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Knox, Michele S.; Burkhart, Kimberly; Hunter, Kimberly E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids program (ACT-PRSK) is an interactive violence prevention program developed by the American Psychological Association for parents of young children. The program teaches and supports parents in the areas of child development, roots and consequences of violence, anger management for adults and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Intervention, Family Violence, Child Abuse
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Nock, Matthew K.; Mendes, Wendy Berry – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
It has been suggested that people engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) because they (a) experience heightened physiological arousal following stressful events and use NSSI to regulate experienced distress and (b) have deficits in their social problem-solving skills that interfere with the performance of more adaptive social responses. However,…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Problem Solving, Arousal Patterns, Adolescents