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Social work, school violence, mental health, and drug abuse: A call for evidence-based practices

Social work, school violence, mental health, and drug abuse: A call for evidence-based practices Youth violence is a global concern. In Israel, EDITORIAL political violence is feared to exacerbate youth and school violence. In this issue’s lead article, Benbenishty, Astor, Zeira, and Vinokur report on a study of perceived violence and fear of at- tending school among Arab and Jewish junior high school students in Israel. Their findings Social work, school violence, mental confirm the importance of distinguishing and health, and drug abuse: A call for separately testing factors associated with stu- dents’ perception of school violence and their evidence-based practices fear-related absences from school. They found that students who observed peers using drugs Enola K. Proctor and alcohol, bringing weapons to school, and fighting or harassing one another were more s former Secretary of Health and Human likely to rate school violence as a serious prob- Services, Donna Shalala challenged our lem. Yet, such observations were not signifi- Anation to assume “the first, most enduring cantly related to personal absenteeism because responsibility of any society”—ensuring the of fear of school violence. Rather, direct victim- health and well-being of our children (Shalala, ization—by staff and by student peers—was as- 2001). Social work has long been at the fore- sociated with missing school because http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Work Research Oxford University Press

Social work, school violence, mental health, and drug abuse: A call for evidence-based practices

Proctor, Enola K.
Social Work Research , Volume 26 (2) – Jun 1, 2002
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Youth violence is a global concern. In Israel, EDITORIAL political violence is feared to exacerbate youth and school violence. In this issue’s lead article, Benbenishty, Astor, Zeira, and Vinokur report on a study of perceived violence and fear of at- tending school among Arab and Jewish junior high school students in Israel. Their findings Social work, school violence, mental confirm the importance of distinguishing and health, and drug abuse: A call for separately testing factors associated with stu- dents’ perception of school violence and their evidence-based practices fear-related absences from school. They found that students who observed peers using drugs Enola K. Proctor and alcohol, bringing weapons to school, and fighting or harassing one another were more s former Secretary of Health and Human likely to rate school violence as a serious prob- Services, Donna Shalala challenged our lem. Yet, such observations were not signifi- Anation to assume “the first, most enduring cantly related to personal absenteeism because responsibility of any society”—ensuring the of fear of school violence. Rather, direct victim- health and well-being of our children (Shalala, ization—by staff and by student peers—was as- 2001). Social work has long been at the fore- sociated with missing school because

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