. Walker, and Kenneth A. Kavale
ARTICLE 4.4 Spitting from Windmills: Th e Th erapeutic Value of Eff ective Instruction 212Claudia Lann Valore
ARTICLE 4.5 Bibliotherapy: Th e Intersection of Literacy and Social–Emotional Intervention 222Felicia Fago-Demchuk and Elaine Harper
ARTICLE 4.6 On Being a Teacher–Counselor 241Paul Filipek
CHAPTER 5: The Dynamics of Group Forces in the Classroom: Strategies and Skills for Promoting Positive Group Behavior 245
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ARTICLE 5.1 Five Psychological Games Classroom Groups Play 252Ruth G. Newman
ARTICLE 5.2 Group Contagion: No Teacher Is Immune! 270Ruth G. Newman
ARTICLE 5.3 Th e Mailbox Episode: A Delinquent Group Act 274William C. Morse
ARTICLE 5.4 Creating Cohesive Groups in Re-ED Settings: Th e Classroom Meeting 281Th omas G. Valore
ARTICLE 5.5 An Example of Promoting Group Cohesion and Positive Group Behavior in an Emotionally Disturbed Classroom 297Steve Parese
ARTICLE 5.6 Teaching Self-Control: A Curriculum for Responsible Behavior 300Martin Henley
CHAPTER 6: Promoting Positive Student Behavior: Essential Concepts and Skills for Eff ective Classroom Discipline 309
ARTICLE 6.1 Building Safe and Reclaiming Schools: A Certifi cation Program of the LSCI Institute 315Nicholas J. Long and Frank A. Fecser
ARTICLE 6.2 Th e Confl ict Cycle Paradigm: How Troubled Students Get Teachers Out of Control 325Nicholas J. Long
ARTICLE 6.3 Th e Four Choices of Managing Surface Behavior of Students 350Nicholas J. Long and Ruth G. Newman
ARTICLE 6.4 But Th at’s Not Fair! 360Mary Beth Hewitt
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ARTICLE 6.5 Fifteen Teacher Intervention Skills for Managing Classroom Behavior Problems 369Stanley A. Fagen
ARTICLE 6.6 Keeping Students and Schools Safe 391Jerilyn Dufresne with Michael Dorn
CHAPTER 7: Beyond Student Behavior: Strategies and Skills To Help Students Involved in Chronic Self-Defeating Patterns of Behavior 399
ARTICLE 7.1 Masking the Feeling of Being Stupid 409Sally L. Smith
ARTICLE 7.2 Understanding and Helping Children Who Do Not Talk in School 418Ralph J. Gemelli
ARTICLE 7.3 Reaching Angry and Unattached Kids 436Fred G. Tully and Larry K. Brendtro
ARTICLE 7.4 Understanding and Managing the Passive– Aggressive Student 452Jody E. Long and Nicholas J. Long
ARTICLE 7.5 Helping the Student with Attention-Defi cit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Regular Classroom 463Larry B. Silver
ARTICLE 7.6 “Drugships”: How Kids Make Relationships with Addictive Behaviors 479Jamie C. Chambers and Teresa Henrickson
ARTICLE 7.7 Despair at Any Age 489Norman Alessi
ARTICLE 7.8 Answering the Cry for Help—Suicidal Th oughts and Actions 499Eleanor C. Guetzloe
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ARTICLE 7.9 Maintaining the Dignity and Rights of Gay and Lesbian Students 509Kathy J. Gill
ARTICLE 7.10 Understanding the World of the “Fat Kid”: Can Schools Help Provide a Better Experience? 515Kenneth R. Fox and Laurel D. Edmunds
ARTICLE 7.11 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who Is the Th innest of Th em All? 525Roger Verdon
CHAPTER 8: Classroom Crisis as an Opportunity: Strategies and Skills of Life Space Crisis Intervention 539
ARTICLE 8.1 Crisis Intervention in Schools 540William C. Morse
ARTICLE 8.2 Emotional First Aid: Bandaids for the Bumps 549Carol A. Merritt-Petrashek
ARTICLE 8.3 Home for the Holidays: A Red-Flag, Carry-In, Reclaiming Intervention 572John W. Hill and Nicholas J. Long
ARTICLE 8.4 A Study on the Eff ectiveness of Life Space Crisis Intervention for Students Identifi ed with Emotional Disturbances 585Carol A. Dawson
CHAPTER 9: New Visions, Concepts, and Skills for Teachers of At-Risk and Troubled Students 603
ARTICLE 9.1 Future Directions with Troubled Children 604James M. Kauff man
ARTICLE 9.2 Personal Struggles in Reclaiming Troubled Students 616Nicholas J. Long
ARTICLE 9.3 Mind-Sets for a Happier Life 624Jo Webber
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ARTICLE 9.4 How To Be a Turnaround Teacher 635Bonnie Benard
ARTICLE 9.5 Th e Resilience Code: Finding Greatness in Youth 645Larry Brendtro and Scott Larson
ARTICLE 9.6 New Directions in Prevention with At-Risk Students 658David D. Moore
ARTICLE 9.7 What Works in Prevention: Th e Search Continues 669Peter L. Benson
ARTICLE 9.8 An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Metal Detectors 677Linda Lantieri
ARTICLE 9.9 Improving Services for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems 688Center for Eff ective Collaboration and Practice
ARTICLE 9.10 Neuroscience and the Helping Process 695Paul W. Baker
ARTICLE 9.11 Th e Spirit of Re-EDucation 708Frank A. Fecser
INDEX 711
ABOUT THE EDITORS 731
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