You did that on purpose : understanding and changing children's aggression / Cynthia Hudley.

By: Hudley, CynthiaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2008Description: xi, 180 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780300110852 (hbk.)Subject(s): Aggressiveness in childrenDDC classification: 155.4/1247 LOC classification: BF723.A35 | H83 2008
Contents:
1. A look at children's aggression -- 2. Understanding intent : one source of childhood aggression -- 3. The BrainPower Program : a strategy for changing attributions -- 4. Research on the BrainPower Program : how effective is it? -- 5. Looking beyond the individual child : what schools can do -- 6. Childhood aggression in the family and the community -- 7. Public policy for children's well-being.
Summary: Beginning with a reader-friendly review of the literature, Cynthia Hudley underscores the substantial risks of long-term problems for elementary-school-age children who demonstrate aggressive behaviour. Then, drawing on her work as founder of a successful school intervention programme, the BrainPower Program, Hudley describes methods for reducing children's peer-directed aggression. She concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad social contexts in supporting nonaggressive behaviour.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-171) and index.

1. A look at children's aggression -- 2. Understanding intent : one source of childhood aggression -- 3. The BrainPower Program : a strategy for changing attributions -- 4. Research on the BrainPower Program : how effective is it? -- 5. Looking beyond the individual child : what schools can do -- 6. Childhood aggression in the family and the community -- 7. Public policy for children's well-being.

Beginning with a reader-friendly review of the literature, Cynthia Hudley underscores the substantial risks of long-term problems for elementary-school-age children who demonstrate aggressive behaviour. Then, drawing on her work as founder of a successful school intervention programme, the BrainPower Program, Hudley describes methods for reducing children's peer-directed aggression. She concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad social contexts in supporting nonaggressive behaviour.

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