"If the team learns that someone is likely to commit violence (if, for example, someone's family member has been shot and they're likely to retaliate), trained "violence interrupters" step in to try to talk them down. |
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"Summarizing the results of >400 studies including violent media of all types, researchers found there was a significant association between exposure to media violence and aggressive behavior (effect size: 0.19; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0... read more |
"The AAP will convene a group of pediatrician experts to identify new approaches to protect children, adolescents and young adults from the epidemic of violence occurring in their everyday lives." |
"They found that the more adverse childhood experiences a person had, the more likely their children were to be troubled, too. |
"The study was carried out by researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah, and concluded that as shouting by fathers was louder and more forceful, it would be associated more with anger. |
"So how exactly, then, does poverty lead to dysfunction in the classroom? |
"That's another surprising finding. People who are more self-compassionate are more likely to take personal responsibility for harming others and are more likely to apologize. |
"Cruelty flows from anger and frustration, and confers a feeling of power over others that can be pleasurable. Children aren’t born with effective techniques for emotional self-regulation. |