Preventing Violence

Learning Resources

This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of the assigned resources for this week. To view this week’s media resources, please use the streaming media player below.

Required Resources

• Course Text: Marion, M. (2015). Guidance of young children (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
  • Chapter 11, “Minimizing Challenging Behavior” (pp. 289-312)
  • Chapter 10, “Aggression and Bullying in Young Children” (pp. 266-288)

Media

• Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (2009). You can make a difference [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes

  Dr. Marilyn Gootman discusses one of the ways caring adults can make a tremendous difference in children’s lives.

Discussion Resources:
To prepare for the Discussion this week, you will need to read at least three sources of information on young children and aggression. All of the resources below are highly recommended. However, you may choose to read others that you find yourself.

General

• Article: “Managing Aggressive Behavior in Young Children” by Carolyn R. Tomlin
  http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=594
• Article: “Behavior Problems by the University of Michigan Health System” by the University of Michigan Health System
  http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/behave.htm

Family Influences

• Article: “Preventing Violence by Teaching Non-Violent Problem-Solving” by the American Psychological Association
  http://www.apa.org/research/action/nonviolent.aspx
• Article: “ACT: Adults & Children Together Against Violence”
• • “Concern for Others Studied in Young Children with Behavior Problems: Good Parenting May Have an Effect”
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/concern.html
  • “Family Stress, Parenting Beliefs and Cognitive and Emotional Reactions Can Lead to Harsh Discipline”
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/discipline.html
  • “Constant Yelling Can Be Just As Harmful to Children as Physical Abuse”
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/yelling.html
• Article: “Smoking During Pregnancy Fosters Aggression in Children” by e! Science News
  http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/01/06/smoking.during.pregnancy.fosters.aggression.children

• Article: “Study: Verbal Aggression May Affect Children’s Behavior” by e! Science News
  http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/08/04/study.verbal.aggression.may.affect.childrens.behavior

Media Influences

• Article: “Exposure to Media Violence and Young Children with and Without Disabilities: Powerful Opportunities for Family-Professional Partnerships” by Elizabeth J. Erwin and Naomi Morton
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10643-008-0276-x