Preventing youth violence: a CISM pre-incident approach.
Violence in the United States is a national public health epidemic, and increasingly, much of this violence is committed by the country's young people. Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) approaches emphasize a comprehensive continuum of services from pre-incident training through acute care to post-intervention services. This paper outlines a pre-incident approach to preventing youth violence for parents, teachers, and counselors. The approach includes the identification of a continuum of warning signs and five guidelines to address the underlying needs manifested in the warning signs. The implications are discussed.
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, 25 Stanford Street, Boston, MA 62114, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology