What Will We Do?: Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crisis » (2ND)

Stevenson, Robert G.

he second edition of What Will We Do? Preparing A School Community to Cope With Crises is a guidebook for educators and parents who wish to understand the importance of both pre- and post-intervention programs in our schools to assist all parties in coping with crises that arise. The book examines the scope and effects (including the potential benefits and possible risks) of programs that target such issues as loss, illness, death, grief, war, and violence. It presents specific steps that can be taken to help prepare a school community to cope with possible future crises. Today's news has shown us with dramatic effect that a crisis can occur at any time, often without warning. Educators and parents must work together if they wish to help young people, and each other, when such a crisis occurs. What Will We Do? is a major step in that direction.

The first edition of this book has been used as a college text for future educators and counselors and in workshops for teachers, parents and community leaders. It has been adopted by educators in the United States and abroad to create crisis response programs that meet the unique needs of their own schools and cultures. What Will We Do? is being used in Australia, Greece, Britain, Japan, South Africa, and Canada to cite a few examples. In each case, communities have developed programs for their schools using the information in this work as a starting point. Perhaps prevention is an idea whose time has finally come.

Intended Audience: Elementary and secondary teachers; counselors and administrators; college teachers and counselor preparation programs (undergraduate and graduate); the parents of the young people who attend schools.

Biography

Stevenson, Robert G.

Introduction to the Second Edition, Robert G. Stevenson

Chapter 1 Schools and Crises, Robert G. Stevenson

Chapter 2 Preparing Schools for Crisis Management, Margaret Metzgar

Chapter 3 School Based Grief Crisis Management Programs, David K.
Meagher

Chapter 4 The School Nurses' Office: Creating a "Safe Room" in Your
School, Eileen P. Stevenson

Chapter 5 Religious Education as an Aid in Crisis Intervention, Rabbi
Daniel A. Roberts

Chapter 6 The Crisis of Youth Suicide, Diane Ryerson and John Kalafat

Chapter 7 AIDS and HIV Infection: A Continuing Crisis for Schools,
Patricia Zalaznik

Chapter 8 Preparing the School Community to Cope with Violence,
WIlliam Lee, Jr.

Chapter 9 School and Military Crises, Linda Reed Maxwell

Chapter 10 Support Groups in the Community, Sandra Elder

Chapter 11 Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Teams and Schools, Rick
Ritter

Chapter 12 Helping Peers to Support Themselves: The Role of Peer
Support in Times of Crisis, Robert G. Stevenson

Chapter 13 Questions and Answers

Chapter 14 Crisis Section: Guidelines for Dealing with Crisis

Contributors

Index