Washington – Scientists have developed a new tool that could improve treatment and prevention of aggressive behavior by children and adolescents in schools and in the community.
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Researchers hope that the ‘Brief Rating of the Child and Adolescent Aggression’ (BRACHA) tool could serve as ‘biomarkers of aggression’.
“Using the BRACHA could help hospitals cut down on violence,” said Drew Barzman, a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist at Cincinnati Children’s and lead author of the study.
“The long-term goal is to prevent kids from going down a criminal path. If we can find high risk children before they become involved with the juvenile justice system, which is why we are studying 7 to 9 year olds, we can hopefully provide more effective treatment and prevention,” he added.
The study has been published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
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Well, hopefully this assessment tool will be able to help children who may become violence prone. I believe that the BRACHA will help many parents so that they don’t have to say a bracha each time that their child is emotional to pray that they don’t become violent.