title: Emerging themes and challenges in understanding youth violence involvement.
abstract: Identifies emerging key themes in the articles in this special section regarding child and adolescent involvement in violence. Using a developmental-ecological framework and drawing on consistencies across other studies and reviews, this article is intended to summarize the pertinent findings for clinical child psychology. Current knowledge status, needed further research, clinical implications (preventive and treatment), and relevant policy issues are noted.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 907 South Wolcott, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. Tolan@uic.edu
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Tolan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002669:Child Welfare; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011050:Policy Making; D002666:Psychology, Child / Q000639:trends*; D011640:Public Policy; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*