Developmental Psycology

The article tackles the need to provide early prevention for violent behavior, their has been many prevention programs to alter the social environment at school to reduce violence. Some examples of the these programs are the GBG, LIFT, and CPPRG. This study expanded on those early programs and examined the effect of an early elementary-school based universal preventive intervention program called Peace Buildres. Peace Builders is set up to alter children aggressive behavior and increase social competence by changing the atmosphere of a entire school.

Peace Builders is a school wide-prevention program for elementary schools (Grades K-5) implementted by all staff and students in a

I felt the the article was very important and it seems wise to have the prevention in early school because children are more favorable to learn and cange then when yoiu are already set in your way and then trying to have a program. This is very important because in this ay and age when vilonece among children is a proble. This brings like to the programs that have been emplicated to see if they really do work or if something needs to be done to alter them. If we step in a this delicate time when children are growing we may curve this aggressiveness and have more helathery well balenced children in the future.

The article set out to test if youth aggressive behavior would be reduced by initiating prevention early in childhood and by increasing children’s resilience and social competece. they predicted that in the first year, they expected that children in the intervention-school group, compared with those in the control-school group, would rep

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Grades K-5, Prevention Program”, Peace Builders, LIFT CPPRG, social competence, , aggressive behavior, prevention programs, elementary school, school based, peace builders, peace buildres, based universal,