Preparing for Crises in the Schools: A Manual for Building School Crisis Response Teams - Hardcover

Brock, Stephen E.; Sandoval, Jonathan; Lewis, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471384232 ISBN 13: 9780471384236

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

A step-by-step guidebook for advance preparation and early responseto school crises

This Second Edition of Preparing for Crises in the Schools arrivesat a critical moment. With several recent dramatic examples ofschool violence and other tragedies afflicting communitiesnationwide, the need for school districts to take proactivemeasures-rather than merely react to a crisis-is critical.

This completely updated edition offers practical plans for layingthe important groundwork to ensure that crisis response will beboth immediate and thorough in the wake of tragedy. Authored bythree school crisis response planning experts, it offers advice onearly detection of trouble, developing plans and procedures tointervene with youths quickly and successfully, and conducting aschool in-service workshop on crisis response planning andintervention.

Essential for counselors, school psychologists, teachers, andadministrators alike, this book helps ensure that schools are notcaught by surprise when a crisis occurs.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"As the former Chairman of the National Emergency Assistance Team for NASP, I believe that Preparing for Crises in the Schools should be required reading for anyone working in our public or private schools. Crisis prevention and intervention is not a peripheral issue to be squeezed into the school curriculum if time allows. It is a core educational and social-learning topic that must be given equal importance to the basic academic areas if we are to impart to our children the knowledge and skills needed to navigate safely and effectively through life. Brock,Sandoval and Lewis have succeeded in assembling a text that is theoretically grounded and pragmatically useful. It takes the reader through many of the critical steps needed to understand, develop and implement a solid school crisis response plan. Since assigning the first edition of the text as required reading for my graduate course in crisis planning in the schools, the feedback from my students has been overwhelmingly positive. I am quite confident that the second edition will make it even easier for schools to grasp the essential elements of crisis preparedness and intervention." --Dr. Ted Feinberg, Assistant Executive Director - National Association of School Psychologists

About the Author:

STEPHEN E. BROCK, PhD, and SHARON LEWIS, MA, school psychologistswith the Lodi Unified School District in Lodi, California,spearheaded the development of Lodi's crisis response team. Dr.Brock is also the author or editor of numerous publications on thistopic, including Best Practices in School Crisis Prevention andIntervention.
JONATHAN SANDOVAL, PhD, University of California, Davis, is theauthor or editor of several other books on this subject, includingCrisis Counseling, Intervention, and Prevention in the Schools. Heis also a past president of the American PsychologicalAssociation's Division 16 (School Psychology).
All three authors have vast experience implementing crisis responseplans and working with school administrators to evaluate theireffectiveness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471384232
• ISBN 13: 9780471384236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432