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Svärd, Veronica – Child Care in Practice, 2017
Hospital personnel have been shown to report child maltreatment to social services less frequently than other professionals. This quantitative study shows that one-half of the respondents within the four largest Swedish children's hospitals had never made a report. However, nurses' and nurse assistants' odds of being low reporters were…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Child Abuse
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Eriksson, Maria; Bruno, Linnea; Nasman, Elisabet – Children & Society, 2013
The aim of this article is to open up a discussion about an unexplored area of children's lives at school. While there has been considerable discussion of issues about child protection and the cooperation between school and social services in that context, studies on the intersection between school and family law proceedings seem virtually…
Descriptors: Children, Family Violence, Educational Environment, Child Abuse
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Nilsson, Doris Kristina; Gustafsson, Per E.; Svedin, Carl Goran – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The objective of this study was to investigate the cumulative effect of interpersonal and noninterpersonal traumatic life events (IPEs and nIPEs, respectively) on the mental health of adolescents and to determine if the adverse impacts of trauma were moderated by adverse family circumstances (AFC). Adolescents (mean age 16.7 years) from the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Females, At Risk Persons, Mental Health
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Priebe, Gisela; Svedin, Carl Goran – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate lifetime prevalence and characteristics of self-reported child sexual abuse and associations between child sexual abuse, gender, sociodemographic data, and consensual sexual experiences. A questionnaire was completed by 4,339 Swedish high school seniors. Three categories of child sexual abuse were…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Incidence, Foreign Countries
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Svensson, Birgitta; Janson, Staffan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
Objective: To investigate the actions of Swedish preschool staff when suspecting the maltreatment of children in their domestic environment, and the staff's further experiences and relations to the family members. Methods: A questionnaire in 2005 to the staff of 189 child groups in community preschools, including 3,100 children. Results: A report…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Questionnaires