Violence : a public health menace and a public health approach / edited by Sandra L. Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Sandra L., 1948-

Series:

FOR

Forensic psychotherapy monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Prevention.

Violence.

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Violence--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac Books, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In addressing the issue of violence, our first purpose is to provide practical information that will help the reader to design specific intervention strategies aimed at preventing the escalation of violence in any community.But the study of violence has taught us that such approaches will be ineffective unless we have a coherent and meaningful framework within which to understand the continuum of violent perpetration..Only a shift in human understanding can help us to be more effective in slowing the pace of the disease down through the generations, from person to person, from family to family, from nation to nation.All of our cultural systems for making meaning are infiltrated with this lethal virus..human culture has become "trauma-organized" around the unrecognised, unmetabolized, and untransformed thoughts, feelings and behaviours of a post-traumatic response.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; 1 A kind of necessity?Violence as a public health problem; 2 Violent attachments and attachment to violence; 3 Creating a non-violent environment:keeping sanctuary safe; 4 Conclusion: a public health approach to violence; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-114) and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92368-6

0-429-90945-4

0-429-48468-2

1-283-80623-1

1-78241-039-2

9780429484681

OCLC:

818846311