Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence - Hardcover

Garbarino, James; Etc.; Dubrow, Nancy; Kostelny, Kathleen; Pardo, Carole

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9781555424169: Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555424163 ISBN 13: 9781555424169

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1999

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Examines the threat to childhood development posed by living amid chronic community violence and shows caregiving adults like teachers, social workers and counsellors how they can work together to help children while they are still children - before they become angry, aggressive adults.

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Review:

"Children in Danger is a triumph of compassionate scholarship, a lucid application of state–of–the–art trauma research to the challenges faced by children growing up in our urban battle fields." ––San Francisco Chronicle

"A stunning, must–read book for anyone interested in how community violence affects children′s and teacher′s development. Even better, it′s a road map for school administrators and teachers on what they can do to help these children deal with the chronic violence in their lives." ––Bill Harris, founder, KidsPac, a political action committee for children

"This valuable book offers insight and guidance to the professional who must help children cope with the cruel challenge of violence and death in their daily lives." ––Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

"[Children in Danger] is such a compelling account of the ways in which children are affected by living in communities where danger and violence are a way of life, that one hopes it will be read by policymakers at all levels of government who are concerned about the fate of an ever–growing number of children in our society." ––Contemporary Psychology

About the Author:

JAMES GARBARINO is co–director of the Family Life Development Center and professor of human development at Cornell University. Author of fifteen other books, he formerly served as president of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development. NANCY DUBROW is director of the International Child Welfare Group of the Taylor Institute in Chicago. She is also a consultant to international organizations, including UNICEF and the World Health Organization. KATHLEEN KOSTELNY is director of the Project on Children and Violence and senior research associate at the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development. For more than a decade, she has been conducting research on the impact of violence on children. CAROLE PARDO is a child development specialist with a concentration in the area of "children at risk for developmental harm." From 1990 to 1995, she worked as a program associate on the Children in Danger project at the Erikson Institute.

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