We talked to some experts, including Dr. Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D., one of the country's leading experts on children and violence. Dr. Perry is a special Scholastic consultant on child psychology and behavior. He is the chief of psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital and the Trammell research professor of Child Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He and his team at the ChildTrauma Academy work each day with children and teens touched by violence. On March 6, Erik Wallingford, a student at Santana High School, visits a makeshift memorial for the victims of a shooting on March 5.
Experts talk about the violence students face in school and what to do about it.
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