Daniel J. Flannery is Professor & Director of the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence at Kent State University, Ohio. His research expertise includes a focus on risk and protective factors in delinquency and violence prevention, as well as investigations of how parent-child and parent-adolescent relationships impact early adolescent problem behavior.

• 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS2 INTRODUCTION3 CHAPTER 1: Violence and Mental Health: Is Anything Normal Anymore?4 CHAPTER 2: How Does the Brain Develop? Setting the Stage for Later Mental Health5 CHAPTER 3: Are Children Born Violent or Do We Just Make Them That Way?6 CHAPTER 4: It All Begins with Family: Socialization, Violence, and Mental Health7 CHAPTER 5: It Happens Every Day in Every Way: Children Exposed to Violence8 CHAPTER 6: The Challenge of Adolescence: What's all the Storm and Stress About?9 CHAPTER 7: Are Schools Any Safer Today? Violence in the Everyday Lives of Children10 CHAPTER 8: Violence and Mental Health: Two Birds of a Feather11 CHAPTER 9: Coping Means Dealing with Stress and Violence on a Daily Basis12 CHAPTER 10:Suggestions for Practice and Policy: How to Get Help When You Need It13 APPENDIX A:Additional resources not referenced in the text14 REFERENCES15 INDEX16 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Violence and Mental Health in Every Day Life is an extremely well documented and very easy to read and understand publication on the behavior of children and youth. It is a must read for anyone interested in the well being of children.