Education and Training in Violence Prevention: A Public Health Model (From Preventing Violence in America, P 179-195, 1996, Robert L Hampton, Pamela Jenkins, and Thomas P Gullotta, eds. -- See NCJ-159949)

• NCJ Number: 159957
• Author(s): G Lapidus; M Braddock
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 17 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter examines the need for and the nature of professional education and training in violence prevention in accordance with a public health model.

Abstract

Violence has reached epidemic proportions in American society and has emerged as the major public health problem at the end of the 20th Century. The public health approach to an epidemic analyzes the interaction of host, agent, and environmental factors to identify potentially modifiable risk factors for violence. Prevention efforts may then be designed by using educational, environmental, or regulatory strategies. As an appreciation of the enormous impact of injuries related to violence has grown, so has awareness of the lack of trained professionals to meet the needs for prevention in this area. This chapter identifies some of the barriers to the provision of such training. It then highlights one approach to violence prevention education and training that was designed to meet the needs of professionals in the field. This training effort, a workshop sponsored by the Connecticut Childhood Injury Prevention Center in 1994, is noteworthy for its emphasis on educating individuals in solid principles of injury prevention as well as for its focus on the collaboration among disciplines that is critical to the success of any violence prevention action. 17 references