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Violence prevention research findings suggest different key aspects for the application of a powerful prevention strategy. The project presented in this book tries to tackle the complexity of supporting a healthy mental development in children while also meeting the requirements for successful prevention. Resilience promotion proved to be a suitable concept for implementing a violence prevention strategy in secondary schools. In this practice-oriented research project, partners from France (IRTS, Rennes), Germany (ZfKJ, Freiburg), Poland (Breakwater Foundation, Krakow), Portugal (PFSE, Porto) and Sweden (University of Halmstad) co-operated in a two-year project with the aim of supporting schools in developing a resilience-promoting and violence-preventing strategy in a multi-level and multi-setting approach. As a result, a toolbox for resource-oriented training in schools for teachers and pupils was created. The measures undertaken during the project have been evaluated empirically and the influence of resilience-promoting activities in schools has been assessed. This publication addresses not only practitioners in schools seeking information on how to implement resilience-promoting activities, but also lecturers and researchers from the field of violence prevention and resilience promotion.

In most European countries, there is a great need for further education and competence development of professionals supporting young people with violent behaviour. To fulfil this need, innovative approaches based on quality guidelines are required. In a comparative research-practice transfer project, partners from Germany (ZfKJ Freiburg), France (IRTS Rennes), Sweden (University of Halmstad), Poland (University of Warsaw), and Switzerland (FHS St. Gallen) co-operated for two years to implement and evaluate two different strategies for further education based on the quality criteria developed in a previous study. These quality criteria aim at improving co-operation between different help systems, describe necessary changes in professional attitudes and methods and present more effective strategies for institutions to support young people with violent behaviour. The project has resulted in a validation of such pivotal quality criteria, and driven forward recommendations for the implementation of competence development measures. The book addresses practitioners working in different fields with the target group of children and adolescents and their parents, as well as students, lecturers and researchers. The project was funded by the Daphne III Programme of the European Commission.

In the European countries, a lot of different help offers for families with violent acting children and adolescents exist, in general financed and organised by governmental institutions. Respectively, different systems (youth welfare, school, health, justice) are responsible for the target group. These varying responsibilities can be explained by different traditions dealing with problematic behaviour or by different national structures. In a comparative research project within the Daphne II programme of the European Commission, partners from Germany (ZfKJ Freiburg), France (IRTS Rennes), Sweden (University Halmstad), Poland (University Warsaw) and Switzerland (FH St. Gallen) worked together for two years. The project aimed at the analysis and comparison of ambulant help offers for violent children and young people and their families. As on result, common quality criteria for best practice could be figured out. The book addresses practitioners working with violent acting children and adolescents and their parents in different fields, as well as students, lecturers and researchers.