NCJ Number
162581
Journal
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1996) Pages: 56-60
Date Published
1996
Length
5 pages
Annotation
A double struggle crisis (DSC) refers to a situation in which school staff do not know how to help students during conflict or when school staff intellectually know how to help but are not able to draw on their professional skills during a crisis.
Abstract
School staff may have good intentions but they often lack the knowledge and skills needed to manage a crisis. The two most common school staff reactions when a student-staff conflict escalates into a schoolwide crisis are to blame the young person or to blame the adult. As an alternative to blaming either the young person or the adult, a DSC intervention is intended to explore ineffective behaviors and to confront individuals involved in student-staff conflict. One DSC intervention developed in response to a school racial incident allowed both students and school staff to air their feelings, encouraged individuals to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the crisis, and identified inappropriate behaviors. The result was an intervention that diffused problems. 1 reference and 1 illustration