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All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities. In today's society, children are dealing with the threat of violence in their schools and online, food insecurity, environmental risks, terrorism, and many other concerns that make them feel less safe. Our jobs as teachers and parents is to manage that risk by being prepared and protecting our children. In this book, Betsy Gunzelmann discusses the ways we can plan ahead and prepare for these threats in order to help our children feel safer and be able to focus on their school and lives.
Betsy Gunzelmann is Professor of Psychology at Southern New Hampshire University and author of several articles involved with improving our schools. She has worked in the field for over 30 years and is a psychologist, educator, and parent concerned with issues hindering our children's education.
All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities. In today's society, children are dealing with the threat of violence in their schools and online, food insecurity, environmental risks, terrorism, and many other concerns that make them feel less safe. Our jobs as teachers and parents is to manage that risk by being prepared and protecting our children. In this book, Betsy Gunzelmann discusses the ways we can plan ahead and prepare for these threats in order to help our children feel safer and be able to focus on their school and lives.
Betsy Gunzelmann is Professor of Psychology at Southern New Hampshire University and author of several articles involved with improving our schools. She has worked in the field for over 30 years and is a psychologist, educator, and parent concerned with issues hindering our children's education.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why does violence occur? Why do we have these safety
issues?
Part I: The Critical Need for Safer Schools and Communities for Our
Children
Chapter 1: The Critical Need for Safer Climates for our
Children
Chapter 2: The Interdisciplinary Necessity and Obligation
Chapter 3: The Crucial Research
Part II: What are these Safety Concerns?
Chapter 4: The Parent, School, and Agency Perspectives
Chapter 5: Man-Made Potential Disasters
Chapter 6: Natural Disasters
Part III: Understanding the Problems Underneath the Problems
Chapter 7: Sick Society Syndrome: The Psychology of the Darker Side
of Our Ailing Society
Chapter 8: The Fallout in the Community
Chapter 9: The Fallout to the Individuals
Part IV: Working Together: Developing Safer Climates for Our
Children
Chapter 10: So Now What?
References
Betsy Gunzelmann is professor of psychology at Southern New Hampshire University and author of several articles involved with improving our schools. She has worked in the field for over thirty years and is a psychologist, educator, and parent concerned with issues hindering our children’s education.
It's hard not to be affected by this description of how children
are emotionally and physically harmed in the 2lst century. Seeing
and hearing the world through their eyes is made easier--and also
more difficult--as one reads Gunzelmann's account. As she says,
'the fallout has a domino effect' on all of us.
*Deborah Meier, senior scholar and adjunct professor, New York
University's Steinhardt School of Education; board member and
director of New Ventures at Mission Hill; director and advisor to
Forum for Democracy and Education*
Betsy Gunzelmann’s discussion of violence and safety shows
appropriate concern for children’s healthy development. In
response, let’s guide children to use and consume media critically,
responsibly and pro-socially to mitigate cultural violence, violent
media and events, disrespectful and harmful media use.
*Rona Zlokower, MCM, Exec. Dir., Media Power Youth, Manchester NH*
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