Emotional Impact of Children's Exposure to Community Violence: A Preliminary Study
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 October 1995
Michele Cooley-Strickland, Samuel M. Turner, Déborah C. Beidel
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There appears to be an adverse relationship between high levels of exposure to community violence and emotional and conduct problems in children between the ages of 7 and 12 years.
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There appears to be an adverse relationship between high levels of exposure to community violence and emotional and conduct problems. Vicarious learning serves as an explanatory construct for these findings.
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