Showing papers in "Child Abuse & Neglect in 1994"

TL;DR: Surveys of child sexual abuse in large nonclinical populations of adults have been conducted in at least 19 countries in addition to the United States and Canada, including 10 national probability samples, and clearly confirm sexual abuse to be an international problem.

TL;DR: There was no support for a direct relationship among child sexual abuse, arrests for running away in adolescence, and adult arrests for prostitution, but an association for males between physical abuse and arrests for violent sex crimes (rape and/or sodomy) is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied long-term intellectual and academic outcomes associated with early childhood victimization using a sample of previously abused and neglected individuals and a matched control group (n = 286).

TL;DR: It was found that a combination of physical neglect, physical abuse, and verbal abuse had the greatest impact on children, affecting such things as their enjoyment of living and hopes for the future.

TL;DR: Comparisons on psychological test data indicated that the PTSD subgroup significantly differed from the non-PTSD subgroup on the basis of children's abuse-related fears, anxiety, depression, and feelings of guilt related to the abuse.

TL;DR: Sexual abuse was found to be significantly associated with mental health counseling and hospitalization, psychoactive substance use, depression, suicidal thought or actions, social support, sexual identity development, and risk of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infection.

TL;DR: The results show that a history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or rape is related to engaging in a variety of HIV risk behaviors and to a continuation or increase in the total number of these behaviors between adolescence and young adulthood.

TL;DR: The combination of emotional abuse in the respondent's childhood with multiple events of sexual abuse was a relatively good predictor of both poor mental health, and later sexual interest in or sexual contact with children.

TL;DR: This study utilized standardized measures of PTSD and found a significant incidence of PTSD among adult CSA survivors and significant correlations were found between several overall exposure measures and PTSD diagnostic status and the intensity of PTSD symptomatology.

TL;DR: Thirty-seven identified abusive mothers were matched on demographic and socioeconomic parameters with a known nonabusive comparison sample in order to examine the role of parenting stress and maternal social support.

TL;DR: Analyses of predictor variables showed that placement at a later age and fewer children in the home were associated with higher academic achievement, and recommendations are made regarding future research and educational needs of children in kinship care.

TL;DR: As expected, multiple regression analyses showed that parental warmth strongly influenced or mediated the relationship of intrafamilial child abuse to depression and self-esteem levels, and abuse was associated to PTSD independently of variation in perceived parenting.

TL;DR: The most notable psychopathology was the presence of a personality disorder in 17 of the mothers, which were predominantly Histrionic and Borderline types, however, most subjects met the criteria for more than one category of personality disorder.

TL;DR: The value of formal sexual abuse investigation in children who have not previously told someone about abuse is called into question, given that many young children who had previously disclosed abuse, did not repeat this information during formal investigation in which "nonleading" interviews were used.

TL;DR: Postpubertal onset of abuse and close relationship with the offender were positively associated with the number of sick-leave days and the severity of CSA was associated with a broad range of health problems.

TL;DR: Posttraumatic stress disorder is significantly overrepresented in the children of mothers diagnosed with PTSD, and the onset of maltreatment is significantly earlier among children whose mothers meet PTSD criteria than among other maltreated children.

TL;DR: Full discrimination was achieved only when aggressive, withdrawn, and prosocial behavior were combined in a multivariate analysis, indicating that effects of maltreatment must be viewed as multidimensional.

TL;DR: The literature review is preceded by an overview of the multistep, multibehavior process of identification and reporting of possible cases of child physical abuse.

TL;DR: The results are interpreted in terms of prosecutors' concern for serving justice and protecting children and their perceptions of their ability to prosecute cases successfully.

TL;DR: This paper addresses several methodological and practical problems encountered in studies of child maltreatment by developing classification schemes for multiple forms of maltreatment and tracking respondents in longitudinal studies.

TL;DR: Perceptions of the extent of danger and disorganization in the neighborhood were significantly related to a sense of attachment to the community, and to disciplinary strategies, and parents who perceived more danger were stricter.

TL;DR: The proportion of women who experienced depression during their lifetime was highest among women who defined themselves as abused, intermediate among those who met objective criteria for having been physically abused, but did not define themselves as such, and lowest among thosewho did not meet objective criteria.

TL;DR: The psychological functioning of child victims is studied, particularly in their emotional and cognitive adjustment, in terms of the learned helplessness' model proposed and developed by Seligman, Kaslow, Alloy, Peterson, Tanenbaum, and Abramson (1984).

TL;DR: In this paper, Bcntovim et al. presented a group of experts who participated in an international conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Neglect, which was held in London, UK.

TL;DR: It is revealed that verbal and physical discipline are not substitutes, but, instead, are commonly used together, and both physical and verbal violence appear to be transgenerational.

TL;DR: Although abused and neglected children were most at risk immediately after their incident of abuse or neglect, they remained at greater risk of mistreatment for years thereafter.

TL;DR: It was found that abused adolescents scored significantly higher on stress and depression scales and rated their families as less supportive than did nonabused adolescents, and abused adolescents were more likely to report substance use during pregnancy and gave birth to smaller babies.

TL;DR: Questionnaires assessing childhood physical abuse, childhood incest, and parental alcoholism were completed by 253 college women from introductory psychology classes at a large midwestern university and limited support was found for a specificity model of trauma.

TL;DR: The prevalence and context of child sexual abuse was surveyed in Finland and regional differences were so great both in sexual experience and in sexual abuse that they could be interpreted as giving support to a "subculture theory of sorts".

TL;DR: Through an extensive review of guidelines and protocols on the use of anatomical dolls in sexual abuse evaluations, seven functional uses of the dolls were identified: Comforter, Icebreaker, Anatomical Model, Demonstration Aid, Memory Stimulus, Diagnostic Screen, and Diagnostic Test.