Showing papers in "Child Abuse & Neglect in 2002"

TL;DR: The current review offers further support for the long-standing conclusion that child neglect poses a significant challenge to children's development and well-being.

TL;DR: Concerns about the presence of emotional abuse need to trigger an assessment process that includes identifying the nature of the abusive or neglectful interactions and a time-limited trial of specific interventions.

TL;DR: Four possible pathways by which childhood abuse relates to health problems in adults are described, including one that puts people at risk of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, participating in harmful activities, having difficulties in relationships, and having negative beliefs and attitudes towards others.

TL;DR: Adolescents who have experienced both date violence and rape were more likely to use laxatives, use diet pills, binge eat, and have suicidal thoughts or attempts than their nonabused peers, and these odds were weakened but remained significant after controlling for other abuse by an adult.

TL;DR: Research indicates that medical, social, and legal professionals have relied too heavily on the medical examination in diagnosing child sexual abuse.

TL;DR: The mediating roles of recent physical abuse and self-esteem suggest salient leverage points for change through empowerment training andSelf-esteem enhancement in homeless women.

TL;DR: Adult minority sexual orientation is a risk indicator for positive histories of experiencing parental maltreatment during childhood and previous research suggests that childhood individual differences, including possibly gender atypicality, may be a causal factor.

TL;DR: The perceptions of children and young people in care concerning the extent to which they have been able to participate in decisions that affect them, the reasons they want to do so, and what is required to make it effective are explored.

TL;DR: The results suggest that there are some modifiable protective and vulnerability factors present shortly after maltreated youth are placed in foster care that predict their engagement in adolescent risk behaviors 6 years later.

TL;DR: Logistic regression showed that the gender of the perpetrators being both male and female and the forcefulness of the perpetrator were the best predictors of being in the sexual offender group.

TL;DR: A history of childhood abuse was found to be predictive of the use of both physical and verbal punishment by mothers, but not for fathers, and ethnicity continued to be a significant predictor of parenting behaviors and attitudes for all parents, controlling for cultural factors.

TL;DR: The study has supported the value of conceptualizing certain childhood adversities as developmental risk factors for paraphilic behaviors and has significant implications for the prevention of childhood abuse and treatment of sex offenders.

TL;DR: The pattern of exploitation and victimization within the family may have serious and cumulative developmental consequences for these youth as they enter the street environment and early intervention programs are needed to break the cycle of abuse that adolescents experience within thefamily.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that in addition to child sexual abuse and physical abuse, family conflict and cohesion are risk factors for the development of psychological distress and depression in adolescence.

TL;DR: Implications of this and other research suggests that actively engaging families in a helping alliance and helping them accept and receive services may reduce the likelihood of future maltreatment.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on culture and child maltreatment shows a need for further development in this area and efforts need to be made to "unpack" culture and promote understanding culture in context.

TL;DR: The present study showed lower rates for more intimate or severe forms of child sexual abuse as compared to Western studies, and the Chinese victims were more reluctant to disclose their sexual victimization than their Western counterparts.

TL;DR: The elevated risk for physical and sexual abuse among respondents reporting a parental history of psychiatric illness highlights the need to examine the mechanism for this association.

TL;DR: The characteristics of brother-sister incest and its associated psychosocial distress did not differ from the characteristics of father-daughter incest, suggesting that theoretical models and clinical practices should be adjusted accordingly and that sibling incest should not necessarily be construed as less severe or harmful than father- daughter incest.

TL;DR: Professional group membership, rather than factors such as age or ethnicity of the child or chronicity of abuse, accounts for different patterns of prioritizing and using information when making decisions about whether a child should remain in the home or be placed in foster care.

TL;DR: This study confirms the importance of social factors in the etiology of child maltreatment, and encompasses a number of different aspects, including financial security, housing situation and material benefits.

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TL;DR: Findings suggest that PTCA may have qualities of impulsive aggression, a form of aggression that is conceptualized as driven by negative affect, occurs in response to aversive events, and is not planned.

TL;DR: Differences among groups in factors related to infant and child homicide across age groups may assist in the development of more tailored abuse prevention efforts and may also guide future investigations.

TL;DR: Gender, child's satisfaction with current discharge plan, and multiple traumatic experiences were found to be associated with variations in symptomatology, painting a picture of chaotic childhood marked by significant stress and trauma.

TL;DR: Physical abuse is a significant problem in babies under the age of 1 year and there is evidence of failure of secondary prevention of child abuse by health professionals, with a greater need to act on concerns regarding abuse and neglect.

TL;DR: The overall prevalence rates of staff maltreatment should be considered high and unacceptable, and both cultural beliefs and low family socioeconomic status increase vulnerability to staff malt treatment.

TL;DR: Future prevention efforts will need to take care in avoiding some of the most common mistakes experienced by earlier efforts, including oversimplifying the problem of child abuse; overstating preventions' potential and appropriate target populations; and failing to fully engage the public.

TL;DR: Three specific constraints on child protection are examined in this article, namely poverty, HIV/AIDS infection, and war, which use their experience in Africa to raise issues of resilience and adaptation, dangers to child protection programs, and possible solutions.