The Dealing with Defiance: Working With Hostile and Resistant Teens Package contains a video and manuals to assist educators on dealing with difficult students.

In the video national experts give valuable information on how to defuse potentially violent situations, and the proper approach to communicating with and disciplining defiant teens. Dramatic role-play shows the right and wrong ways to handle certain situations, along with explanations of why some approaches work better than others. By following the recommendations presented, hostile and resilient situations can be overcome. This film explains methods used by one school to combat anger problems in violent teens that worked. They give examples of programs the implement and punishing methods. These programs along with open communications and counseling help students succeed in school.

The two accompanying teacher manuals -- Dealing With Defiance: Working With Hostile And Resistant Teens and CASI- Crisis Alert System -- give teachers and administrators ideas and advice to helping violent teens. Suggestions to preventing violence in the school and ideas to improving student attitudes are listed in the manuals.