Classrooms under the influence

Richard R. Powell

Addicts and addictive behavior are common in our classrooms at many levels. Addiction presents challenges, both personally and professionally, for which most educators are simply not prepared. To help educators help others, without becoming victims themselves, is the goal of Classrooms Under the Influence. Authors Powell, Zehm, and Kottler are themselves children of addicted parents. By combining personal experience with intellectual study, they have created an indispensable source of information about an issue not often covered in education courses. Classrooms Under the Influence explores how addiction affects behavior and the dynamics of the classroom for both the student and the teacher. The authors examine two important manifestations of the problem: cases in which the student is addicted and situations in which a student's life is affected by the addictions of...

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