Violence - Prevention & control
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Connected kids at Head Start: taking office-based violence prevention to the community.

19 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to assess the acceptability and appropriateness of using a violence prevention curriculum, Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure, at Head Start centers. METHODS: Eight 90-minute focus groups (4 parent groups and 4 family ... Read more...

Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault.

15 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time. METHODS: We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants ... Read more...

Adolescent coping across time: implications for psychiatric mental health nurses.

30 Aug 2009 This article compares rural adolescents' coping responses before and after the behavioral intervention Teaching Kids to Cope with Anger (TKC-A). A quasi-experimental design was used, that included 94 (intervention) and 85 (control) students who were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Violence - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Setting limits without producing violence in adolescents] 29 Sep 2009
• The direct and indirect costs of explosive violence. 27 Sep 2009
• Psychology. The theory? Diet causes violence. The lab? Prison. 23 Sep 2009
• Connected kids at Head Start: taking office-based violence prevention to the community. 19 Sep 2009
• Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault. 15 Sep 2009
• Adolescent coping across time: implications for psychiatric mental health nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Model of therapeutic and non-therapeutic responses to patient aggression. 30 Aug 2009
• A new approach to prevention and reduction of youth violence. 30 Aug 2009
• Surviving life as a woman: a critical ethnography of violence in the lives of female domestic workers in Malawi. 30 Aug 2009
• Mental illness and violence. 30 Aug 2009
• Taking on school bullies. Interventions target bullies, victims, and bystanders. 30 Aug 2009
• Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities. 22 Aug 2009
• Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention. 22 Aug 2009
• Children's mental health in Afghanistan. 19 Aug 2009
• Common ground, not a battle ground. Violence prevention at a detoxification facility. 30 Jul 2009
• Safety: addressing inappropriate behavior in the perioperative workplace. 30 Jul 2009
• Horizontal violence. 30 Jul 2009
• Sexual assault prevention for women with intellectual disabilities: a critical review of the evidence. 30 Jul 2009
• Patient charting. Turning a routine activity into an opportunity for injury prevention. 30 Jul 2009
• How to screen for intimate partner violence. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Violence'

Definition: Individual or group aggressive behavior which is socially non-acceptable, turbulent, and often destructive. It is precipitated by frustrations, hostility, prejudices, etc.

Descriptor UI: D014754

Alternative terms: Violence; Atrocities; Assaultive Behavior; Behavior, Assaultive;

Related Mesh Headings: Battered Child Syndrome; Biological Warfare; War; Battered Women;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.198.240.856; I01.880.735.900;

Online Note: search ATROCITIES under WAR CRIMES 1966-67

History Note: 70(68); ATROCITIES was heading 1963-67