Reclaiming Children and Youth articles from June 2000

Reclaiming Children and Youth archives from June 2000

Gray Matters: The Power of Grandparent Involvement.
June 22, 2000... The stability of traditional cultures has been strongly tied to the involvement of grandparents in the lives of children. This article reviews the positive impact of cross-generational contact among children, parents, and grandparents. The...

Searching for Strengths.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Beginning with the year 2000, a new cover design of this journal marked a shift from a focus on problems to a strength-based emphasis. The old subtitle "Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems" was replaced with "The Journal of...

The Person Behind the File Number.
June 22, 2000... In many ways, troubled youth share a marginalized status, like other minority groups. We first met 17-year-old Jonathan when he gave a moving speech to a conference for Canadian youth workers. He had been removed from his parents as a young boy...

Strength Based Practice with Children in Trouble.
June 22, 2000... In recent years, programs serving children in trouble and their families have been shifting from a pathological perspective toward developing strength-based practices. This article describes the strength-based perspective and outlines practices...

Promoting Resilience: A Vision of Care.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... The label "resilient" has often been conferred on children who display competence in spite of unrelenting adversity as well as on children who rebound from psychological harm. How children respond and adapt to a difficult situation may at times...

Kayla and Her Killer: Six-Year-Olds as Victims.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... I write this viewpoint shocked, outraged, dismayed, and saddened. Six-year-old Kayla Rolland lies dead, felled by a single gunshot from a 6-year-old first-grade classmate. That shot effectively ended the lives of two children, both victims,...

Making a Difference with Nathan.
June 22, 2000... At the height of the debate over trying juveniles as adults, we share here excerpts of remarks made by Oakland County Family Court Judge Eugene Moore as he sentenced 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham in January 2000 to juvenile detention until he...

Is There a New Emerging Delinquent?
June 22, 2000... Troubled youth who are disconnected from the mainstream youth culture need relationships with caring adults and prosocial peers. However, other youth, such as those involved in church and school activities, often ostracize these troubled young...

Sticks and Stones May Break Their Bones: Teasing as Bullying.
June 22, 2000... Teasing presents a particular challenge to adults and the children with whom they work. On the one hand, teasing can serve to bond persons together in a verbal ritual of kidding or ribbing. On the other, teasing becomes taunting and is a form...

The Physical Restraint Controversy.
June 22, 2000... Various professional and governmental committees are examining the issue of physical restraints of troubled youth as a result of highly publicized investigative reporting on this problem. This article addresses what is being done to improve...

Personal Struggles in Reclaiming Troubled Students.
June 22, 2000... Schools today are confronted with students who present serious behavior problems once seen only in secure settings. In order to be effective with these students, staff members need to acquire skills for managing crises. Special education...

Improving Turbulent Relationships.
June 22, 2000... Volatile crisis situations--when managed correctly--can improve relationships between adults and youth. This article describes instances of serious rule violations that were used as opportunities for teaching prosocial skills to youth. A...

The Twice Exceptional Student.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Research and programs in gifted education and programs for individuals who exhibit emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD) have typically paid little attention to students who have displayed violent or other negative behaviors but also...

Prevention of Behavior Problems in Schools.
June 22, 2000... Readers may note that the organization of this regular feature has changed. In the past, the What's New, What Works column has featured various programs and projects that used promising and effective practices on a particular topic. But because...

The VOICES Project.
June 22, 2000... The authors describe a project that involves youth in the process of addressing conflict in a racially diverse school. After initial uncertainty over what power should be held by students, the project has matured into a successful model for...

Future Directions with Troubled Children.
June 22, 2000... A leader in the education of troubled children identifies unfinished business to be addressed in the new millennium: (a) emotional and behavior disorders must be recognized as a disability; (b) reactive thinking and policies must be replaced...