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This digital document is an article from Journal of School Health, published by American School Health Association on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3306 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Programs for preventing violence among youth should be evaluated to determine if they are effective. Nurses' logs appear to be a useful tool for evaluating school-based violence prevention programs. The logs provide a record of students' visits to the school nurse that can be used to determine if a violence prevention program is associated with a reduction in fighting -- and other injury-related nurse visits. This method has many strengths: it is simple and inexpensive, it does not interrupt the school routine, it permits school-level rather than student-level data collection, it provides a ready "baseline, " and it allows continuous data collection. However, potential limitations do exist. For example, the method may provide insufficient information and may be affected by factors unrelated to the intervention. School officials can increase the usefulness of the logs by encouraging standardization and providing training in their use. (J Sch Health. 1997-,67(5):171-174)

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Title: Nurses' logs as an evaluation tool for school-based violence prevention programs.
Author: Nancy D. Brener
Publication: Journal of School Health (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: American School Health Association
Volume: v67Issue: n5Page: p171(4)

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This digital document is an article from School Psychology Review, published by National Association of School Psychologists on December 1, 2008. The length of the article is 10213 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Teacher adherence and its relation to teacher attitudes and student outcomes in an elementary school-based violence prevention program.(Report)
Author: Bridget K. Biggs
Publication: School Psychology Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2008
Publisher: National Association of School Psychologists
Volume: 37Issue: 4Page: 533(17)

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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1147 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: School-based violence prevention can work.(PREVENTION IN ACTION)
Author: Diana Mahoney
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35Issue: 10Page: 30(1)

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1904 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Public schools need to address the issue of violence in their premises and its prevention through an encompassing violence-prevention program which includes not only law enforcement but also the involvement of social service agencies and the surrounding community. The program itself should include measures for violence suppression and prevention, intervention and collaboration. Many of those who can cause or are a cause of violence happen to be students who have the right to be on campus. Thus, traditional and non-traditional security measures must be considered.

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Title: New course for school security. (violence-prevention program for public schools)
Author: Jansen M. Robinson
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: v41Issue: n12Page: p35(5)

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The first book of its kind to address suicide, self-injury, and violence in school settings

The frequency of suicide, students' self-injury, and violence in school settings requires preventative and response policies and procedures for the safety and protection of faculty and students. Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools: Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention Strategies is the first book to provide first responders—specifically, school counselors, psychologists, social workers, teachers, and administrators—with information on assessing risk. In addition, guidelines are included on how to respond to these crises in a practical and proactive manner that minimizes risk and/or impact on the school community.

The authors, nationally renowned experts on suicide, self-injury, and violence among children and adolescents, present:

Critical information on suicide and suicidal behaviors specific to children and adolescents

Pertinent issues related to nonsuicidal self-injury behaviors

Guidance on conducting effective face-to-face clinical interviews with violent and potentially violent students and their families

Important prevention and screening topics for middle and high school counselors

Discussion on psychological first aid in response to school violence survivors and their parents

Filled with mini-case vignettes, as well as checklists for school personnel to use, this timely reference supports school professionals in devising the very best prevention, intervention, and post?crisis strategies. It is a much-needed resource for establishing a collaborative, nonsuicidal, nonviolent environment both within and outside the school setting. ... Read more

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The statistics are appalling. Between 8% and 10% of U.S. high school students carry guns to school every day. In a typical mid-size city, 30 to 50 cases of school violence are reported daily, and half of these cases involve guns.

School Violence: Assessment, Treatment, Prevention shows us the reality behind the statistics. Its distinguished contributors include leading clinicians, researchers, school counselors, and legal authorities who closely examine every aspect of this complex epidemic, challenging us to solve this multifaceted public health problem and offering concrete recommendations on how to do it.

The comprehensive volume is divided into four parts:

• Part I, Contributing Factors, presents the multiple contributing factors, including those involved in creating violent children and violence-prone schools, the nature and context of school violence, and its biological and cultural causes. For example, although the number of violent deaths by shooting in schools remained stable through the 1990s, the number of violent acts against female students increased significantly, as did gang activity and the availability of guns in schools.
• Part II, Assessment and Management, details diagnostic assessment, management, and treatment of children and adolescents who have the potential for or have threatened school violence. Eyewitnesses describe the shootings and their aftermaths in Pearl, Mississippi, and Littleton, Colorado, including the extensive measures taken to decrease the traumatic effect of these incidents on the children and adolescents and their families, the educators, and the community at large. Also presented is a model for time-limited, cognitive–behavioral group therapy for those who sustain or witness violent injuries in schools—a model that could be adapted to other settings.
• Part III, Legal Aspects, begins by putting us on notice that anyone aware of a potentially violent act by a youth has a legal responsibility to alert the intended victim(s) and others who could warn or protect them, offering a uniquely insightful view—by the plaintiff attorney for the victims of school violence in Paducah, Kentucky—of the Tarasoff case and its ramifications.
• Part IV, Prevention, concludes with what we can do now to help prevent school violence, detailing effective prevention measures that range from the innovative (a method that focuses on the school as a whole rather than on individuals and uses a social system and power–dynamics perspective) to the everyday (teaching tolerance and conflict resolution).

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School violence
In 1999 it was found that 17% of American high school students reported carrying a gun or other weapon over the past 30 days (MacKay AP, Fingerhut LA, Duran CR. Adolescent health chartbok. Health, United States, 2000. Hyattsville, MD: Nat Center Health Statistics, 2000) and males were more likely to carry than females. Among male students, non-Hispanic black students were more likely to carry a gun than non-Hospanic white and Hispanic students. Seven percent of the students reported carrying a weapon to school, 11% of males and three percent of females. In 1999, 27 percent of female students and 44 percent of male students were involved in one or more physical fights, but between 1991 and 1999 the percent of students carrying a weapon decreaseds 35% (26% in 1991 and 17% in 1999) (1).
This book is edited by Mohammad Shafii, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and Sharon Shafii, a nurse with experience in adolescent medicine with another 22 contributors with a multidisciplinary background. The book is devided into four sections (Contributing factors, assessment and management, legal aspects and prevention) with a total of 15 chapters and a god index.
The layout is good, the chapters easy to read and the editors did an excellent work in order to give an up-to-date review of this field with perspectives for further research, prevention and interventions. We would have liked to see e-mail addresses included in the list of authors for further personal communication with each author.
This book will certainly become a resource book for professionals working in the school environment.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel and Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

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