Community violence and children on Chicago's southside.
This report summarizes a program of study on African-American children and violence conducted by a comprehensive community mental health center on the southside of Chicago. The research, which looked at exposure to violence, self-reports of aggression, and possible interventions, grew out of: (1) an awareness of the enormous amount of familial and extrafamilial violence in the black community; (2) clinical experiences that indicated that victimization and covictimization (i.e., victimization of close others) were often significant factors in the lives of the mentally ill; (3) a growing uneasiness, and indeed curiosity, over the extent to which children were witnessing these events and the impact of this witnessing, particularly on their own levels of aggression; and (4) a belief that the integrity of the black community was being threatened by the violence and that solutions must be sought.
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University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago.
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D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D010553:Personality Development; D012931:Social Environment; D014505:Urban Population; D014754:Violence