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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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