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Trends and Influential Factors in Child Abuse Reporting: Implications for Early Career School Counselors
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Ricks, Lacey; Tuttle, Malti; Land, Christy; Chibbaro, Julia – Journal of School Counseling, 2019
This study used quantitative measures to explore child abuse reporting trends for early career school counselors and to examine factors influencing their decisions to report suspected child abuse. Thematic coding was used to analyze recommendations for additional training needs regarding child abuse reporting and for the challenges school…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, School Counselors, Entry Workers, School Counseling
Issues in Differential Response
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Hughes, Ronald C.; Rycus, Judith S.; Saunders-Adams, Stacey M.; Hughes, Laura K.; Hughes, Kelli N. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Differential response (DR), also referred to as alternative response (AR), family assessment response (FAR), or multiple track response, was developed to incorporate family-centered, strengths-based practices into child protective services (CPS), primarily by diverting lower risk families into an assessment track rather than requiring the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Social Services, Child Welfare
Victims of Their Families.
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Cantrell, Peggy – Now and Then, 1991
Surveys of 433 college students and 258 high school students in Appalachia revealed rates of domestic violence similar to those found nationally. However, rates of parent-to-child violence were about 10 percent higher. Among 239 Appalachian adult women, 38 percent reported having at least 1 incestuous experience during childhood. (SV)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, College Students, Educational Attainment, Family Violence
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect through Parent Education.
Reppucci, N. Dickon; Britner, Preston A.; Woolard, Jennifer L. – 1997
In 1993, the Community Research Group (CRG) at the University of Virginia was provided the opportunity to gather systematic information on parent education and family support programs for the prevention of abuse and neglect throughout Virginia. Based on the group's research into 25 distinct parenting programs, this book outlines an empowering…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Rearing
Testing an Etiological Model for Male Juvenile Sexual Offending against Females
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Knight, Raymond A.; Sims-Knight, Judith E. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2004
Research on the origin of sexual aggression has identified several important contributing factors: (a) early abuse (physical and sexual), (b) personality/behavioral traits (callousness and unemotionality, antisocial behavior/impulsivity, and hypersexuality), and (c) attitudinal/cognitive variables (negative masculinity, hostility toward women,…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Etiology, Males, Critical Incidents Method
A Survey of Family-Violence Curricula in Virginia Medical Schools and Residencies at University Medical Centers.
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Hendricks-Matthews, Marybeth K. – Academic Medicine, 1997
A survey of Virginia's three medical schools and their affiliated residencies found considerable variation in curricula concerning family violence. About one-fourth of residency programs had some curriculum content on specific domestic violence topics (child abuse, battered women, elder abuse). Faculty (n=27) with expertise in family violence were…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Child Abuse, Curriculum Design, Elder Abuse