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Peer-to-Peer Aggression in Residential Settings

Increasing Understanding to Enhance Intervention

by Linda Baker, Alison Cunningham & Cindy Male (2002). A resource funded by Ontario's Ministry of Community, Family and Children's Services.

Bullying in residential settings is serious and requires informed, pro-active intervention. Like the others in our popular SIGMA series, this 17-page booklet is a concise summary of the best research and lessons learned from practice. The target audience is front-line workers in residential settings for youth. Topics include impacts on victims, impact on perpetrators, and potential warning signs such as acting out to get relocated away from the aggressor. It contains everything you need to know to recognize and respond to bullying and aggression among youth, in group homes, mental health facilities, therapeutic care facilities, and custody or detention settings.

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Peer-to-Peer Aggression in Residential Settings

Table of Contents

• What is it?

  • Defining Characteristics

• Impacts on victims

• Impacts on perpetrators

• Potential warning signs

• Scope of the problem

• Why kids don't tell us or ask for help

• Situations of beliefs that can impede intervention

• Enabling factors

• Routines associated with enabling factors

• Promising practices - what you can do

• Special considerations for residential settings

  • Staff practices

  • Program characteristics

  • Youth-centred approaches

• An overview

• References

Ordering Information

Copies can be ordered. See our Publication Order Form for details. Direct any questions to the Publications Clerk.

SIGMA Series

Check out the other four booklets in the SIGMA series:

• Conferencing for Youth

• Adolescent Depression and Suicide

• Adolescent Relationship Violence

• Ambiguous Loss in Adolescents ---> available for download