Making meaning of community violence among adolescents: Associations between exposure, pro‐violence attitudes and psychological symptoms

Psychological Symptoms Linking Exposure to Community Violence and Academic Functioning in African American Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence ◽

10.1007/s10964-012-9895-z ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 250-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Danielle R. Busby ◽

Sharon F. Lambert ◽

Nicholas S. Ialongo

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Community Violence ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

African American Adolescents ◽

Academic Functioning ◽

Exposure To Community Violence

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The Relationship Between Exposure to Community Violence and Psychological Distress Among Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/vivi.2003.18.3.335 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 335-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 56

Author(s):

W. Cody Wilson ◽

Beth Spenciner Rosenthal

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

Community Violence ◽

Effect Size ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Exposure To Community Violence ◽

The Relationship

This article is concerned with the “size of the relationship” between exposure to chronic community violence and psychological symptoms among adolescents. It analyzes all relevant empirical studies in the published literature during the last 20 years; uses quantitative methods to summarize findings; and estimates the effect size using meta-analysis. The 37 independent samples (n = 17,322) were coded on 19 categories, including size and characteristics of sample, and characteristics of the independent and dependent variables. Findings indicate that there is a positive correlation between exposure to community violence and psychological distress; and that the effect size (r = .25) of this relationship is low-medium. The estimated effect size of the relationship points to new issues such as the characteristics of the psychosocial dynamics of resilience in the face of exposure to community violence and how exposure to community violence interacts with other potentially traumatic experiences in the producing of psychological distress.

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Exposure to Community Violence and Trauma Symptoms in Late Adolescence: Comparison of a College Sample and a Noncollege Community Sample

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2001.88.2.367 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 88 (2) ◽

pp. 367-374 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Beth Spenciner Rosenthal ◽

E. Miles Hutton

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Community Violence ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Community Sample ◽

African American Adolescents ◽

Psychological Trauma ◽

Trauma Symptoms ◽

Two Samples ◽

Exposure To Community Violence ◽

Relationship Of

This paper presents a comparison for two samples (college and noncollege) of older, urban African-American adolescents of correlations between two measures of exposure to community violence (victim and witness) and four types of psychological trauma symptoms (anger, anxiety, depression, and dissociation). The central issue is the generalizability of previous findings about these relationships obtained from beginning college students of traditional age. The two samples did not differ in the magnitude of either the zero-order correlations or the multiple correlations between the two types of exposure to community violence and the four types of symptoms of trauma. The conclusion is that findings regarding the relationship of exposure to community violence with psychological symptoms of trauma obtained from college students may tentatively be generalized to older adolescents who are not in college.

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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE

Clinics in Family Practice ◽

10.1016/s1522-5720(03)00016-3 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. xi-xiii

Keyword(s):

Community Violence

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“Music First”

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000180 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 17-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dane L. Shiltz ◽

Tara T. Lineweaver ◽

Tim Brimmer ◽

Alex C. Cairns ◽

Danielle S. Halcomb ◽

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Keyword(s):

Usual Care ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Care Facility ◽

Care Group ◽

Music Listening ◽

Term Care ◽

Antipsychotic Medications ◽

Risk Of Death ◽

Extended Care ◽

Individualized Music

Abstract. Existing research has primarily evaluated music therapy (MT) as a means of reducing the negative affect, behavioral, and/or cognitive symptoms of dementia. Music listening (ML), on the other hand, offers a less-explored, potentially equivalent alternative to MT and may further reduce exposure to potentially harmful psychotropic medications traditionally used to manage negative behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). This 5-month prospective, naturalistic, interprofessional, single-center extended care facility study compared usual care (45 residents) and usual care combined with at least thrice weekly personalized ML sessions (47 residents) to determine the influence of ML. Agitation decreased for all participants (p < .001), and the ML residents receiving antipsychotic medications at baseline experienced agitation levels similar to both the usual care group and the ML patients who were not prescribed antipsychotics (p < .05 for medication × ML interaction). No significant changes in psychotropic medication exposure occurred. This experimental study supports ML as an adjunct to pharmacological approaches to treating agitation in older adults with dementia living in long-term care facilities. It also highlights the need for additional research focused on how individualized music programs affect doses and frequencies of antipsychotic medications and their associated risk of death and cerebrovascular events in this population.

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