Mental Health In School Shootings

Mental Health & Bullying: Where it stands in school shooters When looking at the crisis that comes with school shootings most people turn to the media, the media often times has incorrect or one sided views of these school shooters by exclusively excluding them due to mental illness .School shooters shouldn’t be excused exclusively in terms of their mental health because school shooters are also perpetrators of bullying. In the case of many school shootings over the past years, most of the talk and commenting from the media always portrays them as the victim and even in some cases even try to make the assumption that other students should’ve been wary of this specific student mainly based off the fact that they seem them as someone who has

Whenever a school shooting occurs the first reaction from most media outlets is that the student was bullied and friends and family just seem them as a “troubled child” who just needed to be guided into the right direction. When we look at bullying from its very beginnings in elementary school we shouldn’t begin to assume that those being bullied are solely going to be excused or looked at in terms of exclusively just their mental health. In one study that looked at the well-being of students who not only were bullied but were also the bullies, they found that most had issues that dealt with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem and both of them are bound to have external and internal behavioral issues that can result in the above issues. Yet while this all might be accurate it shouldn’t be the only thing focused on, why are we so concerned on the issues surrounding just mental health? There are plenty of other factors that can come in from people who are being perpetrators of bullying, for example we can look at their social lives and home lives. These environmental factors can be very hard to study but by looking and comparing students in similar situations with similar outcomes we are able to get a small play by play that makes them who they are. In another study that looked specifically at the

While this may not exactly solve the problem of guns getting in the hands of students who have mental health issues it definitely can decrease the likelihood. In one study done in a law medical journal they found that one of the main issues behind school shootings and their problem with not being able to detect the probability of one happening is because childhood mental illness goes undiscovered for so long that by the time it is figured out it is usually to late. One thing that I found in another article that would be able to help students and parents detect mental illness at a young age is if schools and mainly government could provide more funding for special education programs where these teachers are trained to see and work with students who are mentally unstable. Finally one more solution I believe that could help decrease the likelihood of these shootings from occurring is from one article that talks about how a program known as Mental Health Aid helps correctly inform the public and specifically teachers and parents on all the warning signs that occur in someone with a mental illness and also provides special