Agatston, Andrew(National Children's Advocacy Center, 2023)
The National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) is
pleased to provide the Legal Guidebook for Children’s Advocacy Centers
that examines the existence of CACs for more than 35 years, the legal
challenges that await CACs ...
Miller, Brian(Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center, 2023)
The purpose of CIFA is to provide early assistance within days or weeks following an event.
That means that you are providing the supports as soon as possible after the news about the
critical incident is known by the ...
Mathews, B., Meinck, F., Erskine, H. E., Tran, N., Lee, H., Kellard, K., ... & Haslam, D. M.(Child Abuse & Neglect, 2023)
Background
To establish national prevalence of child maltreatment, reliable, valid and contextually appropriate measurement is needed. This paper outlines the refinement, adaptation and testing of child maltreatment ...
Elklit, A., Murphy, S., Skovgaard, C., & Lausten, M.(European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2023)
Background: Children with disabilities are at heightened risk of violence compared to their non-disabled peers. However, extant research suffers from several limitations, focusing on child abuse and one or few types of ...
Andrew Moore, Stephanie Zimmer, Marcus Berzofsky, Marissa Trotta, & Chris Krebs(RTI International, 2023)
This report describes an assessment of the redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
sample design to (1) identify potential sources of error that may compromise the validity of state-level
estimates (i.e., ...
Witherspoon, Nicole L.(Alliant International University, 2024)
Survivors of adult sexual assault (ASA) and child sexual abuse (CSA) experience numerous
negative consequences because of the violence they experienced. Self-blame is an important
symptom to consider, and some research ...
Talmon, A., Ditzer, J., Talmon, A., & Tsur, N.(Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2023)
Daycare maltreatment refers to abusive and/or neglectful acts perpetrated by teachers, directors, non-professionals or
volunteers, family members of staff, and peers in a daycare setting. Despite growing evidence of its ...
Hoffmann Merrild, C., Kjeldsen, H. C., & Milidou, I.(Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2023)
Background: Maltreated children have many long-term consequences throughout their lives,
but often maltreated children are not recognised in time by professionals. General practice
could be central to the early recognition ...
Meiksin, R., Bonell, C., Bhatia, A., Melendez-Torres, G. J., Kyegombe, N., & Kohli, A.(Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2023)
Adolescent dating and relationship violence (DRV) is widespread and associated with increased risk of subsequent poor
mental health outcomes and partner violence. Shifting social norms (i.e., descriptive norms of perceived ...
There is increasing interest in childhood maltreatment as a potent stimulus that may alter trajectories of brain development, induce epigenetic modifications and enhance risk for medical and psychiatric disorders. Although ...
Brenner, J., Pan, Z., Mazefsky, C., Smith, K. A., & Gabriels, R.(Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2018)
The objective of this study was to examine
how behavioral manifestations of trauma due to abuse are
expressed in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) compared outcomes
between ...
Matilda Dorotic;Jan William Johnsen(Norwegian Business School, 2023)
In this first chapter, this report starts by outlining the methodological approach taken and its limitations
and familiarizing the reader with the main terminology used in the report. The second chapter outlines
the main ...
Guastaferro, K., Shipe, S. L., Connell, C. M., Letourneau, E. J., & Noll, J. G.(Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023)
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a public health problem of considerable
magnitude. The prevailing primary prevention strategies are universal,
school-based CSA prevention programs, some of which have been
designated as ...
Relevant sections of state statutes are provided for those who are interested in statutory language regarding states’ definitions of child abuse and neglect in 2021. Information in the database about states’ definitions ...
Being adjudicated for a sex offense carries significant social, legal, and penal implications that are
almost unparalleled and adolescents are no exception to this differential treatment by the justice
system. This ...
van der Stouwe, T., Leijten, P., Asscher, J. J., Deković, M., & van der Put, C. E.(Journal of Family Violence, 2023)
Purpose
Home visitation program effects are generally small, which may be caused by flexible intervention content leading to inconsistent outcomes. In this study we therefore examined whether the effectiveness of a Dutch ...
Introduction
Although the relationships between parental mental health and child internalizing and externalizing problems have been explored by previous studies, the pathways between these two variables need further ...
Langevin, R., Kern, A., Esposito, T., & Hélie, S.(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023)
Child maltreatment (CM) in one generation can predict CM in the next generation, a concept known as intergenerational continuity. Yet, the form taken by the intergenerational continuity of CM remains unclear and fathers ...
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau(U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau, 2020)
Assessing for poly-victimization in a family justice center.
Berkmen, B.(Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2023)
Introduction: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is defined as all kinds of actions that an adult uses a child for sexual purposes. The
studies concluded that parents have incomplete or incorrect information and the protection of ...