Reviews some essential aspects of school safety planning. Discusses general evaluation objectives and assessment procedures, as well as a safe school planning process. Offers specific guidelines for handling violent incidents at school. Presents 25 preventive security measures that will help to lessen chances of violence occurring on campus.…

Describes method for conducting counseling groups with violent and assaultive students who have school adjustment problems. Identifies major patterns which reflect school behavior of such students, presents counseling technique which can be used to explore how these students organize and give meaning to school experiences, and describes short- and…

Examines nature and scope of group violence among children in schools on both sides of Atlantic Ocean. Reviews studies of student attitudes about victimization and offers suggestions for prevention and treatment of bullying. Focus is on studies on bullying undertaken in Europe, mostly Scandinavia, and in United States (Author/NB)

Provides framework for school to guide crisis intervention efforts. Provides practical examples to assist schools in examining their resources as they develop crisis intervention teams. Outlines school safety techniques being used nationally. Contends that school crises and youth violence represent opportunity for school psychologists to provide…

Examines some of the key school law cases pertinent to developing policies and procedures to address campus situations that may be associated with school crime/violence. Discusses the legal concept of a reasonableness and its use on forming reactive and proactive school discipline procedures. (Author/NB)