Chapter 13 - Crises in School Flashcards
True or False: Increasing multiculturalism in historically White rural areas raises the likelihood of gang formation.
True
Who do gang leaders target and what makes them effective?
Gang leaders target parentless, neglected kids in suburban and rural areas, offering a surrogate family through gangs.
What are the gang prevention/intervention programs?
Counseling: Reality therapy, focusing on the client’s wants, needs, and choices, proves effective in counseling gang members. Counselors challenge gang members to consider the consequences of their actions, fostering rapport and trust.
Guidance Programs: Programs involving student participation in anger management, bullying, and conflict resolution are more effective against gang activities.
Peer Counseling/Peer Mediation: Peer counseling and mediation, engaging a cross-section of students, help gang members develop alternative solutions and behaviors.
Anger Management: Anger management techniques teach adolescents prosocial skills and cognitive strategies to cool aggressive impulses.
After-School and Community Outreach Programs: After-school programs blend recreation with academics and counseling to potentially reduce delinquency and gang activity.
Community: Community teamwork, involving various agencies and organizations, is crucial for combating gangs effectively.
Schools: Schools play a key role in prevention and intervention, promoting inclusiveness, community, and a no-tolerance policy towards violence.
True of False: Bullying is only an issue in the USA.
False. Bullying is a worldwide issue.
What are the types of cyberbullying?
1) Flaming - offensive language, derogatory names
2) Harrassment
3) Denigration - defaming information, damaging reputation
4) Masquerading - using someone else’s identity
5) Social Exclusion - deliberately excluding someone
6) Outing/Trickery - extracting personal information for misuse
7) Catfishing - fake identity
8) Cyberstalking
9) Cyberthreats
Comprehensive cyberbullying intervention includes ___
tracking incidents, assessing student and teacher needs, and setting internet usage guidelines
It is necessary to involve the entire school community, including parents, for a successful anti-bullying initiative.
True.
True or False: Crisis workers rarely face legal and ethical issues when intervening in cyberbullying cases.
False.
Crisis workers often face legal and ethical issues when intervening in cyberbullying cases.
Direct Threat
Direct threats are specific and explicit, identifying a target, time, location, and method, such as threatening to blow up a school bus.
Indirect Threat
Indirect threats are vague and ambiguous, implying potential harm without concrete details or immediate action, like hurting everyone at school.
Veiled Threat
Veiled threats imply violence subtly, targeting a specific group but lacking explicit action, as in threatening cheerleaders indirectly.
Conditional Threat
Conditional threats link violence to specific demands, like threatening serious harm if final exams aren’t canceled.
What is leakage?
where students express violent intentions through media like texts and drawings, is a critical indicator of potential violence
Estranged violent juvenile offenders
They are isolated from peers and harbor enmity towards peers or the school system.
EVJOs exhibit specific traits and behaviors, including estrangement, hostility, and potential for violence.
They are different from SERIOUS violent juvenile offenders as EVJO’s are less obvious (hence the need to assess behavior)
Risk factors of school/adolescent suicide
1) Common Factors - psychiatric illnesses, adverse childhood experiences, and family or personal conflicts
2) Specific Factors - sexual identity, bullying, substance abuse, and traumatic experiences.
3) Lack of Support - Lack of family or peer support
4) History - A prior suicide attempt is the strongest predictor of future attempts
5) Preadolescent Suicide - preadolescent suicide is significant, with various underlying factors and requires serious attention
