Effective Social Work Intervention to Reduce Aggressive Behavior in School: A Case Study in Vietnam

Pham Van Tu^1, , Nguyen Thu Ha¹ and Nguyen Viet Hung¹

¹Faculty of Social Work, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

Cite this paper:
Pham Van Tu, Nguyen Thu Ha and Nguyen Viet Hung. Effective Social Work Intervention to Reduce Aggressive Behavior in School: A Case Study in Vietnam. American Journal of Educational Research. 2018; 6(6):779-786. doi: 10.12691/education-6-6-29

Abstract

Individual social work is a professional method which social workers use in the school to help client identify and actively address the aggressive and negative behavior. The purpose of this paper is to assess the aggressive behavior of Vietnamese 14-year-old boy in secondary school. This paper presents an effective individual social work progress to reduce aggressive behavior in this case.

Keywords:
aggressive behavior social work intervention social workers

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