Related Information -- Supporting Research

If you are interested in reading more of the research on the effects of children’s exposure to violence, and effective prevention strategies, please see the following resources:

Dr. Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on brain development and children in crisis. Dr. Perry leads the ChildTrauma Academy, a pioneering center providing service, research and training in the area of child maltreatment (www.ChildTrauma.org). Dr. Perry served as consultant on many high-profile incidents involving traumatized children, including the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado; the Oklahoma City Bombing; and the Branch Davidian siege. His clinical research and practice focuses on traumatized children-examining the long-term effects of trauma in children, adolescents and adults. Dr. Perry's work has been instrumental in describing how traumatic events in childhood change the biology of the brain. The author of more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and scientific proceedings and is the recipient of a variety of professional awards.

The Impact of Abuse and Neglect on the Developing Brain
Find out how destructive experiences can affect children in far-reaching ways - emotional, behavioral, academic, social, and physical - for life. http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/abuse_neglect.htm

Principles of Working With Traumatized Children
When we are under threat, our minds and bodies will respond in an adaptive fashion, making changes in our state of arousal (mental state), our style of thinking (cognition) and in our body's physiology (e.g., increased heart rate, muscle tone, rate of respiration). To understand how we respond to threat it is important to appreciate that as we move along the arousal continuum - from calm to arousal to alarm, fear and terror — different areas of our brain control and orchestrate our mental and physical functioning. http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/working_children.htm

Aggression and Violence: The Neurobiology of Experience
Over 5 million children are directly exposed to violence in the U.S. each year. What will the impact on our society be? Read on to find out more. http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/aggression_violence.htm

"Columbine, Killing and You"
Why? Why did they do it? Why would two teenagers deliberately plan and methodically carry out a murderous attack on their classmates? Why didn't anyone see this coming? Why didn't anyone intervene and prevent them from killing? How can we prevent anything like that from happening again? http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/Columbine_Killing.htm

"The Vortex of Violence"
How Children Adapt and Survive in a Violent World.
One in a series of booklets developed by the ChildTrauma Academy to assist parents, caregivers, teachers and various professionals working with maltreated and traumatized children. http://www.childtrauma.org/CTAMATERIALS/vortex_interd.asp

ACE Study
Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
www.ajpm-online.net/article/PIIS0749379798000178/fulltext

Robin Karr-Morse
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence, published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc., available in book stores everywhere.
http://www.connectforkids.org/usr_doc/8442.pdf

Rand Corporation
"Investing in our children: what we know and don't know about the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions," 1998.
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR898/

Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of
the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
www.ajpm-online.net/article/PIIS0749379798000178/fulltext

Children Who See Too Much by Betsy McAlister Groves
Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston, MA
Copyright 2002 by Betsy McAlister Groves http://www.safefromthestart.org/highlights/seetoomuch.html


OTHER SOURCES OF RESEARCH INFORMATION

A Forum on Child and Family Statistics
www.childstats.gov

Attachment Disorder References (references and resources)
http://www.members.tripod.com/~radclass/slide23.html

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Blueprints for Prevention
In 1996, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with funding from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, designed and launched a national violence prevention initiative to identify violence prevention programs that are effective. The project, called Blueprints for Violence Prevention, has identified 11 prevention and intervention programs that meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness. http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/

Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI)
The FVSAI is an international training & resource center and maintains bibliographies and categorized references concerning all aspects of family violence and sexual assault, and reviews information and materials.
http://www.fvsai.org/about.html

The Future of Children, a biannual magazine on major issues affecting children, published by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Future of Children seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.
http://www.futureofchildren.org/

Office for Victims of Crime Bulletin
"Children Exposed to Violence: Criminal Justice Resources"
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/factshts/cevcjr.htm

Office for Victims of Crime Bulletin
"Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Recommendation to Improve the Criminal Justice Response to Child Victims and Witnesses"
www.ojp.usdoj/ovc/publications/factshts/monograph.htm

Yale Child Study Center / Child Development Community Policing Program
The goal of the Child Development - Community Policing Program (CD-CP) is to heal the wounds that chronic exposure to violence inflicts on children and families. The CD-CP Program is a national model of a collaborative alliance among law enforcement, juvenile justice, domestic violence, medical and mental health professionals, child welfare, schools and other community agencies.
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/CDCP/