School climate and prevention of violence

School Violence and its Prevention in Israel

This article opens with a comparative bird’s eye view of school violence as a serious world-wide problem, thereafter focusing on school violence in Israel. It draws attention to the fact that school violence in Israel has been recognised as a grave problem for years. It draws attention to the fact that schools are more violence-prone than clubs, cinema-theatres, community centres, even discothe...

Alternative strategies for school violence prevention.

A number of programs with empirical evidence of effectiveness in addressing problems of aggression and disruption have emerged in schools.

Development and evaluation of school-based violence prevention programs.

Discusses key issues in developing and evaluating school-based violence prevention interventions. Schools provide a natural setting for implementing programs directed at teaching youth attitudes, knowledge, and skills to reduce their involvement in violence. Although multitudes of these programs exist, few have been rigorously evaluated. Developers of violence prevention programs need to pay pa...

Mandatory school-based mental health services and the prevention of school violence.

P-151: Violence Against Women and Children:Causes, Challenges and Prevention

Background: Violence against women is a problem of public health on a global scale. Two decades of international research organizations including the World Health Organization show the problem of violence against women is more serious and more common than was previously considered. These studies aimed to investigate, the most common causes of violence against women and prevention strategy from ...