Written by a highly-qualified practitioner, and illustrated largely by first-hand experiences, this book offers guidance and information that college administrators need if they are involved in: due process for disruptive students; dealing with disruptive students; disruption in residence halls; college mental health programs; student conduct codes; or staff training.

This book includes:

• an explanation of the need for a well-defined code of student conduct;
• an outline of disciplinary sanctions for dealing with disruptive behavior;
• recommendations for documenting and reporting incidents of disruption;
• a discussion of the common aversions that are displayed toward administering discipline;
• a discussion of the differences between predicting dangerousness and predicting disruptiveness;
• a description of both the therapeutic and consultative role of a college mental health program;
• how to deal with highly self-disruptive students;
• guidelines for dealing with various relatively unusual incidents of disruption;
• dealing with disturbed students who are adverse to using psychiatric medications and dealing with students who have been suspended or expelled and wish to re-enroll.

Table of Contents

I. A Code of Student Conduct

II. Recommended Procedures for Dealing with Incidents of Disruptions

III. Due Process for the Disruptive Student

IV. Disruptiveness in Residence Halls

V. The Role of the College Mental Health Program

VI. Special Problems

VII. Case Studies

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