Working with Troubled Youth in Schools: A Guide for All School Staff

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This work presents a practical guide to creating effective, school-based responses to the difficult problem of dealing with troubled youth in schools, based on an "ecological" approach to collaboration among school professionals and community members. The two themes of "prevention" and "connection" pervade the practices that are described in this timely contribution.

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One only needs to look at a current newspaper to confirm that the school population has dramatically changed in the past 20 years. With this change has come the major dilemma of how to provide meaningful educational services to students who present extreme challenges for existing educational systems. This volume, edited by McAuliffe, focuses on a population that far exceeds that implied by its title--troubled youth. More specifically, included here are students who demonstrate serious behavior disorders including violence. Well planned and concisely written, the contributors provide a conceptual framework and description of model programs for successfully serving such students. Paramount throughout is the reoccurring theme that such programs are possible, but only through the use of collaboration and communication. The volume can provide an excellent jumping-off point for discussions centered on what is possible and why such programs have not been implemented across the field. Rather than a simplistic how-to book, this is an engaging discussion of connections between the multiple factors involved in the field of behavior disorders. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above.-Choice
"One only needs to look at a current newspaper to confirm that the school population has dramatically changed in the past 20 years. With this change has come the major dilemma of how to provide meaningful educational services to students who present extreme challenges for existing educational systems. This volume, edited by McAuliffe, focuses on a population that far exceeds that implied by its title--troubled youth. More specifically, included here are students who demonstrate serious behavior disorders including violence. Well planned and concisely written, the contributors provide a conceptual framework and description of model programs for successfully serving such students. Paramount throughout is the reoccurring theme that such programs are possible, but only through the use of collaboration and communication. The volume can provide an excellent jumping-off point for discussions centered on what is possible and why such programs have not been implemented across the field. Rather than a simplistic how-to book, this is an engaging discussion of connections between the multiple factors involved in the field of behavior disorders. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice

Author Bio

GARRETT MCAULIFFE is Associate Professor, Counseling Program, Old Dominion University.