NCJ Number
95487
Date Published
1983
Length
100 pages
Annotation
Written for school counselors, this monograph reviews causes of school disturbance; needs of students labeled chronically disruptive; and the counselor's role in relation to classroom teachers, students, and parents.
Abstract
The distinction between chronic disrupters and students with emotional problems is discussed, with attention to disruptive behavior as a symptom of malfunctioning classroom ecology. Related issues of school violence, vandalism, and gang delinquency are excluded in order to concentrate on techniques for identifying and helping the chronically disruptive. Past and current perspectives on school disruption are explored. Techniques for counseling the chronic disrupter are considered in association with curriculum modification, management alternatives, and motivational differences. Strategies for counseling students who are culturally different and for influencing system change are described. Preventive counseling for distressed students and teachers as well as gaps in preservice and inservice counselor training are also discussed. Working with the student, classmates, and classroom teachers from a systems theory of school ecology is emphasized. Chapter bibliographies are supplied. (Resources in Education (ERIC) abstract modified)