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Exposure to Community Violence and Violence Perpetration: The Protective Effects of Family Functioning
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Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B.; Tolan, Patrick H. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
Although research has found that urban youth are exposed to excessive levels of community violence, few studies have focused on the factors that alter the risk of exposure to violence or the processes through which youth who are exposed to community violence do better or worse. This study investigates the risk of exposure to community violence and…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Child Rearing, Neighborhoods, Parenting Styles
School Strategies for Increasing Safety. Choices Briefs, Number 6.
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Tolan, Patrick H. – 2000
This brief presents an overview of a comprehensive school safety plan that combines calm and sound attention to the violence that currently pervades children's lives. With regard to the absolute probability of encountering violence or being victimized by crime, schools are the social setting in which students are most protected and least likely to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Identification, Inner City
Assessment of Family Relationship Characteristics: A Measure To Explain Risk for Antisocial Behavior and Depression among Urban Youth.
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Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Huesman, L. Rowell; Zelli, Arnaldo – Psychological Assessment, 1997
Two large samples of urban families (n=287 students and n=94 families) were used to develop and cross-validate an assessment model and a measure of basic family processes and risk among diverse ethnic groups. Six scales produced a three-dimension higher order factor model. Implications for family assessment methodology and risk models are…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Ethnic Groups, Factor Analysis
Urban Boys' Social Networks and School Violence.
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Minden, Joel; Henry, David B.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah – Professional School Counseling, 2000
Examines the extent to which network unconventionality relates to school violence in an inner-city sample of adolescents. Results suggest that school violence is related to unconventional social network characteristics, independent of the effects of individual deviance. Suggests that attempts to reduce school violence might focus on increasing…
Descriptors: Males, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Peer Relationship
Preventing Serious Antisocial Behavior in Inner-City Children: An Empirically Based Family Prevention Program.
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Tolan, Patrick H.; McKay, Mary McKernan – Family Relations, 1996
Describes a 22-week family intervention program designed to prevent antisocial behavior in urban minority children. Presents a theoretical model for strengthening critical family processes related to the emergence of antisocial behavior. Describes specific intervention goals, modalities, and activities. Provides recommendations for development,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
The Developmental Ecology of Urban Males' Youth Violence.
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Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Tested a developmental-ecological model of violence using longitudinal data from poor, urban African American and Latino adolescent boys and caregivers. Found that community structural characteristics significantly predicted neighborhood social processes. Parenting practices partially mediated relationship between neighborhood social processes and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Black Youth, Hispanic American Students