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Risk factors in school shootings.
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Nine incidents of multiple-victim homicide in American secondary schools are examined and common risk factors are identified.About:
This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 2000-01-01. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk assessment.read more
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The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
TL;DR: The Safe School Initiative as discussed by the authors is an ongoing collaboration between the U.S. Secret Service and the United States Department of Education that aims to determine whether it could have been known that incidents of targeted violence at schools were being planned and whether anything can have been done to prevent them from occurring.
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Social connectedness, dysfunctional interpersonal behaviors, and psychological distress: Testing a mediator model.
TL;DR: Lee et al. as discussed by the authors examined the relationship among social connectedness, dysfunctional interpersonal behaviors, and psychological distress and found support for the mediation hypothesis on general psychological distress among college students.
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Human aggression: A social-cognitive view
TL;DR: Aggressive and violent behavior by one human being toward another is not a new phenomenon as discussed by the authors, and although technology has made mass violence easier to accomplish, it is doubtful that people are more prone to be violent today than thousands of years ago.
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Ethnicity, peer harassment, and adjustment in middle school: An exploratory study.
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TL;DR: This paper found that African American harassment victims reported more loneliness and lower self-esteem than did harassment victims in the other ethnic groups, and they were more rejected by peers compared to Latino and multiethnic respondents.
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The ecology of human development : experiments by nature and design
TL;DR: An apparatus for measuring at least two of the following characteristics of a fluid; pH, partial pressure of dissolved gas or gases therein, inorganic ion concentration, hemoglobin, temperature, and the like, the apparatus comprising a vessel having a flow channel for fluid passing therethrough and means for inducing turbulence in the channel at specified locations.
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Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy.
TL;DR: It is suggested that delinquency conceals 2 distinct categories of individuals, each with a unique natural history and etiology: a small group engages in antisocial behavior of 1 sort or another at every life stage, whereas a larger group is antisocial only during adolescence.
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The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design: by Urie Bronfenbrenner Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979, 330 + p.
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Resilience in the face of adversity. Protective factors and resistance to psychiatric disorder.
TL;DR: This article found that negative life experiences and stressful happenings may serve to precipitate mental disorders, and that a variety of stressors may play a role in the genesis of psychiatric disorder.