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Gary, Juneau Mahan – Journal of School Counseling, 2010
The impact, incidence, prevalence, and severity of violence and trauma adversely affect students academically, behaviorally, emotionally, and socially. For students residing in geographically isolated or self-sequestered communities, trauma may be exacerbated when school counselors may be unprepared to respond effectively and timely because…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Internet, Social Isolation, Incidence
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Foran, Heather M.; Smith Slep, Amy M.; Heyman, Richard E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious health concern, but little is known about prevalence of IPV in the armed forces, as military members cope with the pressures of long-standing operations. Furthermore, previous prevalence studies have been plagued by definitional issues; most studies have focused on acts of aggression without…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Marital Status, Aggression, Females
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Boxer, Paul; Gullan, Rebecca Lakin; Mahoney, Annette – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
Physical aggression directed toward parents by their adolescents is a serious issue both practically and scientifically. In contrast to the extensive literature on other forms of aggression within families (e.g., marital violence, child physical abuse) as well as youth aggression construed broadly, a major gap exists in our knowledge of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Family Violence
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Soglin, Lenore F.; Bauchat, Jeanette; Soglin, David F.; Martin, Gary J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
In this study, an assessment phase is undertaken to determine intimate partner violence (IPV) prevalence. An anonymous survey is followed by a chart review documenting identification of IPV. Two methods are attempted to increase assessment/documentation of IPV: a physician educational intervention and a nursing routine inquiry intervention in one…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Surveys, Intervention, Family Violence
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Casanueva, Cecilia; Martin, Sandra L.; Runyan, Desmond K. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (defined as any physical violence during the last 12 months or previously) among mothers who maltreat their children, and to examine whether mothers' experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with repeated reports (rereports) of children to Child Protective…
Descriptors: Intervals, Child Abuse, Mothers, Child Welfare
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Post, Lori Ann; Klevens, Joanne; Maxwell, Christopher D.; Shelley, Gene A.; Ingram, Eben – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study tests the impact of coordinated community response (CCR) on reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) and on modifying knowledge and attitudes. The authors conduct hierarchical linear modeling of data from a stratified random-digit dial telephone survey (n = 12,039) in 10 test and 10 control sites, which include 23 counties from…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Telephone Surveys, Counties, Emergency Programs
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Cripe, Swee May; Sanchez, Sixto E.; Sanchez, Elena; Quintanilla, Beatriz Ayala; Alarcon, Christian Hernandez; Gelaye, Bizu; Williams, Michelle A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This pilot study examined the effectiveness of standard care and an empowerment intervention for abused pregnant women. Severe psychological abuse was most prevalent (42.2%) among this sample of women. Compared with women in the standard care group at the postintervention survey, women in the empowerment group were more likely to hide money (44.6%…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Quality of Life, Pregnancy
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Thackeray, Jonathan D.; Scribano, Philip V.; Rhoda, Dale – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: This study was designed to identify the frequency, methods, and practices of universal assessments for domestic violence (DV) within child advocacy centers (CACs) and determine which factors are associated with CACs that conduct universal DV assessments. Methods: The study design was a cross-sectional, web-based survey distributed to…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Familiarity, Caregivers, Child Advocacy
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Brown, Derek S.; Finkelstein, Eric A.; Mercy, James A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
This article compares three methods for estimating the medical cost burden of intimate partner violence against U.S. adult women (18 years and older), 1 year postvictimization. To compute the estimates, prevalence data from the National Violence Against Women Survey are combined with cost data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Expenditures, Evaluation Methods
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Gass, Jesse D.; Stein, Dan J.; Williams, David R.; Seedat, Soraya – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Despite a high prevalence of intimate partner violence in South Africa, few epidemiological studies have assessed individual risk factors and differential vulnerability by gender. This study seeks to analyze gender differences in risk for intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration according to childhood and adult risk factors in a…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Low Income, Incidence, Educational Attainment
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Sambisa, William; Angeles, Gustavo; Lance, Peter M.; Naved, Ruchira T.; Thornton, Juliana – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study explores the prevalence and correlates of past-year physical violence against women in slum and nonslum areas of urban Bangladesh. The authors use multivariate logistic regression to analyze data from the 2006 Urban Health Survey, a population-based survey of 9,122 currently married women aged between 15 and 49 who were selected using a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Violence, Marital Status, Females
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Alexandre, Gisele Caldas; Nadanovsky, Paulo; Moraes, Claudia Leite; Reichenheim, Michael – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: Substitute fathers are often reported to commit child abuse at higher rates than birth (i.e., putative genetic) fathers. Due to the paucity of studies, especially in developing countries, and to some conflicting results from developed countries regarding the identity of perpetrators of less extreme forms of physical abuse of children in…
Descriptors: Siblings, Child Abuse, Mothers, Drug Use
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Kapur, Nitin A.; Windish, Donna M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Contradictory data exist regarding optimal methods and instruments for intimate partner violence (IPV) screening in primary care settings. The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal method and screening instrument for IPV among men and women in a primary-care resident clinic. We conducted a cross-sectional study at an urban, academic,…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Incidence, Internal Medicine
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Ansara, Donna L.; Hindin, Michelle J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
This study uses data from the 2002 Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey to examine the prevalence of and factors associated with intimate partner violence perpetration by husbands and wives in Cebu, Philippines. Multinomial logistic regression was used to identify the factors associated with wife-only, husband-only, and reciprocal…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Incidence, Drinking
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Kim, Hyoun K.; Pears, Katherine C.; Fisher, Philip A.; Connelly, Cynthia D.; Landsverk, John A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: Despite the high prevalence rates of harsh parenting, the nature of developmental change in this domain early in life and the factors that contribute to changes in harsh parenting over time are not well understood. The present study examined developmental patterns in maternal harsh parenting behavior from birth to age 3 years and their…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Incidence, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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