While there is no easy solution, a panel of national experts on teens will attempt to shed some light on this critical subject. Warning Teens at Risk . Using videotaped case studies of actual school shooters, Robert Fein, PhD, and Brian Vossekuil of the Secret Service s National Threat Assessment Center and Safe Schools Initiative will discuss ways to prevent school violence. There is no doubt in my mind that today s teens are at risk.
Adolescence is a time of significant development, offering great opportunities for growth.
The objective of this conference is to reach out to the parents, teachers, mentors and family members who interact with teens on a regular basis, to provide them with new approaches and new intervention techniques so that we can prevent another Columbine. Pollack, the conference s organizer, is the author of a New York Times best-seller dealing with the emotional health of boys, which was written based on clinical research he conducted at McLean involving interviews with more than 200 boys from throughout the Northeast United States. McLean is the largest psychiatric teaching facility of Harvard Medical School .