School Safety WebQuest
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Counselors & Health Professionals
How would Counselors & Health Professionals feel about violence at schools? Your job is to understand this perspective, to become an expert, knowing the concerns of people who try to understand and help children deal with difficult situations.
You may choose to make up your own questions or use those provided.
- How are teenagers' brains and development unique? Do experts agree on this or is there a great difference of opinions? What do you believe are main ways that a teenager's brain and social development might be different from adults or younger children?
- When working with children and adolescents who have experience shock or trauma, what are the main things a counselor or health care professional should do? Be as specific and detailed as possible.
- What are common ways that the mental and / or social development of children and adolescents can become abnormal?
- Who bears responsibility for the social and mental well-being of children? Parents? Schools? Society? Health care professionals? The children themselves? If you believe all these people/groups do, then rate them in order of responsibility from most responsible to least.
Your answers to these questions should help you take a position on the main question(s) listed below. Remember, your answers should reflect what Counselors & Health Professionals would think and feel:
Why all this violence in schools?!!
In other words...
- Why does it happen?
- Who is responsible?
- How can we stop it?
- How does all this relate to the world outside the school gates?
Use the links below to find answers. If you think you need more site to review, use the extensive Topic Hotlist and broaden your search.
- Teen Brain Development
- links to online articles
- Key Brain Growth Goes on Into Teens
- by Curt Suplee, Washington Post
- Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents
- by Anne Brown, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- Behavioral Disorders: Focus on Change
- from KidSource OnLine
- Grief and Coping - from Common Sense about Kids and Guns
- links to online news articles
- 'Mental breakdown' defense hinted in Georgia school shooting
- from CNN
- Four Tasks of Mourning
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Learning to Manage the Loss
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Feelings/Experiences Which Commonly Accompany Loss
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Helping Children Handle Disaster-Related Anxiety
- from the National Mental Health Association
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- from the National Mental Health Association
- Helping Children After a Disaster
- from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Helping Children Cope With Loss
- from the National Mental Health Association
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