Preventing Violence in the Schools is Timely Theme At Brooklyn College Event on Friday, April 30

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April 28, 1999
Preventing Violence in the Schools is Timely Theme
At Brooklyn College Event on Friday, April 30

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Brooklyn, NY - Preventing Violence in the Schools:Developing Emotional Intelligence is the theme of a conference to be held atBrooklyn College in the Student Center on Friday, April 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4p.m.

The daylong event, organized by the graduate division Program in School Psychology of the Brooklyn College School of Education, was planned nearly two months ago, but is especially relevant in the aftermath of last week's tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton,Colorado.

Brooklyn College faculty members and students as well as school psychologists, social workers, high school principals,teachers, and parents from throughout Brooklyn will attend the conference. Workshops will be given on such topics as the anger of teenagers in foster care, problem-solving skills through emotional intelligence, external mediation and the aggressive child, and factors that influence the manifestation of domestic violence across cultures.

The session will feature keynote speaker Brian S.Friedlander, Ph.D., who earned his master's degree and advanced certificate in school psychology from Brooklyn College, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Friedlander, a school psychologist in the Chester (N.J.) Township Public Schools, is a coauthor of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child (Crown Publishing Group, 1998).

"As a department that trains school psychologists, we've become increasingly intrigued with the connection between a lack of emotional intelligence and violent behavior in schools," said Laura H. Barbanel, professor of education and head of the graduate program in school psychology. "There's a strong movement now away from relying only on traditional measures of intelligence in children toward emphasizing the importance of social skills like conflict resolution and self-discipline."

The program in school psychology focuses on the psychological and educational needs of children. Courses and field practice prepare students to assess behavior and intervene across a wide variety of settings and situations.

For more information, please contact Grace RibaudoEisenstat, clinical assistant and adjunct professor in the school psychology program at (718) 951-5938.
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