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     Eugene V Beresin, M.D.,the director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, points out the correlation between the media violence exposure and youth aggressiveness and considers that the physicians can help lessen those violent occurrences. He uses the televised violence for the primary example to explain the effect of the media violence on the youth. With 99% of homes have television and over half of all children have a television in their rooms, the opportunities that the youth contacts the violence on TV or in movies are growing without parental supervision and become the risks of leading the youth violence. According to the study, American children will watch more than 200,000 acts of violence, even including cartoons presenting up to 20 violent acts hourly. And the youth will imitate the violent heroes on TV or movies and be inserted a thought that aggressive behavior is a way to solve the conflict because of being exposed to the excessive televised violent. Besides, Eugene also refers to the music videos, video games, and the Internet as the violent exposure and the cultivators of violent models.
    Consequently, Eugene advocates that the child and adolescent physicians should not only advice parents to limit the amount of the violent televised exposure to children and explain the violent content to them properly, but also promote the media to provide appropriate warnings on the violent programs to the audience or consumers. Media violence has potential influence on the youth violence indeed, but by doing in this way just mentioned before; its risk of causing youth aggressive behaviors may enable to be controlled and declined.
    In my opinion, I think that the writer’s discourse about the correlation between televised violence and the youth aggressive behaviours can apply to the condition in Taiwan even if the target he talks is American youth. The fact is, in Taiwan, that television has also been popularized in almost every household and that we too have the problem of lacking the parental supervision on children’s TV watching. Therefore, the universal phenomenon can cause the youth violence in both of American’s case and Taiwan’s possibly. However, the precaution of televised violence exposure to the youth does rely on not only the assistance of physicians but also other more powerful groups, such like the government and the non-profit organizations. More importantly, parents need to really heed their children’s amount of viewing televised violence and tell them the right way to deal with the televised violence. In this way, we may succeed in decreasing the happenings of youth violence which includes the school bullying.

Eugene V Beresin, M.D. The Impact of Media Violence on Children and Adolescents: Opportunities for Clinical Interventions  Retrieved October 21, 2012, from the AACAP: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Web Site: http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/developmentor/the_impact_of_media_violence_on_children_and_adolescents_opportunities_for_clinical_interventions