ABSTRACT
In this chapter we describe a program of intervention activities conducted with aggressive children in several school settings. As the background for this study, we review the alternative intervention models for working with aggressive children, articulating the premises and change dynamics of each model for implementation within a school setting. The project we are reporting on is part of a larger preventive intervention effort with elementary school children who are socially rejected by their peer group (Coie, Rabiner, & Lochman, 1989). Here we describe just the data that pertain to the aggressive subset of this sample. For this reason we describe the relation between aggression and peer rejection in childhood and present a rationale for focussing on this jointly defined risk population.
