PUBLICATIONS BY Susan Magestro
REUNIFICATION OF INCARCERATED PARENTS WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
BREAKING THE BARRIER FOR A SUCCESSFUL RE-ENTRY BY SUSAN MAGESTRO
Most incarcerated men and women do not spend their entire lives in prison. Most will get out. They will be neighbors, parents, clients, customers, students, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, sons, and daughters. With preparation and planning, re-entry (returning) to one’s family and community can be met with great success. Lack of planning provides an open door for future recidivism. Lack of planning increases the chances of inter-generational incarceration within the family. More and more grandparents and grandchildren are visiting their loved ones in prison waiting desperately for their release; forever fearful they will re-offend, and the process will begin yet again.
There are many barriers to successful re-entry: jobs, housing, food, clothing, transportation, and identification to name a few. Many of these barriers can be eliminated when newly released inmates have some type of relationship with their family members. The relationships between re-entrants and their families have been fraught with palpable frustration, lack of trust, disappointment, and disconnection. There are numerous ways to bridge the connection. Many, on both sides, do not know the first steps or strategies to make that happen. This book provides professionals and families a unique approach to breaking barriers and creating plans for successful re-entry. A re-entry process to include self-advocacy, accountability, and predictability versus a process full of chaos and broken promises.
THROUGH MY FATHER’S EYES
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF TRAUMA BY SUSAN MAGESTRO
- What causes a father to stop talking for over twenty years?
- What prohibits a mother from being able to nurture her child?
- What causes a mother to prey on those she loves?
- How do they stop their “Cycle of Trauma?”
- Through Her Father’s Eyes
EMPOWERING THE VICTIM:
A NEW APPROACH TO STOPPING AND PREVENTING BULLYING BY SUSAN MAGESTRO AND PAMELA GERLOFF (2009)
In Empowering the Victim: A New Approach to Stopping and Preventing Bullying, Criminologist Susan Magestro and Professor Dr. Pamela Gerloff present practical, breakthrough strategies for stopping and preventing bullying based on Magestro’s years of success working with young people who have been bullied. Magestro’s unique background allows her to draw on real cases and reflections of bullying victims who have turned violent. Empowering the Victim is a stand-alone book as well as the text used for Magestro’s training courses and workshops. Her audience includes teachers, school administrators, counselors, therapist’s social workers, psychologists, law enforcement, parents, and community members. Empowering the Victim provides an understanding of bullying through the eyes of the victim, new forms of bullying today, and effective strategies to use with victims that will guide professionals how to recognize warning signs of potential violence and take action to avert a tragedy. The book’s final chapter offers a new framework for understanding bullying as an abuse of power and creating a culture of dignity.
Raging From Within:
DE-ESCALATING ANGRY PEOPLE
This book offers a new and constructive way to look at anger and rage. Included are stories of resiliency on an individual and national scale, allowing the reader to follow the trajectory of change.
The powerful information in this book is intended for professionals (teachers, counselors, administrators, nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers, psychologists, mental health specialists, law enforcement and corrections officers, attorneys and judges), parents, and young people. The book provides them with techniques and tools to de-escalate themselves and others.
The Anger Wheel provides a conversation starter to be able to articulate what is deep within us that we have been unable to express. Raging from Within: De-Escalating Angry People, offers a genuine and honest understanding of what is causing the increase of the rage we are seeing. The Doors of Anger offers a way to look at the accumulation of anger that continually builds.
Truncated Grief offers an understanding of that which is least understood and ultimately leads to some of the most intense rage. This is a type of unspoken, unresolved grief, that revolves around grieving those who are gone from us, but who are not dead.
The Analysis to Avert Disaster is a tool to evaluate the reality of what is known and what is missing, exploring a person’s life (family, peers, school, mental health, trauma, religion, social media, and community); warning signs, threat assessment and lack of reality to get the most complete understanding to best avert a disaster.
Susan has used these tools and strategies in her work averting school shootings, assaults, domestic violence, homicides, and in a multitude of other cases.
“By learning how to understand and address anger and rage, we can now be a ladder of hope to those around us and the instrument (or conduit) of change.”