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Terepka, Angelica; Torres-Pagán, Leonell; De La Fuente, Angelica – School Psychology, 2021
School based health centers (SBHCs) are often at the front line of medical and mental health services for students in the schools they serve. Citywide school closures in New York City in March 2020 and ongoing social distancing procedures resulted in significant changes in SBHC services as well as access to these services. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: School Health Services, COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Health Care
Dadvand, Babak; Cahill, Helen – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
Little is known about the conditions that enable teachers to educate others about the troubling issue of gender-based violence. This paper discusses the centrality of "structures for care" for fostering the willingness and capacity of primary school teachers to initiate classroom talk about this sensitive and silenced issue. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Violence, Gender Bias, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Role
Münger, Ann-Charlotte; Markström, Ann-Marie – Education Inquiry, 2018
Although domestic violence takes place in the private domain, preschool and school professionals are confronted with its consequences in the intermediate domain between home and school when they encounter children who have been exposed to violence. This article investigates whether and how Swedish professionals in pre/school identify children who…
Descriptors: Identification, Family Violence, Child Abuse, Preschool Teachers
Selvik, Sabreen; Raaheim, Arild; Øverlien, Carolina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
Numerous children around the world are forced to make multiple moves with their mothers in and out of refuges for abused women. Each time, they experience a sudden upheaval of their familiar environment. For these children, domestic violence and flight from violence is not an isolated event but part of their upbringing. Few statistics and little…
Descriptors: Children, Mothers, Family Violence, Emergency Shelters
Moss, Stephen – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
LankellyChase Foundation works to bring about change that will transform the quality of life of people who face severe and multiple disadvantage. It set up the 'Promoting Change Network' (PCN) to foster learning, and to support 40 or so organisations which receive funding from the Foundation. This was in recognition of the challenges they face in…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Social Problems, Intervention, Foreign Countries
Universities UK, 2020
Universities should already have policies and practices in place to support their staff and students experiencing domestic violence and abuse. This briefing includes some information which may be helpful in supporting staff and students at greater risk due to the lockdown period relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. This briefing draws on expert…
Descriptors: Family Violence, School Policy, College Faculty, College Students
Philbrook, Lauren E.; Erath, Stephen A.; Hinnant, J. Benjamin; El-Sheikh, Mona – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The present study investigates how coordination between stress responsivity of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) moderates the prospective effects of marital conflict on internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence. Although an important avenue for psychophysiological research concerns how…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Conflict, Adolescents, Stress Variables
Tenkorang, Eric Y. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Few studies have examined the relationships between intimate partner violence (IPV) and the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of women in sub-Saharan countries in general and Ghana specifically. This study began to fill the gap by investigating whether individual- and community-level IPV influenced unwanted pregnancy and pregnancy loss among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Birth, Females
Wretman, Christopher J.; Rizo, Cynthia Fraga; Macy, Rebecca J.; Guo, Shenyang; Ermentrout, Dania – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Purpose: A growing subpopulation of intimate partner violence (IPV) victims comprises mothers who have been mandated to services by either the court system or child protective services (CPS). Two human service agencies in the United States developed a 13-week novel intervention to address these women. All participants were assigned to the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Interpersonal Relationship, Family Violence
Exploring Equity Issues: Educators as Bystanders--Recognizing and Responding to Teen Dating Violence
Nordhoff, Kaity – Center for Education Equity, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, 2019
According to the CDC, 1.5 million high school students experience dating abuse annually. High school students who have been physically hurt by a partner earn grades of C or D twice as often as grades of A or B. They are 25% more likely to drop out of high school than their non-abused peers. Over a lifetime, victims of dating abuse experience a 20%…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dating (Social), Violence, High School Teachers
Pei-Hsuan Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between early exposure to family violence, including domestic violence and child maltreatment, and later involvement in bullying perpetration and peer victimization, as well as the moderating role of school connectedness in this relationship. I conducted a secondary data analysis using data…
Descriptors: Young Children, Children, Early Experience, Family Violence
Roberts, Andrea L.; Lyall, Kristen; Rich-Edwards, Janet W.; Ascherio, Alberto; Weisskopf, Marc G. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
We sought to determine whether maternal (a) physical harm from intimate partner abuse during pregnancy or (b) sexual, emotional, or physical abuse before birth increased risk of autism spectrum disorder. We calculated risk ratios for autism spectrum disorder associated with abuse in a population-based cohort of women and their children (54,512…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mothers, Family Violence
Stewart, Mary White – Journal of Research Practice, 2016
Doing sensitive research presents particular problems over and above other social science research because of the nature of the issues being asked about and their potential impact on both the participant and the researcher. In some instances, the factors that engage the researcher in the project may also be of interest to advocates who are working…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Researchers, Law Enforcement, Females
Fermin, Caroline P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research study was an exploratory analysis to determine if a relationship existed between mission attachment and job satisfaction of emergency nonprofit domestic violence shelter/transitional housing workers. The study examined if the perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes were different between entry-level, middle-level, and senior-level…
Descriptors: Emergency Shelters, Employee Attitudes, Volunteers, Family Violence
Muñoz, Ismael Guillermo – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Unlike other common proxies of socioeconomic status such as income and occupation, prior research has found no conclusive evidence regarding the effects of education on the likelihood of domestic violence against women and children around the world. Thus, there are studies finding no significant education effects for certain populations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Females, Child Abuse