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Title:How Children Become Violent : Keeping Your Kids Out of Gangs, Terrorist Organizations, & Cults
Author:Kathryn Seifert PhD
ISBN:1933631481 : 9781933631486
Format:Paperback
Size:140x215mm
Pages:269
Weight: .442 Kg.
Published:AtlasBooks (Acanthus Publishing) - December 2006
List Price: 13.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Advice on parenting: Violence in society


Violence is an age-old phenomenon. War, genocide, and death are cornerstones that define history. Yet in the 21st century, we are experiencing violence in ways never seen before. It may be in world-wide terrorist organisations, inner city and suburban gangs, or the disturbed teenager next door who takes his rage out on innocent classmates. Those who commit violence today, as Dr Kathryn Seifert explains in this book, are likely to be adults or adolescents who themselves witnessed violence as children or were abused or neglected in their early years. Childhood is a time when bonding with caregivers stimulates the formulation of behavioural regulation, interpersonal skills, moral development, brain development, and problem solving, and when it is interrupted Disrupted Attachments Patterns (DAP) can form. This means that today's violent, neglected, psychologically unbalanced, and traumatised children are likely to be tomorrow's dangers to society-that is, unless we can intervene to assess DAP and offer them appropriate therapy. Dr Seifert offers personal insights from her over 30 years of experience in mental health, addictions, and criminal justice work to help other therapists, victims, and parents understand not only how children become violent, but illuminate the pathway to a violence-free future.

Section I: Violence; Section II: Assessment; Section III: Treatment; Conclusion.