Acting Out: Understanding and Reducing Aggressive Behaviour in Children and Youth. David Wolfe, Editor, $16.95

Aggression among young people is an important social issue. Fortunately, early intervention and treatment can significantly reduce the risk of harmful outcomes. Acting Out describes the causes of aggressive behaviour in young people, and discusses approaches to handling it. This book:

• explains various types of aggressive behaviour exhibited by young people
• identifies factors related to aggressive behaviour
• distinguishes between normal aggression and aggression that is of greater concern
• gives practical advice on how to address aggression in children and youth
• highlights proven prevention and intervention strategies and indicates strategies to avoid
• discusses the assessment and diagnosis of more serious aggressive behaviour in young people

Acting Out is a valuable tool for anyone who works with young people, including teachers and school administrators, day-care and recreation centre workers, youth shelter workers, social service workers, sports coaches, youth leaders, camp counselors and directors.

Adolescent Volcanoes: Helping Adolescents and their Parents to Deal with Anger. Warwick Pudney & Éliane Whitehouse, $34.95

Some adolescents seem to act as if they have a volcano inside — always on the verge of erupting into anger. They often generate discord and have combative relationships with parents, care givers and other adults who work with them.

ADOLESCENT VOLCANOES is a practical resource for adults working with adolescents and their parents to help them understand, express, and manage their anger. Featuring interactive worksheets and handouts throughout, it explores the causes of anger, focusing not only on the adolescent, but also on styles of parenting and situations at home that can exacerbate these feelings, and suggests ways to tone down confrontations and improve relationships. It describes models that explain the dynamics of arguments, such as 'power analysis' and 'positive intentions'. It also explains anger management tools such as 'escalators', 'time out', 'emotional awareness', 'triggers' and the 'four-part phrase'. By improving emotional management and communication, this resource will help adolescents to understand how to reduce attacking behaviour and turn their anger into something positive.

ADOLESCENT VOLCANOES can be used as the basis of counselling sessions and incident management. It will be invaluable for counsellors, teachers, youth workers and social workers who work with adolescents.

Anger Control and Conflict Management for Kids: a Learning Guide for the Elementary Grades. Terri Akin & Susanna Palomares, $30.95

Ready-to-use lessons and dozens of reproducible student worksheets designed to help K-6 students learn skills for anger management and successful conflict resolution.

Anger and conflict are natural. We all get angry and we all get involved in conflicts. But, learning how to manage these issues and developing positive responses can be hard work. This book provides guidance, sound ideas, and engaging activities to help teachers and counselors give their children lifelong techniques for working with and working through anger and conflict. Get students to take responsibility for settling their own disputes!

Anger Management Games for Children. Deborah Plummer, $29.95

This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children's anger. Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, it is designed to foster successful anger management strategies for children aged 5-12. The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. The games address issues that might arise in age-specific situations such as sharing a toy or facing peer pressure. They also encourage children to approach their emotions as a way to facilitate personal growth and healthy relationships.

Anger Management: a Practical Guide, 2nd Edition. Adrian Faupel, Elizabeth Herrick & Peter Charp, $47.50

Do you work with angry children? Are you wondering why young people don’t listen when they are angry? Are you exhausted from trying to understand angry behaviour? Anger Management is a practical guide that will help you to stay calm in the face of angry outbursts from children and young people. Written by chartered psychologists with extensive experience in the field, this helpful book will:

• Increase your understanding of anger
• Offer you a range of practical management interventions
• Help you to manage your own behaviours to build more effective relationships
• Reduce the stress experienced by staff and parents who lack confidence in the face of aggressive behaviour.

This 2nd edition of Anger Management reflects the significant developments in the field of neuro-psychology and our understanding of the physiology of emotions. Containing information, explanations and practical advice that will enable you to cope with angry behaviour in the best way possible, as well as a range of helpful photocopiable resources, this book will prove invaluable to teachers as well as parents, carers, psychologists, social workers and health care workers.

Chill Skills In a Jar®: Anger Management Tips for Teens. Free Spirit Publishing, $13.50 (ages 12 & up)

Learn healthy ways to cage your rage. Deal positively with your anger and maintain respectful relationships. Use CHILL SKILLS IN A JAR to promote group discussions about healthy ways to deal with anger. Individuals can also use cards to learn calming strategies for tense or difficult situations.

COLUMBINE. Dave Cullen, $17.50

On April 20, 1999, two boys went to their high school with bombs and guns. Their goal was to leave “a lasting impression on the world.” The horror they inflicted left an indelible stamp on the American psyche.

Now in this definitive account, Dave Cullen presents a compelling and utterly human profile of the teenage killers. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boys’ tapes and diaries. This close-up portrait of violence, a community rendered helpless, and police blunders and cover-ups is an unforgettable cautionary tale for our time.

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress. Nancy Willard, $44.95

This valuable resource provides school counselors, administrators, and teachers with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It addresses real-life situations that often occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies. The book provides detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal digital devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible forms for assessment, planning, and intervention, as well as detailed student and parent guides.

Cyber.Rules: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet. Joanie Farley Gillispie & Jayne Gackenbach, $30.00

This guide for clinicians, educators and parents leads the reader through the tricky and fast-changing terrain of the Internet, offering practical and valuable advice for working with a complex issue.

Defying the Defiance: 151 Insights, Strategies, Lessons and Activities for Helping Students with ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder), Grades K-12. Tip Frank, Mike Paget & Jerry Wilde, $32.95

Equipping Young People to Choose Non-Violence: a Violence Reduction Programme to Understand Violence, Its Effects, Where It Comes From and How to Prevent It. Gerry Heery, $34.95

EQUIPPING YOUNG PEOPLE TO CHOOSE NON-VIOLENCE is a 12-session programme for those working with young people aged 10+.

Designed to be used individually, the programme is grounded in restorative justice principles and encourages the young person to take responsibility for their behaviour. It also supports them in recognizing the effects of their actions and in identifying ways to repair the harm caused, and teaches them new skills in dealing with conflict and avoiding future violence. Each session is clearly laid out with identified objectives, how to begin and end the session, and photocopiable handouts are included.

This will be of great use to all those working with young people involved in violent behaviour, including youth offending teams, social workers, youth workers and school counsellors.

How NOT to Be a Bully Target: a Program for Victims of Childhood Bullying. Terry Centrone, $31.50 (Grades 3-6)

This program helps targets of bullying behavior to appreciate and tap into their own inner-strengths. The self-confidence building techniques in How NOT to Be a Bully Target help young children to realize that they deserve to be treated with dignity. They learn how to avoid being the target of bullies. The activities in the book enable students to withstand bully attacks and encourage kindness, empathy, and acceptance. Students discover that positive self-regard is a quality that they can and must nurture. It is the key to not becoming a bully target.

Little Volcanoes: Helping Young Children and Their Parents to Deal with Anger. Warwick Pudney & Éliane Whitehouse, $30.95

Young children can erupt like little volcanoes when they are feeling angry. It can be overwhelming and difficult to deal with, and can produce angry feelings in the parent or caregiver too.

This book is packed with advice and strategies for those working with children under five on how to understand and manage anger in children, and how to help their parents or caregivers to deal with anger. The authors outline the different reasons children may feel angry so that their emotions can be fully understood, and offer strategies to combat negative feelings and minimize outbursts. These include putting in place behavioural boundaries and helping a child to feel secure. Simple activities and exercises are also given to help children and adults to express their anger positively. In addition, a selection of poems and stories will help adults to pass on the lessons of the book to children.

Mean Girls: Creative Strategies and Activities for Working with Relational Aggression. Kaye Randall & Allyson Bowen, $48.95 (grades 3 to 12)

This book provides professionals with resources, insights, strategies and reproducible worksheets for working with girls who are Relationally Aggressive (RA) and the young people who have been victimized by this type of bullying. The strategies in this book are designed to increase awareness of Relational Aggression, encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self-control and coping skills. It explores the underlying causes of RA, particularly in girls. Other forms of RA are explored including cyber-bullying and other types of electronic bullying. Included are reproducible lessons and activities for individuals, small groups, classrooms, and entire schools.

Mode Deactivation Therapy for Aggression and Oppositional Behavior in Adolescents: an Integrative Methodology Using ACT, DBT, and CBT. Jack Apsche & Lucia DiMeo, $68.95

Clinicians know that mental health disorders in adolescents may manifest externally as aggressiveness, opposition, or isolation from others. What's less clear is just how to move beyond these conduct and defiance issues to help teenage clients cooperate with treatment so they can build healthy social skills and values.

This text combines the most effective aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) to meet the specific challenges of therapists working with angry, distrustful, or hostile adolescents. This evidence-based treatment program is effective with the most difficult-to-treat adolescents, especially those who struggle with anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. Complete with assessments and client worksheets, this approach encourages young clients to see alternatives to their antisocial core beliefs and equips them with skills for gaining control of their emotions and oppositional behavior. The skills these clients learn will be useful long after adolescence, and can redirect their lives dramatically.

Owning Up Curriculum: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice. Rosalind Wiseman, $79.95 (Grades 6-12)

The Owning Up Curriculum presents a unique and comprehensive approach to preventing youth violence by providing a structured program for teaching students to own up and take responsibility — as perpetrators, bystanders, and targets — for unethical behavior. Students learn to recognize that they have a responsibility to treat themselves and others with dignity and to speak out against injustice.

By targeting the root causes of bullying and other forms of social cruelty, Wiseman exposes the cultural expectations that teach young people to humiliate and dehumanize others as the way to achieve power and respect, then challenges them to transform this dynamic. The program also addresses the nuanced ways in which racism, classism, and homophobia are expressed in our culture and affect social cruelty and violence.

A CD-ROM of reproducible program forms and student handouts is included with the curriculum.

Playing with Fire: Training for Those Working with Young People in Conflict, 2nd edition. Fiona MacBeth & Nic Fine, $52.95

PLAYING WITH FIRE is a structured manual and training programme to help youth counsellors work with young people caught up in conflict and violence. All aspects of conflict are covered, from the initial igniting spark to the roaring blaze.

The manual includes ideas and session plans that can be adapted to the needs of a particular group. Sessions include exercises and activities that explore situations of conflict, develop skills to deal with them, and rehearse techniques for future use. The training section outlines how to deliver the programme, including how to use role-play and work constructively with conflict in the training room.

This second edition includes new sessions on working with issues of identity and prejudice and working with wider community issues, as well as new exercises and activities. Appendices include alternative session plans and ideas on games and group work exercises. This is a valuable guide for youth practitioners and all those working with young people who face conflict or violence.

Positive Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion for Aggressive Kids. Kathleen McConnell & Katherine Synatschk, $74.00

With aggressive students, effective, research-based interventions by school personnel are critical for the safety of students and adults. POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES TO RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION FOR AGGRESSIVE KIDS is a system for referral, assessment, planning, and intervention.

Based on current research, the interventions provided are practical, positive approaches for use by teachers, counselors, behavior specialists, psychologists, social workers, and administrators. The Student Intervention Plan included is a perfect supplement to a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) in a student’s IEP, or a pre-referral and RTI team plan. A CD-ROM with documentation and planning forms is included.

PRESSURE: True Stories by Teens about Stress. Edited by Al Desetta, $14.50

Stress hits these teens from all angles: pressure at school, at home, and in their relationships. The writers in this book on teens and stress describe their stress-relief techniques, including exercise, music, writing, and more, and offer inspiring examples of perseverance. Their stories of teens and stress captivate and inspire.

RAGE: True Stories by Teens about Anger. Edited by Laura Longhine, $13.50

These teens have plenty of reasons to be angry: parental abuse, street violence, peer pressure, powerlessness, and more. The writers talk honestly about anger management for teens as they struggle to gain control of their emotions and stop hurting others and themselves.

Relational Aggression in Girls: a Prevention and Intervention Curriculum with Activities & Lessons for Small Groups and Classrooms. Jamie Kupkovits, $33.95

A ten-session curriculum for addressing girl bullying issues in the school setting.

Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying, Second Edition. Stan Davis & Julia Davis, $43.95 (for all grade levels)

This new edition is packed with practical guidelines and proven strategies for implementing a "whole school" approach for reducing bullying … Interventions to help aggressive youth internalize rules and develop conscience are paired with methods for helping targets of bullying. The book provides interventions for empowering bystanders and includes guidelines for working with parents.

Seeing Red: an Anger Management and Peacemaking Curriculum for Kids (Ages 6-12). Jennifer Simmonds, $16.95.

From New Society Press, a curriculum for learning the key skill of anger management: Twelve sessions for small groups…with reproducible worksheets.

SmartHelp for Good 'n' Angry Kids: Teaching Children to Manage Anger. Frank Jacobelli, Lynn Ann Watson, $35.95

SmartHelp for Good ‘n’ Angry Kids provides an innovative tool for determining a child’s individual learning strengths, and for pairing this information with specific, carefully crafted activities that teach the child about anger and its appropriate expression. A vital supplement to standard psychotherapeutic approaches such as play therapy, cognitive behavioural, family therapy and traditional anger management techniques.

Starving the Anger Gremlin: a Cognitive Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People. Kate Collins-Donnelly, $22.95 (ages 10+)

Meet the anger gremlin: a troublesome pest whose favourite meal is your anger, and the more he eats the angrier you get! There's only one way to stop him: starve him of angry feelings and behaviours, and make him disappear.

This imaginative workbook shows young people how to starve their anger gremlin and control their anger effectively. Made up of engaging and fun activities, it helps them to understand why they get angry and how their anger affects themselves and others, and teaches them how to manage angry thoughts and behaviours. The tried-and-tested programme, based on effective cognitive behavioural therapy principles, can be worked through by a young person on their own or with a practitioner or parent, and is suitable for children and young people aged 10+.

STARVING THE ANGER GREMLIN is easy to read and fun to complete, and is an ideal anger management resource for those working with young people including counsellors, therapists, social workers and school counsellors, as well as parents.

Starving the Anger Gremlin for Children Aged 5-9: a Cognitive Therapy Workbook on Anger Management. Kate Collins-Donnelly, $22.95

Help children to understand and manage their anger with this fun and imaginative workbook.

The Anger Gremlin is a naughty creature and his favourite food is your anger! The more anger you feed him, the bigger and bigger he gets and the angrier and angrier you feel! How can you stop this? Starve the Anger Gremlin of angry thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and watch him disappear!

Based on cognitive behavioural principles, this workbook uses fun and engaging activities to teach children how to manage their anger by changing how they think and act — getting rid of their Anger Gremlins for good! Packed full of stories, puzzles, quizzes, and colouring, drawing and writing games, this is an excellent resource for parents or practitioners to use with children aged 5 to 9 years.

Staying Cool When You’re Steaming Mad: a Step-by-Step Guide for Teaching Adolescents How to Effectively Work through Anger. Raychelle Cassandra Lohmann, $32.50 (grades 7-12)

As teen anger simmers and erupts with increasing frequency in middle and high schools, counselors’ ability to help teens cope with and appropriately channel anger is more important than ever. STAYING COOL WHEN YOU’RE STEAMING MAD is an anger-management curriculum designed for use with individuals, groups, or in classroom settings. The program’s 10 sessions guide you from group formation through an easy-to-follow, session-by-session exploration of anger topics to group closure.

Taking Restorative Justice to Schools: a Doorway to Discipline. J. Holtham, $26.25

The global restorative justice movement is here to stay. Around the world, even the most dangerous, high-risk schools are reducing discipline problems by up to sixty percent. Complementing your current school discipline practices with this simple, step-by-step restorative justice model will help you reach youth on a core level at a critical time in their young lives, when it's still possible to stop and reverse negative or destructive behavior.

Transforming Anger to Personal Power: An Anger Management Curriculum for Grades 6-12. Susan Gingras Fitzell, $26.95

Transforming Anger to Personal Power is not about adults trying to fix youth, telling them how to live, or showing them that adults know better. The goal of this program is to help students realize that they have the power to take control of their lives and emotions and choose healthy responses to anger. The program draws from several bodies of knowledge including cognitive intervention techniques, Eastern philosophy, brain research theories, and educational psychology.

Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems: a Focus on Relationships. Debra Peplar & Bruce Ferguson, Editors, $38.99

UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING GIRLS’ AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS aims 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. 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.

VICIOUS: True Stories by Teens about Bullying. Edited by Hope Vanderberg, $13.50

The essays on teenage bullying in VICIOUS address every form of bullying: physical, verbal, relational, and cyber. These stories will appeal to readers because the writers’ cruelty and hurt are unmistakably real—and the writers’ stories are at times painful, often admirable, and always compelling for the resilience they reveal.

Violence Prevention for Adolescents: a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate (Leader's Manual). Diane de Anda, $23.95 (Grades 6-12)

This comprehensive, evidence-based program is designed for use in classrooms or small groups in schools and other settings. Lively sessions help students learn coping strategies, cognitive restructuring techniques, and stress and anger management skills through discussion, demonstrations, group and individual activities, and relaxation procedures. The Leader’s Manual contains step-by-step lesson plans and is accompanied by a free copy of a 13-minute Scanning Relaxation Audio CD. The appendix includes an 8-page reproducible pre/posttest. The Student Workbook is necessary for each participant and is sold in packets of 10.

Violence Prevention for Adolescents: a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate (Student Workbook). Diane de Anda, package of 10, $23.95

The Student Workbook is an integral part of the program and is required for each student. The workbook contains fill-in-the-blank worksheets, illustrations, motivational activities, and homework assignments.

Working with Aggressive Youth: Positive Strategies to Teach Self-Control and Prevent Violence. Daniel Daly, $22.95

How to help angry, aggressive, or violent youth calm down, use self-control strategies, solve problems in positive ways, and control negative thoughts and emotions. Includes sample treatment plans.

From attachment anxieties and feelings of powerlessness, to frustration at difficult family relations, Nick Luxmoore considers the common reasons for young people’s anger during this difficult stage of their development. Through accounts of his work with a range of young people, he offers tried-and-tested exercises and talking points to help work through common counterproductive responses to anger such as antisocial behaviour and physical or verbal violence. Crucially, he also recognizes the needs of those working with these young people with anger problems and provides advice on working safely, maintaining control and achieving job satisfaction.

The ZONES of Regulation®: a Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control. Leah Kuypers, $62.95 (preschool through high school)

THE ZONES OF REGULATION is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum's learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called "zones," with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones. To deepen students' understanding of how to self-regulate, the lessons set out to teach students these skills: how to read others' facial expressions and recognize a broader range of emotions, perspective about how others see and react to their behavior, insight into events that trigger their less regulated states, and when and how to use tools and problem solving skills.