OBJECTIVE To quantify the effectiveness of school-based violence prevention programs for children identified as at risk for aggressive behavior. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Electronic databases and bibliographies were systematically searched and authors and organizations were contacted to identify randomized controlled trials. Standardized, weig...

OBJECTIVES Pharmacotherapy for problematic aggressive and violent behavior disorders in male children and adolescents is associated with significant adverse events. Treatments with more acceptable risk-benefit ratios are critically needed. Micronutrient intervention will be investigated as an alternative to bridge the therapeutic gap in the management of these behaviors. METHODS Males aged 4-...

Resiliency theory posits that some youth exposed to risk factors do not develop negative behaviors due to the influence of promotive factors. This study examines the effects of cumulative risk and promotive factors on adolescent violent behavior and tests two models of resilience-the compensatory model and the protective model-in a sample of adolescent patients (14-18 years old; n = 726) presen...

BACKGROUND Antisocial personality and psychopathic traits have constantly been found to accompany criminal and aggressive behaviors, but little attention has been given to aspects of character maturity and its relation to such behaviors. The present study investigated (1) whether level of character maturity (low, medium, and high) is associated with amount of aggressive antisocial behaviors (AA...

OBJECTIVE Despite recent research demonstrating associations between violence and depression in adults, links in adolescents are uncertain. This study aims to assess the longitudinal associations between young people's depression and later violent outcomes. METHOD We used data from three cohorts with different measurements of depression exposures and subsequent violent outcomes. In a Dutch co...

PURPOSE To determine whether the seeming relation between low or lowered cholesterol levels and violence is consistent with causality according to Hill's criteria and whether construct validity is supported by convergence of findings across different types of studies. DATA SOURCES Search of the MEDLINE database for English-language articles published between 1965 and 1995 was supplemented by ...

OBJECTIVES Recent violent attacks on college campuses in the United States have sparked discussions regarding the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the perpetration of violence among college students. While previous studies have examined the potential association between mental health problems and violent behavior, the overall pattern of findings flowing from this literature remain mixed ...

According to most studies, psychiatrists cannot reliably predict violent behavior. I For those individuals who have been repeatedly violent, however, there are data to suggest that the likelihood of future violent behavior is greatly increased and, therefore, predictable to some degree. 2 The staff of maximum security treatment facilities for mentally disordered offenders (MSTF-MDO) treat patie...