Promoting Nonviolence in Early Adolescence : Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways /

This series of monographs is dedicated to the increasingly vital area of prevention in healthcare. The works are organized into four categories of preventive practice: education, social competency enhancement, natural caregiving, and systems change. Tragedy should not and need not occur before a sch...

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Main Author: Meyer, Aleta Lynn
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Farrell, Albert D., Northup, Wendy Bauers, Kung, Eva M., Plybon, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
Series:Prevention in practice library.
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Summary:This series of monographs is dedicated to the increasingly vital area of prevention in healthcare. The works are organized into four categories of preventive practice: education, social competency enhancement, natural caregiving, and systems change. Tragedy should not and need not occur before a school or community begins making efforts to prevent violence. This volume describes the steps taken by Responding In Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP), a program developed to promote `non-violence' among students in middle schools. RIPP provides young people with new ways to respond to conflict. Using the acronym RAID, the students are taught four types of non-violent options: Resolve, Avoid, Ignore, and Diffuse. By teaching that they have other choices in any conflict, the idea that `fighting' is a necessary response to an insult or a conflict is dispelled. RIPP also teaches the need for everyone to accept differences, to affirm those with whom they come in contact, and not to engage in `put downs' of others. This empirically validated program has been proven to work in a variety of settings and was designed with real-life experiences in mind. It was originally developed and implemented in collaboration with school administrators in both urban and rural settings.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (136 pages)
ISBN:9781461542438 (electronic bk.)
146154243X (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1567-8016