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Comprehending Youth Violence

This article describes causal factors pertaining to youth violence (family variables, individual characteristics, and societal factors) and presents a transactional-ecological conceptual model for understanding youth violence. Makes program recommendations as examples of how the transactional-ecological framework can be applied toward addressing youth violence and discusses implications of this perspective.

• Author/Creator: Webber, Jo
• Journal/Secondary Title: Remedial and Special Education
• Notes: Comments: The article does a nice job of describing the various strategies being used to deal with violent youth. In terms of building inclusive schools, the article supports the premise that educators have the responsibility of making schools fit for students rather than making students ”fit” schools. Rather than putting a child on a behavior plan that only deals with stopping the behavior, think about altering or at the very least taking into account the context in which a child is performing that behavior.
• Number: 2
• Volume: 18
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Comprehensive framework
• Subject: Multiagency partnerships
• Subject: School Climate and Classroom Environment
• Subject: Youth violence

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