Showing papers in "Child Abuse & Neglect in 2013"

TL;DR: CSA adversely influences a number of adult developmental outcomes that span: mental disorders, psychological wellbeing, sexual risk-taking, physical health and socioeconomic wellbeing, and it is clear that accumulative adverse effects on adult developmental outcome are substantial.

TL;DR: There was a robust association between ACEs and poor outcomes in early adulthood, and greater levels of adversity were associated with poorer self-rated health and life satisfaction, as well as more frequent depressive symptoms, anxiety, tobacco use, alcohol use, and marijuana use.

TL;DR: Positive parenting behavior is related to a moderate increase of risk for becoming a bully/victim and small to moderate effects on victim status at school, and intervention programs against bullying should extend their focus to include families and start before children enter school.

TL;DR: Children who experienced maltreatment from a parent or caregiver were more likely than those not maltreated to be exposed to other forms of victimization, to experience non-Victimization adversity, a high level of polyvictimization, and to have higher levels of trauma symptoms.

TL;DR: This analysis indicates that adjusting for child and family-level risk factors is necessary to distinguish race-specific effects (which may reflect system, worker, or resource biases) from socioeconomic and health indicators associated with maltreatment risk.

TL;DR: Social support plays a significant role in mediating and moderating some long term consequences of childhood maltreatment and efforts to better understand the timing and mechanisms involved in these relationships are needed to guide preventive interventions and treatment.

TL;DR: Although youth involved in the juvenile justice system typically have experienced substantial victimization, a poly-victimized sub-group, especially girls, warrants particular scientific, clinical, and rehabilitative attention in order to address the most severe behavioral and mental health problems and risks faced by this vulnerable population.

TL;DR: This study suggests that child neglect and emotional abuse have serious adverse effects on adolescentmental health and warrant the attention given to other forms of child maltreatment and confirms that young people who are notified for more than one type of maltreatment are at particular risk of adolescent mental health problems.

TL;DR: The adolescents who reported low depression despite frequently experiencing bullying tended to be male, had higher self-esteem, were feeling less socially alienated, were experiencing low levels of conflict with parents and were not victimized by siblings, and had less close friends.

TL;DR: The results indicated that students attending schools with higher levels of bullying may show poorer school performance, and stresses the need to investigate individual and contextual factors simultaneously when examining academic achievement.

TL;DR: Clinicians who identify physical abuse or sexual abuse in children should be alert to the need to assess whether siblings have experienced similar exposures, and parental adversity was associated with child sexual abuse and severe physical abuse.

TL;DR: Path analysis revealed that accumulated exposure to multiple different trauma types predicts symptom complexity as reported by both children and their caretakers.

TL;DR: Results show that resilience is related to service satisfaction but not the quantity of services used by youth, and that Coordinated services may not increase resilience or be more effective unless the quality of individual services is experienced by an adolescent receiving intervention as personally empowering and sensitive to his or her needs.

TL;DR: The results of the current study shed new light on the potential for social support to shield individuals against long-term trauma symptoms, and suggest the importance of strengthening perceptions of available social support when working with adult survivors of child maltreatment.

TL;DR: It is suggested that attending to gender and targeting adolescents' attitudes about violence may be viable approaches to preventing TDV.

TL;DR: The results suggest that TF-CBT is a feasible treatment option in Zambia for OVC and a decrease in symptoms suggests that a controlled trial is warranted, and supports the effectiveness of implementation strategies such as task shifting, and the Apprenticeship Model of training and supervision.

TL;DR: The findings support prior research indicating that exposure to multiple forms of violence, across multiple domains of life, negatively impacts adolescent outcomes, including substance use and suggest that the context in which exposure to violence occurs should be considered in future research.

TL;DR: The results identified maternal mental health as an important variable in mediating the relationship between IPV exposure and aggressive behavior, and one implication is for multicomponent family interventions that could be tailored toward helping the mother cope with such mental health issues while also addressing deficits in children's social behavior development.

TL;DR: It is found that the large decline in consumer confidence during the Great Recession, as measured by the Consumer Sentiment Index, was associated with worse parenting behavior, and lower levels of consumer confidence were associated with increased levels of high frequency spanking.

TL;DR: Findings support internal resilience as both a compensatory and protective factor for depression symptoms in the context of sexual abuse among emerging adults transitioning out of child welfare.

TL;DR: Practical strategies discusses the factors that positively influence the relationship between a child's caregivers and the mandated health professional reporter, and the need for further training and education of health professionals.

TL;DR: A large increase in CPS-reports is found, whereas prevalence rates based on sentinel and self-report did not change between 2005 and 2010, suggesting that professionals have become more aware of child maltreatment, and more likely to report cases to CPS.

TL;DR: To enhance the likelihood of resilience among maltreated children, those who design and implement interventions need to address three aspects of resilience-related programming: make social supports and formal services more available and accessibility; design programs flexibly so that they can respond to the differential impact specific types of interventions have on children who are exposed to different forms of maltreatment.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that high bullying leads to the attainment of high social dominance, and do not support the view that children high in social dominance engage in bullying to maintain their dominant position.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that future general population studies in China should use well validated instruments, avoid face-to-face interview formats and be careful to maintain methodological standards when sampling large populations over multiple sites.

TL;DR: If First Nations overrepresentation is to be reduced, child welfare agencies must be equipped to provide supports needed to help families address factors such as poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence, and lack of social supports.

TL;DR: The results add to a growing body of literature on aggressive sibling behavior by demonstrating the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to studying sibling victimization and considering individual, sibling, and family correlates of such behavior.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that injuries from AHT are more severe and more often lethal than other head injuries and Socioeconomically disadvantaged families with children <1 year are an important focus for primary prevention.

TL;DR: The IY parenting program has positive impacts for parents who self-reported a history of child maltreatment, and results support delivering evidence-based parenting programs of longer duration and higher intensity than often used by agencies serving parents in contact with child welfare.