Recorded: EIP 2015 ● Language: English ● Duration: 15 minutes ● Topic: Adolescent Medicine

     
 

Speaker: SOPHIE WALSH, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Israel

  
     
  Learning Objectives: The session will: (1) Examine how immigrant adolescents, both first and second generation, fare in terms of measures of wellbeing as compared with non-immigrant adolescents; (2) Explore the effect of an increasing number of immigrant adolescents in schools on levels of peer violence; and (3) Discuss potential for prevention, intervention and future studies in this context.