OTs’ Perceived Preparedness to Work With Youth Exposed to School Shootings

Research in School Shootings

Studies of school shootings have been conducted in a variety of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, and media studies. However, to date there is no unified body of knowledge about such events. In an effort to synthesize past studies, and to orient future studies in school shootings, this article (i) offers a typology for understanding the varieties of school shooting incidents, includ...

Risk factors in school shootings.

Nine incidents of multiple-victim homicide in American secondary schools are examined and common risk factors are identified. The literature dealing with individual, family, social, societal, and situational risk factors for youth violence and aggression is reviewed along with existing risk assessment methods. Checklists of risk factors for serious youth violence and school violence are used in...

The Need to Utilize Chaos Management Techniques in Elementary School Preparedness Assessment Program

The Need to Utilize Chaos Management Techniques in Elementary School Preparedness Assessment Program   M. H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D.*   One of the most important programs in the Ministry of Education is the health and academic preparedness assessment program. It is assumed that any assessment program is so dynamic and unpredictable that makes systematic planning impossible. Thi...

Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings

BACKGROUND Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community, apparently due to the coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals to commit similar acts. METHODS Here we explore whether or not contagion is evident in more high-profile incidents, such as school shootings...

Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions