Working With Parents of Bullies and Victims.
The author explores common concerns about bullying, provides sample dialogues with parents of bullies and victims, and presents an eight-point plan for communicating with parents.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1
- Every Parent's Nightmare-and Yours, Too!
- Who will Benefit from this Book?
- The High Cost of Ignoring the Problem
- How Educators have Overlooked Parents as Partners
- How to Use this Book with Parents
- Chapter 2
- What Bullying and Teasing do to Everyone-Kids, Adults, and Communities
- Death Comes to Lake Wobegon
- When Intervention Stops Tragedy
- The Pain That Resonates to the Bone
- How Everyone Loses When Bullying Occurs
- Chapter 3
- Why Parents Complain about Schools' Responses to Bullying
- Parents' Attitudes toward Public Schools: The Statistics
- About Those "They didn't do Anything" Claims
- Documenting the Facts on School Interventions
- Chapter 4
- How to Talk with Parents Whose Children are Bullied
- Parents of Bullied Children: The Two Camps
- Working with the Actively Involved Parent
- Working with the Less Actively Involved Parent
- The "Inverted Curve" and Tension Cycle
- Chapter 5
- How to Work with Parents Whose Children Bully Others
- Some Things to Keep in Mind about the Families of Aggressive Children
- Television's Impact on Children and Bullying
- Kissing a Plan Increases the Chances of Success for Everyone
- Chapter 6
- The Parent Who Refuses to Cooperate
- Subverting the Dominant Paradigm
- Conflict Resolution with Parents Who Refuse to Cooperate
- Eleven Global Approaches toward Conflict Resolution
- Chapter 7
- Types of Difficult Parents
- The Parent Bully
- The Silent Treatment
- The Staller
- The Negative
- The Complainer
- Know-it-alls
- Angels
- What about Mediation and Negotiation?
- Chapter 8
- Helping Parents Talk at Home with Their Children about Misbehaviors
- Helping Parents Understand Punishment, Accountability, and Restitution
- Restorative Justice.
- Helping Parents Help Their Child Think about Righting a Wrong
- What Happens after that First Step?
- Chapter 9
- Seven Talking Points for Helping Parents Talk to Children about Being Bullied
- Talking Point 1: Help Parents Understand the Importance of Listening to Their Child's Concerns about Bullying and Teasing
- Talking Point 2: Asking the Right Questions will Likely Increase Parent-Child Communication
- Talking Point 3: Parents want to Obtain as many Details as Possible in an Understanding Fashion
- Talking Point 4: Parents Need to Assure Their Children That They will Work with Them to Find a Solution to the Problem
- Talking Point 5: Parents should ask the Child's Opinions and Concerns about Discussing the Situation with School Personnel
- Talking Point 6: Encourage the Child not to Respond to Provocation with Violence
- Talking Point 7: Parents should Encourage Their Child to ask Those in a Supervisory Capacity for Assistance
- Chapter 10
- Fair Expectations of Parents and Educators in Solving the Problem of Bullying
- Fair Expectation 1: Not all Bullying behaviors can be Stopped or Prevented
- Fair Expectation 2: Once Bullying has been Reported, the Parent has the Right to Expect the Supervisory Authority to Indicate Concern
- Fair Expectation 3: Parents Expect the Supervisory Authority to Investigate the Concern
- Fair Expectation 4: Appropriate Intervention will Take Place If the Concerns are Validated
- Fair Expectation 5: The Supervisory Authority will Communicate with Parents as to the Outcome of the Intervention
- Fair Expectation 6: Never Forget Fair Expectation 1-Not all Bullying behaviors can be Stopped or Prevented
- Chapter 11
- The Courage to Act
- References
- Index.