LIFE & LOSS
A Guide to Help Grieving Children
2nd Edition

by Linda Goldman

Copyright © 2000

The second edition of Life and Loss builds upon the classic first edition. The author explains the techniques of grief work, providing useful tools, ideas, and inventories for educators to discover ways for kids to commemorate loss.

 

A vast number of resources have been added and updated, many especially for educators and those who work with children and dying. Also included are helpful lists of Web sites, CD-ROMs, and grief camps. Additional grief resolution techniques have also been added. This user-friendly book is appropriate for educators, clergy, health professionals, and parents alike, and will help readers to

• recognize and understand different types of childhood losses,

• become aware of the myths that hinder the grief process,

• learn the four psychological tasks of grief,

• help a child say goodbye to a dying loved one,

• discover ways for kids to commemorate loss (funerals, memorials, memory books), and

• easily locate other grief books and resources with an extensive annotated bibliography.

154 Pages/Paperback
CATF04	Life & Loss	$24.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

CYBERBULLYING AND CYBERTHREATS
Responding to the Challenge of Online
Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress

by Nancy E. Willard

Copyright © 2007

 

Online communications can be extremely cruel and vicious. They can cause great emotional harm and can take place 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely disseminated and impossible to fully remove. There are increasing reports of youth suicide, violence, and abduction related to cyberbullying and cyberthreats.

 

This essential resource provides school counselors, administrators, and teachers with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It addresses real-life situations that often occur as students embrace the internet and other digital technologies:

• Sending offensive or harassing messages,

• dissing someone or spreading nasty rumors on sites such as MySpace,

• disclosing someone’s intimate personal information,

• breaking into someone’s e-mail account and sending damaging messages under that person’s name,

• excluding someone from an online group, and
  using the internet to intimidate.

The book includes detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the internet and personal digital devices, including cell phones. Extensive reproducible appendices contain forms for assessment, planning, and intervention, as well as a 9-page student guide and 16-page parent guide.

 

311 Pages/Paperback
CARP6525	Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats (includes CD)	$30.00

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO TALKING WITH TEENS
Ready-to-Use Discussions for School and Youth Groups

by Jean Sunde Peterson

Copyright © 2007

All young people need a safe, supportive place to “just talk” with caring peers and an attentive adult. Tested with thousands of teens in many kinds of schools (plus community centers, churches, and workshops), these guided discussions are proven ways to reach out to young people and address their social and emotional needs. Teens gain self-awareness and self-esteem, practice problem-solving and goal-setting, feel more in control of their lives, and learn they have much in common with each other—they are not alone. Each session is self-contained and step-by-step. Many include reproducible handouts. Introductory and background materials help even less-experienced group leaders feel prepared and secure in their role. For advising teachers, counselors, and youth workers in all kinds of school and group settings. The included CD-ROM features all of the reproducible forms from the book.

 

282 Pages/Paperback
CAFS1145	The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens	$31.00

TEEN CYBERBULLYLING INVESTIGATED
Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin?

by Judge Tom Jacobs

Copyright © 2010

The Internet age has led to a different kind of teen bullying: cyberbullying. What is cyberbullying and what can teens do
about it?

In Teen Cyberbullying Investigated, Judge Tom Jacobs presents a powerful collection of landmark court cases involving teens and charges of cyberbullying and cyberharassment. This riveting, informative guide will help young people understand what cyberbullying is and is not, recognize when they may be its victims or perpetrators, and learn tactics for successfully dealing with it.

What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying includes:

• sending harassing or threatening emails, voicemails, texts, or instant messages to someone

• spreading hateful comments about someone through emails, blogs, or chat rooms

• stealing passwords and sending threatening messages using a false identity
  

• building a Web site to target specific people

195 Pages/Paperback
CAFS23395	Teen Cyberbullying Investigated	$12.00

THE KIDS’ GUIDE TO WORKING OUT CONFLICTS
How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe, and Get Along

by Naomi Drew, M.A.

Copyright © 2004

Incorporating the results of a nationwide survey of kids ages 10-15, this book, written by a well-known expert on conflict resolution and peacemaking, offers practical, realistic answers. The author describes common forms of conflict, the reasons behind conflicts, and positive ways to deal with difficult circumstances. Through self-tests and exercises, young people discover whether they are conflict-solvers or conflict-makers. They learn how to stand up for themselves without getting physical, and how to deal with people who don’t want to resolve conflicts in a peaceful way. Includes tips for countering bullying, calming down, lessening stress and tension, letting go of anger and resentment, and eliminating put-downs and other hurtful language.

A Leader’s Guide to The Kids’ Guide to Working out Conflicts contains twenty-five ready-to-use sessions that support and expand the messages of the student book. Students participate in role-playing, conduct interviews, work cooperatively with their peers, and do exercises related to real conflicts in their lives.

 

146 Pages/Paperback
CAFS53	The Kids’ Guide to Working Out Conflicts	$12.00

112 Pages/Paperback
CAFS55	A Leader’s Guide to The Kids’ Guide to Working Out Conflicts	$12.00