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In sharing ten bullying prevention strategies for school-age programs in School-Age NOTES (January 2008; www.SchoolAgeNotes.com), Nancy Mullin proposed providing activities that promote self-confidence, build self-control and resilience, and foster community connections among children...

"Bullied children benefit from participating in a wide range of activities that help them develop common interests with peers, hone friendship-making skills, and build relationships. Children who tend to be easily left out because they lack social graces or have difficulty reading social signals need guidance to practice pleasant ways of entering play, making conversation, and [understanding] the nuances of give-and-take relationships. Form friendship circles to provide isolated youth with social supports. Children who tend to bully others benefit from opportunities to practice self-control, perspective taking, prosocial behavior, and positive ways to engage their peers. Offering cooperative alternatives to competitive games can also help reduce aggression."

Exchange is proud to offer a new video product, Facing the Challenge, that provides insights from experts in the field on why children engage in challenging behaviors and what teachers can do when such behaviors occur in their classrooms. Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD designed to help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviors and develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviors to meet their needs. The product has two DVDs with the following content:

Disc 1:

• What is challenging behavior?
• Developmentally appropriate behavior
• Why do kids misbehave?
• Parents as partners
• Skill Development Study #1

• Prevention strategies
• Behavioral Planning I
• Behavioral Planning II
• Intervention strategies
• Skill Development Study #2

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