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
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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.
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