School Bullying and Violence: Interventions for School Mental Health Specialists

About the Book

About the Book School cyberbullying, bullying and violence have reached epidemic levels. One in five school students report being bullied. Youth violence results in more than 475,000 nonfatal injuries per year and is the 3rd leading cause of death for young people ages 10-to-24. School Bullying and Violence: Interventions for School Mental Health Specialists provides critically important assessment and intervention information and strategies. Such information is essential when responding to bullying and school violence survivors. Equally important, and unique to this book, the authors address assessment and intervention protocols for bullying and violence school perpetrators. Suggested assessments and interventions are both practical and proactive. And, the authors skillfully utilize mini-case vignettes to demonstrate how to address survivor and perpetrator pressing issues, concerns, and needs. The text provides a thorough overview of helpful face-to-face clinical interviews and techniques designed to empower and protect survivors and stop perpetrators' bullying and violent behaviors. Mnemonics such as the 2WHO-SCAN and VIOLENT STUdent Scale augment the school mental health specialist's clinical judgement and promote higher probability toward favorable clinical intervention outcomes. Establishment of a school safety and risk committee is also outlined. Later chapters describe how to utilize Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychological First Aid and Systems of Care to help students and their families address both bullying and violent behaviors. The book serves as a much-needed reference for school mental health specialists who serve both bullying and violence survivors and perpetrators. About the Author Gerald A. Juhnke, Ed.D. is a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor, and is Board Certified in General Counseling, Addictions Counseling, and Supervision. He is an American Counseling Association Fellow, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Clinical Fellow, Professor, and Founding Doctoral Program Director at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He has authored or edited 10 books, published over 65 refereed journal articles, and made more than 180 professional presentations. He is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling and Development, Co-Chair of the ACA's Council of Journal Editors, President of the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors, and President of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. Darcy Haag Granello, Ph.D., is a Professor of Counselor Education and is the Founder and Director of The Ohio State University Suicide Prevention Program, the largest campus suicide prevention program in the U.S. She is an Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She has published over 60 articles, has made over 300 international, national, and state presentations, including keynote presentations on suicide in 12 countries. Dr. Paul F. Granello is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Associate Professor of Counselor Education at The Ohio State University. He has secured over $2.2million in grants to provide suicide prevention programming in Ohio schools and is a founding partner with the Ohio Department of Mental Health in establishing the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation. He has co-authored three books on suicide and is the founding director of the OSU Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Lab. He has authored two books on wellness in counseling and trains counselors to incorporate wellness into their counseling practice.