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Brodowski, Melissa Lim; Fischman, Lauren – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
Over the years, various federal and non-federal organizations have disseminated and promoted a number of protective factor frameworks to reduce risk and optimize family functioning and child development. There is a growing interest in and commitment to examining factors that transcend the traditional deficit-based approach to addressing social and…
Descriptors: Risk Management, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Abuse
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Freado, Mark D.; Bath, Howard I. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2014
In this article, Mark Freado and Howard Bath present the case of an 11 year boy who had been arrested and charged with the murder of his two-year-old cousin. Because of the severity of the criminal charge against this boy, and despite his age, a transfer hearing was set to determine whether he would be tried as a juvenile or an adult. Such…
Descriptors: Children, Homicide, Delinquency, Behavior Disorders
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Sainero, Ana; Bravo, Amaia; del Valle, Jorge F. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2014
The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence of mental health disorders in children living in residential care and their use of therapeutic services, including the relationship between these factors and social-family and intervention process variables, as well as the relationship among the disorders identified by professionals and the…
Descriptors: Referral, Mental Health, Health Services, Residential Care
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Stinson, Jill Diane; Robbins, Sharon Bradford – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2014
Prior research examining persons with intellectual disabilities who have committed criminal offenses has focused primarily on correctional populations, or those who reside in secure forensic settings in the United Kingdom and Australia. This study describes 235 persons with intellectual, developmental, and cognitive disabilities who reside in a…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Criminals, Mild Mental Retardation, Placement
Bergman, Emily – Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, 2014
While only a minority of children who have been abused or neglected engage in delinquent behavior, they are at a significantly higher risk. When youth do become involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, they present unique needs that require collaboration between the numerous systems and people involved in their lives. The…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Youth, Delinquency
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Sivis-Cetinkaya, Rahsan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
Ethical dilemmas from a national purposive sample of Turkish counsellors (N = 172) were collected using critical incidents technique. Content analysis was performed with open coding guided by the classification of American Counseling Association code of ethics. Incidents regarding confidentiality and privacy (56.4%), with 37.1% involving incidents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Counselors, Critical Incidents Method
Bernstein, Victor J.; Lewis, Marva L.; Daniher, Kathy; Murphy, Keanna – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
This article describes the story of resilience of a mother who achieved multiple successes despite challenges that included child abuse and homelessness. The factors that contributed to her success included consistent support from a team of staff of the family Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Program. This agency serves mothers from 18 to 25…
Descriptors: Mothers, Resilience (Psychology), Child Abuse, Homeless People
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Walsh, Kerryann; Berthelsen, Donna; Nicholson, Jan M.; Brandon, Leisa; Stevens, Judyann; Rachele, Jerome N. – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
The past four decades have seen increasing public and professional awareness of child sexual abuse. Congruent with public health approaches to prevention, efforts to eliminate child sexual abuse have inspired the emergence of prevention initiatives which can be provided to all children as part of their standard school curriculum. However,…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Prevention, School Policy
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Turner, Heather A.; Shattuck, Anne; Hamby, Sherry; Finkelhor, David – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2013
This study considers whether elevated distress among youth living in more disordered neighborhoods can be explained by personal exposure to violence and victimization, level of non-victimization adversity, and family support. Analyses were based on a sample of 2,039 youth ages 10 to 17 who participated in the National Survey of Children's Exposure…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Violence, Victims of Crime, Neighborhoods
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Brabant, Marie-Eve; Hebert, Martine; Chagnon, Francois – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
This study explored the clinical profiles of 77 female teenager survivors of sexual abuse and examined the association of abuse-related and personal variables with suicidal ideations. Analyses revealed that 64% of participants experienced suicidal ideations. Findings from classification and regression tree analysis indicated that depression,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Suicide
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Cero, Ian; Sifers, Sarah – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
Childhood physical abuse is a major risk factor for suicide attempt, but factors that moderate this risk remain largely unexamined. Moderated mediation analysis was used with 186 adolescents who responded to the Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behavior survey. Physical abuse increased risk directly and indirectly through reduced…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, At Risk Persons, Adolescents, Suicide
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Kieling, Christian; Hutz, Mara H.; Genro, Julia P.; Polanczyk, Guilherme V.; Anselmi, Luciana; Camey, Suzi; Hallal, Pedro C.; Barros, Fernando C.; Victora, Cesar G.; Menezes, Ana M. B.; Rohde, Luis Augusto – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The study of gene-environment interactions (G by E) is one of the most promising strategies to uncover the origins of mental disorders. Replication of initial findings, however, is essential because there is a strong possibility of publication bias in the literature. In addition, there is a scarcity of research on the topic originated…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biochemistry, Prenatal Influences, Smoking
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Boeije, Hennie; Slagt, Meike; van Wesel, Floryt – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2013
In mixed methods research (MMR), integrating the quantitative and the qualitative components of a study is assumed to result in additional knowledge (or "yield"). This narrative review examines the extent to which MMR is used in the field of childhood trauma and provides directions for improving mixed methods studies in this field. A…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Trauma, Literature Reviews
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Fluke, John D.; Merkel-Holguin, Lisa; Schene, Patricia – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
This is a response to the document by Hughes et al. in this issue that offers a critique of the status of differential response (DR). We find the document to be helpful in intent, but do not find that it reflects scientifically sound methods, and contains many mischaracterizations of the status, impetus, research, and evaluation of DR to date. We…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Social Services, Child Welfare
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Kamen, Charles; Bergstrom, Jessica; Vorasarun, Chaniga; Mardini, Mona; Patrick, Rudy; Lee, Susanne; Lazar, Rachael; Koopman, Cheryl; Gore-Felton, Cheryl – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2013
Objectives: While some studies have examined the deleterious effects of childhood bullying on adults, no studies to date have focused on the effects of bullying on Persons Living with HIV (PLH), a particularly at-risk population. PLH experience higher rates of childhood and adulthood physical and sexual abuse than the population at large, and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), At Risk Persons, Intervention
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