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Revisiting the Case of Kayla Rolland a Decade Later: Ecological Systems Analysis
Several notorious school shooting incidents within the past decades prompted school officials and lawmakers to create and implement programs and...
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The Nature of Mass Murder and Autogenic Massacre
Incidents of mass murder have gained considerable media attention, but are not well understood in behavioral sciences. Current definitions are weak,...
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Teaching Safety Skills to Children: Prevention of Firearm Injury as an Exemplar of Best Practice in Assessment, Training, and Generalization of Safety Skills
The focus of this paper is on teaching safety skills to children with an emphasis on recent research on behavioral skills training for the prevention...
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Truth Telling and Violence Prevention
In May 2008, townships around South Africa exploded in what has been called xenophobic violence. Barbaric images of foreigners being burned alive and...
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Suicide among Children and Adolescents: Data from Çukurova, Turkey
The purpose of this study was to investigate the general properties of suicide among children and adolescents in our region, and to evaluate the...
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Rehabilitation
It should be patently clear that the historical record provided in most rehabilitation textbooks is Eurocentric in its perspective. For example,...
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Prediction of Disability after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
The goal of this chapter is to present the topic of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) within a transdisciplinary, biopsychosocial context. After...
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EEG Biofeedback as a Treatment for Substance Use Disorders: Review, Rating of Efficacy, and Recommendations for Further Research
Electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback has been employed in substance use disorder (SUD) over the last three decades. The SUD is a complex series...
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The Influence Of Family Violence On Youth Attitudes
This study investigated the impact of violence exposure on youth attitudes toward violence and guns. Rural youth were surveyed on their exposure to...
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Clinical Challenges Following An Adolescent’s Death By Suicide: Bereavement Issues Faced By Family, Friends, Schools, And Clinicians
Given the increasing prevalence of adolescent deaths by suicide, social workers are increasingly likely to be called upon to respond to traumatically...
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Suicide
The organization of this handbook and other texts on adolescent dysfunctional behaviors reflects the predominant state of the field, which is...
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Homicide
ALBANY, NY (Troy Record)—Teen Pleads Guilty in Death of Infant. A 16-year-old girl was arrested on felony charges of criminally negligent homicide in...
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Enhancing Social Work Practice with Ethnic Minority Youth
Social workers have the task of addressing issues that are unique to ethnic minority youth in clinical practice; however, they may be ill equipped to...
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Adolescent Delinquency and Violent Behavior
Although juvenile arrests for violent crimes and victimization rates are on the decline, juveniles adjudicated as delinquent continue to be at...