2021
DOI: 10.1002/aps.1718
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School safety and violence: Research and clinical understandings, trends, and improvement strategies

Abstract: Feeling and being safe provides an essential foundation for children to learn and develop in healthy ways. I will summarize the current research and clinically based understanding about K‐12 school violence and school safety. I summarize prevalence rates that underscore that school violence is tragically common. I then outline the spectrum of experiences that undermine safety in schools: from normal moments of misunderstanding to microaggressions to mental illness to international acts of verbal/cyber cruelty … Show more

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“…As Jonathan Cohen writes, too often we focus efforts to improve safety in schools on bullying, weapons and shootings, but "there is a significantly wider spectrum of experiences that undermine children feeling safe and being safe" (Cohen, 2021). Cohen names the fatal coronavirus pandemic, natural disasters and violence in streets and homes as contexts relevant to any discussion of safety inside our schools.…”
Section: Schooling In Socio-historical Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As Jonathan Cohen writes, too often we focus efforts to improve safety in schools on bullying, weapons and shootings, but "there is a significantly wider spectrum of experiences that undermine children feeling safe and being safe" (Cohen, 2021). Cohen names the fatal coronavirus pandemic, natural disasters and violence in streets and homes as contexts relevant to any discussion of safety inside our schools.…”
Section: Schooling In Socio-historical Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cohen discusses classroom instruction as part of what he calls "prosocial universal k-12 improvement efforts, " one of the four broad approaches for enhancing "how safe students feel and are in schools" (Cohen, 2021). In a couple of key passages, Cohen remarks the importance of teachers helping students have effective discussions and choosing rich content for those discussions.…”
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