Identifies specific behavioral characteristics of both aggressive and passive-aggressive students, delineates a four-step process that most aggressive students go through as they lose control of their emotions, and describes intervention strategies that teachers can use to deal with each step of the breakdown of control. (FL)

Discusses some of the ways students' behavior problems may be related to their peer group, home life, or physical problems, and offers guidelines for school administrators to follow in dealing with chronic disciplinary problem pupils. (JG)

Parents and teachers must allow children to feel all their feelings, including anger. Children can be helped to accept their feelings and to channel and direct them to constructive ends. Discipline should be motivated by the need to protect and teach, not a desire to punish. (JAC)