van Duin, E. M., Verlinden, E., Vrolijk-Bosschaart, T. F., Diehle, J., Verhoeff, A. P., Brilleslijper-Kater, S. N., & Lindauer, R. J.(European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2018)
Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a worldwide problem affecting children of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. A knowledge gap exists regarding the psychological outcomes for children, boys in particular, who ...
The therapeutic treatment of traumatized individuals has steadily increased over the past
several decades due to natural disasters, school shootings, and the increase in physical
and sexual trauma in communities across ...
Merrick, M. T., Henly, M., Turner, H. A., David-Ferdon, C., Hamby, S., Kacha-Ochana, A., ... & Finkelhor, D.(Child Abuse & Neglect, 2018)
Predictability in a child’s environment is a critical quality of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments, which promote wellbeing and protect against maltreatment. Research has focused on residential mobility’s ...
Pedersen, E. R., Callaghan, G. M., Prins, A., Nguyen, H. V., & Tsai, M.(International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2012)
Evidence-based treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may be enhanced by Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP; Kohlenberg & Tsai, 1991; Tsai et al., 2009). As PTSD can include a variety of problems with ...
Lewis, N. V., Feder, G. S., Howarth, E., Szilassy, E., McTavish, J. R., MacMillan, H. L., & Wathen, N.(BMJ Open, 2018)
Objectives To synthesise evidence on the acceptable identification and initial response to children’s exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) from the perspectives of providers and recipients of healthcare and social ...
Turner, H. A., Finkelhor, D., & Henly, M.(Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018)
This study examines the lifetime prevalence and distribution of family/friend
homicide exposure among children and adolescents age 2 to 17 in the United
States, and assesses the impact of family/friend homicide on emotional ...
Münger, A. C., & Markström, A. M.(Education Inquiry, 2018)
Although domestic violence takes place in the private domain, preschool and school professionals are confronted with its consequences in the intermediate domain between home and school when they encounter children who have ...
This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare ...
Devries, K., Knight, L., Petzold, M., Merrill, K. G., Maxwell, L., Williams, A., ... & Kress, H.(BMJ Pediatrics Open, 2018)
Objective
The epidemiology of violence against children is likely to differ substantially by sex and age of the victim and the perpetrator. Thus far, investment in effective prevention strategies has been hindered by lack ...
Sorbring, Emma ; Bolin, Anette ; Ryding, Jennie(Advances in Social Work, 2015)
Dating violence prevalence is increasing and effective prevention and intervention methods are needed in order to address this growing social problem. The use of on-line game-based intervention programmes open up new ...
Levick, Marsha ; Moon, Kristina(Valparaiso University Law Review, 2009)
This Lecture offers a critique of the disturbing trend emerging in several states to treat sexting as a law enforcement problem, rather than a problem to be addressed by parents and educators. As prosecutors and policymakers ...
Leary, Mary(Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, 2010)
The issues of “sexting” and “self-produced child pornography” (SPCP) have captured the attention of the media, courts, and state legislatures. A debate rages among advocates, policy makers, and reporters about how the law ...
This Article examines statutory rape cases of the last decade and submits that both the apparatus to police sexual violence against minors — statutory rape laws — as well as their application against consenting minors ...
Sabia, Joseph J. ; Bass, Brittany(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2015)
This study is the first to comprehensively examine the effect of state anti-bullying laws (ABLs)
on youth violence. Using data from a variety of sources – including the Youth Risk Behavior
Surveys, Uniform Crime Reports, ...
Crooks, Claire ; Zwicker, Jennifer ; Wells, Lana ; Hughes, Ray ; Langlois, Amanda ; Emery, J. C. Herbert(SPP Research, 2017)
Teen violence in dating and peer relationships has huge costs to society in numerous areas including health care, social services, the workforce and the justice system. Physical, psychological, and sexual abuse have ...
Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Walsh, W., Wolak, J., & Finkelhor, D.(Child Abuse & Neglect, 2018)
This research explores the complex experiences of survivors of child pornography production.
The study was conducted among a convenience sample of child pornography adult survivors
(N = 133), using an online survey which ...
In the past decades, research on the development of mental disorders has increasingly set a strong focus on the identification and investigation of environmental risk factors. Ideally, such risk factors can be used as ...
DeGraw, C.(St. Catherine University University of St. Thomas, 2018)
Maltreatment is often experienced in adverse environments during childhood. Children who
survive maltreatment demonstrate protective and risk factors that impact the developmental
pathway to lifelong outcomes. The purpose ...
Ringel, J. S., Schultz, D., Mendelsohn, J., Holliday, S. B., Sieck, K., Edochie, I., & Davis, L.(Rand health quarterly, 2018)
To provide objective analyses about the effects of prevention and treatment programs on child welfare outcomes, RAND researchers built a quantitative model that simulated how children enter and flow through the nation's ...