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School violence: an insider view
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School violence: an insider view

Shelley A Johnson and Kathleen Fisher
MCN, the American journal of maternal child nursing, v 28(2)
Mar 2003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00005721-200303000-00009
PMID: 12629313

Abstract

Adolescent Adult Aged Child Faculty Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Male Mid-Atlantic Region - epidemiology Middle Aged Parenting Safety Management - standards Schools Social Environment Social Responsibility Violence - prevention & control Violence - psychology Violence - statistics & numerical data
To discover what teachers perceive to be contributing factors to violence in schools. Open-ended questions were asked of a convenience sample of teachers ( = 396) during an in-service education program on school violence. The teachers were in a semi-rural school district in a Mid-Atlantic state. Answers were analyzed using content analysis; all responses were reviewed and important themes were extracted. Identified themes were then placed into suitable categories and studied to determine relationships. Of the surveys analyzed ( = 239), 13 themes were identified. The three categories which then identified probable causes of school violence were (1) lack of knowledge, (2) lack of support, and (3) inadequate safety measures. Nurses can use the results of this study in multiple ways. One is to help parents understand their role in preventing school violence. Because violence in the home and violence in the media seem to foster violent acting-out behavior, nurses can teach parents about these correlations and seek solutions such as the elimination of family violence, and monitoring television viewing and video games. Nursing assessments of school-aged children and their families can include these elements. School nurses in particular can use these study results as an opportunity to develop interventions for students, teachers, and families that stress knowledge building about impulse control, anger management, appropriate parenting, and early intervention for at-risk children.

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