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Threats in Schools
A Practical Guide for Managing Violence
by Joseph T. McCann, PsyD, JD Clinical Psychologist, United Health Services
Hospitals, Binghamton, New York
About The Book:
Manage potentially violent situations in your school with these expert techniques!
In the wake of several highly publicized school shootings, the problem of school violence
has increasingly become a focus of concern for the general public as well as teachers,
school officials, and students. Drawing on case studies from publicized violent incidents
as well as from Dr. McCann’s private practice, Threats in Schools: A Practical Guide
for Managing Violence provides techniques for identifying, conceptualizing, assessing, and
managing threatening behavior by students in school settings. Offering specific case
management strategies for a variety of situations, this indispensable volume provides
guidance on formulating questions to ask and suggestions for developing strategies for
managing potentially violent situations.
Integrating threat assessment and risk management models, this approach will help you
target potential threats to property, other students, teachers, and school staff. The
interdisciplinary approach recognizes that violent behavior is dependent on the
characteristics of the perpetrator, victim, and setting, and that the relationship between
threats and violence is not always clear.
Threats in Schools offers well-grounded research, detailed case studies, and theoretical
approaches to help you deal with the tough issues, including:
zero-tolerance policies and their more effective alternatives
why profiling techniques to identify violence-prone students are of limited use
interventions to defuse potentially violent situations
critical incident stress management
Five appendixes offer forms and checklists to help you plan and evaluate, including:
threat assessment and management planning
checklist of characteristics of perpetrators of school violence
questions for evaluating general risk of violence
fire-setting and bombing risk assessment
sex offense risk assessment
Lucidly written and illustrated with helpful tables and figures, Threats in Schools offers
school officials, mental health professionals, community leaders, and the media the
information they need to understand what sparks school violence and which approaches
reduce the risk of it.
Reviews:
“Dr. McCann has provided A CONCISE AND INFORMATIVE way to analyze, understand, and
respond to threats. His resource guide SHOULD BE STANDARD READING for school
administrators, counselors, and teachers.”
Dr. Ronald D. Stephens, Executive Director, National School Safety Center, California
“COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE. . . . AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE for municipal and school
managers, law enforcement officials, parents, and all who are concerned with violence in
our schools.”
Col. Robert K. Ressler, MS, Director, Forensic Behavioral Services International,
Virginia; Author, Crime Classification Manual and Whoever Fights Monsters
Contents:
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Nature of School Violence and Threat Assessment
Violence in Schools
Approaches to Combating School Violence
Understanding Threat Assessment and Management
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Types of Threats and Violence
What Is Aggression?
What Is Violence?
Types of Threats?
How Threats Are Communicated
The Relationship Between Threats and Violence
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Risk Assessment of Violent Behavior
Prediction versus Risk Assessment of Violence
Personal Security versus Community Policing
Correlates of Violent Behavior in Young People
Violence and Mental Disorder
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Assessing and Evaluating Threats
Direct Questions to Ask About a Threat
Evaluating Specific Issues
Indirect Methods of Assessment
Assessing Potential Inhibitors of Violence
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Managing Potentially Violent Situations
Interventions Targeting the Potentially Violent Student
Interventions Targeting the Victim
Interventions Targeting the Situation
Critical Incident Stress Management
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Special Situations
Threats Against Property
Threats Against Other Students
Threats Against Teachers
Conclusion
Appendix A: Threat Assessment and Management Planning Form
Appendix B: Checklist of Characteristics of Youth Who Have Caused School-Associated
Violent Deaths
Appendix C: Questions for Evaluating General Risk for Violence
Appendix D: Fire Setting and Bombing Risk Assessment Questions
Appendix E: Sex Offense Risk Assessment Questions
References
Index
Date Published:
2002
Number of Pages:
154 pp. with Index.
ORDER CODE: HP0789012952B
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