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Psychology's growth careers   Military's growing mental health needs   best bets 1. Strategies for parents to avoid child abuse 2. Exposure to media violence predicts aggressive behavior 3. Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence 4. Violent video games: Myths, facts, and unanswered questions Advertisements press releases Op Ed: Understanding and preventing hate crimes (10/15/07) Cynical Shyness Can Precipitate Violence in Males, Say Researchers, and May be Factor in School Shootings (08/18/07) more press releases >> psychology news Violence and video games April 28, 2008, Toronto Star Colleges boost counseling in wake of of VA Tech April 17, 2008, NPR One year later, VA Tech still healing April 16, 2008, Washington Post (free registration required) Attack changed college mental health systems April 14, 2008, CNN more psychology news >> Monitor on Psychology Ending interpersonal violence (May 2008) Stay safe in practice (April 2008) Council reaffirms stance against torture (April 2008) more monitor news >> books & videos Preventing Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies Buy this book Assessment of Partner Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners Culture and Family Violence: Fostering Change Through Human Rights Law more books & videos on violence >> journals Personality and Aggressive Behavior Under Provoking and Neutral Conditions: A Meta-Analytic Review (September 2006) The Virtual Cutting Edge: The Internet and Adolescent Self-Injury (May 2006) Longitudinal Relations Between Children's Exposure to TV Violence and Their Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: 1977 – 1992 (March 2003) Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life (April 2000) more journals >> internal APA resources Find a psychologist Managing your distress in the aftermath of mall shootings Raising children to resist violence more internal resources >> additional links Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters Intimate Partner Violence Prevention, Facts more links >>

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