Indicated Prevention of Severe Targeted School Violence: NETWorks Against School Shootings (NETWASS)

Prevention of Targeted School Violence by Responding to Students' Psychosocial Crises: The NETWASS Program

“…The “Networks Against School Shootings” crisis prevention model for schools (Leuschner, Schroer‐Hippel, Bondü, & Scheithauer, ).…”

Student Crisis Prevention in Schools: The NETWorks Against School Shootings Program (NETWASS) – An Approach Suitable for the Prevention of Violent Extremism?

“…A psychosocial crisis was consistently associated with certain observable warning behaviors that indicate the planning of a violent act, or the preoccupation with violence, respectively, as well as early crisis symptoms pointing to a negative psychosocial development -as several analyses of school shooting cases suggest (Meloy, Hoffmann, Guldimann, & James, 2012;Meloy & O'Toole, 2011). Symptoms for a general crisis that were found in case analyses were school failure, rejection of schooling, social withdrawal, aggressive behaviors, self-injury, psychosomatic pain, or other sudden behavior changes (for an overview see Scheithauer et al, 2015;Leuschner, Schroer-Hippel, Bondü, & Scheithauer, 2013). Violence-specific warning behaviors are verbal or written threats, leakage of violent intentions, preoccupation with violence, or suicidal intentions (Meloy et al, 2012;Meloy & O'Toole, 2011).…”

“…As illustrated in Figure 1, the preventive model consists of four process steps and works like a filter in which information is collected and reviewed with only the most serious cases passed on for consideration by a crisis prevention team (Leuschner et al, 2013):…”