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Peer reviewedBurman, Sondra; Allen-Meares, Paula – Social Work, 1994
Presents case report of two children who observed their mother being murdered by their father. Notes that theories of psychosocial development and social learning guided assessment and intervention phases. Delineates behavioral and expressive therapeutic treatment strategies that helped children work through resultant anxiety and underlying grief.…
Descriptors: Children, Death, Family Violence, Homicide
Peer reviewedBesharov, Douglas J. – Public Interest, 1986
Child advocates have succeeded in getting child abuse recognized as a serious social problem requiring governmental response. Ironically, this success now threatens the viability of child abuse programs: 65 percent of all reports are ultimately dismissed. This flood of unfounded reports violates parental rights and overwhelms the limited resources…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Children
Peer reviewedOtto, Mary L. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Maintains that abusive parents are often the victims of child abuse and consequently experience conflict and trauma in development, leaving them unable to make normal adult adjustment to the role of parent. Presents a psychoeducational outpatient treatment model aimed at helping abusive parents acquire skills that they lack as a result of deficits…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Family Violence, Group Counseling
