Managing, Reducing, and Preventing Fear of Violence Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2020) / Chapter Skim
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Managing, Reducing, and Preventing Fear of Violence: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Managing, Reducing, and Preventing Fear of Violence: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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The VAWA fills resource gaps at state and local levels and supports coordination among police, prosecutors, advocates, and health providers to serve victims and to hold those who have perpetrated accountable. THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FEAR AND FEAR OF VIOLENCE Rachel Yehuda, director, Traumatic Stress Studies Division, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, remarked that when activated by fear, the sympathetic nervous system releases adrenaline (increasing heart rate and blood pressure)
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. Threats can be viewed as stimuli that elicit symptoms associated with different brain systems: the amygdala controls behavioral symptoms, striatal circuits control adaptive and pathological avoidance behaviors, temporal lobe circuits control memories (the basis of beliefs and expectations)
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Facebook posts and text messages further spread and escalate accusations of and actual violence toward "witches." Although West African law enforcement and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened laws against those who kill "witches," perpetrators are undeterred because they are convinced that they are protecting their community. Although it is challenging to combat these deepseated spiritual beliefs, cultural education programs in schools, nonprofits, and churches that emphasize medicine and science aim to sever this link between culturally constructed fears and violence.
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He suggested increasing cross-sector research; providing concrete steps to reduce fear; managing individual and community fear among frontline workers; better training for public health providers and law enforcement to address symptoms and causes and to avoid using language that embeds fear; and challenging industries and governments to stop both exacerbating fear to gain support and using fear to increase profits, oppress, or control. Campbell defined IPV as repeated physical, psychological, and/or sexual violence.
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Jeff Allison, former special adviser to the School and Campus Public Safety, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and chairperson of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services' School Safety Working Group, U.S. Department of Justice, explained that the national Averted School Violence database collects and disseminates case studies that law enforcement can use to understand and prevent targeted school violence.
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Joe noted that equitable opportunity and personal safety matter, and he championed Cordner's suggestion to use data to understand what crime is occurring, to identify fears, and to create appropriate interventions. INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY-LEVEL STRATEGIES TO REDUCE FEAR OF VIOLENCE Fear Across the Lifespan XinQi Dong, the inaugural Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences, Rutgers University, and director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, explained that elder abuse does not prompt a "visceral reaction of injustice" the way that child abuse does because the knowledge base is too small.
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FWV offers an online toolkit that encourages health care providers to partner with local domestic violence programs to build capacity in clinical settings to prevent and respond to violence. She said that screening for domestic violence alone does not increase safety; providing universal education on healthy relationships and domestic violence advocacy services helps those who respond "no" on the screening and empowers others to share information with someone in danger.
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Larger-Resilience Threat Management Frameworks Megan Ranney, the Warren Alpert Endowed Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, and founding director, Brown–Lifespan Center for Digital Health, explained a few ways that fear drives firearm injury. First, structural racism and fear of the "other" often drive gun ownership, including a false perception that everyone owns guns.
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Links championed campaigns focused on building resistance at an individual level but added that community-level interventions depend on interdependence and social cohesion. Ranney noted that fear can be used to motivate individual behavioral changes; however, because fear can also be counterproductive to behavioral changes, it cannot be the sole driver of change.
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Lauren Shern, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, served as the review coordinator. SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by the Administration for Community Living; Becton, Dickinson and Company; Catholic Health Initiatives; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Education Development Center; National Institutes of Health; Medical College of Wisconsin; and U.S.
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