Showing papers in "Child Abuse & Neglect in 2006"

TL;DR: Figley et al. as discussed by the authors used a self-report instrument developed by Stamm and Figley to measure the risk of compassion fatigue and burnout and the potential for compassion satisfaction among 363 child protection staff participating in a secondary trauma training seminar.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the strongest risks are from socio-economic deprivation and from factors in the parents' own background and that parental background factors are largely, but not entirely, mediated through their impact on socio- economic factors.

TL;DR: The results from this study suggest that interventions with children who are identified for one form of victimization should be assessed for other forms of Victimization, and interventions should also address learned behaviors or beliefs associated with continued or future victimization.

TL;DR: The age-specific incidence curve of hospitalized SBS cases has a similar starting point and shape to the previously reported normal crying curve but the peak occurs about 4-6 weeks later, which is only consistent with the properties of early crying.

TL;DR: The ways parents perceive workers using power was shown to be the primary influence shaping parents' views of intervention and their reactions to it, highlighting the importance of practitioners and policy makers being aware of the impact power has on worker-parent interaction.

TL;DR: The PDR Checklist may be useful in predicting which placements are at most risk of future disruption, allowing for targeted services and supports.

TL;DR: Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) analyses indicate that the ARC organizational intervention reduced the probability of caseworker turnover by two-thirds and improved organizational climate by reducing role conflict, role overload, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization in both urban and rural case management teams.

TL;DR: The significant relationship between infant and maternal trauma symptoms, especially among those infants experiencing severe IPV, are consistent with the theory of relational PTSD.

TL;DR: Investigating three categories of increasing severity of childhood adversity to examine whether the childhood experience of physical punishment alone was associated with adult psychopathology, after adjusting for sociodemographic variables and parental bonding dimensions found physical punishment is a mild form of Childhood adversity that shows an association with adult psychopathy.

TL;DR: Results suggest that integration in the foster home might be an important dimension of placement adaptation that should be considered during service planning for foster youth in long-term foster care.

TL;DR: Girls were found to be at more risk for internalizing and externalizing behavior problems than boys, and children who were new victims at follow-up had the most internalizing problems.

TL;DR: Whether girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk of having histories of abuse and whether the presence of an abuse history may constitute a distinct subgroup of youth with ADHD is assessed.

TL;DR: Identifying reluctant disclosers and making more extensive efforts to build rapport before substantive issues are broached, or interviewing such children in more than one session, may help suspected victims disclose their experiences.

TL;DR: Hong Kong Chinese parents commonly used corporal punishment on their children, which was associated with characteristics of children, parents, and family, and significant correlates were externalizing behaviors of children and parental marital dissatisfaction.

TL;DR: It is indicated that the prevalence of CSA is high among individuals seeking inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa and a history of C SA was associated with greater psychiatric disturbance overall and a higher rate of dropout for patients of the binge-purge subtype.

TL;DR: There was no basis in this study for presumingpeer and sibling victimizations to be more benign when they involve younger children, and the findings provide justification for being concerned about such peer and sibling violence in schools and families.

TL;DR: Study findings suggest that mothers involved with child welfare enter substance abuse treatment through different avenues and present a clinical profile of treatment needs related to exposure to physical abuse, economic instability, and criminal justice involvement.

TL;DR: The current study supports research suggesting that child emotional abuse can have a negative impact on its survivors and recommends treatment of those survivors manifesting disordered eating should be holistic, as opposed to targeted towards specific symptoms.

TL;DR: Animal cruelty by children is correlated with exposure to domestic violence and exposed children Cruel to animals were significantly older than non-exposed children cruel to animals.

TL;DR: Bullying is a serious problem in schools in Turkey and is a matter of recent concern, with boys consistently experiencing more physical bullying including kicking-slapping, assault with a knife, rude physical jokes, and more verbal bullying including name calling and insulting-swearing.

TL;DR: Caretaker characteristics and non-child welfare service use patterns had a strong association with the likelihood of a child being re-reported to the child welfare agency and should be more heavily attended to by child welfare workers.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the effects of childhood exposure to interparental violence on subsequent interpartner violence are weak and largely explained by the psychosocial context within which childhood Exposure to inter parental violence occurs.

TL;DR: Certain types of abuse and neglect appear modestly associated with BDD symptom severity and with gender, suicidality, and certain disorders.

TL;DR: Foster parents' satisfaction is related to their perceptions about teamwork, communication, and confidence in relation to both the child welfare agency and its professionals.

TL;DR: The results highlight the importance of making a distinction between negative and positive forms of spiritual coping when investigating the role of spirituality in the current life functioning of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

TL;DR: There is some evidence that the instrument is measuring at least two of the constructs it purports to measure and that the total score may be useful, and caution should be used in the interpretation of the individual AAPI-2 scales.

TL;DR: Rib fractures after cardiopulmonary resuscitation are rare; when they do occur, they are anterior and may be multiple.

TL;DR: Rural youth who have been subjected to elevated levels of familial abuse are at greater risk of deviant subsistence strategies, which increase the likelihood of street victimization.

TL;DR: None of the child behaviors or conditions that prompted the restraint would meet the standard of danger to self or others: the commonly accepted criteria for the use of a restraint in the 23 cases in this study where information is available.

TL;DR: In this paper, a descriptive study examines 45 child and adolescent fatalities related to restraints in residential (institutional) placements in the United States from 1993 to 2003, concluding that none of the child behaviors or conditions that prompted the restraint would meet the standard of danger to self or others.