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16 Violent and Abusive Behavior
16 Violent and Abusive Behavior
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~J __ ~ ~^-^O Many witnesses called for implementation of the recommendations of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence and Public Health held in October 1985.6 (#420J Recognizing the complex nature of the prob lem, the workshop's main recommendation was reduction of unemployment and poverty. Other recommendations emphasized a multidisciplinary approach to injury control, including changing views of appropriate behavior, especially conceptions of masculinity; reducing media violence and inappropriate views of sexuality; increasing communin', intolerance for violence; teaching conflict resolution skills; reducing alcohol and drug consumption; reducing the availability of firearms; providing stress reduction and support services for families and parents, as well as community intervention centers; identifying and treating abused children and adults who were abused as children; teaching parenting skills; and reducing the level of violence in schools.
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(~018; #715) SUICIDE Adolescent suicide rates have nearly tripled in three decades, says Martha Medrano of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.9 (#500)
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(~5~) Meyer Moldeven of Del Mar, California, says that volunteer training is an important component of successful suicide interventions for all ages: HA community's suicide intervention and prevention resources~f which the suicide prevention center, crisis center, and 'hotline' are elements~epend to an enormous degree on local paraprofessionals and trained volunteers.
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Comparisons of two large, national surveys conducted in 1975 and 1985 show a reduction in the rate of violence against children.~° Among the possible reasons for this reduction, suggests Blair Justice of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, are methodological differences in the two surveys, increased reluctance to report abuses, economic factors, and changes in family structure. However, Justice believes at least some of the credit must be given to treatment and prevention programs established during the decade.
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It would, among other things, coordinate and fund research projects on homicide; promote the use of standardized reporting methods and records; establish a state and national homicide registry; coordinate homicide information and education; assist communities in establishing homicide prevention services; coordinate and develop restitution and victim-assistance programs; and develop hypotheses and theories regarding perpetrators and victims.
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500 Medrano, Martha; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 514 Besaw, David; Wisconsin Tribal Health Directors 537 Greenberg, Michael; Rutgers University 602 Moldeven, Meyer; Del Mar, California 616 Windle, Anne; American Public Health Association, Public Health Education Section 697 Klingbeil, Karil; University of Washington 702 Barrett, Tom; Center for Psychological Growth (Denver) 715 Bukoff, Allen; Wayne State University 731 Gaffney, Donna; Columbia University 748 Russ, Blanche; Parent-Child, Inc.
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