Showing papers in "Child Abuse & Neglect in 2021"

TL;DR: There was an increase in the proportion of traumatic injuries caused by physical child abuse at the authors' center during the Covid-19 pandemic, and strategies to mitigate this secondary effect of social distancing should be thoughtfully implemented.

TL;DR: The collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures offers insights into the wide-ranging risks that children are exposed to in times of crisis and governments and other stakeholders need to put in place measures to protect children from violence.

TL;DR: A review of the literature that has been produced on children's exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand emerging patterns and critically appraise methodologies to help inform the design of future studies is presented in this article.

TL;DR: The findings reinforce the utility of developing intervention strategies that minimize harm to children by targeting resources to specific challenges facing families enduring the COVID-19 experience.

TL;DR: While a mixed picture emerges with respect to violence, the increase in overall contacts made to helplines provides evidence that such services are a critical lifeline for many children and women during times of crisis.

TL;DR: Preipitous drops in child maltreatment reporting and child welfare interventions coincided with social distancing policies designed to mitigate COVID-19 transmission.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on later mental health using not only ACEs scores and individual ACEs, but also latent class analysis (LCA), which respects the clustering of adversities.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that ACEs are more prevalent among the poor than the non-poor, among most racial/ethnic minority groups than non-Hispanic Whites, and among females than males.

TL;DR: There is limited research into causes of and interventions to improve adherence to PEP following sexual assault, and no direct evidence for children, but three randomized trials provided limited evidence supporting the potential benefit of enhanced adherence support for HIV PEP.

TL;DR: A framework for risk and protective factors that need to be considered in child protection in its various domains of research, policy, and practice during and after the COVID-19 pandemic is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, a search was conducted using Scopus to identify English language papers on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) published in peer-reviewed journals between 1998 and 2018, with a total of 789 articles on ACEs appearing in 351 different academic journals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the contribution of the pandemic to parenting stress, exploring differences in parenting stress among new parents before and during the crisis, the role of background and personal variables, and the possibility that the study phase moderated the associations of gender and personal resources with parenting stress.

TL;DR: These results suggest emotional distance as critical to the maintenance of the parental burnout network and a prime candidate for future interventions, while affirming that network analysis can successfully expose the structure and relationship of variables related to parental burnouts and its consequences related to the partner and the child(ren).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a retrospective review of patients of all ages presenting to a pediatric emergency department trauma center, who also had a child abuse report filing or a sentinel injury diagnosis related to their index visit.

TL;DR: Concerns were raised that COVID-19 has been detrimental to the disclosure of IFCSA, with plummeting child abuse reports, and enhanced strategies to accessing and supporting families remotely such as using technology could improve identification and response to I FCSA.

TL;DR: Overall activity in CSC had been lower than normal but as lockdown eased this was changing and concerns were expressed about how to manage the response that would be required to meet the expected level of harm that had occurred but been hidden.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the impact of COVID-19 on child maltreatment reports and CPS responses by comparing countries using available population data, including contextual information about the country's demographics and economic situation, key elements of the CPS, and the CPS response to the crisis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective cohort investigation of U.S. adolescents followed to adulthood was conducted to determine if ACE exposure is prospectively associated with cognition in young adults, and they hypothesized that deprivation and threat-type ACEs as well as higher cumulative ACE exposure predict poorer cognition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined parents' reports on the response their children received to their needs during the COVID-19 crisis and found that older children reported less fulfillment of their child's needs in three measured domains, namely cognitive and affective, security, and basic care needs.

TL;DR: Researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal, multi-method study was conducted to investigate the developmental pathways from distinct dimensions of child maltreatment (chronicity and timing) to adult psychopathology via childhood internalizing and externalizing.

TL;DR: This article explored early adversity among children and adolescents with FASD and prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and found that participants experienced high levels of adversity (mean ACE score of 3.4), which increased with age, mental health comorbidity and number of living placements.

TL;DR: Key developmental patterns in CSA disclosure were identified, whereby older children and adolescents are significantly more likely to turn to peers, keeping the abuse largely hidden from adults.

TL;DR: Findings underline the detrimental nature of emotional maltreatment in the context of PTSD symptomatology and treatment effectiveness and call for routine assessment of parental emotional abuse in the diagnostic phase, even when this is not the reason of referral.

TL;DR: Child Sexual Abuse is a common hidden phenomenon in SA, efforts should be strengthened to increase awareness on consequences, and outcomes in order to build prevention programs.

TL;DR: Children were initially invisible to Israeli policymakers facing the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the centrality of advocates promoting children's rights and of mainstream news media in disseminating the discourse of protecting children from maltreatment, especially in times of crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the group differences among children raised by negative and positive parenting families during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that parents' frequent use of negative strategies were a risk factor to have negative outcome related to mental health, games, sleep, and children behavior.

TL;DR: Native American persons reported the greatest average number and variety of ACEs than persons from any other racial/ethnic group, and reported the highest rates of physical abuse, sexual abuse, parental substance abuse, and witnessing violence than members of any otherracial/ethnic category.

TL;DR: In this article, a relative frequency of hospitalization for physical abuse observed in March to April 2020 were compared with those from the same months in the three previous years (2017, 2018, and 2019).

TL;DR: The virtual implementation of VEGA and the RISE Project provide a necessary opportunity to continue to increase the capacity of Canada’s HSSPs to adequately and safely recognize and respond to child maltreatment, while simultaneously advancing education scholarship for the field of child malt treatment.