With schools returning to in-person learning, the threat of classroom shootings follows. Here’s how experts say we can prevent them from happening.

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With schools returning to in-person learning, the threat of classroom shootings follows. Here’s how experts say we can prevent them from happening.

The Violence Project co-founder Jillian Peterson told Insider how threat assessment teams can help prevent school shootings, as well as prevent further tragedies like suicide, self-harm, and other forms of violence.

“We really focus on things like safe, warm environments with strong relationships between students and adults so people feel more comfortable reporting when something’s going on with them, or when they’re concerned about a peer… So many of the risk factors that we know about have really been exacerbated in the last year while kids have been home and isolated and feeling alone and depressed and spending more time online, I think that’s something that we really have to be thinking proactively about as schools are reopening.”

Dr. Peterson was joined as a contributor to this article by psychiatrist and sociologist Jonathan Metzl and psychologist Peter Langman.

Read the full analysis here.

Author: Kelly McLaughlin
Source: INSIDER

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