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Parents may help prep kids for healthier, less violent relationships

5/2/18

Warm, nurturing parents may pass along strategies for building and maintaining positive relationships to their kids, setting them up for healthier, less-violent romantic relationships as young adults, according to researchers. In a study, adolescents who reported a positive family climate and their parents using more effective parenting strategies tended to go on to have better relationship problem-solving skills and less-violent romantic relationships as young adults.

Students flee the building during an active shooter training drill at Penn State Beaver.

Penn State Beaver to host symposium on mental health and violence

8/30/17

A group of experts and the families of both victims and offenders – including the parents of Colorado shooter James Holmes – will gather at Penn State Beaver in October to discuss the links between mental health and violence and the ways we may be able to curb the bloodshed.

Steven Miller, an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will discuss his book “War after Death: On Violence and its Limits” when he visits Penn State Behrend on Thursday, Nov. 5, for a special presentation.

Steven Miller to discuss casualties of war at Penn State Behrend

10/26/15

In his book “War after Death: On Violence and its Limits,” Steven Miller presents the theory that war is very different from the stories we tell about it. He argues that killing and death are often the narrative, but that there are still many other nonhuman casualties, including the fall of ecosystems and the loss of artworks, archives, personal property and intangible cultural traditions.

Miller will discuss this theory when he visits Penn State Behrend on Thursday, Nov. 5, for a special presentation. His talk, “Psychoanalysis, War, and the Literature of Brain Damage: Catherine Malabou and Oliver Sacks,” begins at 4:30 p.m. in Metzgar Center, and is free and open to the public.

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Dates announced for R.A.D. safety training for women

10/7/14

Penn State Lehigh Valley will offer a free, three-day Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) training program for women from 3 to 7 p.m. Nov. 3, Nov. 10 and Nov. 17 in the fitness center at the campus in Center Valley. The comprehensive program, taught by a nationally certified R.A.D. instructor, aims to teach techniques, tactics, awareness and risk-reduction that can aid in self-defense. It is open to female Penn State Lehigh Valley students, faculty and staff.

The next Psychology Colloquium will be held April 17 at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

Bystander intervention to be discussed at Behrend's next Psychology Colloquium

4/4/14

Melanie Hetzel-Riggin, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will discuss theories of bystander intervention as well as a multi-method bystander intervention program used to reduce interpersonal violence at the next Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior at the college.

Public invited to attend documentary, 'Anatomy of Hate'

2/4/13

Penn State Beaver invites the public to attend a free screening of the award-winning documentary, "The Anatomy of Hate - A Dialogue to Hope," 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 20, in the Student Union Building auditorium. At 7:30 p.m., the film's director, Mike Ramsdell, will engage the audience in a discussion and question and answer session. The film contains graphic language and is for mature audiences. For six years, Ramsdell worked with unprecedented access to some of the world's most extreme, violent ideologies and participants, including the White Supremacy movement, Christian fundamentalism as an anti-gay platform, Muslim extremism, the Palestinian Intifada, Israeli settlers and soldiers, and United States military forces in Iraq. For information, contact the Beaver campus Office of Student Activities at 724-773-3947 or ras62@psu.edu.

Probing Question: Can we reduce the risk of school shootings?

1/29/13

In the wake of every school shooting, the nation struggles to make sense of senselessness, asking how and why such tragic violence could occur in places tasked with nurturing and protecting our children. Is it possible to reduce the risk of deadly violence in our schools?

Public invited to attend free film about domestic violence awareness

10/26/12

The Penn State Beaver Voices Against Violence, and Climate and Diversity committees along with Crisis Center North (CCN) and the Women's Center of Beaver County (WCBC) will present a free showing of "Telling Amy's Story" at 4:30 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Beaver campus Student Union Building. The public is invited to attend the program as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Penn State Beaver faculty publications are announced

5/18/12

Articles written by two Penn State Beaver faculty members have been published in The Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 8(2).
John Chapin, professor of communications, is the author of "Third-person perception and myths about crime and victims of crime." Mari B. Pierce, assistant professor of administration of justice, wrote "Continuing the Conversation - The Operationalization of Focal Concerns Perspective: Assessing Sentencing Decisions for Criminal Child Neglect."

Chapin receives Congressional Citation

5/4/12

John Chapin, professor of communications at Penn State Beaver, is the recipient of the 2012 United States House of Representatives Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus Certificate awarded by Congressman Jim Costa and Congressman Ted Poe, co-chairs of the Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus for work on behalf of victims of crime. In the past, Chapin has received citations from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives for his research and volunteer work on behalf of domestic violence victims through providing domestic violence prevention and awareness programs. Chapin can be contacted at jrc11@psu.edu or 724-773-3877.

Beaver library will host displays designed by victims of violence

3/30/12

In recognition of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Penn State Beaver library will host the display of a quilt entitled "Survivors Wall" as well as a display entitled "Take a Walk in My Shoes." The displays, which are free and open to the public, will remain at the library throughout April and are exhibited with the assistance of Beaver campus librarian Marty Goldberg, who hosts an annual April display in conjunction with the Women's Center. For information about the display, contact Millie Anderson, advocacy coordinator at the Women's Center of Beaver County at 724-775-2032, or contact Goldberg at mxg35@psu.edu or 724-773-3791.

Chapin co-authors article on relationship violence

3/23/12

John R. Chapin, professor of communications at Penn State Beaver, is the co-author of "Optimistic Bias about Dating/Relationship Violence Among Teens" which appears in the current edition of The Journal of Youth Studies. The article was co-written by Grace Coleman, executive director of Crisis Center North, Pittsburgh. The Journal of Youth Studies is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of young people's experiences and life contexts. The article, published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/. Chapin can be contacted at jrc11@psu.edu or 724-773-3877.

Penn State announces confidential child abuse counseling services

3/21/12

Penn State has partnered with Praesidium Inc. to arrange counseling services for those who may have suffered abuse from Jerry Sandusky. As pledged by administrators and the chair of the University's Board of Trustees, Penn State will pay for counseling for the affected individuals.

Penn State to create Center for the Protection of Children

12/8/11

Penn State's share of football bowl game revenues not only will be used for a newly formed partnership with an advocacy group for victims of sexual violence, but now also will help launch a center for the study, research, prevention and treatment of child abuse.

Expert on murder and violence will speak at Penn State Beaver

10/14/11

Jack Levin will offer a free presentation titled "Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal," at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the auditorium of the Penn State Beaver Student Union Building. The public is invited to attend. Levin specializes in the study of violence and hate, and has examined and interviewed serial killers, mass murderers, violent criminals and perpetrators of hate crimes while exploring their methods and mentalities. He is the author or co-author of 30 books about crime, criminals, and hate, and has developed theories about conditions under which the worst crimes can occur.

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