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Children Now, 2014
The birth of a child can be a simultaneously joyous and challenging time for families. Virtually all parents will struggle with the enormous physical and emotional demands of parenting a very young child, but for too many California families those challenges are additionally compounded by poverty, housing instability, lack of social support, or…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Poverty, Housing, Child Rearing
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Khoury-Kassabri, Mona – Social Work Research, 2012
This study examines physical and verbal maltreatment of students by their teachers. This study, the first of its kind, examines teachers' use of violence based on their own reports and assesses the contribution of teachers' characteristics in explaining their reports of violence toward their students. The research is based on a large sample of…
Descriptors: Violence, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Social Work
Dubowitz, Howard – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
Child maltreatment affects millions of children each year. health care providers are increasingly called upon to address such psychosocial problems facing many families. In this article, the authors describe a practical approach to further enhance pediatric primary care and make it more responsive to the needs of children and families. The Safe…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Well Being, Primary Health Care
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Dailor, A. Nichole; Jacob, Susan – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
Practitioner-members of the National Association of School Psychologists (N = 208) completed questionnaires regarding their ethics training, preparedness, the types of ethical transgressions and dilemmas encountered in the previous year, and the strategies used to solve problems. Respondents who received multilevel training in ethics (ethics…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, School Psychologists, Questionnaires, Ethics
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Stanley, Nicky; Miller, Pam; Richardson Foster, Helen; Thomson, Gill – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Police notifications of incidents of domestic violence to child protection services constitute an acknowledgement of the harm that domestic violence inflicts on children. However, these notifications represent a substantial demand on child welfare services and the outcomes for children and victims of domestic violence have been questioned. This…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Violence, Child Abuse, Child Welfare
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Singh, Veeran-Anne S.; Thornton, Tiffany; Tonmyr, Lil – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2011
Substance abuse is an important health issue facing children involved with child welfare, but little is known about the associated factors. The purpose of this study was to build on findings from the "Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2003" and use a national sample of 10-15 year old children to examine the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Child Abuse, Prevention, Child Welfare
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O'Brien, Michael – Child & Youth Services, 2011
Most of what is known about the effectiveness of child welfare is found in studies of specific programs. Little is known about the effectiveness of the routine services provided in child protection systems. Family and Children's Services of Renfrew County is a Canadian child welfare agency that decided to expand its mission beyond protecting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Social Work
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Boothby, Neil; Stark, Lindsay – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objectives: Successful implementation of child protection program interventions and child and family welfare services is contingent upon the availability and use of good quality information, as emphasized by the recent Convention on the Rights of the Child's General Comment 13. Yet, the role of information within child protection is not well…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Focus Groups, Child Welfare, Information Management
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Mersky, Joshua P.; Topitzes, James; Reynolds, Arthur J. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2012
Objectives: This study compares the effects of childhood maltreatment and adolescent maltreatment on delinquency and crime, including violent and nonviolent offending. Methods: Data were derived from the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective investigation of 1,539 underprivileged, minority subjects. Results: Results confirmed that rates of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Delinquency, Child Abuse, Children
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Renner, Lynette M.; Whitney, Stephen D. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify common and unique risk factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) among young adults in relationships. Guided by two models of IPV, the same set of risk factors was used to examine outcomes of unidirectional (perpetration or victimization) and bidirectional (reciprocal) IPV separately for males…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse
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Cleverley, Kristin; Kidd, Sean A. – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
Homeless and street-involved youth are considered an extremely high risk group, with many studies highlighting trajectories characterized by abusive, neglectful, and unstable family histories, victimization and criminal involvement while on the streets, high rates of physical and mental illness, and extremely high rates of mortality. While there…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Mental Disorders, Suicide, Psychology
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Kemple, Kristen Mary; Kim, Hae Kyoung – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2011
Early childhood educators spend extensive amounts of time with young children, so they are often the first adults to notice signs that a child may be abused or neglected. All educators are required by law to report suspected maltreatment, and can play an important role in preventing and responding to abuse and neglect of young children. What is…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Young Children, Teacher Role, Intervention
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McSherry, Dominic – Child Care in Practice, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that, across the United Kingdom and the USA, childcare practitioners often struggle with cases of child neglect, because of the difficulties involved in attempting to define the problem at hand, and balancing these cases with others in the caseload that may appear more pressing, such as physical abuse. Consequently, in an…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Foreign Countries, Child Welfare
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Vizard, Eileen – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The assessment of victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) is now a recognized aspect of clinical work for both CAMH and adult services. As juvenile perpetrators of CSA are responsible for a significant minority of the sexual assaults on other children, CAMH services are increasingly approached to assess these oversexualized younger…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Intervention
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Bell, Hope; Limberg, Dodie; Robinson, Edward, III – Childhood Education, 2013
Certain at-risk behavior patterns are often associated with traumatic childhood experiences. With the role of schools evolving to shape children's developmental needs in today's world, educators across the globe bear an increasingly greater responsibility to identify and address these symptoms associated with childhood trauma. Given the…
Descriptors: Trauma, At Risk Students, Correlation, School Role
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