Structuring School-Based Interventions to Achieve Integrated Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Goals for Safe and Effective Schools.

Abstract

In 1992, C. Everett Koop and his associates in the medical field declared interper-sonal violence to be the number one public health problem in this country (See Koop & Lundberg, 1992). Little has changed within our society during the ensuing years to alter this assessment. Destructive forms of youth behavior now routinely include vio-