The book "Anxiety in Schools" provides a detailed overview of various aspects of anxiety in the school context. It addresses the prevalence of anxiety among students, specific anxieties such as test anxiety and school phobia, as well as anxiety disorders like generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. The book also looks at groups with increased vulnerability, such as minorities and neurodivergent individuals. Additional topics include sexual and gender diversity in schools,...

Bullying is a widespread problem in schools. This book provides current explanations for the phenomenon of bullying in schools. It is shown that bullying does not only take place between victims and perpetrators, but that usually all members of a school class can be involved. Accordingly, it is described what consequences bullying can have for all those involved. Secondly, general prevention and intervention approaches are described and eleven anti-bullying programs are presented in detail...

Racism, i.e. discrimination against people on the basis of their supposed ethnic origin, is omnipresent in schools. Apart from students, trainees and teachers, all actors in the school context are affected by this topic.Why is this so? How can racist discrimination be explained? What effects does this behavior have on those affected? And how can schools counteract it? These are all questions that arise and which this book aims to answer with the intention of enabling all those acti...

The book covers how to deal with grief in schools. Grief reactions of children and adolescents are described and reasons for grief are presented: Death due to chronic illness, sudden deaths such as suicide, accident, and severe targeted violence. Appropriate intervention measures are presented. Finally, the limitations of these intervention measures in schools are discussed.This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Trauer an Schulen by Matthias Böhmer a...

Cyberbullying is one of the darker and more troubling aspects to the growing accessibility of new media technologies. Children in developed countries engage with cyberspace at younger and younger ages, and the use of the internet as a means to bully and harass has been greeted with alarm by educationalists, parents, the media, and governments.This important new book is the result of a four-year international collaboration, funded by the EU, to better understand how we can cope and ...