Analyses of Community Violence in Adolescents
Introduction
People think that crime, violence only happens or is related to gangs of inner cities, but violence could happen anywhere, for example in a family house, in crowded cities and rural cities. Every child in the United States faces elevated rates of exposure to violence over the years in their community. Children that are more at risk are the ones with families with low income, being non-white, and living in family violence. Therefore, this literature review will focus on four articles related with the explanations of community violence among Latino adolescents and the effects of a high risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and interventions for any ethnic groups in the community. Weaknesses of the research and …show more content…
“In a meta-analysis of the effects of community violence exposure on the mental health of children and adolescents, Gudiño and colleagues found the strongest association with PTSD symptoms, followed by externalizing and internalizing problems” (Gudiño, 2013, p. 984). Children who experienced extreme instances of community violence have difficulty in concentrating at school and have a hard time getting passing grades. Furthermore, adolescents become aggressive when growing up in a community with violence and some children between the grades of 9 and 12, have already been involved in fights, they have joined a gang or have carried a weapon. Per the research, it had “found that the frequency of witnessing a shooting or stabbing significantly predicted poorer school achievement, defined in terms of grade retention and child-reported grades” (Mazza & Overstreet, 2000, p. 92). These effects of exposure to violence then end up leaving the adolescents behind in school
Introduction
People think that crime, violence only happens or is related to gangs of inner cities, but violence could happen anywhere, for example in a family house, in crowded cities and rural cities. Every child in the United States faces elevated rates of exposure to violence over the years in their community. Children that are more at risk are the ones with families with low income, being non-white, and living in family violence. Therefore, this literature review will focus on four articles related with the explanations of community violence among Latino adolescents and the effects of a high risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and interventions for any ethnic groups in the community. Weaknesses of the research and …show more content…
“In a meta-analysis of the effects of community violence exposure on the mental health of children and adolescents, Gudiño and colleagues found the strongest association with PTSD symptoms, followed by externalizing and internalizing problems” (Gudiño, 2013, p. 984). Children who experienced extreme instances of community violence have difficulty in concentrating at school and have a hard time getting passing grades. Furthermore, adolescents become aggressive when growing up in a community with violence and some children between the grades of 9 and 12, have already been involved in fights, they have joined a gang or have carried a weapon. Per the research, it had “found that the frequency of witnessing a shooting or stabbing significantly predicted poorer school achievement, defined in terms of grade retention and child-reported grades” (Mazza & Overstreet, 2000, p. 92). These effects of exposure to violence then end up leaving the adolescents behind in school