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This guide will provide you with information about aggression and its development during childhood and adolescence. It introduces bullying as a subset of aggressive behavior, highlights research on the nature and extent of bullying in schools and outlines some of the characteristics of children involved in bullying. It has many helpfully suggestions to recognize common signs of bullying that parents and practitioners need to be aware of and offers interventions and resources for those dealing with this behavior.

Stop getting mad... and start saving your life! Anger is more than just a negative emotion. It can also lead to heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses, according to the latest medical research. Anger Kills will help you assess just how much hostility, cynicism, and aggression rule your life. Incorporating recent scientific data and the methods developed in the authors' anger-reduction workshops, this useful guide explains how to recognize anger points and how to control them using seventeen proven, successful strategies, from deflecting anger to improving relationships to adopting a more positive attitude. The authors also provide practical solutions for effectively dealing with hostile people to help you improve and diminish painful encounters and enjoy a happier, more peaceful life.

Bobby Kent was a steroid-pumped, 20-year-old bully who liked to dominate his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. One summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs, but was never seen alive again.  The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with ruthless, cold-blooded efficiency by seven of his high school acquaintances, including his lifelong best friend, and instigated by one overweight, under-loved teenager who believed her life would be perfect if Bobby Kent was dead.  This book is a riveting story of adolescent rage and bloody revenge, and all the more harrowing and horrific because it's true.

Between 20 and 55 students have died each year since 1992 as a result of school shootings.  What causes students to commit these acts of violence, and how can they be prevented?  In this video, students will learn how to make a difference before a tragedy occurs at their school.

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This book provides 101 1/2 resources, strategies, insights, and reproducible worksheets for professionals who work with girls that are Relationally Aggressive (RA), and the young people who have been victimized by this type of bullying.  The strategies in this book were created to increase awareness of Relational Aggression (RA), encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self-control and coping skills.  The underlying causes of RA are explored, particularly in girls.  Other forms of RA are explored including cyber-bullying and other types of electronic bullying. Included are reproducible lessons and activities for individuals, small groups, classrooms, and entire schools

This booklet provides information on one of the most common and underrated problems of childhood--bullying.  A study has shown that 15 to 20% of children are involved in bullying once or twice during a school year either as the bullying person or as the victim.  The booklet reviews recent research on bullying, discussing who bullies and why, whom they target and why, and outlines the immediate and long-term effects of bullying on perpetrators, victims, the audience, and society.  Some low-cost and no-cost action steps are suggested to help caring communities, schools, parents, and even other students or siblings reduce bullying behaviors and build a caring culture.  Examples of programs successful in other countries are provide.   Age appropriate reproducible information and action steps are included for distribution to youth and concerned adults.

That's Enough is a fictional drama about the relationship between youth bullying and school shootings. It examines what can happen when a high school student is mercilessly teased, socially excluded, and physically wounded. It challenges middle and high school students to explore bullying at their schools and the cliques, struggles, and ostracizing that may result, and in some cases, has resulted shootings and youth suicides. This video is directed by Jack Revheim, a seventeen-year old Central High School (St. Paul, MN) exchange student from Norway. The screenplay is co-authored by Jack Revheim and Dr. Michael Obsatz, Associate Professor of Sociology, Macalester College, (St. Paul, MN), author of the award-winning book, Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World, and violence prevention educator. Dr. Obsatz is also the executive producer. The cast includes middle school students, high school and college students, as well as adults. The video also includes a seven-minute interview with Dr. Obsatz about bullying issues and questions teachers can use for discussion.