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Fayez, Merfat; Takash, Hanan Mahmoud; Al-Zboon, Eman Khleif – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Early childhood teachers play major roles in defying child abuse and neglect and alleviating its detrimental effects on young children. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring how Jordanian pre-service early childhood teachers define and perceive violence against children and their role in child abuse detection and prevention. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Child Abuse, Preservice Teachers
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Stokes, Jackie; Taylor, Julie – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Child maltreatment remains a serious social problem, with neglect arguably the most pernicious manifestation. Neglect is characterised by a chronic failure to provide for a child's basic needs and often co-exists with other forms of maltreatment. It usually occurs in a complex social environment where socio-economic disadvantage is rife and the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Surveys, Child Welfare, Decision Making
Viviani, Anna Michele – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Childhood sexual abuse is a prevalent but taboo topic in society. Conservatively 80,000 new cases are reported each year with many more either unreported or unsubstantiated within the legal system. Survivors of childhood sexual abuse often times seek counseling assistance to manage the variety of short-and long-term emotional issues that may arise…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Counselors, Qualitative Research
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Douglas, Emily M.; McCarthy, Sean C. – Child Welfare, 2011
Child fatality review teams (CFRTs) have existed since the 1970s; yet, a comprehensive understanding of their procedures, practices, and outcomes is lacking. This article addresses that gap in this study of CFRT state statutes. Findings indicate CFRT laws address nine areas of practice, from team composition, to purpose, to outcomes. Results also…
Descriptors: Crime, Child Abuse, Mortality Rate, Children
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Milner, Joel S.; Rabenhorst, Mandy M.; McCanne, Thomas R.; Crouch, Julie L.; Skowronski, John J.; Fleming, Matthew T.; Hiraoka, Regina; Risser, Heather J. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objective: The present investigation used event-related potentials (ERPs, N400 and N300) to determine the extent to which individuals at low and high risk for child physical abuse (CPA) have pre-existing positive and negative child-related schemata that can be automatically activated by ambiguous child stimuli. Methods: ERP data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Schemata (Cognition), Child Abuse
Melmed, Matthew E. – Zero to Three (J), 2011
Almost 200,000 infants and toddlers come into the child welfare system each year. They do so during the period of the most rapid brain development. Maltreatment can damage the architecture of the developing brain, with lifelong consequences for both baby and society. The child welfare system has not done well at addressing the developmental needs…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Toddlers, Infants, Brain
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Wekerle, Christine – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Childhood maltreatment captured medical attention almost 50 years ago. Reviews considering the evidence for published maltreatment prevention programming emerged about 20 years ago. In the second decade of the 21st century, evidence-based maltreatment prevention is a reality for at-risk groups; however, the research-to-practice and policy gap…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Prevention, Evidence, Public Policy
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Kutsal, Ebru; Pasli, Figen; Isikli, Sedat; Sahin, Figen; Yilmaz, Gokce; Beyazova, Ufuk – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study aims to provide preliminary findings on the validity of Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAP Inventory) on Turkish sample of 23 abuser and 47 nonabuser parents. To investigate validity in two groups, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Psychopathic Deviate (MMPI-PD) scale is also used along with CAP. The results show…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Child Abuse, Validity, Personality
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Trocme, Nico; Fallon, Barbara; MacLaurin, Bruce; Chamberland, Claire; Chabot, Martin; Esposito, Tonino – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objective: Although there is growing evidence that the emotional dimensions of child maltreatment are particularly damaging, the feasibility and appropriateness of including emotional maltreatment (EM) in child welfare statutes continues to be questioned. Unlike physical and sexual abuse where investigations focus on discreet incidents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Welfare Services, Investigations
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Yin, Shan – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objective: The objective of this study was to describe malicious nonpharmaceutical exposures in children reported to US poison centers. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of all nonpharmaceutical exposures involving children 7 years old reported to the US National Poison Data System (NPDS) from 2000 to 2008 for which the reason for…
Descriptors: Age, Sanitation, Child Abuse, Injuries
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Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011
This Parameter addresses the key concepts that differentiate the forensic evaluation of children and adolescents from a clinical assessment. There are ethical issues unique to the forensic evaluation, because the forensic evaluator's duty is to the person, court, or agency requesting the evaluation, rather than to the patient. The forensic…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Persuasive Discourse, Child Abuse, Child Custody
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Mackaronis, Julia E.; Strassberg, Donald S.; Marcus, David K. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The Multiphasic Sex Inventory (MSI; Nichols & Molinder, 1984) is a self-report measure frequently used in the assessment of sex offenders. Scores on the MSI are often used to assess levels of pedophilic interest. However, the question of whether men with pedophilia represent a unique group distinguished by their sexual interests, or whether they…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Cutting Scores
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Kulkarni, Madhur R.; Graham-Bermann, Sandra; Rauch, Sheila A. M.; Seng, Julia – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Research has established that childhood violence exposure plays a considerable role in the development of deleterious outcomes in childhood and adulthood. However, important gaps remain in understanding the complex relationships between early violence exposure, adulthood trauma exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Pregnancy
Finkelhor, David; Ormrod, Richard; Turner, Heather; Hamby, Sherry – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2012
Considerable efforts have been made during the last generation to encourage children and their families to report victimization to authorities. Nonetheless, concern persists that most childhood victimization remains hidden. The 2008 inventory of childhood victimization--the National Study of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV)--allowed an…
Descriptors: Children, Victims of Crime, Violence, National Surveys
Walsh, Wendy A.; Mattingly, Marybeth J. – Carsey Institute, 2012
Prior research demonstrates that children in the child welfare system are given psychotropic medication at rates approximately three times higher than children and adolescents in the general population. Using data from the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, authors Wendy Walsh and Marybeth Mattingly report that among…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Drug Therapy
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