William Ketterer is the winner of the APA 2021 Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award. This book provides school teachers, counselors, administrators, therapists, and parents an accessible and evidence-based approach to reduce violence in schools. The work demonstrates how faculty can reduce and prevent violence in their schools by using the student-teacher relationship.
Key Features
- Evidence-based strategies for reducing violence in schools.
- Focus on enhancing children's self-esteem through important relationships with adults.
- Includes theory, case studies, and learning activities for practical application.
- Encourages rethinking relationships with children to foster a supportive environment.
Additional Information
The work outlines how self-esteem controls emotions and helps regulate expression of aggressive and violent feelings and behavior. Anger and violence are reduced through increasing children’s self-esteem, which is developed through important relationships with adults. The book invites teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, and other school administrators to incorporate the relational ingredients needed to increase children’s self-esteem by adopting features of evidence-based psychotherapy.
