Understanding and Addressing Girls' Aggressive Behaviour Problems: A Focus on Relationships (SickKids Community and Mental Health) - Softcover

Debra Pepler (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554588383 ISBN 13: 9781554588381

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Understanding and Addressing Girls' Aggressive Behaviour Problems reflects a major shift in understanding aggressive behaviour problems among children. Researchers used to study what went wrong with a troubled child and needed to be fixed; we now aim to understand what is going wrong in children's relationships that might create, exacerbate, and maintain aggressive behaviour problems in childhood and adolescence. In this volume, leading researchers in the aggression field examine, with a particular focus on girls, how problems develop for children in relationships and how we can help them develop healthy relationships. Individual chapters explore biological and social contexts, including physical health and relationship problems that might underlie the development of aggressive behaviour problems. The impact of relationships on girls' development is shown to be particularly important for Aboriginal girls. Contributors discuss prevention and intervention strategies that help aggressive children build the requisite skills and relationship capacities and also shift dynamics within critical social contexts, such as the family, peer group, classroom, and school. The support of healthy development not only of children but of their parents and other important adults in their lives, including teachers, has been shown to be effective in reducing the burden of suffering associated with aggression among children and adolescents-for youth themselves as well as their families, peers, schools, communities, and society.

About this title

About the Author

Debra J. Pepler is a distinguished research professor of psychology at York University and a senior adjunct scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children. Her research is on aggression and victimization among children and adolescents. With Wendy Craig, she leads a national network, PREVNet (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network), to promote safe and healthy relationships for all Canadian children and youth (www.prevnet.ca).

H. Bruce Ferguson was the founding director of the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children and is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1554588383
• ISBN 13: 9781554588381
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 230