Adolescent gun violence prevention clinical and public health solutions /
Each year, gun violence kills approximately 2,700 and injures approximately 14,500 children in the U.S.; the overwhelming majority of child gun deaths are among teenagers who die by homicide or suicide. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for Black teens. A recent spate of high-profile traged...
| Other Authors: | Dodson, Nancy A.,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer,
[2021]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 149 pages) : illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology of adolescent gun violence: the parallel tragedies of rural suicide and urban homicide
- What does a public health approach mean? Lessons from earlier victories
- The weapons effect
- Reducing access to lethal means of suicide
- Gun violence as an infectious disease
- Gun violence as an adverse childhood experience and a toxic stress
- Fighting gun violence from the doctor's office: clinical interventions
- Adolescent suicidality and homicidality: who is at risk?
- Teens, screens, and violence: promoting healthy media use among adolescents
- Innovative solutions to urban gun violence: interruption programs and peer intervention
- Legislative and regulatory solutions to adolescent gun violence
- The youth voice: what does gun violence mean to us?