Kramer, T.L., Jones, K.A., Kirchner, J., Miller, T.L., & Wilson, C. (2001). Addressing personnel concerns about school violence through education, assessment, and strategic planning. Education, 123, 292-304.
The violence that has been seen in schools recently has led to concerns about both intervention and prevention programs to address this issue. This violence has been steadily growing and because of this it has become clear that something must be done. Examined in this study is an intervention program that has three specific goals in mind. The first goal is to ensure that personnel that work at the school are away of and educated on various evidence-based programs that relate to school safety and the serious effects that can come from violence in schools. The second goal is to examine the perceptions that school personnel have regarding safety in their schools, how they respond to crisis, and how well they feel they perform when it comes to violence prevention. The third and final goal is the development of a model that can...
These students were attending a workshop that dealt with posttraumatic stress disorder and violence and were all in kindergarten through 12th grade. They were given surveys that rated how well they understood the topics that were presented to them and they also took baseline surveys and 9-month follow-up surveys that dealt with how they felt their school performed when it came to preventing violence. Also examined in those surveys was whether any new programs had been developed at their schools to help with this issue. The study helped to indicate the importance of preventing violence in schools and how educational programs that are given to school personnel are capable of prompting these individuals to come up with new and better ways to keep their students safe from violence.
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