Presents Life Space Interview (LSI), intervention strategy for use during crisis work with troubled students. Focuses on New Tools Salesmanship, special category of LSI in which interviewer helps student see failed connection between student's intention and behavior. Presents New Tools Salesmanship interview with fourth-grade student who…

Briefly reviews Project Re-ED (Re-education of Emotionally Disturbed Children), created by Nicholas Hobbs as an approach to emotionally troubled children and youth that builds on the concepts of normalcy and health rather than deviance and illness. Reviews key principles from Hobbs' 1982 book "The Troubled and Troubling Child." (NB)

Notes that special education policymakers have debated whether to exclude conduct-disordered students from special education services. Sees mandate for special educators and mental health professionals to find methods of teaching and counseling antisocial students. Notes that number of gang members who present problems in community would meet…

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)

Notes five ways that teachers can help students in single-parent families. Advises teachers to make no assumptions; teach about differences; facilitate parental connections to the school; share good news with parents; and alter written communications and record keeping. Discusses how to implement each of these strategies. (NB)

Describes development and implementation of Life-Impact Curriculum at Children's Home Parkhill School for severely emotionally disturbed students in Tampa, Florida. Describes the home, the 16 students involved in the Life-Impact Curriculum, and the effects of participation in the curriculum. (NB)