Teasing and Harassment: The Frames and Scripts Approach for Teachers and Parents

Teasing and Harassment will help the reader learn how to counter and prevent low-level aggression in school and at home with the frames and scripts approach. This approach is based on social learning theory and provides easy-to-learn language for working with children and youth to unlearn the behavior that leads to teasing and harassment, change internal scripts during a situation that requires problem solving, and learn a positive problem-solving sequence. This resource covers many aspects of teasing and harassment, from the general to the very specific and the conceptual to the concrete. Although the book is divided into eight sequential chapters, it is not necessary to read the chapters in order. In some cases, it may be more helpful to read one of the later, more specific chapters so that the reader is prepared to handle a situation, and later go back to read the earlier chapters.