Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice

by Creighton, Allan; Kivel, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780897935685
• ISBN10: 0897935683
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-05
• Publisher: Hunter House

Summary

Rev. ed. of: Helping teens stop violence: a practical guide for counselors, educators, and parents / by Allan Creighton with Paul Kivel. 1st ed. c1992.

Author Biography

Allan Creighton teaches social justice and violence prevention at the University of California, Berkeley. He has conducted trainings and published curricula since 1978 and co-founded the batterer's intervention program Men Overcoming Violence and the Todos Alliance-Building Institute. Paul Kivel, the author of numerous books and curricula, has been an innovative international trainer in violence prevention for 35 years. With Allan Creighton, he founded the Oakland Men's Project in 1979.

Table of Contents

List of Exercises, Role-Plays, and Agreements	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note for Parents	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Preparing to Work with Youth	p. 6
I Remember When I Was Young	p. 6
Adult-Youth Questions for Facilitators	p. 7
Working with Youth	p. 8
Facilitating Social Justice	p. 12
The Heart Exercise	p. 17
Your Heart and Power	p. 20
Liberation Theory and Practice	p. 26
Introduction	p. 26
It's about Power	p. 27
The Power Shuffle	p. 29
The Power Chart	p. 33
Dismantling Injustice	p. 37
Some Notes on Using The Power Chart	p. 41
The Culture of Power	p. 47
Assessing the Culture of Power	p. 51
The Speak-Out Process	p. 54
Overview of the "Isms"	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
Adultism	p. 59
Adultism Visualization	p. 62
Learning Adultism	p. 63
Classism	p. 68
The Class Race	p. 69
Questions to Ask Yourself: Where Do I Fit?	p. 81
Questions to Ask Yourself: What Do I Do?	p. 85
Racism	p. 85
People-of-Color Exercise	p. 89
White Exercise: Socialization	p. 94
White Exercise: Benefits (Privilege)	p. 100
Sexism and Heterosexism	p. 103
Visualizing the Continuum	p. 104
Facing Sexual Ambiguity Exercise	p. 106
Gender-Socialization Exercises	p. 111
Male Exercise: Benefits (Privilege)	p. 115
Coming-Out Role-Play	p. 125
Access Now! Disabling Ableism	p. 127
Ability Visualization	p. 127
Three Figures	p. 130
Witnessing Disability	p. 132
"You Poor Thing"	p. 136
No One Left Out	p. 137
Christian Hegemony	p. 139
Living in a Christian-Dominant Culture	p. 141
Anti-Immigrant Oppression	p. 148
Environmental Justice	p. 156
Questions to Ask Regarding Environmental Justice	p. 160
Being in the Classroom	p. 162
Teaching as an Activity	p. 162
The Agreements	p. 170
The First Two Minutes: How Can Youth Intervene in Immediate Violence?	p. 173
Climate Survey	p. 180
Using the Making the Peace Programs and Curricula	p. 184
Conclusion: Do You Have My Back?
Young People and Solidarity	p. 189
Notes	p. 191
Glossary	p. 193
Resources	p. 196
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