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.
Flannery
R B
RB
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, 25 Stanford Street, Boston, MA 62114, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology