Stress is a ubiquitous experience in the lives of children and adolescents, regardless of the schools they attend, their families’ income, or the neighborhood in which they live. There is clear evidence correlating low socioeconomic status (SES) with increases in exposure to violence and other traumatic and stressful experiences. Gender and age also are important factors to consider as related to the amount and type of stress experienced by youth. The three main allo-static systems involved in physiologic reactions to stress include the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system. "Zippy’s Friends" is a school-based mental health promotion and intervention program for younger students in Kindergarten through first grade. The Zippy’s Friends program encourages students to understand their feelings and behavior that facilitates self-reliance and self-confidence. The three strategies of coping skill training, stress management, and mindfulness all show promise for very young children to high school students.

Words, recognition, preferred stories, values, and meaning are all wrapped up in what the solution focused narrative therapy (SFNT) model aims to provide to clients who are dealing with relational concerns. The SFNT model spends as much time as it takes to craft questions around the preferred future until both therapist and client know what the desired outcome is. The narrative part of the model encourages the therapist to spend time deconstructing the storyline in the first session to understand the relationship that the client has with the problem, by seeking the effects. This chapter gives the practitioner ways to help both male and female clients reflect on their actions and the reactions that occur in their relationships as a result. Safety plans and community resources should always be provided to clients dealing with violence.

The intervention process used by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) relies on each person in the system acting as part of a team. The abuser is confronted throughout with a consistent and clear message that his use of violence against his partner is wrong and that the community will join with his partner to stop him. Within that community response the group facilitator becomes the person who interprets all other parts of the system to the abuser. The facilitator establishes the closest relationship to the abuser and consequently is in the best position to help him understand the community’s confrontation of his violence. The facilitator more than anyone else creates the atmosphere in a group that keeps men focused on their abusive behaviors, eliminates the victim blaming that keeps them from changing, and asks men to support each other in becoming nonviolent.

Pornography has been an incredibly complex part of the social fabric across history. Naturally, our concepts of pornography are rooted within our own culture and perceptions of sexuality. Pornography involving children, since children are obviously harmed in the making of such material, is clearly obscene. Interest in sex, nudity, and viewing people having sex is not remotely new or a product of the modern age. One well-known example from the otherwise conservative Hindu culture is the Kama Sutra. Kama Sutrais an Indian tome famous for its sexually explicit content. Not surprisingly, photography and, later, moving pictures expanded the availability of pornography. Until the advent of social media, pornography consumption quickly became the most popular activity on the Internet. Much of the debate over pornography’s effects concerns how pornography may influence men’s attitudes toward women, possibly resulting in increased violence toward women.

Book bannings and burnings have long been part of authoritarian regimes, whether aristocratic, fascist, or communist. During the 20th century many books, such as Tropic of Cancer, were banned in the United States because of their perceived “obscene” sexual material. Book bannings are intended to prevent others from reading a book. In recent memory, probably few books have come to epitomize the debates on banned books more than the Harry Potter series, written by J. K. Rowling. Books that are challenged are very often books that are targeted toward youth, yet still contain edgy content such as sexuality, violence, occult themes, profanity and drug references. The relative dearth of research on books is probably the result of several factors. Newer media such as video games, social media, and old standbys such as movies and television, tend to get most of the focus.

This chapter offers Madeleine McCann case example to demonstrates some of the risks of news media involvement in criminal cases. This case ultimately devolved from a cooperative investigation into considerable acrimony, finger pointing, criticism, and controversy among the family, Portuguese police, British police, and news media. The chapter discusses how do news media come to highlight certain stories but not others, to what extent do news media report information inaccurately or accurately, and what effect do news media reports have on the beliefs of viewers. It concentrates particularly on the way news media represent crime. On the issue of crime, news media often focus on “sensational” crime, particularly violent, shocking crimes, with a preference for bizarre crimes. Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) taps into issues related to race, gender, social class, and society values.