mentally ill children

Provides practical guidance for avoiding power struggles with students, discussing the hostility cycle and covering intervention, reframing, and defusing as well as how to deal with the rest of the class.

Discusses fundamental principles and goals pertaining to discipline strategies in school situations, focusing on topics such as teachers' responsibility to students; the use of motivation instead of discipline; and ways to use difficult behavior as a chance to provide instruction.

Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

We meet three teenagers suffering from mental health problems, whose progress and confidence are dashed by bureaucratic decisions to transfer them repeatedly among different institutions, the mothers and fathers who are blamed for poor parenting, and the government and welfare agents who must make policy decisions in a situation that so blatantly defies logic.

Bonita desperately wants her family to be normal, despite her younger sister Mary's mental illness, and often finds herself vacillating between loving her sister and hating her.

A teacher of six emotionally troubled kids describes the disasters and growth she faced with each one.

Tells the story of Sheila, a high school student suffering from severe emotional disturbance, and her attempts to cope by venting her rage, cutting herself, and starving herself before getting the help she needs to begin to recover.

Tells the story of Sheila, a high school student suffering from severe emotional disturbance, and her attempts to cope by venting her rage, cutting herself, and starving herself before getting the help she needs to begin to recover.

Offers specific ways to involve students in defining classroom procedures, rules, and consequences based on values or principles compatible with learning; including prevention, action and resolution of conflicts.