How Children Become Violent Course

How Children Become Violent Course is organized by Professional Development Resources (PDR), Inc.

Accreditation:
CE Credit: 6 Hours

Course Description:
How Children Become Violent is a 6-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that examines the cycle of youth violence and sexual offending and how this cycle can be broken.

This course was written for professionals working in the mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice/criminal justice, and research fields, as well as students studying these fields. The authors’ goal is to make a case for the fact that juvenile and adult violence begins very early in life, and it is both preventable and treatable. The author draws on her 30 years of experience working in and researching violence to demonstrate that society must intervene early in the lives of children living in violent, neglectful, criminal, and substance-dependent families.

This course provides information about the problems of violence - in its various forms of abuse, neglect, and just plain senseless killing - that takes place in this country. These are problems that are seldom handled well by governmental agencies of child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and mental health. This results in more problems, turning into a cycle of youth violence and sexual offending that will potentially continue for generations. However, with the correct intervention, this cycle can be broken, which creates a safer environment for all of society.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify 5 risk factors for youth violence
• Name 2 resiliency factors that can help overcome the influence of violence
• List 2 assessment tools used to evaluate youth risk for violence
• Describe 4 interventions appropriate for youth at risk for violence
• List the 6 stages of moral development
• Identify the elements that are included in the definition of psychopathy