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Assaultive Youth: Responding to Physical Assaultiveness in Residential, Community and Health Care Settings

NCJ Number
114536
Journal
Child and Youth Services Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Dated: (1987) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
J Kupfersmid, R Monkman
Date Published
1987
Length
172 pages
Annotation
These six papers present professionals with practical approaches that may help reduce or control violent behaviors in children and adolescents experiencing severe emotional problems.
Abstract
The emphasis is on reducing potential harm to all parties and on maintaining a working relationship with the aggressive individual. The papers also aim to give practitioners a conceptual understanding of pugnacity. An overview urges a focus on modifying the environments that tend to foster violent behavior while providing the most effective treatment approaches to aid disturbed children and youth. Additional papers explore some of the motivational aspects of physical violence, present procedures that may prevent assaults from occurring and that may lower the probability of future assaults, and discuss verbal and nonverbal techniques that may be used to prevent an escalation of negative behaviors. The final two chapters focus on strategies to use if a physical attack is probable or has occurred and examine the conditions under which mechanical restraints appear justified. Drawings, photographs, and chapter references.

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