No matter how well teachers are prepared to teach, no matter what accountability measures are put in place, no matter what governing structures are established for schools, educational progress will be profoundly limited if students are not "motivated and able to learn". Health-related problems play a major role in limiting the motivation and…

The purpose of this study was to examine the etiology and cultural underpinnings of adolescent violence as collective case study analysis of three inter-related groups: psychiatrically hospitalized rural adolescents, their parent/guardian, and various hospital staff. Violence among adolescents is a serious societal issue that has had varying…

There is a large research base indicating numerous gender differences in prevalence rates of psychopathology, the expression of psychopathology, and the etiology of psychopathology across different disorders (Zahn-Waxler, Shirtcliff, & Marceau, 2008). Such documented gender differences in mental health among children and adolescents have…

Researchers in both Japan and in the United States have documented that bullying is a common and potentially damaging form of violence among children. The authors' review highlights distinct cross-cultural patterns of personal, family, peer, and school characteristics that predict gender differences in bullying and victimization. Cross-cultural…

The Commissioner's annual report provides the Governor and Legislature with information reported by school districts concerning incidents of serious student misconduct grouped into the following five major reporting categories: violence; vandalism; harassment, intimidation and bullying (HIB); weapons; and substance abuse. An analysis of trends…

This article focuses on group counseling as a re-education and training effort for people who are abusive and violent. The analysis presented examines the effectiveness of one approach to this problem, in which a group format was adopted, fourteen 8-week group sessions were conducted, and a post-group survey was given to participants to obtain…

This document is one of eight in a series of guides designed to help teach and counsel troubled youth. It presents 20 lessons designed to teach the coping skills necessary to control one's temper. The first lesson teaches students the meaning of aggressive behavior; this lesson and several others throughout the guide focus on helping aggressive…

Psychoanalysis, a favorite method for studying personality and motivation, cannot be used on the dead. Instead, biographical analysis must be employed. This study examines Mark Twain's aggression by analyzing his writings, social behavior, and environmental aspects of his life. In viewing Mark Twain's novels as representing fantasy, 17 categories…

Security personnel can help administrators develop ways to combat the ill effects crime has on education programs. (Author)

Presents a study designed to assess the effects of children's viewing filmed violence and their subsequent readiness to report an argument and fight between two younger children to an authority figure. (ST)

This study systematically explored the interactive effects of verbal and behavioral compliance and noncompliance by comparing the aggressiveness of the instigations of subjects who interacted with various types of partners, defined in terms of verbal compliance or noncompliance crossed by behavioral compliance or noncompliance. (Author/RK)

A total of 40 boys and girls, ages 9-10 years, were asked to respond to aggressive statements attributed to cartoon figures varying in sex. Findings are interpreted as support for a role interpretation of sex differences in expression of aggression. (Author/ED)

Advantages and disadvantages of environment-focused methods (such as operant and parent training techniques) and of person-focused approaches (such as social skills training) with aggressive children are examined. A synthesis of the two approaches is urged. (Author/CL)