Feeling safe in schoolFootnote∗

Invited lecture to the Smith College School of Social Work, June 11, 2001

Research support by the Child and Family Center, Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas

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• Co‐director of the Peaceful Schools Project, Child & Family Center, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas and faculty Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Consultant to the FBI Critical Incident Response Group on School Shootings.
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• Director, Child and Family Center and Clinical Protocols and Outcomes Center, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, UCL, London, England, Director of Research, The Anna Freud Centre, London, England.
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• President, Community Services Institute, Springfield, Massachusetts.
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