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Mental health impact of active shooters at schools


Surviving a school shooting: Impacts on the mental health ...

Research indicates a higher rate of antidepressant use among those exposed to a school shooting in the years following the gun violence. School shootings lead ...

Mental health impact of active shooters at schools - Bay News 9

What You Need To Know. A study from the Georgia Institute of Technology's Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab found that active shooter drills and ...

Effects of School Shootings - Center for Violence Prevention

Even short-term impairments can cause severe distress and have profound effects on academic achievement and the social and emotional growth of impacted students ...

The Mental Health Effects of School Shootings

A new study finds that the use of prescription drugs to treat mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety, increased by over ...

Reconsider Active Shooter Drills - Everytown

95% of American public schools drill students on lockdown procedures. Yet, there is almost no research affirming the value of these drills for preventing school ...

Is There a Link Between Mental Health and Mass Shootings?

Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass ...

Our children are worried about guns—and it's hurting their mental ...

A Sunday school class reveals how deeply all students have been affected by mass shooting incidents and constant “active shooter drills.”

School Shootings and Youth Mental Health

OSS provides training that helps Wisconsin public and private schools deter, prevent, mitigate, and respond to school violence. OSS training covers physical ...

School Shooters: Patterns of Adverse Childhood Experiences ...

INTRODUCTION. School shootings are events that can shatter an entire community and leave generations of students and adults devastated. A school shooting is the ...

The Mental Health Impact of Fatal Shootings at American Schools

In the two years following a fatal shooting, antidepressant prescriptions for young people living near the affected school were 21 percent higher than in areas ...

The Mind of the Mass School Shooter

The mass school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, coming nearly 10 years after the eerily similar massacre at Sandy Hook ...

The Impact of Active Shooter Drills on Student Health and Wellbeing

The ad hoc committee of experts will conduct a consensus study on the impact of active shooter drills and other school security measures on student mental, ...

Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide

This article describes epidemiologic evidence concerning risk of gun violence and suicide linked to psychiatric disorders, in contrast to media-fueled ...

An Examination of School Shootings and Mental Health

The current study looks at the connection between mental illness and school shootings, as well as the roles that media, gun control, violence, and masculinity ...

Stress of mass shootings causing cascade of collective traumas

The regularity of mass shootings is razing Americans' mental health—heightening stress and dulling compassion in ways that demand broader ...

Impacts of school shooter drills on the psychological well-being of ...

The toll from gun violence in American K-12 schools has escalated over the past 20 years. School administrators face pressure to prepare for ...

The Impact of Active Shooter Drills in Schools - Everytown Research

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund (Everytown), in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education ...

Preventing School Shootings - Center for Violence Prevention

Comprehensive strategies are required for preventing school shootings. Communities can reduce the risk of these complex events with programs and policies.

Experts reveal mental health impacts of mass shootings on young ...

Children can respond in a wide range of ways including being numb to the event, being more angry or irritable, suffering from high anxiety and being fearful of ...

Let It End With Us - PMC

Everytown has been collecting school gun violence statistics since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in 2012. Sixty-three percent of guns fired were in ...