Book Reviews
The Anti-bullying Handbook.
Keith Sullivan (2000)
Oxford University
Press.
Recent studies indicate that the problem of bullying in New Zealand schools is significant and increasing. Keith Sullivan has produced an important resource to combat this problem. His book is up-to-date and draws on recent research and practice in the field. He recognises that bullying affects individuals, school classes, families, the school ethos, and the wider community. He urges us all to take responsibility for owning the problem and for viewing bullying in its social context. The book is full of down-to-earth, practical guidance for teachers and other professionals to help them understand the origins of the problem and to help them to create safer classrooms and to mediate in children's disputes. The section on interventions will be of particular interest to all those who are involved in peer support. He has chapters on befriending, counselling and mediation, the No Blame Approach, Circle of Friends, the P.E.A.C.E. Pack, the Pikas method of Shared Concern. A distinctively New Zealand section focuses on Kia Kaha, a method for helping schools to identify and prevent physical and sexual abuse, drug dependency and bullying.
To order copies of this book, write to:
Oxford University Press
PO Box 11-149, Ellerslie,
Auckland 1131
e-mail: cs@oup.com.au
website:www.oup.com.au
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