This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences between the “rules of relating” for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors identify the common link among risk behaviors: the relationship connection. In the second part of the book, they examine the principles of successful programs used by schools and communities to cultivate healthy adolescent development. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens.

Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe (Current Perspectives in Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jaffe, Peter G.

WOLFE, DAVID A.

Crooks, Claire V.

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability

Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. Jaffe, Lemon, and Poisson integrate the most recent clinical and legal issues in the field in considering the prevalence of divorce and domestic violence as well as the relevance of domestic violence in custody disputes. The authors outline the essential differences between custody disputes with and without allegations and findings of domestic violence, and the different analysis and distinct interventions by judges, policymakers, and mental health professionals necessary in domestic violence cases.

Poisson, Samantha

Lemon, Nancy K.D.

Parenting & Relationships

Sage Publications, Inc.

Children of Battered Women (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)

The devastating impact of family violence on children, the links between violence and spouse abuse on child development and clinical dysfunction, children′s views of violence, and strategies for intervention and prevention are considered in this volume. The authors discuss cases, conceptual models of abuse and dysfunction, and empirical research to portray the scope of the problem and explore promising avenues of resolution.

Self-Help

Wilson, Susan Kaye

Relationships

Mental Health

We are past the point of debating whether safe schools and violence prevention are priorities for educators. The challenge now is not whether but how to address these issues. While there are a number of excellent programs and tools designed to address the issues of bullying, harassment, media violence, dating violence, and how to foster positive relationships, it is a challenge for educators to match their students’ needs with the most appropriate program or strategy. Even the best research-based programs available will not be successful unless they respond to a school’s identified needs. This book offers a practical and strategic framework for identifying a school’s needs with respect to safe schools planning and developing a roadmap for action. It offers specific solutions to common barriers and points of resistance. There is no shortcut to properly assess what a school needs to make it a safe and secure place in which to learn. This book takes readers step by step through a process of assessment, planning, implementation, and achieving sustainability in this critical area.

Creating Safe School Environments: From Small Steps to Sustainable Change

Education & Teaching

Watson, C. Lynn

Schools & Teaching

The Althouse Press

Book by Lemon, Nancy K. D., Sandler, Jack, Wolfe, David A., Jaffe, Peter G.

Working Together to End Domestic Violence

Politics & Social Sciences

Sandler, Jack

Sociology

Mancorp Pub

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