Safe and Healthy Schools

Practical Prevention Strategies

Jeffrey R. Sprague, Hill M. Walker

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781462547814
• eBook ISBN: 9781462547869
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Education Counseling
• Index: Psychology

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this authoritative resource provides a complete toolkit for designing and implementing an evidence-based school safety plan. Foremost experts guide practitioners to understand and prevent violence, bullying, and peer harassment in grades K–12. Best practices are reviewed for creating a positive school climate and establishing effective security and crisis response procedures. The authors describe ways to identify and support behaviorally at-risk students across multiple tiers of intervention, beginning with universal screening. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes reproducible planning tools. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

New to This Edition
*Reflects over 15 years of research advances, new initiatives, and the growth of universal prevention models.
*Grounded in current positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) practices; also incorporates restorative discipline, social–emotional learning, and trauma-informed practices.
*State-of-the-art behavioral screening and threat assessment methods are integrated throughout.
*Discussions of timely topics, including cyberbullying, the role and limitations of policing in schools, and racial/ethnic disparities in discipline.

This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Authors
• Contents
• 1. History and Overview of Approaches to Safety, School Discipline, and Mental Health Support in Schools
• 2. Assessing and Planning for School Safety: Developing a School Safety and Crisis-Response Plan
• 3. Proactive Screening, Identifying Behaviorally At-Risk Students, and Threat Assessment: Purposes, Approaches, Outcomes, and Cautions
• 4. Improving School Climate, Safety, and Student Health via Prevention Approaches
• 5. Bullying and Peer Harassment in Schools: The Current Landscape, Influencing Factors, and Screening-Identification Methods
• 6. Solutions for Bullying and Peer Harassment in the School Setting
• 7. Supporting Antisocial and Potentially Violent Youth
• References
• Index
• About Guilford Press
• Discover Related Guilford Books