Reclaiming Children and Youth articles from September 2004

Reclaiming Children and Youth archives from September 2004

Tapping the power of peer helping.(youth)
September 22, 2004... Adolescent youth are an under-utilized human resource during a period of development when peer influence is powerful. Peer helping programs, in which youth are trained in interpersonal skills to equip them to reach out to others, are...

Positive peer groups: "helping others" meets primary developmental needs.
September 22, 2004... Successful peer helping or peer group treatment interventions for at-risk youth engage the curative power of some primary child development strategies. Coaching at-risk adolescents to help others has been a primary therapeutic tool in peer...

Community service and service-learning in public schools.(research into practice)
September 22, 2004... He who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness. It means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that...

The strength of vulnerability.
September 22, 2004... Many aspects of our work with at-risk children are spiritual by nature. A whole generation of atrisk children are crying out and asking hard questions. Although we certainly will not have all the answers, a shared experience of the very...

Pathways from discouragement to courage.
September 22, 2004... The authors describe the specific adult attitudes and actions that are essential in redirecting children and youth from destructive to productive life pathways. ********** "... the reports really all say the same thing: 'Kid has...

Levels of involvement: the power of choice in a middle school level system.
September 22, 2004... This article outlines the development of a level system for a self-contained middle school program serving students with emotional and behavioral disorders. This level system is a real alternative to traditional control and coercion models. The...

Building a comprehensive discipline system and strengthening school climate.
September 22, 2004... A wide range of research and best practices inform the development of positive school climates. The author provides a tool for exploring important factors which underlay safe and effective schools. When a child enters a school for the first...

Schools as sanctuaries.(safe schools)
September 22, 2004... The concept of sanctuary developed by psychiatrist Sandra Bloom is applied to building safe school cultures. Clearly, the problem of youth violence reaches beyond the schoolyard and the academic calendar. With diverse causative factors,...

Transitioning from alternative to traditional school settings: a student perspective.(voices of youth)
September 22, 2004... An examination of alternative and traditional school settings through the eyes of secondary students who have been labeled with emotional/behavioral disabilities. Six participants assigned to two focus groups were interviewed regarding their...

Reclaiming the passive-aggressive youth.(life space crisis intervention)
September 22, 2004... Few children can control adult emotions more effectively than passive-aggressive youngsters. Their passive lack of compliance can incite even trained professionals to employ ineffective punitive responses. These responses confirm for the child...

Columbine author speaks at conference.(Brooks Brown, Columbine High School)
September 22, 2004... As a student at the infamous school massacre, Brooks Brown learned he can help. In all of his six years of elementary school, two years of junior high and four years of high school, it was one teacher, in one classroom, on one day in a...

Prominent juvenile judge receives Spirit of Crazy Horse Award.(Ernestine Gray)
September 22, 2004... Judge Ernestine Gray of New Orleans, Louisiana, was named the 2004 recipient of the Spirit of Crazy Horse Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to reclaiming children and youth. Judge Gray has served as president of the National...

Educating Oppositional and Defiant Children.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Educating Oppositional and Defiant Children Philip S. Hall and Nancy D. Hall Students who are identified as "oppositional and defiant" engage in noncompliant, aggressive, and rebellious behaviors and frequently present educators their most...

Bully-Proofing Your School.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Bully-Proofing Your School Carla Garrity, Kathryn Jens, William Porter, Nancy Sager, and Cam Short-Camilli Writers and practitioners have expressed progressively more concern about the victimization of students in our public schools; for...