Showing papers in "Child Abuse & Neglect in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, the association of emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and both emotional abuse and neglect with other types of child maltreatment, a family history of dysfunction, and lifetime diagnoses of several Axis I and Axis II mental disorders was examined.

TL;DR: The results support prior research highlighting the primacy of family relationships on a child's life course trajectory and the importance of interventions designed to support families and the modifying effect of current SES.

TL;DR: CSA is a significant risk factor for sexual re-victimization in adulthood, and additional early adversities experienced by CSA survivors may heighten adult SV risk above and beyond the risk associated with CSA alone.

TL;DR: Resilience and self-esteem appear to play a protective role in emotional problems and behavioral problems in psychologically maltreated individuals, and suggestions for psychological counselors and other mental health professionals are presented.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the pathways to poor adult health differ by types of ACEs, and that childhood abuse is more likely than other adversities to have a direct impact.

TL;DR: The results are consistent with rates obtained outside sport, underscoring the need for more research on interventions and systematic follow-ups, to minimize these negative experiences in youth sport.

TL;DR: Results from analyses revealed that several implementation factors, including training, supervision, and fidelity monitoring, had a significant effect on program outcomes, particularly child maltreatment outcomes.

TL;DR: Findings indicated significantly more problems in the CSA group than the maltreated group without CSA over time, with internalizing problems higher for sexually abused boys compared to girls and externalizing problems increased with age relative to boys.

TL;DR: A strong interrelationship was observed among the ACEs, indicating clustering of risk, and several socioeconomic, demographic and family-related characteristics were associated with the occurrence ofACEs, e.g. non-white skin color, low family income, low maternal schooling, absence of mother's partner, maternal smoking, and poor maternal mental health.

TL;DR: Neighborhoods higher in collective efficacy, intergenerational closure, and social networks, and lower in disorder had lower proportions of neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse substantiated cases, controlling for differences in structural factors.

TL;DR: It is found that Europe and Asia were associated with lower CTQ estimates while South America presented the highest estimates among continents, and China, Netherlands and United Kingdom presented the lowest maltreatment estimates.

TL;DR: It was found that neighborhood social cohesion may have a protective role in some acts of neglect, such as meeting a child's basic needs, but not potentially more complex needs like parental substance abuse.

TL;DR: This foundational implementation trial provides support for future rigorous evaluation of social media and gaming features as a medium for increasing parental engagement in evidence-based parenting programs online--a public health approach to protect and improve the development of vulnerable children.

TL;DR: It is suggested that non-democratic parenting styles favor the use of punitive discipline, which increases the risk of adolescents' bullying involvement, and intervention programs must involve parents to make them aware about the important role they play in this process.

TL;DR: Sensory processing patterns and childhood traumatic experiences may specifically characterize individuals with major affective disorders and play a role in the prediction of their quality of life.

TL;DR: Children with prior opportunities to detect abuse in a medical setting were more likely to have chronic subdural hemorrhage and healing fractures and improvements in earlier recognition of AHT and subsequent intervention might prevent additional injuries and reduce mortality.

TL;DR: Examination of the rates and frequency of child maltreatment in China shows that boys were more likely than girls to report physical abuse, and, in particular, boys wereMore likely thanGirls to be physically abused by their fathers.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the mediating effects of emotion dysregulation on the relationship between child maltreatment and psychopathology and found that limited access to strategies for emotion regulation emerged as the most powerful predictor.

TL;DR: This study aimed to identify meaningful classes of maltreatment profiles and to associate them with short-term clinical outcomes and found that members of Class 2 showed significantly worse short- term outcomes on psychopathology, level of functioning, and quality of life compared to the other classes.

TL;DR: This study highlights the high rate of severe sequelae and health care needs several years post-AHT, and emphasizes the need for extended follow-up of medical, cognitive and academic outcomes.

TL;DR: Children's victimization experiences increased as the degree of parental absence increased (from the presence of two biological parents, to parental migration and parental separation and divorce), and the need for child protection in rural China is highlighted.

TL;DR: Examining the differences in levels of happiness, self-esteem and anxiety between left-behind children (LBC) and non-LBC revealed that non- LBC showed a higher level of happiness and a lower level of anxiety than LBC children.

TL;DR: Children who were physically abused prior to age 12, based on official reports, parent reports, and child reports, had a greater risk of experiencing more intimidation and physical assault by peers at age 16, and there was no evidence that gender moderated these relationships.

TL;DR: Analysis of interviews with individuals who obtained refugee or asylee status in the United States or Canada on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity revealed that participants experienced severe verbal, physical, and sexual abuse throughout childhood and adolescence and that there were no resources or sources of protection available.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that levels of mastery and years of work experience contributed negatively to secondary traumatization, whereas exposure to child maltreatment, trauma history, and role stress contributed positively to secondary trauma.

TL;DR: It is illustrated that Spanish adolescents experience high levels of online victimization and that multipleOnline victimization appears to be the norm among cybervictims.

TL;DR: Significant decline in the proportion of mandated reports that were investigated in the first two post-law years suggested the new level of reporting and investigative need exceeded what was anticipated, however, a subsequent significant increase restored the pre-law proportion, suggesting systemic adaptive capacity.

TL;DR: A systematic examination of the scientific literature in several relevant databases was conducted to identify scientific articles, published between 2003 and 2013, that investigated this cooccurrence of intimate partner violence and intrafamilial child sexual abuse.

TL;DR: Promotion of school performance has a negative impact on later psychosocial problems net of observed background attributes and potential selection on unobservables, suggesting that the estimated effects allow for causal interpretations.

TL;DR: Impulsivity moderated both the direct association (peer victimization→ problem behaviors) and the second stage of the indirect path (deviant peer affiliation→problem behaviors) of the direct and indirect associations, which were especially stronger for adolescents with higher impulsivity.