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Cognitive Processes in Dissociation: Comment on Giesbrecht et al. (2008)
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Bremner, J. Douglas – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
In their recent review "Cognitive Processes in Dissociation: An Analysis of Core Theoretical Assumptions," published in "Psychological Bulletin", Giesbrecht, Lynn, Lilienfeld, and Merckelbach (2008) have challenged the widely accepted trauma theory of dissociation, which holds that dissociative symptoms are caused by traumatic stress. In doing so,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Fantasy, Cognitive Processes, Theories
400K British Pounds for Educational Malpractice by University Academics
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Palfreyman, David – Education and the Law, 2006
The Canadian Supreme Court in "Young v. Bella" has approved the award of C$840K to Ms Young against the Memorial University of Newfoundland and also two of its academics. In this article, the author comments on the "Young v. Bella" case. Ms Young was a distance-learning student studying social work and hoped to get on a professional course and so…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Foreign Countries, Educational Malpractice, Social Work
Commentary on "How Child Protective Service Investigators Decide to Substantiate Mothers for Failure-to-Protect in Sexual Abuse Cases"
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Vieth, Victor I. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2006
As this author traveled around the country, many university professors and domestic violence advocates told him that prosecuting or even intervening with social services is morally "wrong" in cases in which parents fail to protect their children. There are two problems with these arguments. First, these arguments assume that mothers should "never"…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Mothers