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Wells, Tesia Denis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative study sought to explore African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community and their decisions to inform the proper authorities. This exploratory study was developed in order to draw both public and academic attention to the understudied phenomenon of childhood incest within…
Descriptors: African Americans, Clergy, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse
Dezen, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study was designed to address the current lack of trauma training provided to school psychologists. Specifically, this study employed a randomized, controlled design to test the efficacy of an on-line training targeting school psychology graduate student trainees' awareness of the signs and symptoms of child abuse as well as their…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Graduate Students, Online Courses, Professional Development
McFadden, Paula; Taylor, Brian J.; Campbell, Anne; McQuilkin, Janice – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Context: The development of a consolidated knowledge base for social work requires rigorous approaches to identifying relevant research. Method: The quality of 10 databases and a web search engine were appraised by systematically searching for research articles on resilience and burnout in child protection social workers. Results: Applied Social…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Information Retrieval, Social Sciences, Databases
De Sanctis, Virginia A.; Nomura, Yoko; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Halperin, Jeffrey M. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objective: Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at heightened risk for maltreatment in childhood and criminality as they enter into adolescence and early adulthood. Here, we investigated the effect of moderate to severe childhood maltreatment on later criminality among adolescents/young adults diagnosed with ADHD in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Abuse, Adolescents, Young Adults
You, Sungeun; Talbot, Nancy L.; He, Hua; Conner, Kenneth R. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Depressed women with sexual abuse histories have a heightened risk of suicidal ideation (SI), which may be only in part attributable to psychiatric symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Emotions and SI were studied among 106 women with histories of childhood sexual abuse enrolled in treatment trials for major depression.…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Females, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide
Van Voorhees, Elizabeth E.; Dedert, Eric A.; Calhoun, Patrick S.; Brancu, Mira; Runnals, Jennifer; Beckham, Jean C. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objective: This study examined the relationship among childhood trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and adult social support in a large sample of veterans who served in the military after 09/11/2001, with a specific focus on the potential role of the PTSD avoidance and numbing cluster as intervening in the association between…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Military Personnel, Veterans, Trauma
Adams, Joyce A.; Starling, Suzanne P.; Frasier, Lori D.; Palusci, Vincent J.; Shapiro, Robert Allan; Finkel, Martin A.; Botash, Ann S. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objectives: (1) The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of clinicians who examine children for suspected sexual abuse to recognize and interpret normal and abnormal ano-genital findings in magnified photographs using an online survey format. (2) Determine which factors in education, clinical practice, and case review correlate with…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Accuracy, Clinical Diagnosis
Girardi, Alberta; Pozzulo, Joanna D. – Social Work Research, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency with which child protection workers (CPWs) in Ontario, Canada, seek information about animal cruelty during investigations of child maltreatment and the extent to which they consider information about animal cruelty when making decisions about whether intervention is required. The CPWs (N…
Descriptors: Animals, Investigations, Intervention, Family Violence
High, Pamela – Zero to Three (J), 2012
Pamela High, MS, MD, co-director of the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinic at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, discusses the phenomena of infant crying and the impact it has on families. In most cases, infant crying will peak and resolve in the early months, but infant irritability can increase the risk of maternal…
Descriptors: Caring, Caregivers, Crying, Infants
Scoones, Carwyn D.; Willis, Gwenda M.; Grace, Randolph C. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Both desistance research and strengths-based approaches to offender rehabilitation suggest that attempts to reduce sex offender recidivism should attend to an offender's release environment. Recent research has demonstrated that better quality release planning is associated with reduced recidivism; however, whether release planning contributes…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sexual Abuse, Correctional Institutions, Predictive Validity
Katz, Carmit; Hershkowitz, Irit; Malloy, Lindsay C.; Lamb, Michael E.; Atabaki, Armita; Spindler, Sabine – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objective: The study focused on children's nonverbal behavior in investigative interviews exploring suspicions of child abuse. The key aims were to determine whether non-verbal behavior in the pre-substantive phases of the interview predicted whether or not children would disclose the alleged abuse later in the interview and to identify…
Descriptors: Children, Nonverbal Communication, Evidence, Video Technology
Burns, Erin E.; Fischer, Sarah; Jackson, Joan L.; Harding, Hilary G. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
The present study examined the relationship of child maltreatment to both emotion dysregulation and subsequent eating pathology. In an effort to extend previous research, the authors examined the unique impact of childhood emotional abuse (CEA) on emotion dysregulation and eating disorder (ED) symptoms while controlling for the effects of sexual…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Structural Equation Models, Eating Disorders, Pathology
James, Sigrid S.; Zhang, Jin Jin; Landsverk, John – Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 2012
This study provides national estimates for length of stay in residential care and examines within-group variability along salient predictors. Using data from the National Study on Child and Adolescent Well-Being, the sample included 254 youth with episodes in residential care. Descriptive analyses provided estimates for length of stay over the…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Child Welfare, Predictor Variables, Well Being
Walsh, Kate; Gonsalves, Valerie M.; Scalora, Mario J.; King, Steve; Hardyman, Patricia L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Despite data indicating that child maltreatment (CM) in various forms is associated with adult sexual victimization among community women, few studies have explicitly explored how types of CM might relate to prison sexual victimization. Because little is known about "how" CM might give rise to prison sexual victimization, the present…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Child Abuse, Females, Correctional Institutions
Cooper, Kenneth J. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
The hazing death of Florida A&M (FAMU) drum major Robert Champion and the long-concealed child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State University have prompted an intense focus within higher education on how campus leaders should respond in times of crisis, particularly one involving suspected criminal activity. Experts say college…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, College Presidents, Higher Education, Leaders